Zhe Fēnglì knew he was in trouble, but he kept calm as he fended off Emperor Cì Shā, Xu Suan, and Jiang Yijun. He swung his sword faster than he ever had before. He needed to move with efficiency in mind. No wasted movements. Even moving his blade a chih more than he needed would result in his sword being too slow to defend against the onslaught.
He would have died a long time ago if Bèipàn Zhě and Húndàn Wang were not present. Their attacks were just powerful enough to distract these three. That gave him some breathing room, though not much. The emperor and his Heavenly Generals also couldn’t attack those two since, if even one of them left, it would give him the leeway to take them out.
They were at a stalemate.
[Heavenly Blades]