Unnecessary Sacrifice?
'It's going better than expected.'
Thanks to the slight deviation at the start where the Head Abbot died, there was no longer anyone to control the Poison Dragon's rationality and feed it information. Without a leash, a dragon's pride pushed it to exterminate all impudent insects that chose to attack it!
However, a dragon contending against Martial Artists wasn't exactly a great match for either side. The tough Dragon Scales made it hard for the Martial Artists to make any attack that counts, while the dragon's large body failed to react fast enough to squash them to the ground.
The more they fought, the worse that landscape became, restricting Cheon Chang and the others' movement, giving them less window to land any attacks to begin with, but they were still able to avoid receiving any major damage so far.
'If it goes on like this…'