Suddenly, Zhang Ling raised his eyebrows, noticing that the corals were moving slowly, like countless vines crawling. They moved in unison, covering several zhang in the blink of an eye, all disappearing into a dark cave above.
Zhang Ling immediately released a wisp of divine sense, following the moving corals into the cave to investigate. After a moment, he flashed and followed the moving corals into it.
The inside was winding, like traversing through rock layers.
Soon after, following the moving corals, he arrived at a larger stone cave, where the sound of rushing water was constant. This was another water cave with a space. It was a blue-green color, and the cave walls were covered with many bright green crystals.
Zhang Ling glanced at them a few times and stopped paying attention. The green crystals looked beautiful, but they didn't have any spiritual power, just ordinary crystals. These ordinary luminous crystals are generally called fluorescent stones in the cultivation world. Their main purpose is to decorate caves or, like moonstones, to provide lighting.
At this moment, the water in the cave was churning, and two behemoths were fighting.
Turning his gaze, he could see a giant coral vine, wielding countless black and red coral branches, fighting with a ten-zhang-long green-skinned shark.
A flash of light appeared in Zhang Ling's eyes, and he instantly saw that the green-skinned shark was a seventh-order demon fish, covered in a layer of blue light, stirring up waves in the water.
The coral monster was even stranger. The main body was a pink ball about ten zhang in size, like a strange head, with countless dark brown coral branches growing out of it. The spiritual energy and turbid air emitted from it were mixed, and it was also at the level of a sixth-order demon beast.
At this moment, the coral monster was waving countless coral branches, trying to entangle the green-skinned shark.
Although it hadn't killed the shark yet, it had trapped the seventh-order shark in one area, preventing it from breaking free.
This coral monster was a lower rank, but it could still trap its opponent, so it didn't seem ordinary.
Suddenly, the seventh-order shark seemed to be enraged. Its huge tail slapped the water surface, and it leaped into the air, spinning rapidly, releasing a black cloud about a dozen zhang in size, from which rumbling thunder could be heard.
Streaks of cyan-purple lightning fell, all striking the coral monster. Each lightning strike shattered a lot of coral.
Zhang Ling was stunned by this scene. Earlier, he had only seen the shark's strong water-attribute spiritual power with his spirit eye technique, and hadn't observed any thunder spiritual power.
Now, probing with his divine sense, he discovered that its body had a mixture of water and thunder spiritual power, making it a dual-attribute desolate beast. Such demon beasts or desolate beasts that can master multiple attributes are rare.
However, these lightning attacks didn't seem to cause much damage to the coral monster.
Countless coral branches flowed quickly, all shrinking outside the coral head, forming several layers of defense, like putting on layers of black hard armor, blocking many lightning attacks.
Strange gurgling sounds came from the cloud of the shark, and as the shark swam quickly, it protruded a bloody mouth, and with a flash of lightning, it burst out a row of sharp thorns.
Zhang Ling's eyes narrowed slightly, and he saw that these thorns were actually shark teeth covered with explosive thunder-attribute spiritual light.
These attacks fell on the hard armor outside the coral monster, like arrows nailed to it. Then the thunder light shone brightly, erupting countless tiny lightning bolts. A large area of thunder light was like a layer of lightning net covering it.
The rumbling sound continued, shattering a large area of coral.
This attack was powerful, and Zhang Ling nodded secretly, thinking that he would have some trouble dealing with it.
After launching this attack, the thunder spiritual power on the green-skinned shark weakened. It jumped back into the water, stirring up layers of huge waves, constantly hitting the coral monster, and smashing a lot of coral.
Blue light flashed in Zhang Ling's hand, and three flying swords appeared in front of him. At the same time, several ancient treasures in his sleeves were also activated by him. He planned to take advantage of the two desolate beasts fighting to sneak attack from the side and take them down in one fell swoop. Suddenly, he slowed his movements and looked at the location of the coral monster.
The coral monster hadn't moved during the fight, but at this moment, the thing that looked like a head flew into the air in a layer of strange spiritual light, and expanded rapidly, instantly swelling to thirty or forty zhang in size, occupying a large area.
It looked like a strange heart beating thump-thump.
As this scene happened, long blue tentacles about the thickness of an arm emerged from it.
These tentacles seemed to be some kind of worms, very fast, all submerged in the water.
The green-skinned shark seemed to have sensed something was wrong, jumped out of the water again, and spewed out a large amount of water mist, seemingly wanting to use thunder-attribute magical powers.
But in Zhang Ling's opinion, this seventh-order shark only jumped out half of its body before stopping in place. Several thick tentacles were wrapped around its tail.
These were the coral worms from just now, which had expanded several times after falling into the water, and seemed to have become exceptionally tough.
Electric light flashed on the green-skinned shark, immediately shattering many coral worms.
But it seemed to be too late. A large area of water under the green-skinned shark bubbled up, instantly turning blue-green, and countless coral worms burst out from it, instantly wrapping it inside.
The seventh-order shark sensed a huge danger, constantly tumbling the water, scurrying back and forth in the entire space, its whole body flashing with thunder light, killing many coral worms.
But there were too many coral worms, constantly jumping out of the water, crawling all over its body, impossible to kill.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling showed a strange smile. This coral monster really had some tricks. In a little while, this seventh-order green-skinned shark would die from exhaustion.
He glanced at the direction of the coral monster, his body flashed with blue light, and he disappeared.
At this time, the coral monster's breath also weakened a bit, and the largest coral head shrank rapidly in a layer of spiritual light.
After this thing shrank to seven or eight zhang in size, it released several coral branches to wrap around a few rocks, and fell back to its original location.
However, as soon as this monster landed in its original position, tiny grains of yellow sand rose up around it, instantly wrapping it in place.
Zhang Ling flashed out from the side, the magic formula in his hand activated, the Heavenly Star Sand quickly flowed and petrified directly, sealing the coral monster inside.
The monster sensed the danger, and waved countless coral branches, attacking. A sword light in front of him had already taken shape, and slashed out with a whoosh. With a flash of green light, the monster's head was directly split in half.
But then he discovered that the coral monster was not dead yet, releasing a layer of strange pink spiritual light, from which hundreds of blue coral worms emerged.
Zhang Ling just snorted coldly, the petrified Heavenly Star Sand instantly disintegrated, flowing quickly, directly wrapping these coral worms, along with the two halves of the coral head, inside.
