Even the other disciples thought that Huang Xie was planning to sacrifice himself to give them time, so they focused on the ones that didn't charge at him.
They seemed like they were planning on making the most out of his supposed death by taking care of as many spirit beasts as they could.
Though it would be a lie to say that there weren't people who were happy to see Huang Xie charging out like this. There were quite a few of them that wanted to see Huang Xie die, especially those that had fragments of their souls taken by him.
They didn't want to see him after this, so they were hoping that he would be killed by these spirit beasts.
At the same time, it would be their own petty form of revenge.
It was just too bad that this hope of theirs didn't come true.
Huang Xie had no intention of sacrificing himself for these people after all, he didn't even really want to work with them. If it wasn't for the fact that he had no choice but to work with them, he wouldn't have even bothered charging out like this.
Since he had no option, he did what he did.
When Huang Xie ran out, there was a faint layer of green light that appeared around him.
The spirit beasts that were attracted by him surrounded him in an instant and attacked him from all sides.
With the size of the spirit beasts, it wasn't as if they could all attack him at the same time.
They were just too big to completely surround him and rain down attacks on him, so all they could do was to let some of them attack him first.
However, Huang Xie didn't panic as he used the faint green light to block these attacks.
Even though Huang Xie hadn't even reached the Foundation Realm yet, the power of his physique was anything but normal. With the faint green light around him, he was able to block all of these attacks that came at him and he was even able to push a few of them back.
It seemed that his physique had even powered up during his time in this tower of trials.
It seemed that he was now able to even rebound attacks that came at him.
Even though these were attacks from spirit beasts in the Peak Foundation Realm, it didn't seem like Huang Xie had a problem dealing with them.
When everyone saw this, they couldn't help being shocked.
They were even too shocked to worry about the spirit beasts that were charging at them until Huang Xie said, "Focus on what's in front of you!"
This shook the ones that had their soul fragments in their hands out of their daze and they went back to facing these spirit beasts.
With Huang Xie taking care of more than half of them, it was much easier for them to fight these spirit beasts.
However, easier didn't mean that it was easy.
Xiao Ming who was holding her sword up said, "Hurry up and distract them!"
The others looked at her with a strange look, but they listened to her and started sending out their attacks.
The spirit beasts just completely ignored these attacks that rained down on them as they looked at the wall with wary looks. It was as if they knew that there were only a few things that they had to be worried about, which was why they started splitting up.
They knew that these attacks could only target one of them each time, so they were splitting out to reduce the effects of these attacks. At the same time, it would allow them to spread the defenders thin so they would have more space to attack their defenses.
The spirit beasts had charged together before since they had looked down on the attacks of the enemies. They didn't think that they would be in any danger with attacks of that level, so they were planning on charging directly at the wall.
But now it seemed that there were people that could threaten them, so they started splitting up.
This showed that the spirit beasts were at least capable of basic thought and strategy, which was a pain for the disciples.
However, it wasn't as if complaining about it would help them.
The only thing that they could do now was keep raining down those attacks at the spirit beasts.
From time to time, Mo Sha and Xiao Ming would also release their attacks and take down one or two of the spirit beasts. They were able to whittle down the numbers of the spirit beasts like this, but it didn't seem like it was effective as the walls seemed to shake with each blow.
It seemed like they wouldn't be able to take down the spirit beasts fast enough like this...
Or at least that was what they thought until the other members of the Love Sect and Demon Palm Sect group also started to act.
While they weren't as powerful as Mo Sha and Xiao Ming, their attacks did have an effect on the spirit beasts. They weren't able to kill them in a single blow like those two, but they were able to injure them and wear them down.
So like this, they were able to take down the less than fifty spirit beasts before they crushed the walls that they used as defenses.
But when everyone was about to relax, they suddenly remembered something.
There was someone who was taking care of the remaining spirit beasts.
He had charged out alone and even though he had been able to resist the attacks of the spirit beasts, would he have lasted that long?
When they turned in the direction that Huang Xie had been, they saw...
Huang Xie was walking over while dragging a spirit beast behind him.
This spirit beast was still struggling, but it wasn't able to do a single thing to him.
Every attack that it made against Huang Xie bounced off the faint green light that was around him.
As he walked over, Huang Xie said, "You're finally done? It took a while."