Qiao Ruohe was unconscious, drifting in and out of awareness as she heard Yue Yunshang pleading with her master to let her stay and tend to him until he woke up.
With eyes half-open and hazy vision, he dimly saw an Elder of the Yinshan Sect engaged in a fierce magical duel with Long Feiyu. Even with Long Xiaomei joining the fray, and though the combined combat prowess of the siblings matched that of Form Manifestation cultivators, the water-based techniques of the Qingling Sect were ultimately restrained by the earth-based arts of the Yinshan Sect. While the Long siblings were no weaker than Huang Fenglie in sheer cultivation level, they still found themselves at a disadvantage in terms of immortal spells and techniques. In less than the time it took for a stick of incense to burn, Huang Fenglie, joining forces with the soul of a Dahuang elder, managed to shatter Long Feiyu's water-based Dharma Treasure, the Glazed Bead.
Meanwhile, the majority of the Burning Heaven Cult disciples were rescued from the icy waves, but due to being frozen for so long, eighty to ninety percent of them were either severely frostbitten or had their spiritual power completely sealed off by the glacial energy. Only a handful of cultivators in the Out-of-Body and Half-Out-of-Body stages managed to recover a fraction of their combat strength. Yet, although the Long siblings had been defeated, it was not a total rout, for their elder Shen Chaosheng had not yet made a move. He had merely allowed his t…
Chapter 79