"Hehe, fellow disciples, who dares to test the power of these Spirit Devouring Insects with me?"
Senior Brother Tian looked at the silent disciples beside him, licked his lips, and chuckled coldly. Without waiting for others to answer, he took the lead in activating his Flying Cloud Banner.
His Flying Cloud Banner was a black banner, the entire lacquer surface engraved with many light blue spirit patterns. It was a water attribute Flying Cloud Banner.
As Senior Brother Tian cast his spell, the others exchanged glances. Regardless of their mood at the moment, they now had to face this large swarm of Spirit Devouring Insects.
They also changed the magic seals in their hands, urging their respective Flying Cloud Banners, and quickly cooperated with Senior Brother Tian to cast spells.
Within a few breaths, the white clouds where they were hiding quickly rolled, turning into a dark cloud, transforming into a cloud of flowing clouds and rushing into the insect swarm to fight.
Wherever the dark cloud passed, transparent water balls shot out, turning into countless arm-thick water swords and striking the insect swarm, instantly killing hundreds of Spirit Devouring Insects.
The dark cloud shuttled through the insect swarm, and soon transformed into a cloud of fire, splashing countless sparks. From a distance, it looked like a dazzling fire meteor appeared in the dark night. It also released large and small fireballs that exploded in the insect swarm.
Soon after, this cloud of fire transformed again into a golden cloud of flowing clouds, with golden light scattering from it, like a rain of swords, hitting the insect swarm and transmitting bursts of fine metal sounds.
The small Flowing Cloud Array deployed by the twelve elders was based on their respective Flying Cloud Banners as the core of the array. Moreover, according to the different attributes of the Flying Cloud Banners, it could release attacks of various attributes.
Among them, there were also three elders with different attribute cultivation qualifications. The cloud and mist transformed by the Flowing Cloud Array could also be transformed into thunderclouds, storm clusters, and extremely cold ice mist.
For a time, these twelve elders were like entering an uninhabited land, relying on the Flowing Cloud Array's combination of offense and defense, killing large groups of Spirit Devouring Insects.
Even so, the Spirit Devouring Insects' reputation as savage and ferocious insects was not for nothing.
In just a quarter of an hour, the actions of these elders to destroy the insect swarm also caused the entire insect cloud to vibrate.
The entire insect cloud buzzed loudly, and the overwhelming Spirit Devouring Insects turned into black clouds, layer upon layer, wrapping them in the insect cloud.
From the outside, it seemed as if they had been swallowed, leaving no trace.
Until a moment later, a blue-white light flashed in a certain position of the insect cloud. After a rumbling thunder, a group of cyan clouds flew out from it, and went away without hesitation.
The entire insect cloud seemed to have a target, and turned into a huge black storm, chasing in the direction they were fleeing. Although it looked like the insect cloud was moving slowly, it was because the insect cloud was too huge.
Moreover, the insect cloud was scattering everywhere, turning into many strands and spreading to the entire Flying Cloud Island. Some of the insect swarms were attracted by the other wild beasts on the ground.
A swarm of insects covering an area of hundreds of feet split from the entire insect cloud and rushed towards a group of gray-haired giant rats on a pile of rocks.
There were also thousands of these giant rats, which were the beast swarm that had just been swept in by a small turbid mist storm. Their overall strength was not weak, and they were a second-order wild beast.
But facing the dense Spirit Devouring Insects falling from the sky, they showed an instinctive fear and fled in all directions.
After half a cup of tea, only a pile of white bones was left on the ground. Even the two high-level giant rats did not escape their lives and were completely devoured.
And this was just a small group of insects that had been dispersed.
The entire insect cloud was scattered into as many as thousands of groups, large and small. For a time, the hundreds of miles area in the south of Flying Cloud Island only left a pile of white bones in a short quarter of an hour, and there was no trace of any wild beasts.
The insect swarm gradually gathered again, like a large black cloud, and drifted towards Flying Cloud City. Wherever it passed, it was silent.
At the same time, many monks and mortals on Flying Cloud City were still resisting the beast swarm rushing up below.
As time went by, the pressure they faced was much smaller. The number of high-level wild beasts appearing was getting smaller and smaller. The several sections of the city wall that had been breached before had also been basically repaired by the reinforcements.
It seemed that as long as they persisted for another half an hour, they would be able to resist this wave of beasts.
Zhang Ling's hands danced quickly, ejecting yellow auras, hitting two flying swords, and the flying swords instantly turned into two azure light swords, recombining into a giant sword two feet long. The sword light slashed across and killed a huge lizard trapped by clouds of mist.
This lizard was transparent all over, extremely good at hiding itself, and had sixth-order strength. Before, taking advantage of the impact formed by the self-explosion of another high-level wild beast, it almost broke through the defense of this section of the city wall. If his spiritual consciousness had not been strong and discovered it early, this beast might have rushed into the city wall.
After the lizard died, its originally translucent body turned pitch black. He had encountered many wild beasts with special supernatural powers like this in the past few days.
Zhang Ling made a gesture with one hand, and the mist wrapped the lizard's body and put it into the storage bag. The mist dissipated and turned into a palm-sized jade Ruyi.
This ancient treasure obtained from Baiyun Sanren had also been quite useful in the past few days. The illusioned mist could not only be used for defense, but also to cover a range and continuously compress and trap enemies. Cooperating with his flying sword magic weapon, he could kill many high-level wild beasts.
Zhang Ling released his spiritual consciousness to scan his surroundings and found that there were no high-level wild beasts within a range of more than ten miles on this section of the city wall. He glanced at the piles of beast swarms rushing up under the city. Although there seemed to be many, the proportion of high-level wild beasts was very few.
It seemed that before long, this wave of beasts would pass.
Zhang Ling sensed the situation on the side of the second primordial spirit. After seeing that Uncle Lu leave before, he gave the second primordial spirit an order to enter the seventh floor of the Sutra Pavilion to seek secret methods.
The Xuan Turtle controlled by the second primordial spirit was on Qiyun Mountain, a hundred miles away from this section of the city wall, and he only had some vague feelings.
I don't know what's going on, whether it's successful or not.
Zhang Ling had a trace of worry in his heart, but seeing that there was no major disturbance on Qiyun Mountain, he thought that he had not encountered too much danger.
The Xuan Turtle controlled by the second primordial spirit had the ability to act autonomously, and would act autonomously as long as he gave the order, without him having to control it all the time.
Zhang Ling changed the magic seal in his hand, and the two flying swords flashed with blue light and flew towards the distance. Another fifth-order patterned giant snake rushed up over there.
Just as he was about to solve this high-level wild beast, suddenly, the sect token on his waist vibrated.
Sensing it with his spiritual consciousness, his face sank, and then he turned into a ray of light and left the section of the city wall he was guarding.
The sect leader actually summoned them these Golden Core monks to gather at this time, obviously something had changed.
After half a cup of tea, many Golden Core monks gathered at the city tower where the sect leader was located.
"Why did the sect leader suddenly summon us? I was killing a sixth-order wild beast and was about to get it. Suddenly leaving, those juniors may not be able to deal with it."
"Yes, I am also holding back two wild beasts."
Everyone discussed in a hubbub. These Golden Core experts were originally high above, but at this moment they were like ordinary people and there were some questioning voices.
Zhang Ling glanced at these monks. More than sixty people had gathered here. After three waves of beasts, more than ten high-level monks had also been lost.
This loss can be said to be not small, but for Flying Cloud Sect, except for three or four unlucky elders who fell, there was no major loss.
Among them, more casual cultivators fell. At this time, the loudest discussion was also among the strong casual cultivators. For them, killing high-level wild beasts was a good harvest. Now that they were suddenly summoned here, they couldn't help but feel dissatisfied.
"Everyone, please be safe and don't be impatient. The third wave of beasts has been resisted for most of the day. The remaining high-level wild beasts are not to be feared. Those low-level monks can deal with it. The reason for summoning you here is because a group of Spirit Devouring Insects suddenly appeared on the island. This is the new trouble we have to face. The number of insects is at least several million."
