As he approached the stone mountain, Zhang Ling flipped his hand, and a cyan-colored spirit talisman appeared, which he slapped onto himself. It generated a cloud of cyan mist that enveloped him. In the blink of an eye, the mist dissipated, and Zhang Ling's figure vanished.
This was a third-order Shadow Spirit Talisman, capable of concealing one's form and masking one's aura. With the blessing of the spirit talisman, Zhang Ling could move more freely.
Although desolate beasts differed from demon beasts in their chaotic intelligence, their instincts were often sharper than those of demon beasts.
Now that he knew there was a sixth-order Crimson Wind Bird on this solitary peak, he had to investigate carefully for safety's sake. Dealing with a sixth-order avian desolate beast was not easy, and he needed to plan well.
In the blink of an eye, more than an hour had passed, and Zhang Ling had explored the situation within a hundred miles.
There were very few desolate beasts in this range, indicating that it was very likely the territory of the Crimson Wind Bird on the stone mountain.
Having found no other high-order desolate beasts, Zhang Ling began to act.
At this moment, on the other side of the Black Stone Mountain peak, ten miles away on a mountaintop, Zhang Ling was holding several array flags of different colors, setting up an array.
The array he was setting up was called the 'Water Cloud Wind Driving Array'.
He had found this array in Old Long's storage bag. It was quite powerful, combining the functions of trapping and killing enemies. It was, in fact, a dual-attribute array composed of water and wind spiritual power.
It used water attribute abilities to generate clouds and mist to trap the enemy, and then combined wind spiritual power to form a killing array to attack. This was the core of the array.
This array alone could be sold for at least ten thousand spirit stones in the market. It was evident how wealthy Array Master Long was.
The term 'dual-eye array' meant that this array had two array eyes: one to control the trapping of enemies and one to control the killing.
The power of arrays set up with array flags and array disks varied, but there was a general consensus that the more array eyes there were, the stronger the array's power.
For example, the Six甲 Bewildering Spirit Array he had was just a maze-type array with one array eye.
Of course, it was not necessarily true that the more array eyes there were, the stronger the array's power.
It should be known that there were all sorts of strange things in the cultivation world. Some naturally formed forbidden areas did not have array disks or array eyes. But these places were often not easily accessible.
It was said that array masters were very interested in these kinds of places, as they were conducive to their research on array knowledge. After all, arrays were just tools developed by cultivators based on their understanding of the world.
The more array eyes there were, the stronger the array's power, applied only to arrays set up by the human race. The more array eyes an array had, the more troublesome it was to set up.
Once it exceeded six array eyes, it was considered a large array, and it was no longer suitable for cultivators to carry around. Setting it up also had many requirements for the terrain.
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A full half-hour passed before Zhang Ling, looking at the dozen or so array flags of various colors stuck around him, finally finished placing the simplest array flags.
With a wave of his hand, two round beads, one black and one cyan, appeared in his hand. Different spiritual patterns were engraved on the beads. These were the two array eyes of this array.
Zhang Ling placed the two array eyes in different positions. Finally, he produced a bronze disc, which was the array disk used to control the entire Water Cloud Wind Driving Array.
Zhang Ling generated a ball of spiritual power in his hand, which transformed into several runes that entered the bronze disc.
Immediately, a layer of cyan light lit up on the array disk, and the surrounding array flags moved automatically without any wind. They emitted various colors of light, shooting up strands of spiritual light as thick as arms.
After a few breaths, a layer of pale white cloud and mist rose up within a hundred feet.
The array had been set up. This array did not require a cultivator's spiritual power to drive it. It could be operated with a dozen or so middle-grade spirit stones.
Looking at the smooth operation of the array disk, Zhang Ling smiled contentedly. He quickly tapped the bronze town disk in his hand a few times, and the clouds and mist floating around gradually became lighter until they disappeared. The top of the mountain returned to calm, showing no sign of anything unusual.
With the aid of the array, he had enough confidence to deal with the sixth-order desolate beast.
Zhang Ling looked up at the black stone solitary peak. Next, he had to lure out and kill the Crimson Wind Bird before he could safely collect the Profound Yang Fire.
Zhang Ling then meditated for another half-hour, until all of his energy was fully restored.
He then directly drove his escape light towards the stone mountain. After about a meal's time, a thunderous cry echoed through the mountains.
In the sky, there was a burst of explosions, and two streams of light flew quickly.
The one flying in front was naturally Zhang Ling. At this moment, he was covered in protective spiritual light, and more than a dozen blue, glittering sword lights surrounded him. Behind him was a patch of fire, with a cloud of fire chasing closely.
In the air twenty or thirty feet behind him, a huge firebird with a body length of five or six feet and a black and red body was chasing closely. The monster bird had a flat head and gray-yellow eyes. However, the feathers on its wings were jet-black and shiny, sounding like metal clashing. Behind its huge body were several long, scarlet feathers.
The firebird was also beautiful, but its body was surrounded by a strong and extremely violent fire attribute, forming countless fireballs of various sizes around it, which were thrown towards Zhang Ling with a whoosh.
Zhang Ling was now at full speed, shaking left and right, constantly dodging attacks, while also releasing a large number of sword lights to slash towards the rear, constantly angering the desolate beast.
The firebird's aura was a bit stronger than Zhang Ling's spiritual pressure. It was officially the sixth-level Crimson Wind Bird that Yun Hu had mentioned.
This kind of demon bird flew very fast, and was gradually closing the distance with Zhang Ling.
If Zhang Ling hadn't used a few spirit talismans before to create some obstacles for the Crimson Wind Bird, he would have been almost caught up by this powerful demon bird.
After all, birds were inherently good at flying, let alone a sixth-order demon bird. Just its flying speed among the Golden Core cultivators was probably unmatched.
The man and the beast quickly chased and fled, turning into two streams of light that cut through the sky.
"It seems that Senior Zhang has already begun to act."
Behind a boulder on an unnamed hill, Yun Hu looked at the aura erupting in the distant sky, his eyes a bit solemn.
Then he glanced at the black stone mountain, blinked his eyes a few times, wondering what he was thinking.
Zhang Ling flew quickly towards the hilltop where he had set up the array.
In the blink of an eye, a cup of tea's time had passed.
A yellow light flashed in the sky above a low mountain, and Zhang Ling landed heavily on the ground. He waved the flying sword in his hand towards the sky without hesitation, and immediately slashed out thirty or forty sword lights. These sword lights combined quickly under the blue light, turning into five or six giant swords.
But before the giant swords could be slashed out, the fire light lit up in the sky, and the sound of wind breaking sounded. A large number of fireballs fell down.
With a series of loud noises, the entire top of the mountain was flying with soil and rocks.
The giant sword that Zhang Ling had just cast with the Giant Sword Technique could only hover helplessly above his head, quickly dancing into a wheel of swords, blocking the falling fireballs.
But then, among the countless fireballs, a flame of about ten feet in size fell from the sky.
Rumble...
