Chapter 422 Help from below
When the sect master and the rest arrived, they didn't have time to help Elder Qin Zhilan with her wounds, as Yang Qing remained relentless in his attacks.
Even with them swarming him, he just kept switching targets. The speed with which he acted and reacted was unmatched, to the point that some of the weaker members like Fu Ning and Su Ju had difficulty tracking him. Which was a major disadvantage for them as they started accumulating injuries by the dozens with every second that passed by.
Then there were the white lightning flames. They were the furthest thing from ordinary flames. The white flame ate away at their yin qi while the white lightning exerted maximum damage on their body at the fastest speed it could while leaving a paralyzing effect on their bodies causing delays in their reactions, which Yang Qing was all too quick to capitalize on.
This was why even with all seven of them ganging up on him, they still failed to injure him and the only people who seemed to remotely be able to keep up with him were sect master Zhao Ju, and Guo Mei, with the latter struggling horribly with every passing moment.
Qin Zhilan would have been able to share in the burden but she had effectively been taken out of commission with her dismembered hand. She could regrow another limb with the high vitality afforded to a palace realm expert, however, she didn't have the room to do it, and even if she did, the white lightning flame eating away at her wounds, suppressed any healing measures, which was why she was still bleeding while being charred, as she desperately held her half-melted whip with her non-dominant hand.
Two minutes passed by but to the elders and sect master of the Ice Emerald Sec, it seemed like they had been fighting for a week non-stop. Their hair was sticking to their scalps and faces were drenched in sweat, their breathing was ragged, and their bodies were riddled with severe injuries from burns that revealed bone that was charred black. Not a single part of their body seemed to have been left unscathed.
The weaker members; Fu Ning, Su Ju, and Mo Xiang seemed to be barely hanging on. Within those two minutes, they had accumulated the worst injuries with Su Ju having a burning hole through her stomach, that was constantly leaking out blood, while Mo Xian had been blinded and had half her left face burned to the bone.
As for Fu Ning, she looked more corpse than human. Her whole body had been burned up that she looked like a human charcoal. There were flashes of lightning blazing around her body which caused her to spasm. With her droopy eyes, and fading labored breath, she looked to just be hanging on by a thread and didn't have long.
The damage to the three elders would have been worse had the sect master and the three senior elders of the sect not stepped in for them, which cost them something.
Deng Yaozu who had been watching all this from below was frozen with disbelief as she watched her sect mates get single-handedly demolished by one person. Her skin had started turning beet red because the smoldering heat from above had started affecting the ground below.
Her and the other quasi-palace stage elder could now distinctly feel what their sect members had been subjected to. The flames that sought to purify everything while at the same time extinguishing everything out of existence.
If just the remnant effects of that flame were hot to this extent, Deng Yaouz shuddered to imagine what it felt like to actually be hit by it. The thought sent shivers through her all body.
She quickly circulated the Emerald frost flow veiled scripture to get rid of the remnant effects caused by the flame above her.
"Even our technique famed for its defense, is struggling this much against those flames?!" she wondered still struggling to believe or understand what was happening above her.
The emerald frost flow veiled scripture gave those who cultivated it a sturdy defense by forming a thin crystalline armor on their skin that was as strong as any low tier defensive monarch-grade artifact, and that sturdiness increased, with the more proficiency one had in the technique.
The protection didn't just stop there, as it even extended to their bones, internal organs, and even qi.
With it, they could sink their whole body into a volcano of lava and remain unaffected without even as much as surface burns. They could ignore the heat completely and even suppress it, which was how they had been able to compete with opposing sects that tried to use Yang-based arts to counter them.
Never in all her years had she seen what she saw today. A complete and thorough suppression that made it seem as if the sect master and the rest of the elders had not cultivated the scripture and were instead defending the flames using mortal bodies.
Her eyes seemed cloudy as she looked up at the motes of white flames that had covered the skies above, and the mirage that was forming because of the intense heat present above and the smell of burnt flesh that was drowned out by the thunderous clashes going on above her, and the painful screams of her fellow elders.
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"Sect master we can't keep going like this. Just a few minutes have passed!! any more of this and we will all be burned alive within ten minutes!! We don't even have the room to use the array.." Guo Mei said using a secret transmission.
Sect master Zhao Ju seemed like she didn't hear Guo Mei as she continuously charged in trying to prevent Yang Qing from causing more damage to her elders.
It was only after a few seconds had passed, did she reply,
"The founder is about to act with the help of the tree. She's about to use the sanguine doppelganger array..."
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