Zerod pushed his dantian harder than any time he could ever recall. The fear of death loomed so strongly the moment that damned overgrown turkey initiated her tribulation that he felt like an illusion shattered over his eyes.
He still had the protection of the Great One but Heaven and Earth still ruled supreme in the one place he could not touch. Cultivators advancing!
[Did we get any of our targets?] He called out to Widow and Mycea but the deafening silence told him all he needed to know. They had them! All the carefully planned moves to drive them to be in one place for certain had come to nothing!
In fact, they had lost more Fiends attacking the camp of healing than when they took out the 2 powers with the most Immortals! He knew it was because they could not simply wipe them out. Their goal was to break the spirit of their enemy but that greed led the attack to have weaknesses that could not be avoided.
