Wei Jiayi had fought bravely throughout the battle. However, it refused to back down and get away from Gao Lan Mei leaving her open to the attacks. 

It was supposed to be the mighty dragon's turn to rest but with its stubbornness and loud growl towards where the beam came from. 

There, Fa Liwei stood in front of the goblin statues across from them. The movement of the energy around him confirmed that he was aiming for another strong attack.  

'This is enough!' Gao Lan Mei thought to herself as her expression hardened immediately. "Attack him!" She shouted furiously. 

 BOOM!

The sound of the dragon's attack was sent Fa Liwei's way as Gao Lan Mei said.  

"Do not stop attacking him!" She demanded the dragon again. Her bright red goblin-like eyes glared deathly at it while cautious about the fake Li Mao. But Gao Lan Mei could never get used to being protected and would not start now. 

The impurities around them slowly moved before spinning fast around them. Like an invisible force messing with them before being sucked in. 

Gao Lan Mei did not want to give up and die. She initially wanted to hide behind Wei Jiayi because she knew she was at her limit. 

She knew her body was deteriorating from the inside. Isn't that something that she was afraid of from the start? Because if the body she had could not be used, then what would happen to her next? 

Regardless, Gao Lan Mei could never sacrifice Wei Jiayi or anyone else. 

Even in the heat of battle, even when Gao Lan Mei knew that to stay there among the chaos would lead to certain annihilation, she stood. Her breathing in and out as she tried to concentrate on what she had planned to do. 

All of Gao Lan Mei's focus was on the Goblin statues.  

"Heavens!" Sung Zhi Ruo screamed loudly. She was still fighting the YinYings that were now just puppets that moved without any signs of dying. "Xiao s.h.i.+! Let me take care of this instead!" She added. 

SLICE!

 Xiao s.h.i.+ cut the YinYing near them before responding in annoyance, "Huhhh? You will die if I let you do that!" She said through clenched teeth. Xiao s.h.i.+ wanted to jump and help her mate, but she knew that Sung Zhi Ruo could not die or they would lose the ability to control the Soul Eater. 

Just as Xiao s.h.i.+ she shouted, Ma Fei Hong who had been left in a weak state due to her injury screamed at the others who were still able to fight, "We have a very big problem here!"

The fire wall casted by blessed Juni was getting dimmer, the Yinying forces started to barge in along with the dark engulfing impurities that still filled the boundary spell in a large amount.

The fire blessed exclaimed out of frustration, "I do not have enough magic left in me to keep the wall strong for much longer!" She yelled with the look of determination as she tried to hold her magic. The more she did it the more her form slowly faded.

Seeing this, the others panicked.

"I want to continue living! This can't be!!" One of the cultivators screamed in fright. 

Some of them were hugging each other while shedding tears of fright. They have completely realized the meaning of this turn of events, and could not help but lose hope. 

"Blessed Juni!" Someone screaming from within the firewall that protected everyone immediately caught Gao Lan Mei's attention again. 

Gao Lan Mei's s.h.i.+fted her gaze towards the flame wall near them that was slowly dying down.

Bam!

Blessed Juni knowing that she needed to go back to Beyond soon, condensed all her remaining magic and shoots a ma.s.sive ball of flame up towards to the sky aiming for the boundary spell above before her spiritual form vanished.

What she did not open the boundary spell but enough to form a crack.

With bulging eyes, Gao Lan Mei finally realized what was going on. It was still within the enemy's calculations. 

There was no other being who could have removed the purification flame aside from the fake Li Mao who had been missing. Fa Liwei was only there to distract them. 

Losing the flame wall also meant that Blessed Juni's magic had run out and that she had returned to Beyond. That also meant that they were left all on their own while the enemies fed on their life source. 

None of them could articulate what they wanted to say. Despair rapidly dyed their expressions.

"Ah…..Ah, ah…"

 They could not help but scream in fear as the watched the impurities get closer. 

"Ahhhhh?!"

The first being was devoured by the Impurities but there were more to go before no one was left. 

They all stared at the dark smoke slowly twisting the body of the cultivator until nothing was left. 

BOOM!

The battle raged on around her. The fighters who bravely gave their lives to defend the s.h.i.+zi Empire did not even have bodies to be buried. Nothing was left and even their souls were used to give more power to the enemy. 

Gao Lan Mei thought to herself, there was no turning back now.

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Author's Note:

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