“Whoosh! Whoosh!”
“Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!”
Demonic qi and fog continuously gathered, quickly coalescing into a Demon Fog Demon King with a body about twenty zhang tall. From the aura it emanated, its strength was probably comparable to a third-rotation Core Formation Realm.
It hovered in the forest like a great mountain, blocking Li Qingyang and the others’ path.
“This is troublesome.”
He Wudi’s expression gradually grew grave.
Under normal circumstances, the few of them wouldn’t necessarily fear this type of demonic beast—after all, if they couldn’t win they could run. But now they were trapped in a forbidden land that restricted flight, and demonic qi was constantly harassing them. Once they were held up, they’d be finished!
“Go around it!”
Li Qingyang said in a deep voice.
“Swish!”
“Swish!”
Everyone hurriedly rushed to one side. Even the battle maniac Ye Xingchen had become exceptionally calm at this moment and didn’t blindly go to spar with the Demon King.
“Woo-woo-woo!”
Just then, the Demon Fog Demon King’s fog-like body suddenly split into rays of flowing light that rushed toward the five like ghosts, accompanied by hair-raising strange cries.
“Be careful!”
He Wudi urgently said: “This is a soul attack!”
As he spoke, he brought his hands together. Powerful soul power erupted, seemingly transforming into a sharp blade that stabbed forward, successively extinguishing several ghost bodies.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
Li Qingyang and the others also used the same method to break through the incoming flowing light.
The confrontation on the soul level was invisible to the naked eye, so they could only hear muffled collision sounds without the visual effects that physical combat brought.
“Damn it!”
Ye Xingchen’s face showed a slightly ferocious expression: “This guy’s soul power is very strong!”
Though the attacks split from within the Demon Fog Demon King’s body were successively broken through, the backlash brought by the collision process was becoming a bit too much for them to bear!
“Swish! Swish! Swish!”
Flowing light flickered, permeating all around.
Demon Fog demonic beasts were summoned one after another—at least a thousand of them!
“We’re done for!”
Li Qingyang said in despair: “We can’t get out!”
These demonic beasts weren’t particularly strong individually, but there were many of them. Just killing them would take time, not to mention there was still the Demon King and the demonic qi’s crazy harassment—fighting on three fronts, who could handle it!
“Roar!”
The Demon Fog Demon King roared, and all the summoned subordinates’ eyes flashed with light, then they pressed in from all directions.
Removing the fog of war and viewing from a high aerial perspective, Li Qingyang’s group of five were like pitiful little ants trapped in raging waves!
“I’ll hold them off, you break through.” Lu Qianqian walked forward, her three thousand black strands dancing in the wind, gradually gathering layers of frost.
“Whoosh! Whoosh!”
“Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!”
Bone-chilling cold qi emanated from her entire body. The ground beneath her feet rapidly froze, quickly spreading outward from her as the center.
“Crack! Crack! Crack!”
The Demon Fog demonic beasts charging forward rapidly turned into lifelike ice sculptures after being eroded.
“Senior Sister…”
“Go!”
Li Qingyang only hesitated briefly before immediately infusing lightning attribute into his exclusive divine weapon and shouting: “Break out!”
“Whoosh!”
Ye Xingchen summoned his divinely modified Sky Piercer Halberd. The Five Elements Heaven Mirror Art circulated, and scorching flames instantly spread. He leaped forward and immediately followed up with Sweeping Away a Thousand Armies upon landing.
“Bang-bang-bang-bang!”
Enhanced by flames, the Demon Fog demonic beasts were not only cut in half at the waist but directly vaporized into nothingness.
Ah Niu was getting serious!
But at this moment, the key point wasn’t how ruthlessly to annihilate the demonic beasts, but rather that they had to break through the encirclement as quickly as possible and get away from the demonic qi’s harassment.
“Clang! Clang! Clang!”
Dense poisonous flowing light shot from the distance. Xiao Zuiji held his Steel Shield to block it, his face ferocious: “Hurry and go!”
Facing the increasingly strong demonic qi harassment, he was already starting to struggle.
Though Li Qingyang and He Wudi could still hold on, there was ultimately a limit. If they didn’t quickly leave this place, they would definitely end up as walking corpses like those just swept away!
“Whoosh! Whoosh!”
Dense fog gathered around the Demon Fog Demon King again, then evolved into a giant arm that pressed down carrying soul power.
“Boom!”
Xiao Zuiji raised his shield to block, his feet sinking into the ground. The soul power permeating over crazily attacked his sea of consciousness defenses—his head felt like it was about to explode.
Poison couldn’t penetrate his tough physical body, but soul attacks could!
“Whoosh!”
Ye Xingchen leaped up again with his Sky Piercer Halberd. After approaching the Demon Fog Demon King, he gathered powerful strength to strike, but just as he was about to make contact, the flames gathered on his weapon suddenly extinguished!
As a non-professional fire element martial artist, using it against Demon Fog demonic beasts was fine, but against the Demon King it wasn’t enough!
“Boom!”
The Demon Fog Demon King gathered another arm and directly sent the leaping Ye Xingchen flying.
“Bang-bang-bang!”
Brother Niu shot through the air like a cannonball, consecutively smashing through dozens of large trees, finally embedding in a giant boulder in a swastika shape, his facial expression gradually becoming ferocious.
The Demon Fog Demon King’s physical attacks weren’t strong—its strength lay in soul attacks. Any casual strike carried extremely strong penetrating power, so Ye Xingchen’s injuries weren’t severe, but the demonic qi harassment he instantly endured had increased several times!
Wait!
Being sent flying—couldn’t he just run away?
With this palm strike from the Demon Fog Demon King that sent Ye Xingchen flying several hundred zhang, the angle was perfect—he was already quite close to the outer perimeter.
“Swish!”
Ah Niu walked out from the boulder, opened his wine gourd, took a sip of Drunken Life and Dreaming Death, recalled his Sky Piercer Halberd that had scattered to the ground, and with cold sharp eyes leaped back into battle.
Running away—that was possible.
But what about his fellow disciples!
“Ahhh!”
Ye Xingchen seemed possessed by a peerless war god. Wielding his Sky Piercer Halberd, he descended from the sky, once again ruthlessly attacking the Demon Fog Demon King.
The will to charge into battle—death but no retreat!
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
Though Li Qingyang and He Wudi could rely on their attributes and powerful soul power to annihilate Demon Fog demonic beasts one after another, because they also had to be distracted by the demonic qi entering their bodies and had to be careful of the Demon Fog Demon King, the fight was exceptionally difficult.
The situation was becoming critical.
“Swish!”
Just then, Lu Qianqian drifted over. A flash of coldness passed through her clear eyes, and the ‘Ice’ character on the back of her right hand rapidly emerged, erupting with extremely strong white radiance that enveloped her entire body.
“Whoosh! Whoosh!”
In an instant, cold qi surged greatly, bone-chillingly cold!
Li Qingyang and the others who were struggling to resist all shivered, then turned their heads to look.
“Bang!”
Right at this moment, the white radiance seemingly gathered from ice and snow suddenly exploded, immediately forming a scene of snowflakes dancing through the sky.
Ye Xingchen and the others’ eyes widened.
“Step!”
Lu Qianqian landed lightly on the ground. Her full head of black hair had turned pure white, and her exquisite face emanated an even colder aura than before. Especially standing in the scene of dancing snowflakes, she was like a fairy untouched by mortal affairs… an Ice Goddess descending to the mortal world!
“Holy shit!”
Xiao Zuiji was stunned.
Senior Sister’s hair had turned white, and her aura had become even more formidable!
“Get out of the way!”
Lu Qianqian said.
Just these two words immediately gave a feeling of falling into an ice cellar!
“Swish!”
Ah Niu hurriedly shouldered his Sky Piercer Halberd and made a great leap away.
Just as he left, extremely cold qi permeated the area on his heels, and in the blink of an eye it encased the Demon Fog Demon King that was about to attack in ice.
“Go!” Lu Qianqian shouted.
With the character special effect activated, her understanding of the ice element had surged, but what she was freezing was after all a Demon King comparable to third-rotation Core Formation Realm, so she could only maintain it briefly for a few seconds.
That was enough.
With Li Qingyang and the others’ strength, they could completely escape.
However, Lu Qianqian, responsible for maintaining the ice seal, had to constantly stabilize her state of mind, so she could only stand in place, releasing her ice element attribute to the maximum to provide those few seconds of escape time for her fellow disciples.
“Go!”
Li Qingyang shouted.
At this moment, he could only choose to retreat, otherwise everyone would die.
“Go my ass!”
Just then, He Wudi rushed over with quick steps. The ‘Gate’ character appeared on the back of his hand, then he pulled the Gate of Life and Death from his treasure pouch and opened the Death Gate without hesitation, roaring at the top of his lungs: “Kick it in!”
“Swish!”
“Swish!”
Li Qingyang and Ye Xingchen immediately understood. Without thinking it through at all, they both circled to the Demon Fog Demon King’s rear and struck out with their fists infused with energy.
“Bang—”
The giant ice sculpture was sent flying. The instant it touched the Death Gate, countless hands suddenly extended from inside, accompanied by ghostly wails and wolf howls, grabbing it from different angles and forcibly dragging it in.
Some might ask—how could something so big fit inside? The reason was simple: after being touched by those hands, the Demon King instantly became pocket-sized.
Just ask—isn’t that scientific!
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Eternal Ancient Sect.
Jun Changxiao sat in the great hall: “Elder Zhen, how’s the research on the Super Teleportation Array going?”
“It’s too difficult.”
Zhen Dejun said helplessly: “There’s been no progress.”
“No rush, take your time.”
“Sect Master!”
Just then, Li Shangtian ran in from outside, shocked: “Senior Sister and Second Senior Brother’s contracted beasts suddenly became listless!”
“Swish!”
Jun Changxiao immediately stood up. His spiritual sense permeated the mountain peak where disciples resided, and he saw the Thunder Spirit Beast, Ice Phoenix Beast, and other disciples’ life-bound contracted beasts all lying weakly on the ground. His brows furrowed tightly: “They’ve run into trouble on their external mission!”
Swish! Swish! Swish!
In an instant, countless seven-colored flowing lights flew from the sky above Eternal Ancient Sect. The number was so large it could be called a full sect deployment. The direction they headed was precisely the forbidden land where Li Qingyang and the others were doing their mission—the Demon Fog Forest!
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