1796 Done

As Liz focused her all on the temporal manipulations to give Hao Ya more time, Hao Ya did all she could to make the final changes to the console.

She had realized what was happening long ago and was doing her best to finish in time what she had started.

She worked as quickly as she could, manipulating the basic formations into multiple sections that were created into the array of formations that was the console.

Time passed, second after second as Hao Ya worked the hardest she had ever in a long time. She completely forgot about the danger she was in, focusing only on the work at hand.

Liz kept an eye outside, with her mind burdened and in pain due to her using her Dao at the rate she was. She saw the Saint Transformation realm enemies were moving at a pace where they would be atop them in minutes.

But of course, they wouldn't come all the way down there. Instead, they would attack them from far away, which was exactly what they did a minute later.

Bright colorful lights slowly gathered around the fist of the man at the front as he punched down toward Liz and Hao Ya.

Liz could feel the force of the attack that flew toward her, burning bright with Fire Qi, and with heat enough to melt rocks.

The strength behind the attack was such that anything it touched would be dead within seconds.

Liz looked at Hao Ya with her peripheral vision and saw her still working. She couldn't leave at all. She had to stay and protect her as what she was doing was very important.

Liz prepared her sword and sent out a Heavenly Static Slash flying through the air. The crescent blade of lightning flew past the bubble of sped-up time, going beyond into the normal world where everything felt slowed down to Liz.

Her attack slowly moved up while the fiery punch made its way down. It took a long time for them to come into contact. When it did, it created an explosion of energy, of which the majority was Fire that still came toward Liz.

No matter how much she had tried, the attack was still coming toward her.

"Done!" Hao Ya spoke suddenly and got up from where she was. She turned around and quickly assessed the situation they were in. Without missing a beat, she once again brought out the flat ring from her storage and tossed it forward.

As soon as the ring flew outside their bubble of slowed time, it expanded once more to create a barrier to protect them.

"It's alright. You don't have to struggle anymore," Hao Ya said. "Put down the bubble."

Liz looked back in surprise. "Are you serious?" she asked.

"Yes," Hao Ya said, staring intently at the barrier before them.

Liz could feel herself getting closer to losing consciousness, so she decided to agree with Hao Ya. The bubble of slowed time around them disappeared and the world around them returned to sound and movement.

The explosive sound reached them immediately, followed by the fiery explosion. Just as it was about to hit them, however, the barrier in front of them stopped the power, and slowly shrank back to its normal size, now growing much more brightly than before.

Hao Ya looked toward the sky at the man who had remained flying in a bit of surprise and activated the ring once more.

This time, however, the ring didn't expand at all. Instead, the bright glow of the ring slowly moved away from the metal and concentrated on the center area.

All the force from before had been absorbed by that artifact, and now it was releasing the collected force toward whoever Hao Ya desired it to go to.

In this instance, her target was the man at the front.

A blinding light shot out from the artifact, blazing its way up toward the man.

The man realized what was happening and quickly created an illusory shield made out of fire to defend himself.

The attack struck the man's shield and exploded into a bright mass that covered a large area around the man.

When the light diminished and the smoke cleared, the shield was still active with the man not facing a single bit of damage from the attack.

Hao Ya smiled.

He wasn't meant to.

That attack had only been a distraction. The real attack was what she used right afterward using a necklace that hung around her neck.

A spray of water Qi burst out of her necklace at a blinding speed, arriving in front of the fiery shield at once, destroying it before anyone even realized what was happening.

The water Qi struck the man, killing him in body and soul at once, leaving not a single shred of his existence behind.

That had been a powerful attack, something that was capable of killing any regular human in the world were she able to catch them off guard. She could have perhaps even been able to kill the Dragon Emperor with it, but desperation had called for her to use it here.

Not that she was confident the artifact could hurt someone with as high a body cultivation as the Dragon Emperor.

The necklace that Hao Ya held corroded away after she used it, leaving behind only the single large blue jewel that would have to be repurposed into another necklace later on.

She didn't know why that was the case, only that it was. After all, it was something that her Master had made for her personally.

The soldiers in the sky looked at Hao Ya and Liz in absolute awe and despair as they came to the misunderstanding that the people below were more powerful than them.

As such, even the early Saint Transformation realm soldiers stopped and quickly called for someone else's attention.

A man with a solid blue beard and hair flew down from the sky, his cultivation base flaring at Saint Transformation 9th realm, if the girls weren't mistaken.

In fact, for some reason, they believed that the man that came down was much stronger than just Saint Transformation 9th realm.

Liz blinked, her purple eyes glowing bright as she saw the colors in the sky. Multicolored aura followed the man, all of which came from a small group of people that flew in the sky.

There was an array behind the man and his strength.

Hao Ya started hesitating as the man approached. She had a few artifacts on her still, but she wasn't sure if it would be useful at all.

She had a single artifact to protect her and teleport her back to her master were she to ever come across an Immortal, and she did not want to use that at all.

The other soldiers that had called for the newcomer were now floating behind the newcomer, waiting for his command.

"Young ladies, for whatever reason could you be here at this time of the day," the man asked as he slowly pulled out a large, two-handed ax, ready to fight.

However, before he could proceed to question the girls, his eyes moved behind him from where Graham barreled down toward him from the sky.