High above the Nine Heavens Cloud Terrace, wind and thunder congealed into blood-red stillness within the Twin Saints' Primordial Magnetic Divine Light.
Ling Xiaofeng knelt on one knee at the center of the terrace. Shards of the shattered Magnetic Essence Star Disc pierced his palm, and blood dripped between his fingers, turning into crimson specks of starlight within the magnetic essence divine light. His Nascent Soul phantom was riddled with cracks. Seventy percent of his half-step Deity Transformation power had already been overdrawn, and every breath sent agony through his organs-he had been away from Magnetic Essence Mountain's source for too long. The backlash spread from the depths of his sea of consciousness, gnawing at his divine soul like ten thousand ants.
Wen Qing leaned against her pipa with its broken strings. Most of her star-patterned battle armor had shattered, and Long Po's flood dragon reverse scale jutted from her exposed shoulder. Demonic energy coiled around the wound. Her star power struggled to force it out, but with her spiritual power exhausted, it accomplished little.
Four enemies at Nascent Soul Great Perfection surrounded them, their auras tightening slowly like four gallows. Wan Sangu's blood-red demonic skirt snapped in the wind as the Ten-Thousand-Soul Banner spun overhead, turning a million wronged souls into a Soul Whip that lashed at the Twin Saints' protective aura; Six Paths Extreme Sage's black robes billowed as six Reincarnation Puppets flew from the Six Paths Reincarnation Diagram, thrusting their Reincarnation Halberds at the vital acupoints all over Ling Xiaofeng's body; Long Po's true flood dragon form coiled along the terrace's edge, his dragon breath pouring down as the waterfall of Ten Thousand Waters Return to the Source; Feng Xi spread his kun-peng wings, the wind blades at their tips resembling hundreds of millions of silver needles