The Ba She writhed, twisted, and turned, all in a bid to get rid of the turtle dragon that was more snake-like than dragon with how it coiled around the Ba She.
Ferocious screams were released from the Ba She as it spewed out corrosive dark red blood from its mouth in a bid to melt the dragon, and then immediately followed up with other means.
It tried rolling itself on the ground, which created more tremors on the ground. The force of those rolls was so tremendous that it left ringing in the ears of Yang Qing and the rest.
When that didn't seem to work, it released purple-black miasma from its nose and from the gap between its red gem-like scales.
The purple miasma seemed to have the same corrosive effects as the dark red blood it had produced, except it now had more features to it, such as poison, and eating away at the surrounding spiritual qi.
The yang-white flames on the turtle dragon instantly grew in intensity as they mushroomed aiming to swallow the miasma being produced.
The plant clone of Yang Qing from below instantly stopped releasing green cloud dust as blue flowers appeared on different parts of its body.
The flowers closed and opened releasing a faint blue mist.
With how the battle was progressing, based on the pressing needs, Yang Qing decided to change the autonomous spell below from a healing one to one that replenished their qi, while also boosting the effects of the yang white flames.
The blue mist replenished the qi they had been expending while it seemed to also amplify the effects of the white flames as they burned with an even more intense radiance.
The blue mist was a welcomed help as it seemed like the turtle dragon was almost thrown off from the sheer power and attacks the Ba She was repetitively releasing.
In the midst of it, it even tried to quickly reform two blood spears above its head and a third miniature one in its mouth, but they were quickly snuffed out at the source by Zhang Qingge, Dai Chen, and Mo Liwei, who had various injuries on their bodies because they now had to work without Yang Qing's healing and purification ability.
However, they had sturdy bodies that could handle the attacks the Ba She was rampantly releasing in desperation.
The Ba She kept trying to reform the blood spears, which the trio were quick to nip in the bud.
The spears didn't look like they were easy to form and required a certain level of care and preparation to form. This was why the Ba She took quite some time at the start before it released them, but now out of desperation it kept trying to wantonly release them without a modicum of care and preparation and it seemed to have come at a cost. For one their power was greatly diminished compared to the early ones and the other, the Ba She seemed like it was paying a penalty for rapidly forming them.
Some of its scales had greyed out and were peeling off.
Mo Liwei and the rest kept the spears in check, while more of its scales wilted off as a result. However, even with their power diminished, it still required considerable effort from the trio to keep them at bay. Their injuries kept growing as a result of it, however, with the blue mist slowly pervading the area, they at least didn't have to worry about expending their qi.
Meanwhile, within the turtle dragon shell, Wei Ying and Yang Qi were undergoing a battle of their own.
Yang Qing's hands were trembling because of the exertion he was put through in providing spiritual qi to the turtle dragon while also releasing the white yang flames. Luckily for him, he had the universal pearl to help share the burden in terms of qi expenditure on the array, however, it was rapidly shrinking, and its size was about the size of a pea.
When the universal pearl got drained, he wasn't sure how much he could hold on. As it stood he had already drained half his spiritual qi and half of that had been drained the moment they started engaging the Ba She in close-quarter combat. He could only hope Wei Ying would have already executed whatever it was that she was cooking up.
There was a small disc on her hand constantly revolving with around with glowing glyphs. She continuously manipulated it with her hand seals, like she was deciphering a code from it.
Whatever she was doing didn't seem easy with her nosebleeding and her hands shaking, but even then she never averted her calm gaze from the disc as she kept drawing azure cyan seals on it.
Two minutes flashed by and pandemonium seemed like it had descended on the place, with the five judges and the massive Ba She locked in a full frontal confrontation, with an air of desparation pervading the area.
The Ba She grew more desperate in its attacks, as it seemed to have detected the situation was starting to turn unfavorable for it. It still couldn't pry the turtle dragon off no matter how hard it rolled and how much miasma it released, the turtle dragon desperately latched on like a tick on a cow, while the three judges constantly attacked it or interrupted some of its attacks.
A desperate and ferocious glint flashed in its eyes seemingly resolving itself for something. In the next moment about five thousand of its scales dimmed out which resulted in it grimacing in pain as ruptured blackened veins took the place of those scales.
A piercing scarlet right that smelled of decay was instantly released from its mouth as it twisted its head targeting the shell of the turtle dragon.
The transition from the greyed scales to the release of the scarlet streak was so short and so fast, that the three judges reacted when it had already been released and was making its way to the where Wei Ying and Yang Qing were.
Mo Liwei had already expended himself in the fight and could no longer penetrate the void as he did earlier, so his reaction though fast had returned to what it was earlier, despite that he was the first to react as he collided with the red streak head on.
Something that fast, and large, he couldn't afford to deflect it like he did before. He also noticed the Ba She seemed to have allowed part of its body to have a tight contact with the turtle dragon, and that part was coincidentally where Yang Qing and Wei Ying were.
If he tried to pull the same move he did earlier by deflecting it, he had no doubt the Ba She would drag the shell to the path of the attack, even if it was caught in the crosshairs. The only option to dissolve this , was to face the attack head on.
Bang!
The moment he made contact, Mo Liwei who already had other injuries , felt like his body had been barrelled by a hundred mountains with sharpened edges.
His blood churned as his throat welled up in blood, all his organs were rocked from their positions, while his hands ruptured almost instantly as it spread to his shoulders, while his orifices soon followed in bleeding out.
Just when he felt he was at the end of his tether, he suddenly felt the burden on him lighten as tow other forces stepped in.
Dai Chen and Zhang Qingge, who were a step slower, also reacted and stepped in time, before Mo Liwei was sliced through by the attack. They too immediately got wounds upon intervening, but with their combined effort they managed to halt the blood-red streak and managed to deflect it upwards after an intense struggle.
The clash barely lasted three seconds, but they were left struggling to hold even a breath with their robes in tatters, as they grimly looked at the Ba She that looked like it was gearing itself for another.
Luckily, their intervention managed to buy Wei Ying time as she exclaimed in victorious joy as the disc in her hand split into eight wooden swords that had a green glow on them and glittering blue runes.
Vortex vine seal
A blue-green vine appeared between the eight wooden swords, tying them together.
Wei Ying took one of the wooden swords and disappeared from the shell only to reappear at the tail end of the turtle dragon.
A blue glow instantly appeared on its tail, which seemed to lock the Ba She's wriggling tail in place. Wei Ying instantly stabbed it the moment it was locked, and the green sword lit up as it transformed into a knot which then anchored the tail of the Ba She firmly in place.
No matter how much it tried to move it, it was like its tail had been paralyzed.
Blue rune markings appeared from the end of the tail and proceeded for almost four hundred meters, and stopped.
Everywhere the rune markings appeared, movement of the Ba She halted.
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