Within the Five Elements Sect...
The great battle had already raged for a full day. Blood stained the very ground crimson, and the air was thick with the smoke of war. Within the Sect, the roars of beasts, the tormented screams of the dying, and furious shouts echoed without end. The fighting was brutal on an unprecedented scale.
"Fall back! Quickly, fall back!" Below the main peak of the Five Elements Sect, the Elders from the major halls led the remaining disciples in a constant retreat up the mountain. By now, every part of the Sect had fallen, save for the main peak itself.
The several hundred disciples following them were pale-faced and wounded, their robes soaked in blood. The Primordial Beasts were Energy Bodies; they felt no pain and did not bleed. All this blood belonged either to themselves or to their fallen comrades. Of the tens of thousands of disciples, only these few hundred remained after the slaughter.
