Huang Ying, who was flying ahead, also stopped. With a flash of light in her hand, a wall of flames blocked her path. Numerous wooden thorns struck it, only producing some sparks.
At the same time, she released her divine sense to explore the surroundings but found no enemies. However, she heard a faint sound coming from behind. She quickly waved her hand, and another wall of fire blocked her rear.
But the imagined attack didn't arrive. Instead, a pale blue ball of spiritual light crashed into the fire wall with a 'poof'. It then divided into a dozen dim blue light pillars, quickly rotating to form a blue sphere covering an area of more than ten zhang, instantly trapping Huang Ying inside.
Trapped inside, Huang Ying's expression changed slightly. She immediately released fire-attribute attacks towards the blue light with the jade pendant in her hand. For a time, fire and blue light intertwined, but she couldn't break through the blue light sphere.
Zhang Ling, who had retreated to the side, didn't have time to make the next move when he saw Huang Ying trapped in the light sphere. He also noticed that the blue light sphere was densely covered with spiritual patterns, forming a simple array.
Array runes,' Zhang Ling exclaimed.
"Hmph, fellow cultivator, you have quite the insight. Hand over the Yi Wood Qi, and I will let you leave," a cold snort came from the side. In the air not far away, a disheveled middle-aged man appeared.
This person was none other than the green-robed man who had previously besieged them with the golden-haired ape and the bull-headed half-demon. He had actually caught up with them. The 'Yi Wood Qi' he shouted about was one of the ten treasures, which he had just taken into his hand.
It seemed that this person was relentlessly pursuing them for this treasure.
"Now that the treasure is in my possession, I naturally won't hand it over." A cold light flashed in Zhang Ling's eyes as he mobilized all his spiritual power. He slashed out fiercely with his flying sword, sending out a continuous stream of cyan sword light. At the same time, a large amount of yellow sand shot out from his body, joining the attack.
"Courting death!"
The green-robed man shouted angrily, taking out a black pottery pot with bright green patterns on it. Immediately, a thick green mist rushed out of the pottery pot. The mist instantly spread to a space of more than ten zhang.
The sword light fell into it, only producing a muffled sound, seemingly without any effect. Moreover, from within the mist came 'poof poof' sounds, and thick tree vines, each about ten zhang thick, coiled out. Seeing this attack, Zhang Ling couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. It felt somewhat familiar, similar to the vines on his body.
He had a strange feeling in his heart, but he didn't stop attacking. With a series of swishing sounds, he slashed several times, and more sword light swept out.
Amidst the cracking sounds, the sword light only cut out half-inch deep sword marks on the tree vines. These tree vines were extremely tough, even tougher than his vines.
This surprised Zhang Ling. While quickly dodging the incoming tree vines, he mobilized streams of yellow quicksand, condensing them into stone balls the size of watermelons, quickly scattering them around and crashing them out.
This man possessed the strength of the mid-stage Golden Core realm, so it was normal for him to unleash these attacks.
Zhang Ling didn't want to entangle with this man too much at the moment. Huang Ying was trapped in the array rune, and it wouldn't be good if others were attracted to snatch the treasure.
He needed to fight quickly and decisively. With an idea in mind, he no longer held back, fully controlling the flying sword and yellow sand to attack. At the same time, he took off a spirit beast pouch from his waist and released more than ten thousand earth spirit bees to attack.
Amidst a buzzing sound, the green-robed man's expression changed as he watched the large number of spirit insects attack. But as a high-level cultivator, he naturally wouldn't be easily frightened. He pounded his chest and spat out several mouthfuls of essence blood, which entered the black pottery pot. Immediately, strange howling sounds came from inside, and blood-red shadows flew out.
Upon closer inspection, they were moths the size of heads with blood-red wings. As soon as these moths came out, they emitted sounds similar to human sneers, making one's scalp tingle.
For a time, buzzing sounds and strange laughter continued, and the two types of spirit insects began to fight each other. But after a glance, Zhang Ling's face darkened. The bee colony was quite chaotic, and hundreds of them were killed or injured in an instant.
"Haha, prepare to die! My spirit insects are the nemesis of earth spirit bees." The green-robed man laughed loudly, and the pottery pot in his hand flew out with green qi transformed into flying knives to attack.
Zhang Ling also recognized these moths at this moment. If he remembered correctly, these blood-red winged moths were called blood-winged moths, a type of ghost moth that originated in the Yin Underworld and lived by devouring the lifeblood of creatures.
They seemed to be ranked higher than earth spirit bees, but this person had only released more than a thousand moths, which was far fewer than the number of earth spirit bees.
Under the command of his divine sense, more than ten thousand earth spirit bees split into two groups, surrounding the man in an encircling manner.
The green-robed man snorted coldly, relying on the blood-winged moths, he was naturally not afraid of the earth spirit bees' encirclement. But his face also became much gloomier. He hadn't expected the opponent's spirit bees to be so numerous.
To be on the safe side, the man took out a blood-red jade bottle from his chest. With a single pinch, the jade bottle was crushed by him, and a bloody aura instantly filled the surroundings.
This person's actions were naturally reflected in Zhang Ling's divine sense. Through these attacks, he had also roughly judged the green-robed man's divine power.
Under the influence of the blood qi, the moths seemed to have gone mad, laughing strangely, and their aggressiveness greatly increased. For a time, many more spirit bees were killed or injured.
Zhang Ling, however, remained expressionless and let out a sharp cry. Immediately, countless spirit bees flew forward fearlessly. At the same time, the flying sword and yellow sand constantly harassed this person. In just over ten breaths of time, this person was trapped in the bee colony.
Seeing this scene, knowing that the time had come, he slashed out with his sword light, and for a moment, a patch of cyan light filled his eyes. Suddenly, a black shadow flashed in the cyan light and disappeared.
At the same time, the other two flying swords also appeared in front of him. The three flying swords flickered with cyan light and overlapped.
The man trapped in the bee colony had a gloomy face, but he wasn't too panicked. With the blood-winged moths blocking, the earth spirit bees didn't pose much of a threat to him. However, he also knew that it wouldn't be good to be trapped for too long, and he needed to escape quickly.
He dared to pursue two fellow cultivators to seize treasures, not only with the assistance of array runes and spirit insects, but also with a backup plan. With a thought, the green-robed man opened his mouth and spat out several clusters of emerald green essence qi, which transformed into strands of spiritual light threads and began to wrap around his chest.
The black pottery pot was struck by him with several spiritual lights, and the emerald green patterns on it began to turn blood-red. The dense mist in the pot also turned pitch-black.
As the man activated the magic formula in his hand, the black qi in the pot transformed into several thick tentacles and flashed into the cluster of emerald green spiritual light in his chest. Immediately, black light and green light constantly merged in the light cluster. Before long, the light cluster actually transformed into strange spiritual patterns.
Strangely, these spiritual patterns seemed to have a target and plunged into the man's right arm. Immediately, he roared, and his arm became several times thicker. At the same time, his entire arm showed mysterious blood-red patterns.
Looking at the mutated arm, although the man's face was pale, he seemed to have gained a lot of confidence. He sneered silently a few times, grabbed the black pottery pot.
Using his thick right hand, he quickly tapped on it, and the pot spun, releasing a thick green mist that instantly wrapped him in it.
Then, with a flicker of his figure, he transformed into a green light and quickly approached Zhang Ling's position, ignoring the countless earth spirit bees blocking his path. His speed was extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, he flew a distance of more than ten zhang. Wherever he passed, the spirit bees that attacked him fell in large numbers, seemingly killed instantly.
After a short two or three breaths, this person broke out of the bee colony's encirclement, his right arm raised high, the blood-colored patterns on it flashing with a demonically brilliant light, seemingly about to launch an attack.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling's heart sank, but he didn't retreat half a step. The three flying swords in front of him had already merged together into a cyan light sword more than two zhang long. With a thought, the giant sword directly slashed out.
The green-robed man didn't dodge or evade, instead, he held his right arm horizontally, directly using his physical body to resist the giant sword's attack. What was magical was that after a loud clang, the man's arm was not damaged in the slightest, and it actually withstood the sword light head-on.
"Die!" The man shouted, shaking his right arm, and the cyan giant sword was directly knocked away. Then, using his hand as a knife, he slashed down fiercely towards Zhang Ling.
Immediately, the patterns on his arm detached and transformed into a blood-red light blade, slashing over in an instant.
Zhang Ling immediately sensed a wave in the space in front of him. The blood blade arrived in front of him in an instant, and it was too late to dodge.
With a horizontal heart, the yellow light on his body shone brightly. Zhang Ling flicked his fingers, and in an instant, five or six heavy yellow light walls descended in the area of several zhang in front of him.
At the same time, he raised his right arm, and a cyan-black vine rushed out. This vine rotated and twisted together, forming a wooden shield several zhang thick in front of his body.
Finally, Zhang Ling spat out a ball of cyan-white spiritual energy and injected it into the three Xuan Light Shields that had always been guarding him. Immediately, the three light shields overlapped, transforming into a cyan-yellow shield about ten zhang in size, guarding in front of him.
As soon as the three defenses were set up, the blood-colored light blade had already broken through the foremost light curtain. This was a defensive light curtain formed by releasing Heavy Yuan Xuan Light. Although it didn't have much defense, the attack that fell into it would be weakened by the compression of gravity. If an ordinary attack fell into it, it might be directly fixed in mid-air.
But the blood light blade only flashed and broke through the defense of the Heavy Yuan Xuan Light, directly slashing on the wooden shield.
Zhang Ling felt his heart tighten, and the wooden shield was directly slashed with a deep cut. A flash of blood light in front of him, and the wooden shield was directly broken open. The blood blade slammed into the third defense formed by the Xuan Ling Shield.
For a time, blood light and yellow light exploded in front of him, and the dazzling light made it impossible to open his eyes. At the same time, Zhang Ling also felt a huge force coming, and he couldn't help but retreat several zhang away.
After stabilizing his mind, Zhang Ling breathed a sigh of relief. He saw that the blood light blade had cut a crack in the Xuan Light Shield, deeply embedded in it, and stopped there.
The light blade also flickered, constantly shrinking. Zhang Ling knew that he had finally resisted this attack. With a thought, the yellow light on the Xuan Light Shield shone brightly and suddenly pushed forward, directly squeezing the light blade out. With a muffled sound, the blood-colored light blade directly transformed into starlight and dissipated.
"This, how is this possible." The green-robed man shouted in disbelief.
Just as this person was equally shocked, a black light flashed about ten zhang away behind him, and a tall figure appeared there. It was the corpse bear that had been quietly released while the bee colony was besieging the man.
The corpse bear silently stretched out its two big claws and slammed them fiercely towards the green-robed man.
Immediately, a scream was heard.
Although the green-robed man had a spiritual power shield on his body, the corpse bear had been waiting for a long time, and a full-strength blow was not so easy to resist. The black and purple bear paws had sharp claws, surrounded by wisps of gray-white corpse fire, directly piercing the spiritual light shield and inserting into the man's body.
The green-robed man reacted at this time, but the corpse bear would not leave him a chance to live. The two bear paws separated left and right, and the man's body was directly torn into two pieces, and a large amount of blood instantly spilled in mid-air.
Suddenly, a thumb-sized pill quickly flew out of the broken corpse, very spiritually swaying left and right and soaring into the sky, seemingly wanting to escape.
The corpse bear had been prepared for a long time and opened its mouth, spitting out several clusters of corpse fire covering the surroundings. One of the corpse fires hit the green pill. The pill flashed with green light and then there was no movement. The corpse bear took a breath, and the corpse fire rolled the pill directly into its mouth.
Seeing the green-robed man being ambushed and killed by the corpse bear, Zhang Ling also revealed a smile.
Then he let the corpse bear tear off the man's storage bag, and also collected the earth spirit bees and the flying sword that had been knocked away. Then he had time to turn his head to look at Huang Ying, who was still trapped in the array rune.
At this time, the blue light sphere formed by the array rune was flickering, and it seemed that this woman would be able to escape on her own soon. But he still moved his mind, and the three flying swords transformed into cyan light and attacked.
After more than ten breaths of time, Huang Ying escaped.
Although this woman was trapped in the array rune, she could see the situation outside clearly. After coming out, she couldn't help but look at Zhang Ling and the corpse bear with a strange look. Her expression was quite surprised, as if she had just met him.
Zhang Ling could only smile helplessly and didn't say much. Instead, this woman bowed to him and said thank you.
The fight with the green-robed man was fierce just now, and the light blade he released at the end was even more powerful. But overall, the time spent was not long.
After Zhang Ling swallowed a few pills to quickly restore spiritual power, the two once again drove the escape light and flew towards the location of another teleportation array.
Not long after, Zhang Ling and the two came to the location of another small teleportation array. What they saw was the same as the previous teleportation array.
This teleportation array was also located on a small stone mountain, which had also collapsed into the ground at this time, and a glow was covering the entire teleportation array.
After attacking this teleportation array, confirming that it was the same as the previous one, the light glow above was extremely hard and could not be broken by external force. The two couldn't help but worry.
Although they didn't know what was going on, it was obviously unusual and they had a premonition that something was wrong.
