Unfathomable Senior

Chapter 697

“Elder, what should we do? There are too many beasts for everyone to handle.”

“Keep them back as long as the Matriarch can vanquish the leader this trial should end.”

“But we won’t last for much longer...”

“You must!”

“But we have so many injured we can’t... huh what’s that glow?”

Before the man could finish the sentence a strange glow appeared in the middle of the battlefield. It looked like a soap bubble that continued to increase in size before taking on the shape of a blue orb. This orb started to pulsate rapidly and the faster it got the more spiritual energy the members from the Unlimited Element Sect could sense.

Some of them recoiled in fear as it looked to be some type of trap. The amount of energy that was gathering was possibly a prelude to an explosion. One of the elders held up a talisman and started chanting as he quickly attempted to place a small defensive formation around this glowing orb. Yet, the explosion never came and instead, a golden pill popped out from within the blue orb.

“Is that... a recovery pill?”

The man that created the small formation that looked like an octagon continued to stare as more and more of those pills were created. Soon the whole bottom portion of the octagon was filled out with round pills that could be used to recover energy as well as health.

“Those pills, can’t we use them on the injured?”

“They do look safe... let me just examine them.”

It was a critical juncture in their battle as many creatures were pushing from all sides. In the distance, there was a giant beast that their strongest elder was clashing with. It was a devastating one-on-one battle. Everyone else was gathered here to keep the unending waves of smaller monstrosities from reaching their elder and attacking her back.

There was no end to them as they continued to pure in from all sides. The group found themselves in this strange place after activating the teleportation trap. Most of them were reputable elders of core formation and up but in this place, they felt like newbies. Most of the monsters were at least at their level with many being at the nascent soul realm.

Only thanks to a handful of nascent soul elders having been taken away with them were they able to survive for this long. Zhang Liena along with Zhang Zhi were both here but even they were having some trouble with the gigantic monster that looked like an ice dragon. Its element countered Zhang Zhi’s water techniques which continued to freeze over and the winds that Zhang Liena produced just made the entire area even colder.

The place they were in was a desolate world of ice and rock. What they were fighting were creatures attuned to ice spiritual energy. Ice stemmed from the water and was more specialized in its usage. It was susceptible to fire that melted it but required a difference in power to work. Perhaps if Huo Qiang was here instead of the two other elders the ice dragon they were battling would stand no chance. As it stood now though, the battle was dragging on and they were getting overrun. The longer it took to defeat the beast the more of these beasts would continue to appear.

“I... I feel great!”

“Junior, are you really okay?”

“I am... all the pain is gone... and I feel rather warm...”

The elder that presented him with the miraculous pill started looking over the man that was even able to stand up. The ice spear went through his lower abdomen and came out from the other side. Where the wound would be there was nothing more than scarred flesh. The hole that should be there had been closed off and no blood was leaking. It even seemed that the man had regained all of his vitality without needing a secondary blood pill to substitute all the blood that was lost.

“It doesn’t seem to have any side effects, I can’t feel any poison or demonic energies either. Give it to the injured!”

“Yes, Elder!”

Soon the pills were getting given out to each and every injured person. It was a miracle drug that was even able to heal a nascent soul master and restore most of their used spiritual energy. With this boost in recovery, they were finally able to push the swarm of creatures back. The sect Matriarch was finally given enough time to face her opponent. Thanks to the miracle pill's appearance the tide had shifted.

“Die you overgrown lizard!”

Zhang Liena launched a massive blade of wind at the dragon’s elongated neck. Its hide was covered in hundreds of small cuts with the largest concentration of them being close to the neck. Finally, the wind technique connected with the weakened spot and caused the dragon’s head to fly up into the air. There it was shredded by the cyclone the large monster was already surrounded by and finally, the creature was dead.

“The monsters, they are fleeing!”

“The Matriarch killed their leader! Long live the Matriarch!”

The people down on the ground started cheering while looking up to their current leader. Liena was floating above without any wounds to her body. The monster was far too slow to produce any type of wound. Its defensive attribute of ice prevailed throughout the whole battle and the mass of minions was the problematic part. After the sect forces managed to get a handle on them, she could finally focus on the battle without worrying.

She landed down on the ground, right where the strange orb of light appeared. There was something about the spiritual energy that this thing gave out that reminded her of someone that she was looking for. Her spirit sense homed in on this energy signature as she continued to check. Within a moment a smile appeared on her face as she made the realization that her husband was nearby.

“Matriarch, a large staircase has appeared, what are we going to leave?”

Before she could make the decision another light appeared to the side. It had the same Qi pattern as the previous orb and without even batting an eye she decided to follow after it.