Two hours had passed since he entered the coral cave. There seemed to be no exit.
Zhang Ling stopped, considering whether to retreat and find another way.
Suddenly, the corpse bear roared, its emitted corpse energy sensing something.
Zhang Ling quickly directed the corpse bear to move in a certain direction. Before long, he saw a shattered giant clam. Beside it was a fragmented body.
Only half the body remained, but it was dressed in a gauze skirt. Zhang Ling recognized it at a glance as Wang Caidie. Judging from her mangled corpse, she had clearly been through a fierce battle.
Zhang Ling examined the surroundings. Inside the giant clam, he found a pile of corroded minced meat. It was easy to guess what it was.
With a wave of his hand, a fireball struck the remains, incinerating her corpse. Having traveled together, it was regrettable that she had died so tragically here.
Zhang Ling didn't find her storage bag. There were also several large holes in the giant clam next to her, indicating she had been killed by someone else.
However, it also proved that they had all reached this place. Now, the only ones he hadn't seen were Hai Hongtao and Xu Ji.
He wondered who had killed this Illusionary Color Clam with the strength of a Fourth-Order beast.
Zhang Ling paused for a moment before continuing forward.
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Along the way, he discovered more signs of fighting and many more broken giant clams.
After an incense stick's worth of time, the surrounding environment changed. Large patches of tall coral trees appeared, and a large amount of seawater flowed underfoot.
Upon closer inspection, he found that these coral trees were real. Moreover, the surrounding space was becoming increasingly larger.
Before long, Zhang Ling arrived at a large stone cave, within which grew a giant coral tree, over thirty zhang tall, its surface shimmering with spiritual light, like jade carvings.
On some of the branches of the coral tree, there were also some Illusionary Color Clams, each with different colors. On a thick branch, there was an entirely silver Illusionary Color Clam, with strands of various colors of spiritual light flowing over it.
Zhang Ling glanced at it and sensed a powerful spiritual force emanating from the silver giant clam. It was much stronger than a Fourth-Order sea beast, but upon closer inspection, it didn't seem to have reached the level of a Fifth-Order demon beast.
At this moment, the silver giant clam was wide open, rotating a dazzlingly colorful jewel. Upon closer inspection, the colors on it shifted constantly, with at least five or six kinds of spiritual light.
"Five-Colored Treasure Pearl."
Zhang Ling was shocked. Could this be the Five-Colored Treasure Pearl?
For a moment, he couldn't be sure. After all, in a place where one could easily be trapped by illusions, it wasn't impossible to misjudge things.
Below the silver giant clam, the various colored giant clams, some of which had reached the level of Fourth-Order demon beasts, were spewing out different colored pearls, forming a layer of dazzling light around the coral tree.
After glancing at the giant coral tree, Zhang Ling quickly looked at another location, where the sound of splashing water was constant, with many sea beasts besieging two cultivators.
It was Hai Hongtao and Xu Ji.
Hai Hongtao had a black jade tablet spinning above his head, forming a spiritual light shield to protect him. At the same time, he cast spells to control three blue flags, from which emerged many water swords and ice cones to attack the water-attribute sea beasts.
Xu Ji was covered in a layer of red protective spiritual light, wielding a red, gleaming long-handled weapon to attack the sea beasts that were besieging him.
Zhang Ling glanced at them and judged that the sea beasts were not weak. There were more than a dozen Second-Order beasts, four or five Third-Order beasts, and even two Fourth-Order sea beasts.
If these two weren't strong, and Hai Hongtao didn't have the strength of the late Foundation Establishment stage, they would have been besieged and killed long ago. Now, the two were at a disadvantage, able only to attack and defend.
Zhang Ling had the corpse bear sense the situation. All of it was real, whether it was the giant clams or the two men, all possessed strong spiritual power and vitality.
Suddenly, a flash of light, a dazzling beam of light, shot toward him.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling expressionlessly channeled the spiritual power in his body, and a flash of green light appeared under his feet, dodging the attack. But then three or four sea beasts rushed over, blocking his retreat.
Leading the charge was a black and white spotted sea snake, its bloody maw snapping at him.
Zhang Ling used the Illusion Sword Technique, several sword shadows迎向了海蛇, and at the same time, the copper ring magic weapon shook, also conjuring several ring-shaped shadows to attack.
After Zhang Ling attacked, Hai Hongtao and the other also discovered him, and the two were naturally overjoyed. They briefly transmitted a message to him.
Without the two saying anything, he also knew the current situation, and could only solve these sea beasts first.
Zhang Ling's sword light immediately repelled the sea snake, but next to it, a green-skinned shark and a huge crab covered in red rushed over.
These three sea beasts were all Second-Order in strength, and Zhang Ling, with the addition of the corpse bear, could deal with them relatively easily.
In the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, he killed two of them, but three more sea beasts of other species came again, including a Third-Order sea beast.
Such a fight lasted for a full hour, and Zhang Ling himself killed five or six sea beasts.
He also discovered that these sea beasts were not afraid of death. Even if the attacks hit these sea beasts, they did not retreat at all, obviously unusual.
Zhang Ling also noticed that those giant clams, they seemed to not be besieging, but were spewing out a large amount of colored fog, from time to time floating around the few people, conjuring various phantoms to harass them.
Among them were the phantoms of people they knew well, as well as a large number of sea beast phantoms mixed in, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false. If one was not careful, they would be tricked.
Therefore, Zhang Ling's own spiritual power was also consumed quickly, but as they killed, the number of sea beasts was gradually decreasing.
Two hours later, only a few sea beasts were left, including a black big fish and a red dolphin, which were Fourth-Order sea beasts.
Although the spiritual power of the three people has been consumed a lot now. But as long as they work together, the remaining sea beasts are nothing.
But at this moment, Hai Hongtao suddenly raised his hand, and a black talisman was sacrificed by him.
The black talisman did not attack the sea beasts, but flashed and transformed into a black ball floating above his head, and then the black ball冒出了咕噜噜的水流声, turning into a black cloud, covering a space of more than twenty zhang, and streams of water quickly fell from it, sweeping towards the many sea beasts.
And after the talisman was activated, Hai Hongtao flashed and rushed towards the giant coral tree.
When Zhang Ling reacted, this person had already jumped on the coral tree, in the process the rest of the giant clams did not move at all, and the silver giant clam did not react.
I saw Hai Hongtao came to the silver giant clam, the spiritual light flashed in his hand, and he grabbed the pearl spit out by the giant clam.
Zhang Ling escaped the attack range of the water binding talisman, and just happened to see this scene.
But then the sound of breaking wind sounded behind this person, and Xu Ji's long ge magic weapon arrived behind him. But Hai Hongtao seemed to have not found it, still maintaining the action of grabbing the pearl.
With a muffled sound, the long ge magic weapon pierced through Hai Hongtao's defensive cover, and was inserted from his back heart.
This person did not dodge this attack. Zhang Ling felt something was wrong.
