Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy - Chapter 1830

Chapter 1830 Hannah's Last Stand

People fought to defend themselves from the many bolts of lightning that fell down from the sky and managed to do so barely at the expense of what little Immortal Qi they had left.

They also protected those who would have otherwise died on the onslaught and fought back against every bolt of lightning that fell from the sky.

The elders and Yan Yating protected Zhou Linfan and Long Huan who had remained behind, the stronger soldiers protected the weaker ones, and the beasts protected the weaker beasts.

Pearl was protected by both his uncle and Senior Yao.

Hannah moved to protect her mother and Alex, fending off every bolt of lightning that rained down from the sky.

By the time the lightning rain came to a stop, every single person who was strong enough to mess with the Dragon Emperor was in shambles.

They were low on their Immortal Qi and without much means to protect even themselves if they needed to.

The Dragon Emperor frowned a little as he saw the situation. He had intended for the attack he did to be weak. Not only was a stronger attack going to force him to use a lot of Intent, but it would also kill a bunch of people, which was not something he wanted to do before he could get to Alex.

Still, he had expected some to die, and seeing everyone alive made him feel unhappy.

'Is this the extent of how powerful attacks can be in this realm?' the Dragon Emperor thought. 'Perhaps there is a limit to how strong I can make the attacks using nothing but Intent and Dao.'

In the end, he had to rely on his own Qi if he wanted strength in this world, it seemed. He felt the Qi inside of him and sighed, knowing that he had no means to get his Immortal Qi back once he spent in on this world.

At that point, he could only leave this world and go on to the new one.

'That's alright,' he thought. 'This is plenty.'

He pointed his spear toward Hannah and launched another attack.

Hannah was beaten and tired from all the previous attacks, but she still fought to defend herself. Because if she fell here, her mother and Alex would die, along with everyone else.

She had to continue fighting.

Hannah poured everything she had remaining into her attacks, going into what to her felt like a long battle ahead.

He hated remembering that. Even after his prophecies had all come and passed, he still hated the White Tigers.

He pointed toward her and let out an attack.

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Liz saw the Dragon Emperor ever so slowly raise his spear and knew he would attack her and Alex at any moment. She looked down at her nephew and saw that he still needed quite some time to finish his cultivation after his breakthrough.

There was no time for that at the moment.

She needed to give him that time.

She wished she knew how to stop time itself, to put the entire world on hold while she alone moved.

But alas, she understood the impossibility of that task. She understood that there was no such thing as stopping time.

What there was, though, was the fact that one could slow down time so much that it would be nigh indistinguishable from stopped time.

And so she acted.

Her mind was put to the test as she burned every single Intent that was in her body, pouring every scrap of mental strength she still held inside of her into this one Dao.

Even as the Dragon Emperor pointed the spear, he seemed to be frozen in time. Everything was frozen in time, all but herself and Alex.

Liz felt her mind melt because of the burden that had come upon her. She had used the Dao of Temporal Stagnation to the most she could, to the most she ever had, and then held it there.

Her mind was a battlefield where the only one winning was pain, but she still held onto her wits. She held onto her wits for just long enough to give Alex the time he needed.

And as Alex opened his eyes, done with his cultivation, she knew she had done what she needed to do.

"Fight..." She wished to say more to him, but her mind gave out on her in the end and she slipped into unconsciousness.

At the same time, the bubble of nearly stopped time came to an end, and the world moved once again.

The Dragon Emperor's attack launched and it came toward Alex.