The old woman coldly gazed at the numerous wild beasts below the city. She manipulated several hand seals, and the white whip around her body danced, instantly splitting into seven or eight long, white light shadows.
"Go!"
With a wave of her hand, these white shadows gradually lengthened and thickened, transforming into gigantic snakes. Each one was twenty to thirty zhang long, instantly flying towards the left and right sides, accompanied by a series of crackling sounds.
These giant snakes specifically targeted the wild beasts clinging to the city walls, frantically attacking the great defensive array. They wrapped themselves around the most aggressively attacking high-level wild beasts.
Those wild beasts were instantly entangled by the giant snakes, unable to resist in the slightest, and unable to break free. Even two seventh-order wild beasts were no exception.
Subsequently, the old woman's white whip suddenly lengthened and vanished. A moment later, several cracking sounds were heard in the distance.
With each sound, a high-level wild beast perished.
In an instant, the old woman effortlessly killed seven or eight high-level wild beasts. Then, without delay, she transformed into a black light and flew into the distance.
On a section of the city wall, Zhang Ling was using two flying swords and a jade scepter to attack a massive, blue-scaled strange fish.
It was rare to see fish beasts in the beast tide, and this was a strange flying fish with sixth-order strength, growing several pairs of wings on its back, making it extremely fast.
It would be difficult to win quickly with just the flying swords and jade scepter. He was about to release a green light锥 to launch a sneak attack.
The flying fish continuously spewed out large patches of black mucus, which was extremely corrosive, making it quite troublesome to deal with.
Suddenly, he saw a strange white snake appear beside him, which flashed and directly wrapped the flying fish in place.
With a crisp sound, the flying fish was instantly split in half by a beam of light. Finally, the white snake wrapped the flying fish's corpse and flew into the distance.
This scene stunned Zhang Ling for a moment, but he immediately understood that someone had taken action to kill this beast.
Following the direction the white snake went, he released his divine sense and saw a blurry figure in the distance. The figure flashed and disappeared behind the beast horde.
"This Uncle Lü has finally taken action."
Although it was just a quick glance, Zhang Ling recognized that the person was indeed the Nascent Soul stage Lü Shishu from Flying Cloud Sect.
However, although the beast tide's attacks are fierce now, there haven't been too many casualties. As long as we hold on for a while longer, this wave of beast tide might pass.
There is no need for a Nascent Soul cultivator to take action. Could it be that something has changed? Zhang Ling felt a little puzzled.
But no matter what, now that this person has left Qiyun Mountain, it means there are no Nascent Soul cultivators guarding Flying Cloud Sect. It seems like the opportunity has arrived for him.
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At the same time, there was an area with heavy turbid mist on the southern side of Flying Cloud Island.
A violent gale swept through the turbid mist, forming a constantly swirling turbid mist storm. Like a giant tornado, it connected the sky and the earth, covering an area of hundreds of miles. It almost occupied half of the southern region of Flying Cloud Island.
Turbid Qi generally appears as a dull yellow color. Even in the densest areas, it appears as a sandstorm-like haze. This strange turbid Qi storm, however, was pitch black, like a black storm cloud.
If one were to observe with divine sense, they would discover that this storm was slowly weakening, and the reason it was pitch black was because it was a massive swarm of black beetles gathered together. The darkness covered an area of hundreds of miles, with an unknown number of them.
On the contrary, the surrounding turbid mist was scattered by the insect cloud, as if the turbid Qi was being swallowed by this swarm.
At the same time, there was a buzzing sound, like a swarm of bees, extremely numerous, making one's scalp tingle.
At this time, on one side of the outer area of the insect cloud, there was also a white cloud cluster floating, about ten zhang in size, which was extremely conspicuous.
Hidden inside the white cloud were twelve cultivators, the twelve Golden Core elders of the Flying Cloud Sect, led by that Senior Brother Tian with a red birthmark on his face. They were deploying a small Stream Cloud Formation and had charged into the beast horde before it arrived, hunting down high-level wild beasts.
But at this moment, they were not moving, nor were they paying attention to other wild beasts, but were only staring at the large insect cloud in front of them.
"Are these the Spirit Devouring Insects? They don't seem that strong."
A middle-aged male cultivator with a large beard in the cloud cluster, with spiritual light flashing in his hand, was restraining a palm-sized black beetle.
This beetle looked extremely ferocious, with a pair of cyan-black armor plates on its back, vibrating like wings. The beetle's head was round, with many reddish-golden bumps on it, like an irregular black stone.
Below, it also grew a pair of finger-thick mouthparts, waving and colliding, making a sound like metal clashing.
The beetle was being entangled in the air by more than a dozen strands of spiritual light, unable to break free for a while.
The middle-aged man chuckled, clenched his hand, and the beetle was directly crushed in his palm. He patted his hands as if he wanted to say something.
Senior Brother Tian snorted, seemingly disagreeing with his judgment.
"Junior Brother Xu underestimates these Spirit Devouring Insects. The one in your hand is just a larva, devouring spiritual power very slowly, so naturally it can't break free from control. If it were a Spirit Devouring Insect that had reached the second stage, with hundreds or thousands of them appearing, could you still control them?"
Senior Brother Tian was also restraining a beetle in his hand, which looked exactly like the one in the middle-aged man's hand, and its size had not changed much, but a pair of light purple wings had grown on the beetle's back.
It was a beetle with two pairs of wings.
Senior Brother Tian gently waved his hand, and seven or eight fire spiritual powers formed a spiritual power ball, restraining the beetle.
But the beetle kept chirping, and a layer of light purple spiritual light appeared on its body, rapidly devouring the fire spiritual power that trapped it. It only took a dozen breaths to break a large hole and fly out.
Senior Brother Tian flicked his finger and shot out a fire line as thick as an arm, instantly piercing the head of the beetle that was about to escape.
The others next to him also saw this scene, and their expressions darkened. They were all Golden Core cultivators, so they naturally saw the horror in it.
This Senior Brother Tian was a peak late-stage Golden Core expert. Although he only slightly used a few strands of spiritual power to control the beetle, this beetle was able to escape in just over a dozen breaths.
If tens of thousands of these evolved two-winged Spirit Devouring Insects appeared, it would be difficult for them, these Golden Core cultivators, to cope.
Looking at the overwhelming black insect cloud outside, with an unknown number of these once-evolved Spirit Devouring Insects, if the insect swarm were to rush to Flying Cloud City, the city's defensive formation might not be able to withstand it.
