Dense fog rose, and demonic beasts roamed freely.
Li Qingyang and the others finally found their targets as they had wished, and there were quite a few—if they could finish them all off, completing the mission would be a sure thing.
However, the evil attribute that eroded their minds grew increasingly intense, so time was running out. They had to resolve this quickly and return along the path to the outer perimeter, or they would definitely be in trouble.
Xiao Zuiji activated the Shield character special effect without hesitation. His entire body rapidly transformed into mecha-like armor, and he raised two thousand barrels of super-sized Gatling guns, then fixed himself in place, instantly becoming a human fortress.
Wait a minute!
It used to look like a sniper rifle—how did it suddenly turn into a machine gun?
Actually, this was one of the Shield character special effect’s functions, called Firearm Mastery, which allowed the user to freely transform into multiple forms.
Ye Xingchen mentally rationalized: “Did the Sect Master secretly give this guy something good again?”
“Da-da-da!”
“Da-da-da!”
The two thousand barrels of blue-light Gatling guns rotated and fired, with countless bullets penetrating the dense fog and bombarding the Demon Fog demonic beasts. The firepower was truly terrifying!
“What’s that sound?”
Martial artists in the outer perimeter faintly heard the commotion, their faces showing confusion.
It didn’t quite sound like combat, and it was rather frequent!
Under the super fierce firepower attack, over a dozen Demon Fog demonic beasts were directly riddled with holes, but though their bodies were full of wounds, they still hovered in mid-air and quickly repaired their injuries, looking completely fine.
“No way?”
Xiao Zuiji was immediately hurt.
This transformation trump card was being used in actual combat for the second time, yet it couldn’t deal with demonic beasts that hadn’t even reached the Core Formation Realm—it was rather damaging to his self-esteem!
“Flashy tricks don’t work.”
Ye Xingchen raised his hand, the ‘Attack’ character on his forehead flickering with light, saying: “You still need to rely on hard power!”
“Whoosh! Whoosh!”
A fierce wind blew, stirring up rolling dense fog. After it dissipated, he was already wearing his war robe.
“Swish!”
Ye Xingchen raised his hand to grasp the divinely modified Sky Piercer Halberd hovering in the void, leaped with his body, and landed among the demonic beast horde, saying: “All of you, die!”
Ah Niu’s great leap, terrifying as always!
“Whoosh! Whoosh!”
Powerful radiance swept across in an arc.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
Wherever the halberd’s radiance passed, the Demon Fog demonic beasts were cut in half at the waist one after another, presenting quite a powerful scene!
“Amazing!” Xiao Zuiji exclaimed in shock.
The corners of Ye Xingchen’s mouth curved up in a proud smile, but it soon froze, because the scattered Demon Fog demonic beasts gathered together again, completely fine and hovering in mid-air.
He Wudi said: “These are phantom-form demonic beasts with no physical bodies. Pure force cannot harm them!”
Damn!
Why didn’t you say so earlier!
Li Qingyang frowned: “How do we deal with them?”
“Second Senior Brother!”
He Wudi said: “Your lightning has the effect of attacking souls, it should be effective against them!”
“Swish!”
Li Qingyang strode forward, the Heavenly Execution Thunder Pattern appearing out of thin air. The pattern lines on the sword body were immediately activated by lightning, emitting dazzling brilliant light.
As one of the rare normal-style exclusive divine weapons, when he brought it out, it immediately made Ye Xingchen and He Wudi envious, and they howled in their hearts: “When goods compare to goods they must be thrown away, when people compare to people they must die!”
“Sizzle-sizzle-sizzle!”
“Sizzle-sizzle-sizzle!”
Sword radiance infused with lightning tore through, and upon touching a Demon Fog demonic beast, it let out ghostly wails and wolf howls of misery, then burst apart with a “bang.”
“It’s really effective!”
Li Qingyang rushed out from the dispersing dense fog, his hand raising and sword falling as he attacked other targets. In an instant, lightning sword qi erupted madly, weaving together a magnificent and beautiful scene!
“…”
Ye Xingchen and Xiao Zuiji fell silent.
They had originally thought that coming to do this sect mission would be a good chance to show off their strength, but as it turned out… Second Senior Brother had stolen all the limelight!
“Don’t just stand there!”
He Wudi said: “Quickly use soul methods to attack!”
“Swish!”
Ye Xingchen rushed over first.
He didn’t use the Sky Piercer Halberd with its extremely strong physical strike effect, but instead summoned his barely visible soul power and attacked a Demon Fog demonic beast that was ambushing Li Qingyang!
Don’t underestimate Ah Niu—though he usually cared a lot about cultivation realm, he actually had balanced development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, and aesthetics, especially excelling in soul power.
If not for He Wudi, the soul trial layer record holder of the Training Tower would definitely be him.
“Boom!”
A Demon Fog demonic beast exploded.
This type of creature was formed by the dense fog gathering in the Demon Fog Forest. They didn’t fear physical attacks, but were afraid of soul attacks.
“Trash.”
After succeeding, Ye Xingchen once again became the insufferably arrogant Night Emperor, completely losing the dejection from earlier when even his great leap couldn’t deal with the targets.
“Swish!”
“Swish!”
Just then, over a dozen Demon Fog demonic beasts from the distance launched attacks together, shooting out rays of light full of evil qi.
“Clang! Clang! Clang!”
Xiao Zuiji rushed over with quick steps, raising his left arm horizontally. The impregnable Steel Shield stood before him, blocking all those poisonous, hidden-weapon-like rays of light.
Focusing mainly on body cultivation, soul attacks weren’t his strong suit, but using it for defense was still no problem.
So to speak.
Using gaming terminology to describe the two, one was AD and one was support—they had both offense and defense covered.
“Whoosh! Whoosh!”
“Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!”
Suddenly, an extremely strong cold current surged from behind. The ground rapidly froze, spreading into the distance until it touched the dozen or so Demon Fog demonic beasts, quickly encasing them completely in ice.
“Shatter!”
Lu Qianqian crossed her hands and said coldly.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
The dozen or so Demon Fog demonic beasts that had turned into statues rapidly shattered, becoming chunks of ice fragments.
Their bodies were formed from dense fog, so facing an ice-element martial artist similar to a mid-lane mage, they could only be controlled.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
On the other side, Li Qingyang and He Wudi coordinated as top and jungle, frequently using soul power to annihilate Demon Fog demonic beasts.
The strongest five-person team of Eternal Ancient Sect’s core disciples—how could it be an empty reputation!
After finding the phantom-form creatures’ weakness, Ye Xingchen and the others transformed into demons and began a crazy slaughter, with the mission count soaring!
From the hunting speed, they would soon be able to kill enough to reach one hundred.
However, while the fierce battle was in full swing, walking corpses emerged one after another from the dense fog!
These were all martial artists who had come to explore the Demon Fog Forest. Some had been poisoned by black marten venom, others hadn’t been able to exit in time before the fog rose.
Though they were dead, they were controlled by the Demon Fog demonic beasts and retained most of their cultivation from when they were alive.
“Roar!”
“Roar!”
A command-like strange cry rang out.
The walking corpses that had successively appeared, their eyes flashing red light, charged toward Li Qingyang and the others like madmen!
“Junior Brother Xiao, leave them to you!”
“Okay!”
Xiao Zuiji retracted his Steel Shield, raised both hands, and grasped the heavy machine gun supported by a tripod. Countless bullets were stacked in circles like firecrackers.
“Holy crap!”
Ye Xingchen thought: “This guy’s weapon changed again!”
“Click!”
Xiao Zuiji moved his arm, turned the machine gun muzzle, locked onto the martial artists with ferocious faces who looked like zombies, and said: “I’ll help you find release!”
“Da-da-da!”
“Da-da-da-da-da!”
Red flames sprayed from the gun muzzle as bullets poured out madly.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
The walking corpses charging madly were immediately riddled with holes, some even exploding on the spot, spattering nauseating black blood.
Hmph!
Can’t deal with phantom-form demonic beasts, but can’t deal with you either?
There were several hundred walking corpses that had surged out, but after the heavy machine gun swept through them with wild firepower, they all turned into rotten mud and broken flesh.
Ye Xingchen and the others were able to focus all their attention on hunting Demon Fog demonic beasts, and in a short time they had killed enough to reach one hundred.
“Retreat!”
Li Qingyang shouted.
The combat process was only a quarter-hour, but the demonic qi inside the Demon Fog Forest was becoming increasingly dense. Though they could still resist it, they were obviously struggling!
They couldn’t stay—they had to leave immediately!
“Swish!”
“Swish!”
Everyone rushed toward the outer perimeter.
“Whoosh! Whoosh!”
However, just as they began to move, more concentrated clouds and fog suddenly surged on their necessary path, then transformed into a colossal creature dozens of zhang tall!
“Roar!”
An earth-shattering sound instantly resounded through heaven and earth. The martial artists in the outer perimeter were shocked, their minds trembling as they cried out in unison: “Demon King!”