568 Times of Change

With the woman nowhere to be seen, and a battle of catastrophic proportions ready to ensue, Daniel did not panic. Instead, he let out an immense amount of his essence, taking control over the surroundings. With a simple thought he turned thousands of miles worth of spatial essence into the essence of time, and with another, stopped its motion.

Shocked by Daniel's understanding of such a rare type of essence, yet unable to move, the horde of cultivators lost their will to fight. Only Daniel's champions, crazed by the woman's powers, continued looking at their opponents with eyes filled with hatred. 

Luckily, Daniel was there, as he was the only one who could stop whatever spell the woman had used to poison the minds of his still inexperienced champions. Had they been there without him, they would have been killed by this horde, whose higher average cultivation easily made up for their lower numbers.