Li Hua's wood essence integrated perfectly with the eastern array, her spiritual energy filling the fractures with living power. Beneath her palms, the flickering formations stabilized, lines of golden light strengthening as they reconnected with the ship's main defense system. The barrier that had been failing moments before now glowed with renewed intensity, pushing back against the crimson lightning that probed its surface.
Around the vessel, other disciples achieved similar success with their assigned arrays. The elite cultivators' spirit beasts added their own power to the defenses—Sun Wei's Thunder Eagle absorbing and redirecting lightning strikes, Liu Fei's Golden Crane creating wind barriers that deflected cloud tendrils, Zhao Jun's Frost Wolf generating ice formations that somehow dampened the storm's electrical discharges.
