The Demon God's circulation stumbled once around the chest.
Its answer came with enough force to tear apart the pressure surrounding it.
Haotian felt the Abyssal surge gather through the torso and moved before it expanded, but leaving the center did not carry him beyond the enlarged range of the release. The wave struck him through the side, threw Ziyue away from the flank, broke Yinxue's remaining Dao pressure, and forced Lianhua to turn with the blast rather than let it collapse her injured ribs.
Xiangyin released her spear line and yielded with the pressure, the newly healed palms sliding along the shaft instead of gripping hard enough to reopen immediately. Yanfei hardened the stone beneath herself and still lost several paces before the force stopped carrying her, while Yueru withdrew the moment Lightning left the scar and avoided most of the direct pulse.
The Demon God came out of its own release before any of them fully settled. Haotian saw the movement beginning and forced his feet beneath him, but the Immortal Emperor reached Ziyue first. She met the hand with her sword angled outward and let the strike rotate her body instead of absorbing it squarely, though the enlarged reach carried the forearm farther through the turn and caught her shoulder before she cleared it.
She was thrown across the ground.
Lianhua entered to stop the pursuit, forcing Voidpierce against the same arm while Yinxue's Sword Dao pressed from farther away. The Demon God pushed through both attacks and changed toward Yanfei, whose Frostfire had begun spreading beneath the next approach.
Xiangyin restored the spear line before the step arrived.
The difference her return made was immediate. Instead of asking Yanfei to prepare every route the Demon God might take, the spear closed the simplest one and allowed Frostfire to concentrate beneath the remaining choice. The Demon God shortened its stride, avoided the point, and stepped toward a smaller region of altered stone than Yanfei had been forced to maintain during Xiangyin's absence.
The foot broke through.
Haotian entered.
His left palm struck near the knee while Xiangyin's spear threatened the opposite side, and the enlarged leg shifted enough that the Demon God's upper body had to compensate. Lianhua attacked the shoulder created by that correction, Ziyue returned to the flank, and Yinxue pressed the guarding arm while Yueru remained near enough to the chest to keep reinforcement concentrated there.
For several breaths the seven-person pressure returned.
It did not resemble the effortless coordination they had shown before the sacrifice. Xiangyin's spear movements were shorter, Yanfei's Frostfire fields smaller, Lianhua's turns constrained by the ribs, Yinxue's direct sword use limited by the injured arm, Yueru's Lightning increasingly selective, and Haotian's right side reduced mostly to support. Yet the restoration of one missing fighter meant each limitation no longer had to be compensated for by two others at once.
The Demon God began taking wounds again.
Ziyue cut the flank deeply enough for blood to run freely across the enlarged side. Lianhua opened another line near the shoulder, and Xiangyin's spear pierced the thigh after Yanfei forced the weight onto the opposite foot. Yinxue's Sword Dao could not overpower the heavier Abyssal Dao, but it repeatedly delayed the guarding arm enough for Haotian and Yueru to threaten the scar.
The sacrificial reinforcement moved constantly between those pressures.
Haotian followed it while fighting through the front. Whenever the chest thickened, the flank or shoulder thinned. Whenever the Demon God braced the wounded leg, the scar covering lost density. Each redistribution continued consuming the stolen army that could no longer be replaced, and the repeated attacks forced that reserve to work harder than it had immediately after the transformation.
The Demon God remained an Immortal Emperor.
When the pressure became too dense, it simply forced more power through the stable cultivation network and attacked.
The first heavy blow drove Xiangyin's spear away from the leg and sent enough force through the shaft to make the repaired wrist bend, though Liora's treatment held and the joint did not fail again. Xiangyin immediately reduced the grip and yielded rather than testing how much punishment the repair could tolerate.
The next strike caught Ziyue's sword and threw her outside the flank before the Demon God turned toward Haotian. He saw the attack, changed his stance, and tried to guide the arm rather than block. The Demon God altered the strike halfway through and drove the shoulder forward instead, colliding with Haotian before his feet could adjust to the new line.
The impact carried him several paces backward. The healing pills inside his body had stopped the injuries from worsening as quickly as they otherwise would, but the right shoulder still refused to rise cleanly after the collision, and pain spread from the ribs into the side when he tried to turn sharply.
The Demon God continued into the gap.
Yanfei sent Frostfire beneath both feet in quick succession, forcing the enlarged body to spend power through the legs while Xiangyin rebuilt the spear line. The first altered section broke beneath the Demon God's weight, but the second forced a wider correction and briefly exposed the ribs to Ziyue.
Her sword reached them.
The Demon God turned through the cut and struck toward her.
Yanfei reacted before Ziyue finished withdrawing. Frostfire surged along the ground between them, cold hardening the surface beneath Ziyue's retreat while heat fractured the line the Demon God needed to follow.
The Demon God drove through it.
The technique broke under the Immortal Emperor's step.
Yanfei tried to rebuild it immediately.
Her shoulder failed to complete the movement.
The Frostfire spread unevenly, cold reaching the ground while the following heat arrived too late to produce the same controlled collapse. Yanfei changed the technique rather than forcing the injured arm farther, but the Demon God had already recognized the incomplete terrain and crossed the section before she could repair it.
Haotian moved toward her while Xiangyin shifted the spear across the route. The Demon God struck the shaft aside and continued.
Yanfei withdrew while trying to gather Frostfire closer to herself, but the repeated expenditure had begun showing in more than the injured shoulder. Her breathing was deeper, the heat and cold around her hands less dense than they had been only moments earlier, and the next field took visibly longer to establish despite covering less ground.
The Demon God's palm entered before the technique finished.
Haotian reached the wrist and changed the line.
The hand missed Yanfei's chest.
The forearm still caught her guard.
Because Haotian had altered the center of the strike, Yanfei avoided the full force, but the remaining impact drove directly through the side connected to the already injured shoulder. She was thrown across the battlefield and landed hard enough that the arm struck the ground beneath her before she could turn away from it.
Yanfei rolled immediately. The movement took the weight off the shoulder, but when she pushed herself upright, the arm remained lower and the Frostfire gathering around that hand flickered before stabilizing.
The Demon God followed.
Xiangyin reached it first. Her spearhead entered against the hip and forced the next step to widen, while Ziyue cut the forearm coming toward Yanfei. Lianhua joined the pressure from above, and Yinxue placed Sword Dao against the shoulder, giving Haotian enough time to cross the remaining distance and move between Yanfei and the enlarged body.
He did not need to ask whether she could continue.
The answer was already visible through the Eyes of the Universe.
The shoulder was not shattered, but the accumulated damage had deepened enough that the meridians and surrounding tissue no longer carried power cleanly through the joint. Yanfei still possessed enough cultivation to fight, and a healing pill could keep the injury from worsening for a time, but the larger problem lay in the reserves she had burned while compensating for Xiangyin's absence.
She had reached the point where staying in the frontline would make every use of Frostfire less efficient than the last.
Yanfei understood the same thing without Haotian telling her.
She moved one hand into her robe while the others kept the Demon God occupied and swallowed a healing pill, using the medicinal current to stabilize the shoulder before turning toward the backline. She did not sprint away immediately. Frostfire spread once more beneath the route behind Haotian, giving him a stable position from which to leave the Demon God's next strike before Yanfei began withdrawing in earnest.
The Demon God tried to cross after her.
Xiangyin brought the spear down across the route. The repaired wrist held.
She did not attempt to stop the Immortal Emperor with it. The spearhead moved from knee to hip as the Demon God changed its stride, requiring enough adjustment that Ziyue could reach the side and Lianhua could attack the arm before the pursuit settled.
Haotian remained between the Demon God and Yanfei while she widened the distance. The enlarged fist came toward him, and he used the left palm to guide it outside his chest, releasing the weakened right hand almost immediately when the shoulder resisted. The Demon God followed with another strike, forcing Haotian to step inward and turn beneath the elbow while Yinxue's Sword Dao pressed against the upper body from farther away.
Yueru stayed near the scar.
The Demon God could not pursue Yanfei freely without allowing her closer.
That threat bought the retreat more effectively than any command could have.
Yanfei crossed beyond the immediate battlefield and continued toward Liora, the healing pill already reducing the worst instability around the shoulder while she conserved what remained of her Frostfire instead of spending it during the retreat. Haotian followed her only long enough through the Eyes of the Universe to see that she could still move under her own power and that no Abyssal threat remained between her and the backline.
Liora had already turned toward her.
Xiangyin saw Yanfei approaching from behind the fight and understood the exchange of positions better than anyone. She had left the frontline only a short time earlier with a hand that could no longer control her spear, and now she stood there again while Yanfei crossed the same ground toward the healer.
There was no pause in the battle to mark the change.
The Demon God forced Xiangyin's spear away from another step, and she gave with the impact before the repaired wrist could be overloaded. Ziyue entered along the flank, Lianhua cut the shoulder, Yinxue maintained pressure from farther out, and Yueru circled near the chest while Haotian moved through the spaces between them.
Six fighters remained at the front again.
This time Xiangyin was one of them.
Behind them, Liora's Life Dao began spreading around Yanfei's damaged shoulder as the healer received her, while medicinal energy moved through the depleted Frostfire cultivator and began restoring what repeated techniques and repeated impacts had consumed.
Haotian saw the healing current begin, then the Demon God stepped through the place Yanfei's Frostfire would normally have changed.
He moved to fill it.
Yanfei's withdrawal changed the battlefield almost immediately, though there was no pause in which anyone could acknowledge it. The Demon God simply found more unaltered ground beneath its next stride, and Xiangyin had to move the spear farther across the approach because there was no Frostfire waiting to punish the route she could not close herself. Haotian saw the lower body opening before the enlarged foot came down and moved into the space, using his left palm against the knee while Xiangyin threatened the opposite side with the spear. The two pressures changed the angle of the step enough to keep the Demon God from driving directly through Lianhua, but the correction carried the torso toward Haotian instead, and he had to release the leg before the greater mass trapped him beneath the turn.
Ziyue reached the flank as Haotian moved away and cut into the wound she had already opened several times during the battle. The sacrificial reinforcement there was thinner than it had been immediately after the transformation, allowing her blade to reach flesh again before the Demon God rotated through the attack and brought one arm across the space between her and Lianhua. Both women left the line rather than trying to stop the sweep, while Yinxue pressed Sword Dao against the shoulder from farther out and forced the Demon God to spend additional Abyssal power through the upper body. Haotian followed the shifting reinforcement through the Eyes of the Universe and saw that the scar remained heavily protected even though Yueru had not yet committed to another Lightning attack.
That protection continued costing the Demon God elsewhere. Whenever Yueru moved near enough for the chest to become vulnerable, sacrificial essence gathered over the Sky Piercer wound and left the flank, shoulder, or legs with less support. The family kept striking those thinner regions, but every attempt required someone to enter the enlarged Immortal Emperor's reach, and the difference between the damage they inflicted and the punishment they received continued widening. Haotian could see the stolen reinforcement gradually diminishing, but he also felt the medicinal warmth from the pills inside his own body struggling to keep pace with ribs, shoulder, and forearm that had been battered again and again without the prolonged treatment Xiangyin and Yanfei had received from Liora.
Xiangyin caught the Demon God's next turn with the spear near the hip. Liora had restored enough function to the wrist for her to guide the weapon properly again, yet she no longer used the broad rotations from earlier in the fight, keeping the shaft nearer her body and allowing her hips and rear shoulder to supply most of the movement. When the Demon God struck the weapon aside, she released part of the grip before the impact could travel through the healing joint, and the spear slid along her palms as she moved with the force instead of contesting it.
Haotian entered through the opening the weapon created, used the weakened right hand only long enough to touch the Demon God's wrist, and redirected the arm with the left before the strike could settle on Xiangyin. The Demon God carried the rotation into him rather than resisting it. Its shoulder crashed through Haotian's guard and drove him several paces sideways, reopening the ache through his ribs and sending another wave of weakness through the right arm when he touched the ground to recover. He rolled instead of asking that shoulder to support his weight, came back onto his feet with the left side leading, and returned before the Demon God could take advantage of the distance.
The healing pills had preserved enough function for him to keep moving, but the body beneath the medicinal support was accumulating injuries more quickly than they could be repaired.
Lianhua had moved into the Demon God's attention by then. She avoided the center of the first hand by turning through the side her ribs tolerated better, but the enlarged reach carried the forearm farther than the earlier body would have allowed and forced her to bring Voidpierce Sword Sutra across the attack rather than complete the retreat. The spatial edge cut into the sacrificial reinforcement around the arm, yet the impact against her sword still travelled through both shoulders and pulled sharply across the damaged side. Her next transition shortened before she intended it to, and Ziyue immediately occupied the space Lianhua could no longer cover without either woman needing to call attention to the change.
Yinxue maintained pressure from farther away while Lianhua widened the distance. Her injured sword arm remained close to the body, and she kept the weapon in the healthier hand as Sword Dao shifted from shoulder to elbow and then across the upper back whenever the Demon God turned. The heavier Abyssal Dao broke most of those pressures once the Demon God committed to them, but each answer still consumed power and prevented the upper body from moving as freely as it might have otherwise.
After another clash sent a deep tremor through the damaged arm, Yinxue widened her stance, swallowed a healing pill without leaving the fight, and continued attacking through Dao while the medicine stabilized what repeated backlash had aggravated. Haotian saw the medicinal current spread through her shoulder and arm, but the Demon God had already moved toward another opening.
Without Yanfei's Frostfire altering the lower routes, Xiangyin had to extend the spear farther to close the approach, and the longer movement made the repaired wrist vulnerable to another hard collision. Haotian moved toward the lower body before that collision occurred, replacing part of the missing terrain pressure with his own position as he struck the outside of the knee and followed the relationship upward through the hip with the Dao of the Universe.
The Demon God corrected through raw strength, turning the imperfect step into another advance and bringing an arm around toward him before he could leave. Haotian bent beneath the elbow and escaped most of the strike, but the outer edge caught his shoulder and sent him across the broken ground. Ziyue reached the space he surrendered and opened the flank again, while Xiangyin placed the spear beside the correcting leg instead of trying to recover the original route.
Lianhua's blade cut toward the opposite shoulder from a shorter angle, and Yueru began approaching the chest only after all three pressures were already forcing the Demon God to distribute protection elsewhere.
Lightning remained absent from Yueru's sword until she had entered far enough that the Demon God could no longer dismiss the threat as another feint. The moment current gathered, sacrificial essence rushed toward the old wound, and Haotian saw the flank Ziyue had just cut lose still more support. He changed his own return toward that region instead of following Yueru into the chest, driving Fist of Ruin into the damaged side while Ziyue widened the same wound from another angle.
Dark blood ran across the Demon God's enlarged ribs, but it accepted the injury and continued turning toward Yueru rather than release the reinforcement protecting the scar. Xiangyin tried to disturb the pursuit from below, guiding the spearhead toward the rear leg with the repaired wrist providing only as much control as necessary. The Demon God changed the stride around the point and found clean ground where Yanfei's Frostfire would previously have been waiting.
That single absence let it settle the foot without spending additional power, and the next step carried it close enough that Yueru had to discharge Lightning through her sword against the approaching forearm instead of saving the current for the scar. The attack disrupted part of the Abyssal protection and changed the arm's route, but the recoil travelled through Yueru's already strained limb and left her fingers trembling around the hilt when she landed.
She withdrew far enough to avoid being caught by the next movement and swallowed a healing pill while changing the sword into the healthier hand. The medicine began restoring circulation through the numb arm as she remained near the edge of the battle, refusing to waste the temporary recovery by forcing Lightning again before the limb had stabilized. Ziyue moved naturally into the space between her and the Demon God, while Haotian and Lianhua kept pressure on the opposite side and Yinxue continued burdening the upper body from farther out.
The Demon God drove through the overlapping attacks with the same brutal simplicity that had defined the battle since its sacrifice began paying dividends. Lianhua's Voidpierce opened another line through the forearm, Ziyue cut the flank, and Yinxue's Sword Dao slowed one turn, but none of those attacks carried enough force to stop the enlarged Immortal Emperor from completing the movement.
Lianhua had to twist away when the returning arm came across, and the turn pulled harder through her injured ribs than any movement she had made since Xiangyin returned from the backline. Her body shortened the motion before she consciously chose to do so. The forearm struck her sword and drove the weapon across her guard, throwing her over the broken ground with enough force that she landed on the healthier side and still lost the breath from her lungs. She came back onto one knee almost immediately, but the next inhalation stopped shallow beneath the damaged ribs, and her sword hand remained against the ground a moment longer than it had after the earlier impacts.
Haotian was already moving toward her. He intercepted the Demon God before it could press the advantage, redirecting the first fist with the left palm while the weakened right hand touched the forearm only long enough to help change the line. The Demon God turned the failed strike into another close attack and forced Haotian deeper inside the enlarged reach, where he used his shoulder and hips to move with the arm rather than letting the ribs absorb the full collision.
Xiangyin's spear entered beside them and Ziyue cut the wrist from the other side, giving Haotian enough space to disengage while Lianhua forced herself upright behind them.
The Eyes of the Universe showed him more than her posture already made obvious. The ribs themselves had not collapsed, but the surrounding tissues and internal injuries had been aggravated repeatedly until the flow through that side no longer settled cleanly after each movement. A healing pill could suppress the pain and stabilize the worsening damage for a while, but continuing to force Cloud-Sundering Steps through the same region would only spend medicine faster than it could repair the injury.
Lianhua recognized it when she attempted another turn and changed the movement halfway through, using Voidpierce from farther outside rather than entering the range she had occupied earlier. The Demon God shifted toward her again, and Haotian had to cross before the longer reach could erase the distance she had created. His left palm guided the wrist outward while he stepped beneath the forearm, but the Demon God drove forward through the redirection and forced Haotian to give ground instead of holding the angle.
Lianhua used that space to move farther from the center of the fight rather than returning, drawing a healing pill as she circled toward the backline without turning her back on the Demon God.
She swallowed it while moving. Medicinal energy spread through the injured side and loosened enough of the constriction for her breathing to deepen, but she did not mistake that improvement for recovery. Her path continued around the outside of the battle toward Liora while the others closed whatever openings appeared during her withdrawal.
The Demon God tried to follow because Lianhua's movement had created space that could be exploited even without any deliberate target selection. Xiangyin moved the spear into the most direct route, Ziyue struck the approaching arm, and Yinxue widened the Sword Dao pressure over the shoulder while Yueru remained close enough to the chest that a full turn toward Lianhua would leave the scar more vulnerable. Haotian moved inside those pressures and kept the Demon God occupied at close range, using short hand changes and body positioning rather than asking the damaged right arm to receive another direct strike.
The Demon God forced through the first spear line and took Ziyue's cut without slowing. Haotian guided one fist away from his ribs and slipped beneath the follow-up, but the Immortal Emperor's greater speed kept him from opening enough distance to leave cleanly. The enlarged forearm caught the outer shoulder and sent him several steps backward, after which the Demon God tried to continue toward the space Lianhua was using to retreat.
Yueru moved toward the chest.
Lightning gathered along her sword.
The Demon God had to turn back.
The reaction gave Lianhua enough distance to clear the immediate battlefield and continue toward Liora without having to force another painful movement through the ribs. Haotian followed her progress only through the edge of the Eyes of the Universe while the Demon God's chest reinforcement thickened and the flank thinned once more.
Ziyue reached the weakened side, Xiangyin's spear threatened the supporting leg, and Haotian struck the ribs with his left palm as Yinxue's Sword Dao burdened the guarding arm. The Demon God endured the attacks long enough to keep Yueru away from the scar, then released a heavy surge of Abyssal pressure that forced all five active fighters backward before the combination could deepen.
Haotian took the edge across his already battered guard and was carried farther than the others. His feet lost contact with the ground before he landed against the remains of a broken wall, and the stone gave way behind his back under the impact. Pain spread across the ribs, shoulder, and spine at once, burying the remaining warmth of the healing pills beneath enough shock that he stayed amid the collapsed masonry for several breaths before the body began answering him again.
The fight continued beyond the broken wall. Through the gaps between falling stone, Haotian saw Xiangyin maintain one route at a time with the spear while Ziyue stayed nearer to Yueru than before, prepared to interrupt anything that crossed toward her during another Lightning approach. Yinxue kept the upper body occupied through Sword Dao, no longer asking the injured arm to do anything beyond guide cultivation, and Yueru remained patient rather than spending the recovery from her pill on a chest attack that had not yet been created.
Lianhua reached the backline during those same breaths. Liora received her before she had completely stopped moving and immediately sent Life Dao through the damaged ribs, using the medicinal energy already circulating through Lianhua as part of the treatment rather than replacing it. The healing current reached tissues and internal strain that the pill had only stabilized, gradually restoring the region enough that deeper movement would become possible again once the damage had settled.
Yanfei was already nearing the end of her own treatment beside them. Life Dao had stabilized the injured shoulder, and the recovery medicine had restored enough of the reserves she had burned while Xiangyin was absent for Frostfire to gather evenly around the arm again. She tested the movement once, found the current passing cleanly through the shoulder, and rose while Liora continued working on Lianhua.
Haotian pushed broken stone away with his left hand and tried the right arm before standing. The shoulder responded slowly, but the fingers closed, and the arm could still support lighter contact even if another direct clash would almost certainly overwhelm it. He chose not to take another pill yet, using the remaining medicinal energy already inside his body and the synchronized circulation of the Heaven Sundering Trinity Scripture to stabilize the latest impact while he moved back toward the fight.
Yanfei reached the frontline before he did. Frostfire spread beneath the Demon God's next step with greater density than it had shown before her withdrawal, the cold and heat arriving together instead of separating under exhaustion. Xiangyin immediately changed the spear line and closed the easiest route around the altered ground, forcing the Demon God either to break through both pressures or change the stride farther than it had needed to during Yanfei's absence.
It chose to break through. Immortal Emperor power drove down through the leg, shattering the Frostfire-weakened stone while the enlarged body forced Xiangyin's spear outward, but the combined resistance slowed the turn long enough for Ziyue to leave the arm pursuing her and Yueru to widen her path around the chest. Yinxue placed Sword Dao along the shoulder as the body corrected, and Haotian entered from the opposite side just as Yanfei completed her return.
For several breaths the battlefield regained the balance created by six different fighters rather than the five who had carried it during Lianhua's retreat. Xiangyin once again controlled one lower route, Yanfei punished the alternative, Ziyue covered the openings around Yueru, and Yinxue burdened the upper body from outside while Haotian remained closest to the Demon God. The composition had changed, but the logic of their fighting remained intact because everyone understood the others well enough to adjust without stopping to reorganize.
That recovery did not return any of them to the condition in which the battle had begun. Xiangyin's wrist had already been repaired once and could not endure endless collisions with the spear. Yanfei had recovered enough reserves to matter again, not enough to spend Frostfire without restraint. Yinxue and Yueru were fighting through medicine taken on the frontline, Ziyue had been forced to cover more ground than anyone except Haotian, and Lianhua now remained behind them beneath Liora's Life Dao.
Haotian had never reached the healer.
The difference became clearer when the Demon God turned through Xiangyin's spear and attacked Yanfei before Frostfire could settle beneath the next step. Haotian reached the arm, redirected enough of the strike for Yanfei to clear the center, and was struck across the shoulder by the continuing forearm before he could leave. The blow sent him sideways, and although he recovered more quickly than after the collision with the wall, the right arm dropped lower afterward and did not rise again until he forced circulation through it.
Yanfei immediately filled the ground beneath the Demon God, Xiangyin moved the spear toward the correcting leg, and Ziyue attacked the exposed flank while Yinxue maintained pressure above. Yueru began another approach toward the scar, keeping Lightning absent until the chest actually opened enough to justify using the recovering arm.
The Demon God drove through them anyway.
Its stride broke Yanfei's altered stone, its arm forced Xiangyin's spear away, and heavier Abyssal Dao pushed through Yinxue's pressure before Ziyue could deepen the cut she had opened. Yueru abandoned the approach rather than waste Lightning against the reinforced scar, while Haotian moved into the space the others were surrendering and struck the Demon God's ribs with the left hand.
The attack drew blood.
The retaliation threw him across the ground.
Haotian landed on his side and rolled once before stopping, but the body did not rise at the same speed his mind demanded. His left palm found the broken stone beneath him while breathing tightened through the ribs, and for several breaths he remained there listening to the battle through the pressure in the ground while the Eyes of the Universe continued showing him every current moving inside the Demon God.
Xiangyin, Yanfei, Ziyue, Yinxue, and Yueru kept fighting. Frostfire altered one step, the spear forced another to change, Sword Dao burdened the shoulder, and Ziyue's blade crossed the flank whenever Yueru's presence near the scar drew reinforcement away. Their coordination still worked, and the Demon God still bled whenever enough of those pressures overlapped.
It simply hurt them faster.
Haotian forced the left arm straight and pushed himself upright. In the backline, Liora's Life Dao remained wrapped around Lianhua's ribs, repairing enough of the accumulated damage for her eventual return. At the front, Yanfei's restored Frostfire bought Xiangyin room to recover another spear line while Ziyue intercepted an arm aimed toward Yueru.
Haotian started back toward them before his breathing had fully settled.