Chapter 368: A Threat That Became a Vow
Yang Ru couldn’t believe it. Kang Lin was dead.
It didn’t make sense. Just a few minutes earlier, she’d been living and breathing, activating talismans. She couldn’t be gone. Not Kang Lin.
He didn’t want her to be gone.
As reality set in, his stomach gurgled, and he dashed a few feet from the body, throwing up blood.
There was nothing he could do, nothing anyone could do. Bringing someone back from the dead was impossible.
His eyes went wide at the thought. He knew of one person who made the impossible seem routine. Death was death, though, so he didn’t want to get his hopes up. But he had to try.
Yang Ru popped his contingency ring.
Benton literally couldn’t do anything. With nine Nascent Souls suppressing him, he couldn’t even access his qi. His Auras were also of no help. When used to actively contest an enemy, they were quite useful. Once the other side won… Not so much.
Not even his talismans could be used under the intense wave of pressure weighing down all qi near him. His only possible move was to attack one of them physically, but without qi, such an strike would have been less than useless.
When the kids sent a volley against his captors, he thought it was a sweet thought but an ultimately pointless one even if it did draw off three of his enemies. In practice, six cultivators suppressing him were no different than nine.
But Yuan Yaozu, heavens bless him, showed up right on the heels of the attack launching. Five cultivators were a world of difference away from six.
Sure, Benton was still eighty percent suppressed, but twenty percent of his power was still better than most cultivators. He also hadn’t been completely idle while under the influence of all those restrictive Auras. It turned out that his qi still regenerated and that he could use Meditation to increase that amount.