This seemed to be beyond Yuan Peng's expectations.
With a wave of his hand, a yellow light burst forth before him, and the yellow spirit light net was unleashed. In a flash, it transformed into a net ten to twelve feet in size, enveloping the large space in front of him.
Zhang Ling's flying sword attack flashed and collided with the yellow net. Then, the yellow net contracted, trapping Zhang Ling's flying sword inside.
Boom!
A muffled sound came from Zhang Ling's direction, and a tall black shadow flashed, rushing towards Yuan Peng.
The distance between the two was not far, only about twenty-five feet. The black shadow arrived in front of Yuan Peng in an instant, and a gray-white flame enveloped him.
The black shadow revealed a hideous and terrifying shriveled face—this was Zhang Ling's Corpse Bear puppet. Now, the Corpse Bear was equivalent to a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator, much stronger than before.
The gray-white corpse fire from the Corpse Bear's mouth was its innate corpse fire, even more powerful than a regular Foundation Establishment cultivator's innate true fire.
The corpse fire looked like flames, but it was incredibly cold; in fact, it was a kind of cold flame.
The corpse fire rained down, but Yuan Peng showed no intention of dodging. He raised his hand, and a fist-sized jewel flew to the top of his head.
It shimmered a few times, releasing a layer of dazzling spiritual light. Zhang Ling only glanced at the dazzling light and his head felt heavy. His eyes were filled with various colors of light, and all other scenery disappeared.
He felt dazed for a moment and cried out inwardly, 'Not good!' Zhang Ling ignored everything else and bit the tip of his tongue, regaining some clarity.
But this delayed him for a breath or two. When he looked at Yuan Peng again, a cold light flashed before his eyes, already upon him.
Zhang Ling had no time to dodge. He quickly gathered his spiritual power, and the Azure Steel Shield suddenly enlarged, blocking in front of him.
With a loud clang, the blue light struck the Azure Steel Shield, causing the shield to vibrate. Seeing this, Zhang Ling breathed a sigh of relief. This Azure Steel Shield had top-notch defense among high-grade magical artifacts, so he was not surprised that it could block Yuan Peng's flying knife.
However, the scene he saw earlier had made him lose his senses for a moment. If he hadn't woken up in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
But before he could rejoice, he felt a strong pulling sensation from below.
He quickly looked down and saw a vortex about ten feet in size had appeared beneath his feet. At the same time, a stream of water enveloped his body.
Gurgling bubbles entered his ears, and the water flow suddenly split apart, revealing a large mouth.
Upon closer inspection, it was not a mouth, but two halves of a giant clam shell. The two halves of the clam shell rapidly closed towards the center.
If he were caught by the giant clam, his body would be split in two immediately.
In such a crisis, Zhang Ling's face remained expressionless. Without thinking, he condensed his spiritual power, and the vines on his left arm suddenly extended several feet. The black vines, like a black snake, wrapped around Zhang Ling.
At the same time, a large opening appeared on a section of the vine, and a green gourd squeezed out. Then, the green gourd burst open on its own, releasing a cloud of black ink-like liquid.
With a muffled thud, the two halves of the clam shell slammed together.
As for Zhang Ling, he suddenly leaped up, narrowly avoiding the attack.
The giant clam that attacked him was red all over; it was the giant clam they had found earlier that spewed out four-colored pearls.
At this moment, the red giant clam trembled violently, spewing out a large amount of water. After a few breaths, the red giant clam opened its shell again.
A cloud of black smoke emerged from it.
Then, a mass of flesh shot out of the giant clam, like a long tongue waving in the air. Black spots appeared on the flesh tongue.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling's face lit up with joy. The black spots on the clam meat were the effect of the green gourd he had released earlier.
It was filled with the venom he had researched. The giant clam had swallowed all the venom, resulting in its current state.
Then, Zhang Ling waved his hand, and the flying sword transformed into seven or eight sword lights, cutting the clam meat inside the giant clam into countless pieces.
Ah!
At the same time, a scream came from the side. The Corpse Bear bit Yuan Peng's neck, and in a few breaths, all the blood in his body was sucked dry by the Corpse Bear. He died tragically in the Corpse Bear's mouth.
After he killed the giant clam, Yuan Peng seemed to have lost his mind, stopped attacking, and was instantly killed by the Corpse Bear.
Zhang Ling glanced at Yuan Peng's body, took off his storage bag, and incinerated Yuan Peng's body with a fireball.
Looking at the burning corpse, Zhang Ling remembered the abnormality he had noticed earlier.
After encountering this person, he initially didn't notice anything unusual, but after this person killed the sea beast, he left directly without collecting the corpse of the Azure Water Snake. He knew that this person was not right.
Although cultivators don't necessarily collect the corpses of demon beasts after killing them, this Azure Water Snake was a third-order demon beast, not a low-level one.
Such a demon beast, even Zhang Ling himself would not let go of its body's materials. Judging from Yuan Peng's previous performance, this person was very greedy, so how could he act like he didn't care at all?
This was very unusual, so he directly attacked.
Zhang Ling flipped his hand, holding a four-colored pearl with red, yellow, blue, and green colors in his right hand. He carefully examined it with his spiritual sense, then walked to the Red Jade Giant Clam and looked at it.
Alas!
Zhang Ling sighed. This four-colored pearl was what the giant clam had been spewing out. Yuan Peng had unleashed this treasure, emitting a dazzling light, which had also made him lose his senses for a moment, showing the power of this pearl.
He had some guesses about Yuan Peng's situation. This person was probably bewitched by this giant clam. If he hadn't noticed the abnormality, he didn't know where this person would have taken him.
Even he was almost tricked during the battle. For a moment, he felt complicated.
Zhang Ling shook his head helplessly and retrieved his magical artifacts. Then, he left the place. It was best to leave this place as soon as possible.
A four-colored pearl could bewitch a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator. If they encountered the legendary five-colored pearl, they probably wouldn't be able to deal with it.
Not long after, Zhang Ling noticed that the surrounding scenery had changed somewhat, and a large area of coral had appeared nearby.
At the same time, the surrounding fog had also decreased a lot. However, he was still unable to escape this place.
Strange popping sounds were constantly ringing around, disturbing the mind. Zhang Ling carefully explored the surroundings while looking for a way out.
After another quarter of an hour, Zhang Ling encountered other cultivators again, but this time the situation was even more bizarre.
Not far in front of him, next to a huge coral, stood two cultivators, a man and a woman. They were Xu Ji and Wang Caidie. At this moment, these two were holding magical artifacts with gloomy faces, looking at him as if they were facing a great enemy.
"Who are you? Why are you impersonating Fellow Daoist Zhang?"
"Fellow Daoist Xu, what do you mean? I am Zhang Ling, how can you say I'm impersonating someone?" Zhang Ling frowned, feeling something was wrong.
"Fellow Daoist Zhang was acting with us earlier, we saw him die tragically in the mouth of a sea beast with our own eyes."
Wang Caidie looked at him with a panicked expression and said something that shocked Zhang Ling.
