Xilai threw up a shield to block the lightning, like a Qi warrior defending against an attack. The two forces collided and vanished in a flash of light.
Xilai stumbled and had to draw power from the array well at his feet.
"Righteous Heavens, have mercy," he mumbled. One strike. Luding could drain all his power with one strike.
✶ ✶ ✶
Wuyi was first out the gate, with Yun Ming right behind him, leading their Qi Warriors to the right and out of the temple.
The hall was filled with sleeping swamplings. The killing began. Wuyi counted the armored shapes rushing past him but lost track and had to guess.
Meiying kept her promise and was last. "Last out!" she called and moved to the right around the gate. Wuyi slammed the great doors shut, locking them from the inside. As the doors closed, their power merged, and the gate vanished, leaving a black stone wall behind the altar, with only the shape of the doors imprinted on his vision.
