The multi-colored gas sunk into the Peak Masters body through his skin, but its effects were mild enough that the Peak Master was barely impeded. Surrounded as he was by the multi-colored gas and in the middle of a fierce fight, it took him a few seconds before he noticed that his senses had grown weaker and his body was rapidly bleeding energy. The problem was that at their level, a few seconds was enough for a dozen exchanges to happen, Sages arms were swinging rapidly to attack with those sword length blades extending from his wrists. At the sa ti the Peak Master was forming a symbol with his hands and fingers and focusing intently on controlling the blue lotus petals that he was using to deflect Sages attacks.
Sage couldnt get any closer because of the spinning lotus blades, but the Peak Master was also trapped in place by the Winter Lotus flowers that Sage had placed in a large do around him. The Peak Master used a giant lotus shaped fire to simultaneously fend off Sages attacks, while also trying to chop a way out of this trap. In the anti he was being subjected to Sages poison. This poison which he called Nightmare Garden was the combination of Killer Garden, the pink gas he could transfer through plants, and Paradise Nightmare that he used to block vision and sweat his enemies. After embracing his attrition tactics the researchers tried many different formulations until coming to this current iteration.
At this ti, the Peak Master was feeling the increasingly debilitating effects of the Nightmare Garden. In actual truth, this poison didnt actually harm his enemies directly, it rely weakened ones senses, making the light seem dimr, the sounds quieter, slls and tastes to be less intense, and the body to grow slightly numb. At the sa ti it had the miraculous effect of making a Cultivator start to sweat out their own Qi. This Qi bled out into the air and mixed with the strange multi-colored gas. While within the gas the Qi that a Cultivator drew into their body was muddled and beca many tis harder to process. This ant that recovering ones Qi while within the Nightmare Garden gas beca much more difficult. Even for the Peak Master that was a Nascent Soul, his body was still drawing in Qi constantly to replenish his reserves, but while within this poison the amount he recovered was greatly reduced. He had to keep feeding the blue flas he was using to fight against Sage with so his Qi expenditure remained high, while his recovery rate was suddenly hindered.
It was at that mont that Sage noticed a hint of desperation in Xuegangs eyes, which only earned the man a smile. Sage swung his arms even faster, chopping against those flaming lotus petals even faster than before. The Peak Master had thought he was foolish for trying to chop through the large sheets of fla. Could you chop through an immaterial wall? Did he think that disrupting enough of his flas would make room for him to jump between the spinning petals? It was only when he realized what the poison gas was doing to him that he understood Sages plan. The rapid attacks were rely ant to make him waste energy to build more petals of fla.
The Peak Master realized the trouble he was in and changed his plan, abandoning his total defense and collapsing the giant lotus petals into two smaller lotuses. He was previously surrounded by the giant flas like he was at the center of the flower in bloom, but the two smaller lotuses moved to his hands and flew out to either side of him. Xuegang twisted to the side and his arms crossed one over the other in front of his chest. One of the lotuses flew towards Sage, while the other went directly opposite of him, crashing against the Winter Lotus flowers. The brilliant sapphire fire made for a subtle contrast with the deep blue flower petals of the Winter Lotus. On the other side, Sage crossed his arms at the wrists to form an X shape with his forearm blades, one which he used to block the tip of the flaming drill that flew towards him.
While Sage was slowly being forced back by the rapidly advancing flas, the Winter Lotus that had ford into a wall almost imdiately hit their internal limits and their color rapidly darkened to a deep purple. The Blue Winter Lotus was still a bud and it absorbed heat, constantly darkening until it was full. At that point the blue would have beco a deep purple, and the Purple Winter Lotus blood, spreading its surprisingly hard petals out to create a wide shield with its body. The Peak Master had previously used a flaming lotus in full bloom to attack the winter lotus, but now that hed switched to a more condensed and bud-like shape, Sages defending Winter Lotus had co to bloom and changed colors.
Without the whirling blades forming a shield around him, the Peak Master was more heavily subjected to the poisonous gas the Winter Lotus was emitting. At the sa ti, the heat of his flaming drill attack had already pushed the flower it was aid at to the verge of collapse. Instead of letting the Winter Lotus fail, Sage switched from defense back to offense. The purple lotus petals suddenly shriveled up and fell off, just as a huge red seed pod grew larger and larger at the center. Burning hot seeds were shot out of the seed pods and assaulted the Peak Master from multiple directions as all the other Winter Lotus transford into their attack forms all around him. In ti with this burning seed attack, Sages lungs and neck bulged out, partially transforming into a stronger body on the inside and his head dropped forward, better aligning his throat to release an imnse gout of orange fla onto the Peak Master.
The flaming lotus that had been drilling into his crossed blades was forced to spread its petals wide once more to form a shield against the wide cone of fire that was rushing towards the Peak Master. The other fiery lotus that had been assaulting the wall had swept back over to his body, where he crouched down and the lotus petals spread out and fell over him like an overturned bowl. One of these smaller defensive lotuses spun around him, deflecting the seeds that were bombarding him from every direction, while the other was spread wide like an umbrella to divert the flow of the Samsara Fla away.
After a whole second of intense fla, the quick release of the Divine Breath technique was expended and the orange flas lost their intense propulsion. A few wisps of orange fire dripped from his lips with an almost liquid like grace as it spilled down to leave a sear on the floor. Then the green blades disappeared from his wrists, absorbed back into the armor like aura around his body. The seed pods continued to attack the Peak Master, but they were blocked by the bowl of energy around him. At the sa ti the other lotus was no longer blocking any flas so it spun beautifully in the air all on its own. Sage was standing in a low stance to brace his arms together, but at this ti he brought his feet together and then spread his stance wide, leaning forward to bring his whole torso in line with the Peak Master.
The sapphire lotus tightened its petals and shot towards Sage like a giant bullet, aiming to strike at him while he was busy changing stance. Sage wasnt going to give it ti to build montum and his jaw fell open so far that it had to have unhinged. He released an even bigger torrent of orange flas than the last ti, but the sapphire bullet darted to the side to avoid the most dense portion of Sages attack. It burst through the orange flas and swung around the side to dart toward Sages body. Unfortunately, for the Peak Master, a large silvery fra jumped in front of the fiery attack and wrapped its arms around it. The Blacksilver Knight had recovered and jumped in the way to stop the attack just before it was going to hit his body. Of course, even without the Blacksilver Knight it would have still had to break through Sages Jade Mantle technique.
Another torrent of Samsara Fla bathed the Peak Master, locking him in place.
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