At this moment, outside Feiyun City, within a two-hundred-mile radius, everything was covered in a dense, dark mass of Spirit Devouring Insects.
All that could be seen was the shimmering of various spiritual lights on the city walls, and the constant whistling of wind, but facing the massive number of ferocious insects, it seemed to have little effect. The Spirit Devouring Insects attacking the defensive formation's light barrier did not decrease; instead, they increased.
The only difference was that after Feiyun Sect's Flowing Cloud Grand Formation was activated, the thick layer of white clouds that formed in the sky also rapidly churned, forming rings of rippling cloud and mist. Then, it continuously pressed down towards the ground.
A strange scene appeared: the white clouds rapidly descended, creating powerful wind pressure. For a time, the surrounding area was filled with the sounds of wind and the cries of birds, and gusts of hurricanes swept through.
The Spirit Devouring Insects closest to the cloud mass were scattered everywhere by the wind pressure, and many were directly crushed into dust. For every hundred feet the cloud and mist descended, more than a hundred thousand Spirit Devouring Insects were annihilated by the wind pressure.
In a short time, the cloud and mist had descended very close to the city walls. However, as it descended, the density of the Spirit Devouring Insects increased. The threat posed by the wind pressure to them also decreased.
However, this brief period also eliminated nearly a million Spirit Devouring Insects.
The entire cloud and mist mass changed again, forming hundreds of cloud masses of varying sizes, and the colors also changed. It looked like countless colorful clouds floating in the sky.
A fiery red cloud covering a hundred zhang quickly flowed and dropped fireballs the size of millstones. The area it enveloped became a sea of fire, and the Spirit Devouring Insects flying within suffered, all being burned to ashes in an instant.
A dark, ink-like cloud emitted booming sounds, and countless azure lightning bolts flashed out, creating cracks in the sky.
There was also a golden cloud covering an area of over a thousand zhang, slowly flowing and releasing huge spirit light stones. All of them were condensed from pure spiritual power. After falling, they burst, turning into specks of gray-white starlight.
Like powder, it stuck to the Spirit Devouring Insects, and their movements immediately became stiff, as if covered in a layer of ash, and finally, they strangely entangled together, forming several huge gray-white insect balls. After a few breaths, the golden cloud completely enveloped the Spirit Devouring Insects, and booming sounds continued.
After a while, the cloud and mist dissipated, clearing a large area of Spirit Devouring Insects. This shocking scene brought cheers from the crowd on the city walls.
Attacks of various attributes such as golden clouds, lightning, and wind masses appeared from the clouds and mist as if they didn't cost anything. The area outside the city walls for more than two hundred miles was filled with this scene, killing an unknown number of Spirit Devouring Insects in a short time.
After a wave of attacks, the clouds in the sky thinned a lot. Then, no other types of attacks were released.
But before long, the buzzing sound rang again.
The thinned insect swarm gradually condensed again, fearlessly rushing towards the light barrier, all climbing onto it and frantically gnawing at the spiritual power above.
The mortals and cultivators on the city walls began to resist the insect tide again. Their excited and excited expressions also weakened a lot. Fortunately, the Spirit Devouring Insects they were facing at this time were also reduced by more than half.
"Look, what is that?"
Someone on a section of the city wall shouted. Outside the formation light curtain in front of them, a small mountain-like irregular black ball floated over. It really looked like a small mountain floating over.
Upon closer inspection, that was not a black ball, but an insect swarm formed by densely packed Spirit Devouring Insects entangled together. A buzzing sound came from it, and countless Spirit Devouring Insects flew out all at once. It looked like there were at least hundreds of thousands of them.
These Spirit Devouring Insects were quite different. The insect cloud they formed was gold and black. It was very beautiful, like stars in dark clouds.
This group of Spirit Devouring Insects instantly covered a large area of the formation light curtain, frantically gnawing at the spiritual power above, making the formation unstable again.
The various attacks released by the mortals and cultivators on this section of the city wall landed on them, but the number of Spirit Devouring Insects killed was much smaller. Some sharp-eyed cultivators noticed at this moment that this group of Spirit Devouring Insects was mixed with many Two-Winged Spirit Devouring Insects.
At the same time, in another area close to the city wall, two identical giant insect swarms also appeared, flying out a lot of Two-Winged Spirit Devouring Insects.
The talent of the Spirit Devouring Insects is to devour all kinds of spiritual power. As these evolved spirit insects increased, the quality of the insect swarm had changed. The pressure faced by the formation increased sharply again.
"Sect Leader, three insect nests have appeared here, and they are not weak. There are also seven or eight insect nests a hundred miles away that are being held back by Martial Uncle Lu, and they are also moving towards this side quickly. If those insect nests attack together, the grand formation will be difficult to defend," a pale-faced elder suddenly said.
The Sect Leader's face was also unsightly, and he ordered in a gloomy voice.
"Although the wave of attacks just now killed millions of Spirit Devouring Insects, the grand formation still needs some time to gather spiritual power. Form another layer of Flowing Cloud Cover outside the city wall. Now, our priority is to activate the grand formation to assist Martial Uncle in destroying those insect nests."
"Sect Leader is right. As long as those insect nests are resolved, this crisis can be resolved," several high-level members of Feiyun Sect discussed a few words and decided to solve the trouble on the other side first.
As they controlled the core of the Flowing Cloud Grand Formation, the Flowing Cloud Grand Formation changed again.
Most of the clouds constantly gathering in the sky flowed towards the other side, and only a small part of the flowing clouds gathered in the city wall area. Finally, like a waterfall, it descended from the sky, forming a layer of flowing cloud light cover, increasing the protection of the city defense formation.
The clouds flowing to the other side quickly compressed and transformed into a cloud mass flashing with spiritual light, flying towards a hundred miles away.
At this time, a hundred miles south of Feiyun City, there was a black-gold insect cloud covering more than ten miles, and bursts of loud noises continued to come from it.
The old woman surnamed Lu was moving quickly inside, her spiritual power surging, constantly killing Spirit Devouring Insects. As a Nascent Soul Old Ancestor, her attack power was naturally extraordinary, and each strike would kill many Spirit Devouring Insects.
But this insect cloud was composed of Two-Winged Spirit Devouring Insects, with a number of at least five or six hundred thousand. She could only try to hold back the insect cloud. She couldn't solve this insect swarm in a short time.
Because, no matter how many Spirit Devouring Insects were killed, it seemed that the number increased as many as were killed, without reducing the number of these ferocious insects at all. This was because there were eight insect nests in the insect cloud, still constantly releasing this Two-Winged Spirit Devouring Insect.
This was the horror of the insect nest. Even if she was a Nascent Soul cultivator, if she was besieged for a long time, her mana would be exhausted and there would be danger.
This was the most core part of the entire Spirit Devouring Insect swarm. If she hadn't been here to hold back these insect nests, letting them approach Feiyun City, the consequences would be unimaginable.
