Chapter 365: Old One escapes
Sai removed the limiter on himself and his Wyvern started roaring towards the sky.
The surrounding raindrops of the liquid are evaporating due to the excess heat coming from its body.
Sai looked at the Wyvern and the latter nodded its giant head as it extended its wings and made its move.
In a single leap, it caught one of the middle-stage cultivators with its mouth and flew away so that it could reduce the effort of its master.
Sai looked at Sravan who is still not doing anything and frowned. Sravan also noticed his expression and immediately started taking action.
He let out his Wyvern too and soon enough the temperature of their surroundings started dropping. He also removed the limiter on himself.
The new Wyvern also did the same thing as the last one and took away another cultivator.
Now, the fight became three vs two.
Old one had a deep frown on his forehead as he looked at the situation.
"I should have expected this from the members of the beast faction. I overestimated myself a little."
With that, he didn't halt and made his move. He started battling Sai and Sravan at the same time and the remaining one late-stage cultivator is in a one on one with the last high priest who is a mid-stage cultivator.
The battle slowly started tilting towards Sai and Sravan.
But with this battle, they understood what Old one is saying. He is becoming old and time is taking its toll on him, but he was not satisfied. He wanted to live more and thus made use of this undead plague.
Even though, Old one has his cultivation level higher than them, due to the aging he wasn't able to deal with them.
But he is still giving a tough fight though. The battle is extremely intense and cutthroat, that there is no way for them to win this in an instant. But the signs are showing that they would surely win in a long-term battle.
All of a sudden, Old one got hit by Sravan on his back and blood started dripping from his mouth. Old one took out a pill and swallowed it, his back has a large laceration with blood dripping all over. He was expecting it to start healing after he took the pill, but to his surprise, the wound was a bit frozen and although the bleeding stopped soon, the wound was still exposed openly making it a vulnerable target.
He started surrounding himself with flames, but to his surprise, the ice is still not melting. He noticed that there are some peculiar qualities to the ice and looked at Sravan in askance.
"Don't even bother trying to get out of that. It will take a lot of effort. That is a thousand-year frost essence. If not for your expertise in fire usage and experience in battles, you would have already frozen by now."
Old one raised his eyebrows as he said.
"You seem to have invested a lot in battling me. Too bad it will go to waste."
With that, all of a sudden Old one extended his arms and started chanting some weird words. As if they were stunned by a taser, all the followers, priests, and high priests who are battling froze in an instant.
They didn't even bother hiding and protecting themselves from the rain as they stood still.
Sai and his team are extremely shocked and stunned at this moment.
They didn't expect this move at all.
"I only wanted to use this as a last resort, but you give me no choice."
His power levels started raising and the frozen wound on his back suddenly started healing itself.
The wrinkles on his face also disappeared slowly and his lean body gained some muscle mass.
He is becoming younger as they looked at him.
"We cannot let him absorb all of them completely, let us make our move."
Sai called for the whole team and the ten members who are now free of opponents all surrounded the Old one directly.
One of the ten, who happened to be the grand elder of the formation association made him move as he took out a formation disc.
A large glowing runic circle appeared around Old one and there are ten small circles within that runic circle indication the positions of the ten people.
The ten people stood in each circle and they started infusing the energy into it.
This is the trump card they prepared against any unexpected circ.u.mstances, they also had a thought that if by any chance Old one could absorb his subordinates, they knew it would make it hard for them to fight him.
So, just to be sure, they made this arrangement, and now it seems like they are right to do so.
Old one looked at the ten of them and his surroundings are completely covered with Orange flames.
Even his body started going through elemental fusion and soon he achieved the fire elemental fusion and his body turned into a mass of orange flames.
He didn't use any fancy moves, in fact, he didn't use any moves for that matter, he just controlled the flames and they started forming a tornado around the group of ten trying to consume them with flames.
They felt the intense heat coming from the flames and their robes started turning into ashes.
At this moment, ten forms of energies that entered the circle started converging in the middle of the circle where Old one is standing and the ten energies formed a human silhouette that has a sword in his hands.
There are many elements within the combined energy. Fire, Ice, water, wood, metal, Dark there are multiple people with the same energies and there are even two of them who are sword and saber users.
The human silhouette conjured with the energy leaped into the air as it stabbed the sword into the chest of Old one with all the energies forming a chaotic state within his body.
Old one conjured all his excess energy and started opposing the human silhouette.
Both the energies clashed and the collision of energies did a number on all eleven people involved.
All of them are injured and Old one has the most injuries of all. But he was still able to neutralize an attack of ten other Consummate realm cultivators.
Old one is in his weakest state and he is having a hard time standing straight.
"How did you do all this?"
Old one asked Sai.
"What do you mean?"
"Who came up with that liquid? Who made it?"
Sai looked at the old man and could feel his weakness. There doesn't seem to be any immediate threat, he is also tired and wanted to recover some energy, so decided to make the small talk.
"It is made by a Grand realm cultivator in a western continent."
"What did you say?" Old one was extremely stunned. He would have been okay if it was created by a veteran pharmacist or even a senior cultivator. But never did he expect that a youngster is the bane of his plan.
"Yeah, you should have known about him. His name is Sam. The one who tore apart the Beast faction a few months ago."
"That guy?"
"Yes, you seemed to have sent your troops there, no?"
"That guy who named a city after himself?" Old one didn't hear what Sai said next. He was still struck on the fact that his grand plan was defeated by something a Grand realm cultivator created.
In fact, with his cultivation level, he shouldn't even think of joining the war, he should be in his city and defend his city if he sent the troops.
Who gave the guts for him to even involve in these affairs?
If Old one really knew that Sam only did this so that he doesn't need to bother with the follower troops, one should wonder his reaction.
Because, Sam's plan since the start is not to involve in the war. It is actually simpler than that. His only aim is to find a way to deal with the followers and send it to the Six major powers.
In that way, Old one wouldn't have any spare troops to deal with the western continent. The western continent is the last target on his list.
If not for the commoner base it has, he wouldn't even concentrate on that continent and now it seems like his involvement made it hard for himself and bit him in the back.
"How did he even come up with this? When did he come up with this?"
Old one asked seriously and Sai replied.
"It is actually a few days ago, from what we knew he was recovering from the injuries for the past few months and as soon as he recovered, he was greeted by the attack from your troops, one thing led to another and this happened."
Old one took a deep breath as he thought of what to do. His eyes turned colder and made a move.
He didn't attack them, rather he ran towards the Space gates that lead to the six major powers.
Sai and the rest didn't expect this and weren't able to react in time, before they knew it, Old one is already in a tent which has a Space gate leading to the thunder god temple.