The clash of sword light and claw shadows produced an astonishing explosive sound.
Zhang Ling wasn't too surprised by this; he knew that once they started trying to shake off this white bone skeleton, it would be a fight to the death.
The white jade skeleton was incredibly powerful. Now, because it was trapped in the large cauldron due to using secret techniques, its available methods were limited, but not to the extent that ordinary sword light could withstand it.
After releasing the sword light, Zhang Ling didn't hesitate to wave his hand and toss out a leather bag, casting several spells onto it.
The leather bag expanded several times in size, emitting buzzing sounds, and from it flew out spirit bees the size of fists.
These were mature earth spirit bees, black and yellow in color with a black stinger at the tail, cultivated by Zhang Ling.
In an instant, they filled the space in front of him, densely packed with over a thousand of them.
But the white bone hand also unleashed its power, displaying gray light upon it, and the hand instantly swelled several times, transforming into a huge white bone claw about three to four zhang in size.
The huge bone claw grabbed fiercely, instantly seizing the earth spirit bees at the very front within its grasp.
Puffing sounds came one after another, and with a squeeze of the large claw, the earth spirit bees within burst and turned into countless fragments.
This one strike instantly killed nearly a hundred mature earth spirit bees. The surrounding earth spirit bees seemed to sense fear and no longer moved forward.
Zhang Ling raised an eyebrow, flipped his hand, and three bee queens crawled onto his arm.
Under Zhang Ling's mental urging, the bee queens emitted strange cries, and immediately, the earth spirit bees also cried out strangely, as if they had received some order.
Then, the morale of the earth spirit bee swarm greatly increased, and they fearlessly pounced towards the huge bone claw.
Regardless of how strong the white bone hand's attack was, each strike could only kill up to a hundred earth spirit bees.
With the obstruction of these spirit bees, Zhang Ling was somewhat more at ease.
Of course, his own attacks didn't stop either. Flying swords and magical treasures continuously condensed into blue-glowing sword lights, and he quickly formed sword seals with his hands, using the Giant Sword Technique to condense four or five huge sword shadows that continuously attacked the white bone claw.
But after a few rounds of attacks, Zhang Ling also discovered that these attacks could only prevent the bone claw from moving forward.
And what he lacked most now was time. They couldn't stay here for too long. If the white jade skeleton in the cauldron freed itself and launched a few more attacks like this, they wouldn't be able to withstand it.
Thinking of this, Zhang Ling gently shook his shoulder, and a thick, dark green vine shot out from his left arm. This vine grew to over ten zhang long with a shake.
Zhang Ling immediately slapped his chest, spitting out two balls of essence blood, and quickly made hand seals, turning the essence blood into red threads that submerged into the vine.
Instantly, a blue-red spiritual light appeared on the vine. Then, over a dozen head-sized bulges swelled up on the vine.
With several crisp popping sounds, the bulges burst, and from them shot out dark green thorny vines, with black light shining from the thorns.
Zhang Ling activated his spells, and the iron thorns fell off from the main body of the vine, turning into black shadows to attack.
A dozen thorny vines danced, weaving into a huge black iron net that covered down directly from above, trapping the several-zhang-sized white jade bone claw in mid-air.
After releasing this attack, a blue-red treasure orb suddenly appeared in Zhang Ling's palm.
He quickly made hand seals, pointing at the orb several times, and instantly, gray threads floated out from the orb.
These gray threads were translucent and disappeared in a flash.
Meanwhile, the white bone claw trapped in the iron thorns rapidly expanded and contracted a few times, generating inch-sized black wind blades between the bones.
After the whistling wind sounds, the thorn cage was chopped into powder.
But the next moment, the bone claw suddenly shook violently, and the spiritual light on it dimmed a bit.
Then, a red light flashed, and a tiny spike stabbed into it. With a crisp clang, a ball of crimson flame burst out from the bone claw.
Finally, two huge blue-glowing giant swords flashed past, and the bone claw was chopped into pieces.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling felt relieved, finally having solved this bone claw.
At this moment, only two or three hundred of the more than a thousand earth spirit bees he released remained. If he delayed any longer, these earth spirit bees wouldn't be able to stop the bone claw.
He had just used the Soul-Slaying Threads he had cultivated, which could defile cultivators' magical instruments and treasures. Although he didn't know if this bone claw was a magical treasure, the Soul-Slaying Threads wrapped around it greatly reduced its power.
Then, he used the remaining Fire Dragon Needle, which finally broke the white bone hand.
With a thought, the remaining earth spirit bees were taken back into the spirit beast bag.
Then, he looked in Ding Ruozhao's direction with his divine sense. Silver light flickered on her body, and the longbow in her hand condensed an arrow shining with electric arcs.
From in front of her came the sound of clashing metal, and two black and white arc-shaped strange blades were constantly colliding with a huge bone claw.
An electric arc flashed past, instantly piercing through the white bone hand. After the silver light, only a pile of broken bones remained.
This woman's methods shouldn't be underestimated. He was able to resolve the curse on his body earlier thanks to her secret technique.
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Zhang Ling then glanced at the bronze cauldron, the five-colored spiritual light on it flickering brightly and dimly.
After the white jade skeleton released two bone claw attacks, it made no further movements, perhaps because it had reached a critical moment in its spellcasting and couldn't be distracted.
At this moment, golden runes also appeared on the blood-colored chains. These runes flashed with golden light for a while, and burst out with a rich blood color for a while, which was very strange.
Zhang Ling flicked his finger, condensing two giant swords to slash at the chains.
But as before, the giant swords were bounced off when they struck it. Zhang Ling's mind moved, and the sword light drew a semicircle in the air, directly slashing at the Spirit Eye Divine Tree.
However, it was also to no avail. As soon as it approached within ten feet of the Spirit Eye Divine Tree, the attacking sword light seemed to be imprisoned by something and directly burst into spiritual light and dissipated.
Zhang Ling frowned and condensed sword beams to shoot back at the eighteen short sticks. After a series of clanging sounds, the short sticks were unharmed.
However, he was still somewhat unwilling to give up and quickly condensed a dozen hand seals, striking them on the short sticks, and the dark green short sticks trembled slightly, seeming to have a tendency to stop.
Zhang Ling couldn't help but be overjoyed, but then a layer of blood light appeared on the short sticks. No matter how he urged the spells, the short sticks were no longer under his control.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling completely gave up.
He had just activated the Soul-Connecting Restriction Technique to control the formation, wanting to stop this formation. He thought it was too simple. Since the white jade skeleton dared to let them activate the short sticks to set up the formation, it obviously had a backup plan.
Suddenly, a series of dull thumping sounds rang out.
