Tian Kuan did not give up.
He was someone who had returned from the verge of death. The obstacle he currently faced was nothing compared to what he had experienced in the past and was not enough to throw him into despair.
There were 16 blood elementalists under his command, but half of them were injured.
While blood elementalists were much more tenacious compared to regular elementalists, their capabilities were still affected by injuries.
The consecutive failures that these injured blood elementalists had faced were a huge blow to their morale. With morale at an all time low, more and more of them were deserting from Tian Kuan. This batch of blood elementalists were elites who were carefully selected, and as such, had very keen intuitions.
They were quick to figure out that Tian Kuan’s method of controlling them had loopholes and managed to exploit these to escape.