As they spoke, a few silhouettes came crawling over, resembling rolling s...o...b..a.l.l.s. The sound of laborious heaving could be heard, even from hundreds of feet away.
"Hu… hu…" The Summer Bearer who wore red swayed on his teetering feet and collapsed. His forehead knocked onto a huge rock with a bang, losing any semblance of his masterly flair. Thankfully, his head was harder than the rock as the boulder split with a sharp crack.
Then, he was sprawled across the ground, unable to move, but he could still be heard panting and saying, "Uh… Cough – cough… Hah… Hu… Dead tired… Next…"
Even as he spoke, white froth with strings of red actually began foaming from his mouth. It was evident that he was not only fatigued but internally injured as well.
Exerting oneself so intensely and for such a long time was indeed a challenge, even for the deities.
Mr. Nian stood up abruptly. "Those who can still take it – follow me. Victory is ours if we hold out to the end!"
With the eight to nine people who had just caught their breath but who actually were still feeling like jelly, he bolted away, heaving loudly. The aggressiveness did not weaken him in the slightest.
"Yun… Yun Yang…" Ji Lingxi looked sullen as he continued to wheeze. "I don"t feel good – I feel like – I feel like I can"t go on anymore…"
Although Yun Yang looked slightly better than Ji Lingxi, it did not seem optimistic. He pulled Ji Lingxi"s hand and said, "It"s going to be fine. Let"s go on a bit more… We"re competing with our remaining will now. Whoever gives up first will lose. Once we let it go, we lose everything."
He delivered a bolt of Emmie"s air of vitality to the girl as he spoke without disclosing the act. Receiving the deific s.p.a.ce"s energy, Ji Lingxi felt rejuvenated, but she was still panting badly.
"I… I feel like… I"ll faint any moment now… My vision… it"s… blurry…"
Yun Yang comforted her while he also sought to catch his own breath. "Carry on… Don"t give up!"
He suddenly staggered during his speech of encouragement, as if his legs could no longer support himself.
The Four Seasons Tower"s experts who were spying on them could not help being motivated, their attacks heightening immediately.
Their intimidating rivals were finally on their last legs! The victory was going to be theirs!
Honestly, the couple"s ability to survive until now was already worthy of everyone"s admiration. The Four Seasons Tower was rotating three batches of manpower to acquire some breathing room while the couple did not have any break at all, hammering away intensely.
Yun Yang was the Four Seasons Tower"s biggest nemesis, so it was fine if the survivor of the Nine Supremes, Supreme Cloud, had such endurance. The girl, however, was unexpectedly strong. One must know that females were weaker by nature; their physique could hardly be compared to that of males. No matter how proficient their cultivation base was, it could not account for the innate physical differences. To be able to persevere to this point was a miracle that it had wholly renewed everyone"s perception of female cultivators!
Yet, as they recalled that this girl was a house, they were relieved.
Yun Yang"s hoa.r.s.e voice roared out angrily, "Mr. Nian! Do you Four Seasons Tower plan to go on like this… This method… Even if you toss all the rocks in Tianxuan Cliff… how many could there possibly be?"
"Isn"t this just a tad ridiculous?"
"Since this is the final battle… could the Four Seasons Tower"s final battle… be entirely – haha… hauling rocks?" Yun Yang shouted with all his might, "Come fight with me face to face… if you dare!"
His threat was choppy. The extreme exhaustion that washed over him was felt by everyone. Empathy gave rise to plenty of emotions.
The enemies hidden in the fog were silent, their only task was to haul countless rocks without stop, accompanied by cutting noises of the wind. No matter how they sympathized or identified with Yun Yang"s fate, they were martial veterans; they knew about the theory of falling short of success at the last stage. Despite how beaten up Yun Yang was now, they must not ease up, not even a bit!
Once they allowed the chance for Supreme Cloud to catch his breath, they would be the ones to suffer!
Yun Yang was still deflecting the boulders, strike after strike, while he bellowed in rage continuously.
Ji Lingxi helped him intermittently as if she could no longer keep up the torturous state. In fact, the corners of her lips were subtly lifted, almost breaking her façade.
Yun Yang and Ji Lingxi were utterly drained, that was for sure. They were greatly exhausted. In spite of this, it was far from the exaggerated state they displayed.
Completely worn out of energy and could no longer carry on – they were nowhere near this state!
Yun Yang"s Emmie was a terrible cheat. It made perfect sense to use Emmie in this combat mode. When both of them felt tired, Emmie would deliver some refined air of vitality to reinvigorate them in a timely manner.
Throughout the entire bout of combat, Yun Yang had sent the energy to Ji Lingxi no fewer than a dozen times.
While Ji Lingxi did not understand the cause and effect, nor the arcane magic involved, she comprehended that Yun Yang was not as weary as he showed. As a girl and as an indirect recipient, she could still keep a portion of her strength and combat power. How could Yun Yang, a direct beneficiary, not be able to withstand the fight?
This fellow was deceiving the enemy and playing with them! How difficult it must have been for him to act so convincingly!
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Yun Yang"s side was visibly nearing the end of their spent force and due to this, the Four Seasons Tower was naturally exhilarated. Although the latter had been completely spent too, victory was so close to them – they had to carry on, regardless of what happened!
In spite of this, their perseverance went on and on… Batch after batch was rotated… again and again.
The couple maintained the dying hysteric state like they were about to exhale their last breath in the next moment yet they lingered, struggling at the last breath! Their forlorn weary state persisted, actually going through three of their enemy"s s.h.i.+fts, and they were still standing!
If a third party were to observe the situation with a shrewd mind, they would be muttering about the oddity of this episode.
As for the Four Seasons Tower, all of them were so depleted that even panting took too much effort. Their eyes were rolled back in their sockets, a dozen of them almost reaching their end, as they went into a seizure on the ground, foaming at the mouth with some blood seeping out.
Other than the weariness, each of them was somehow either lightly or severely injured. It was the consequence of being countered by Yun Yang when they ambushed him with the intention to end this combat as soon as possible.
Although not one of the Four Seasons Tower"s twenty people had died, all of them knew that they were no better than being half-dead. Some of them were even having hallucinations once they stopped moving, their internal demons wrecking their stabilized state of mind.
Truly, the extent of fatigue had gone past their limit. If any of them were to collapse and fail to get up again, none of them would be much surprised.