The ring bdes in Liao’s hands collided with his oppo’s. Thanks to the momentum built up from Liao’s preparedness and the height of his jump, the figure in bck’s ring bdes were knocked out of his hands.
At the very st moment, the ring bde wielding figure in bck burst into a final ter attack. His right hand ched into a fist, striking upwards at Liao’s left shoulder. Liao’s bdes cut into the figure’s chest and neck, the Qi trated on them sshing through the skin, muscles and bones. At the same time, Liao’s left shoulder took the cle fist strike point bnk and head on.
A head in a bck cloak rolled and bounced on the floor, while Liao was thrown backwards with his left ring bde falling off his grip, and his left upper arm dangling powerlessly. Almost at the same time, Ruo was knocked onto the ground by a powerful kick from her oppo, with half a metal staff still in her abdomen.
“Ruo!” Keying and Ming screamed at the same time, lunging at the rest of the two figures in bck. Both of them were struggling against the effects of their oppos’ Ink Qi, yet at this very moment they were no longer ed about it - they only wao beat those two figures in bto pulps and relieve Ruo of her circumstances.
The staff wielding figure in bow without a on in his hands, tried to reato his cloak. While the figure wielding a metal whip filed his on again, attempting to unleash a sweep attack at both men charging at them.
But right this moment, two knives shot at both figures in bck from the side. One was a simple, almost edgeless table knife, aiming at the staff wielding figure; the other was a fruit kh a sharp tip, aiming at the whip wielding figure. Both of them tried to stop what they were attempting to do and back off, but were stopped by a suddele but still unmissable energy pulse spreading through the air.
Just a mere moment’s hesitation doomed both of them. Both throwing kruck true, not causing any serious damage but further impeding their movements. Ming’s streams of trated Qi shot through the staff wielding figure’s chest, while Keying’s Dao crashed the metal whip into dozens of pieces, and the Qi bdes shooting from the edge sshed across the whip wielding figure’s chest and neck.
“How dare you!” Witnessing his teammates’ demise, the staff wielding figure let out a roar using all his might: “All of you will die! YOU WILL DIE!” He coughed, droplets of blood spilled from his mouth. His only movable right hand reached into his pocket, taking out a talisman made of pletely dark paper and red ink. A sharpened piece of t shot at his head - this was from Luoshan Zi, the only oh strength to fight at the moment.
The figure did not dodge at all, and did not eve. The piece of t pierced through his skull. Blood gushed out and poured onto the talisman.
The moment it came into tact with blood, the dark talisman was ignited and engulfed in ahereal green fme. Dark smoke rose and poured from the fire, slowly spreading around.
“Back off! Back off!” Luoshan Zi barked as she flung all the folded talismans she brought with her - these were almost all she had collected all these years. All of them were made from the best materials, with the most meticulous teiques and by the best makers. There was er or more appropriate time than now.
Almost all of the talismans burst inte, red and golde the same time. The energy they released resonated with each other, f into waves and waves of purifying rings of light, pushing back at the dark fog.
The entire subway station began shaking. The ground, the walls and the ceiling all started to crack. Screams and moans flooded at everyone from every er. The rings of light were crashing against yers upon yers of dark energy that enshrouded and embedded ihe very station itself.
“e on, e on. Wake up, Ruo! WAKE UP!” Luoshan Zi was by Ruo’s side, using her hands, her Qi, and her clothes attempting to stop her friend from bleeding out. But right now, Ruo’s body was already growing cold, her face was growing pale.
Ming id on the ground, also bleeding profusely from his wounds. Keying stayed by his side and was using everything he could to keep the limping old man alive, while yelling his questions at the others: “Ruo! Liao! Are you okay!? Answer me! Talk to me!”
“I’m fine.” Liao was barely able to stand up and walk straight: “Did we - did we win?”
“I don’t - that depends on Gloria and Turner.” Luoshan Zi put her fingers on Ruo’s neck, tears dropping from her eyes: “I don’t know - ”
Another energy pulse blew through the air. This time it showed some more effe everything - the dark fog from the green fmes were weakened, but the dark energy ing from all around them seemed to have beuch more violent and votile.
Luoshan Zi sighed and finally relented, for Ruo’s breathing had all but stopped. So had her heartbeats. For a moment she had no idea what she could tell Keying, that his partner in life would no longer be with him.
“We did it! We did it!” At this moment, Sue’s voice echoed in the crumbling subway station: “Out out out! Get out as soon as possible!”
The smell of sweat and body odor hit everyone before everything. Lucky for them, their tactics worked: those with power to fight to create a diversion a the guards here, while the two who could not sneak in and try to sabotage the array in this station and free those who were held here.
“There’s another room!” One of the individuals, a monk with frizzly grown hair and in a ragged cloak grabbed Turner Ouyang and Sue by their arms, urging with a hoarse voice: “We o save them first! We are only kept here as backup, there are ones who are held in some kind of altar room.”
“We’ll get them . But please, head up and find a pce to hide first!” Turner Ouyang the old monk: “Please, hurry!”
“We must go! The pce is about to colpse!” Luoshan Zi warned.
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