Maiden Of The Splitting Moon

All four of them immediately struck out, trying to dispel the lightning as best they can. But the more time they spent on this, the more time the True Idol would have to recover. 

"Get to the True Idol!"

Ling Hun's voice echoed out and everyone knew what he wanted to do. If this lightning was going to chase them like this, certainly they could use it to their own advantage. 

All of them shot down, landing right by the True Idol, who was kneeling on the ground. Its body had more than just a few cuts now, some of the skin had been burned off and blackened. Breathing heavily, it looked up to see the four figures descend and stand right behind him. What came after were the four bolts of lightning, surging through the skies and shooting down at them. 

"Grr, resorting to cheap tricks?" it growled out. 

Just as the True Idol was about to stand, all of them moved to restrain him. Ling Hun manifested lightning from his hands, chaining the wrists and ankles of the True Idol together. Gao Ri's two shortswords were crossed against the back of his neck. Du Xiu pressed his halberd down on one of its shoulders and Ming Yue grabbed onto the other shoulder with her Zephyr Claws. 

Despite her grabbing tightly, they didn't seem to scratch him at all. 

With all four of them placing pressure on him, it struggled to move but could barely budge. 

"Gah! Don't think that this is enough!"

It shouted out before releasing a torrent of lightning from its body, blasting them all away just as the four lightning bolts came within inches before impact. Swinging out, the attack was destroyed, turning into nothing but thousands of tiny sparks that vanished within seconds. 

Then it stood up, looking at the skies before eyeing the four figures around him. 

"Agh, damn that thing, my feathers..." 

Gao Ri groaned as he looked at his wings. They seemed rather unusable at the moment, many of the feathers were burnt, falling out bit by bit. And no matter how much he tried to, the winged demon could not spread his wings. 

And the others were in varying degrees of pain, with Du Xiu and Ling Hun being the least affected. All the commander did was dust off his shoulder and stand back up, he checked his armor, finding it relatively untouched, and held his halberd up. And for Ling Hun, his body was made of pure Primordial Lightning. It looked as if chunks of his body had been ripped off but he regenerated them like it was nothing. 

But Ming Yu was in the worst state. 

She sat up and moved her hands to her head, groaning even harder than Gao Ri. Her eyes blinked open as she looked around. 

Everything seemed so blurry and messy to her. When she looked down, she found part of her armor destroyed, and then a searing pain settled in. 

"What- what happened to me?" she wondered. 

Her eyes traveled along her body before noticing the condition of her arm. She could still move it but it was burnt up, there was already pus and swelling going as her skin was cracked open. 

"Damn it... I wasn't careful enough. I guess that barrier wasn't enough to stop all of it but I'm not dead at least."

She quickly circulated her energy as the Eternal Heart Ring started doing work but the damage was extensive. It would take more than just a few minutes to heal and that amount of time was a luxury she didn't have. 

"Hey, this isn't good"

Xue Yue's voice popped up at that moment, awakened by the pain and shock. 

"It's kind of obvious, don't you think? If it wasn't for that quick barrier I made with the Dusk Lily Pin, I probably would've died" Ming Yue replied. 

"Yeah but that shock... if it comes down to it, I might have to take control. Do you want to switch first then?" her counterpart asked. 

"Why are you asking so nicely? Is something going on?"

Ming Yue felt somewhat suspicious of this. This was possibly the first time she had heard Xue Yue asking to switch instead of threatening or using force to do so. 

"What? I can't? Besides, you aren't at the point where I can forcefully take over yet. But your mind is still recovering from what just happened. If you're not careful again, you might just die the next time and that goes for me as well", Xue Yue explained to which Ming Yue gave a quick reply. 

"No, we don't switch. That thing is dead sooner or later. And once it's dead, that's the end of it."

She knew that of the four she was quite possibly the weakest. After all, Ming Yue's strength was in speed and power but not in defense. She was practically a glass cannon at this point. 

Thinking this, Ming Yue looked up to find the True Idol looking at her. 

"Shit."

It turned to her, shooting out a ray of lightning from its eyes at her. Evidently, it was going to single her out now because of this. But even if she was injured, Ming Yue was far from helpless. 

Activating her armor's function, she practically vanished from her position and the lightning struck empty space. 

"It's going after her! Ming Yue retreat into the fortress!"

Du Xiu yelled out as he lunged forward, throwing his halberd at the True Idol. The other two followed, running forward to fight it. But she wasn't going to retreat just yet. 

"I have its attention, might as well make the most of it", she thought. 

Wind needles began to form as they flew out and struck the Idol's body. But this attack was equal to scratches that couldn't even be seen. Despite that, she sent out dozens of wind needles though she was unable to accurately shoot. 

The True Idol didn't stop as it continued to shoot out rays of lightning from its eyes. But the other three soon came to knock it down, trying to force this being into the ashen dirt but they couldn't. It simply ignored their attacks and only chased after her. 

It was right to eliminate the weakest link after all. No matter how weak it could be, a link was still a link, and losing it could spell destruction. 

"Damn this thing! It just won't fall yet, would it?!"

Those who watched from afar, couldn't help but feel the frustration. Despite the things they've tried, the True Idol of Chaos still stood and it was far from dying just yet. And what made things even worse was the Nuwa Clan, the tree was badly damaged and the spirit had gone silent. 

Things were only looking worse and worse for the Five Armies. 

And this frustration was also found within Du Xiu, he wasn't scared and depressed but more annoyed than anything. 

"This damn thing!'

Unable to hold his composure, he pulled his halberd away and instead reach out to grab the True Idol by the head. 

"Is this the kind of fight that you're putting up?!" 

The commander shouted out as he yanked the Idol back and tossed it to the side. He then leaped forward and grasped the head once more, smashing it down into the ground. 

"You, the True Idol of Chaos?! All you do is summon lightning from the skies and scream. is that it? Use your fists! Do something else other than produce lightning!"

He shouted while punching away at the Idol. It was a frustration that he had felt long ago, from when he first fought Kong Zhi that just now burst out. He was angry no doubt, angry that a fight like this was so simple. 

But this was the attitude of one of, if not the strongest cultivators alive, someone who would not find an opponent to match him.. And now Kong Zhi had not only disappointed him three times, he even disappointed him now.