Zhang Ling and the others, along with the Thunder-Fire Beast, flew away, and soon entered a layer of mist outside Thunderclap Mountain.
They wandered around inside for a while but couldn't find an exit, naturally realizing that it was the effect of a formation.
Then, needless to say, Ding Ruozhao summoned the Formation-Breaking Insect. As soon as this insect flew out, it emitted bursts of cicada-like chirps, opened the carapace on its back, and its body lit up with a special spiritual light. After flying around in the air a few times, it identified a direction and flew towards it.
After a short while, Zhang Ling noticed that the fog was indeed changing. The wailing wind continuously spun out whirlwinds, while thunder rumbled in the sky above, and streaks of cyan-white lightning struck down.
Seeing this, they quickly defended themselves, but the imagined attacks didn't come. Whether it was lightning or whirlwind, it seemed like an illusion, merely surrounding them without attacking or dissipating.
The Formation-Breaking Insect, flying in the air, showed no reaction either, continuing to fly in one direction.
After another short while, all the illusions disappeared, and a layer of constantly flowing black light curtain appeared ahead, blocking their path like a cloud.
Upon arriving here, the Formation-Breaking Insect became extremely excited, constantly vibrating its carapace and emitting cicada-like chirps. It transformed into a gray light and landed on the light curtain.
Immediately, the light curtain reacted, with tiny electric sparks and wind clusters attacking the Formation-Breaking Insect.
However, after the Formation-Breaking Insect released a strange gray spiritual light that covered a space of about ten feet, it turned the area into a gray-white color. The edge of this strange light curtain became bright white, forming a circle of bright white light.
Looking closely, extremely tiny cracks seemed to appear in the light, revealing dark black spiritual light.
Subsequently, the electric arcs and wind clusters formed on the formation's light curtain, upon touching the light, were blocked outside as if they had touched some kind of taboo.
This was the magical aspect of the Formation-Breaking Insect. The light was a special spiritual force from the insect, which blocked the spiritual power on the formation. The electric arcs and wind clusters naturally couldn't attack the insect.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling and the others temporarily breathed a sigh of relief. As long as they gave the insect some more time, they could successfully escape from this place.
At this time, in the valley where they had been, astonishing spiritual power fluctuations erupted. Led by Zhao Yunshan, several Golden Core cultivators from the Azure Thunder Sect were working together to kill those demonic beast phantoms.
With the addition of this powerful peak Golden Core cultivator, the Azure Thunder Sect cultivators gained the upper hand, constantly eliminating these phantoms. It seemed that they would be safe soon.
At this moment, the green-robed old man watched all of this with cold eyes, frowning slightly. He glanced at the strange wooden box in his hand. He couldn't use too much spiritual power, lest he reveal his whereabouts.
However, these Azure Thunder Sect Golden Core cultivators were by no means mediocre. Relying solely on this treasure might not achieve great results, and he couldn't keep wasting time here. He figured that the ancient monster of the Azure Thunder Sect would arrive soon.
The green-robed old man sneered and suddenly raised his hand, revealing four or five earth-yellow spirit talismans. These talismans were identical, with black-brown spiritual patterns engraved on them.
He quickly flicked his fingers, and several light cyan spiritual lights were injected into the talismans. Immediately, these talismans floated in front of him, emitting a dazzling earth-yellow spiritual light.
These were several fifth-order spirit talismans, Earth-Shattering Talismans, which sealed fifth-order earth-attribute high-level spells. When cast, they could split mountains and shatter rocks, instantly destroying small mountain peaks without any problem.
On the market, an Earth-Shattering Talisman would cost at least hundreds of thousands of spirit stones. Only talisman-making masters proficient in earth-attribute high-level spells could refine them.
Although spirit talismans were the most common means used by cultivators, high-level spirit talismans were scarce resources.
Third-order spirit talismans were considered high-level spirit talismans, and there were not many talisman-makers in the cultivation world capable of refining them, let alone fifth-order spirit talismans, which were basically rare on the market.
If it were an ordinary valley, one or two Earth-Shattering Talismans would be enough to destroy it. This place was all rock, and the soil was hard, so he used several more.
As the old man activated the spirit talismans, several yellow spiritual lights disappeared into the ground beneath his feet.
Soon after, the six array disks set up by the Azure Thunder Sect Foundation Establishment cultivators lit up with a layer of earth-yellow spiritual light underneath.
As the spiritual light lit up, the entire valley began to shake violently, especially within a three-hundred-foot radius centered on the Violet Lightning Thunder Light Formation, which was like a sinkhole. Wide cracks opened in the ground.
The huge stone pillars that stood in the valley also collapsed rapidly with loud rumbles. For a time, a layer of dust was stirred up on the ground, shrouding the entire valley in shadow.
The seven or eight Foundation Establishment cultivators who remained outside the formation immediately changed their expressions and released their magical artifacts to fly into the air.
The bald elder surnamed Wang, who was fighting the seventh-order desolate beast, also changed his expression and ascended a distance.
The man's face was gloomy. As soon as he ascended, the seventh-order desolate beast pounced on him directly from within a layer of smoke.
Originally, he and Liu Yuan had an overwhelming victory against this seventh-order desolate beast, but during the fight, Liu Yuan suddenly fled away, leaving him to face a seventh-order desolate beast alone.
Although he was not afraid, he could not kill it in a short time.
At this moment, the entire ground seemed to have changed again, like an earthquake. For a time, this elder was covered in dirt.
The Azure Thunder Sect elders within the Violet Lightning Thunder Light Formation were even more shocked at this moment.
In addition to facing countless demonic beast phantoms, the sudden shaking caused countless cracks to appear in the independent mountain pillar that was diagonally inserted into the ground.
Large chunks of earth and stone fell down with loud rumbles. This independent stone pillar, which nurtured the Thunder Essence spiritual vein, seemed to be about to collapse.
"Lei Yue, how are you?"
Zhao Yunshan asked Lei Yue directly while urging the magic weapon in his hand, instantly killing more than a dozen shadows that were besieging him.
The cultivator who broke through also opened his eyes, but his body was as red as if he had been scalded by boiling water. His face was even paler.
"Senior Brother Zhao, I'm fine, but the secret technique backfired just now, and the spiritual power and blood energy in my body reversed. It's roughly stable now."
Lei Yue said in a muffled voice, his face extremely ugly.
He was originally full of confidence in forming the Nascent Soul, but he didn't expect such a change. Once the Blood Thunder Curse was cast, he had to devour a top-notch thunder-attribute monster as a guide.
He didn't expect the Thunder-Fire Beast to break free, but his Blood Thunder had already been cast. For a time, he couldn't find any other thunder-attribute monster, so naturally he suffered some backlash.
Top-notch thunder-attribute monsters were inherently difficult to find, and they had to be monsters, not desolate beasts. If he wanted to increase the chances of forming a Golden Core, a seventh-order thunder-attribute monster would be the most suitable.
