Actually, it's not that the Xuan Turtle is truly stronger than the old woman, this genuine Nascent Soul monster.
Rather, the second soul doesn't care about the Xuan Turtle's consumption, and also relies on the Xuan Turtle's powerful physical body and good recovery ability. Even if a large number of Spirit Devouring Insects gnaw on its flesh, it won't cause much damage to it.
This seemingly reckless act was actually deliberately done by Zhang Ling, in order to escape the entire insect cloud and stay away from the Nascent Soul stage old woman and the red-haired sable possessed by Huang Yun Zhenren.
The main reason is to be prepared for unforeseen circumstances.
If he and these people solve the insect nests at the same time, the situation will change. Without any scruples, the Flying Cloud Gate might target him.
The Xuan Turtle rammed into the two insect nests, constantly moving away from the insect cloud. Behind it, rumbles continued, followed by several insect clouds gathered by Spirit Devouring Insects.
In the blink of an eye, it approached the valley where the main soul was located.
Under the Xuan Turtle's constant impact, the Spirit Devouring Insects gathered on the two insect nests had basically all dispersed, revealing the core area of the insect nests.
One of them was cyan-black, looking like some kind of spirit ore, also with many pitted and uneven insect holes.
The other was gray-white, and upon closer inspection, it was actually the skull of an ancient beast used as an insect nest, with some special spiritual patterns on it. This was a spiritual bone.
The second soul controlled the Xuan Turtle, and without further delay, sprayed out a large amount of icy mist, directly freezing the two insect nests into ice lumps, and swallowed them in one gulp.
Then, the Xuan Turtle's huge body flashed and landed directly in the small valley. Its size quickly shrank, and after a while, it shrunk into a Xuan Turtle about ten zhang in size.
At the same time, there was a constant buzzing sound above its head, and a large cloud of insects swept towards it.
These were all the Spirit Devouring Insects gathered on the two insect nests just now. Although they were scattered by the impact, most of them did not die, and now they have re-condensed into insect clouds. The dark mass covered most of the sky, and the number of Spirit Devouring Insects was nearly a million.
The Xuan Turtle ignored these Spirit Devouring Insects, but glanced at Huang Yun Zhenren and the old woman, and with a spin, it turned into a black light and soared into the sky, drawing an arc in the air, and immediately flew towards the southeast side of Flying Cloud Island.
It was very fast, and disappeared into the horizon in a few flashes. Naturally, a large number of Spirit Devouring Insects followed closely behind.
At the same time as the Xuan Turtle disappeared into the horizon, a voice transmission fell into Huang Yun Zhenren's divine sense. "Fellow Daoist Huang Yun, this king has fulfilled his promise, farewell."
Hearing the voice transmission, Huang Yun Zhenren glanced in the direction where the Xuan Turtle left, his face somewhat gloomy, but he didn't say anything.
"Senior brother, should we keep this eighth-order turtle demon?" The old woman, who was fighting the last insect nest, seemed to know that the Xuan Turtle had left, and couldn't help but ask.
"This demon is not stupid. Now that it has left the range of the Flowing Cloud Formation, with your strength alone, it would be difficult to stop a transformed demon beast from escaping. It's better to let it leave, so as not to cause trouble for this sect. These transformed demon beasts don't have many scruples when they act, unlike us who have to consider the sect. And this old man's true body will take at least half an hour to return, and it's too late."
Huang Yun Zhenren's divine sense phantom just shook his head slightly and snorted. Then he glanced at the Cloud Mist Phoenix Bird not far away, which was killing Spirit Devouring Insects. "Sun小子, activate the killing array and bombard the area within two hundred miles to solve this group of fierce insects."
"Yes, Old Ancestor."
A moment later, the old woman solved the last insect nest and returned to Flying Cloud City.
Subsequently, strong spiritual power fluctuations erupted in the sky outside Flying Cloud City. Patches of colorful clouds turned into various attacks and bombarded a large area outside the city.
The Spirit Devouring Insect swarms in this area were basically wiped out. This also indicated that the crisis on Flying Cloud Island was completely resolved.
The entire city wall area also erupted with cheers, and whether it was cultivators or mortals, their faces were filled with joy. This day was thrilling, not only resisting the huge beast tide, but also eliminating the endless Spirit Devouring Insects.
Only in the section of the city wall originally guarded by Zhang Ling, the dozen or so Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Hu family gathered together, their faces gloomy, not knowing what they were talking about.
"Find him for me, how could Fifth Uncle suddenly disappear?" Hu Lin, the current patriarch of the Hu family, asked with an ugly face.
The Hu family's core disciples next to him looked at each other, not knowing how to answer. In the end, these Hu family disciples naturally did not find Bai Yun Sanren, who was disguised by Zhang Ling. Hu Lin even found Sun Zhangmen of the Flying Cloud Gate to inquire about this matter.
Sun Zhangmen also had a good impression of Bai Yun Sanren, and was also puzzled in his heart, so he immediately paid attention to this matter. After some investigation, he found that this Junior Brother Hu had not returned since he took over the guarding formation mission.
And the other eleven Golden Core cultivators who took over the guarding formation mission at that time had also returned one after another. Although a few of them were injured, most of them had consumed a lot, but no one had died. Only this Junior Brother Hu was missing.
Soon after, Sun Zhangmen really found an explanation. The most likely thing was that this Junior Brother Hu had an accident, or had already fallen. He came to this explanation also based on evidence, which was related to the eighth-order turtle demon.
After solving the two insect nests, the turtle demon stayed in a valley for a while. And that valley happened to be the location of the small formation eye that Junior Brother Hu was guarding at that time.
It was possible that the turtle demon killed Junior Brother Hu. Although this explanation was a bit far-fetched, it was the most likely in Sun Zhangmen's mind.
Because at this time, he had already learned from Old Ancestor Huang Yun that this suddenly appearing turtle demon was not really here to help the Flying Cloud Gate resist the insect swarm.
But after taking advantage of the beast tide to break into the sect's library building, it was discovered and reached a cooperation with this old ancestor, temporarily resolving the conflict.
After getting this conclusion, Sun Zhangmen did not tell the Hu family cultivators, but only said that Junior Brother Hu might have had an accident. He didn't explain too much in detail.
After all, it was not a glorious thing for a transformed demon beast to break into the sect.
As for how the Hu family should develop in the future after losing Bai Yun Sanren, the only Golden Core Old Ancestor, it was no longer something that Zhang Ling should care about.
The Flying Cloud Token that Zhang Ling had obtained from Sun Zhangmen before was useless to him, and he had already given it to Hu Lin. Although the Hu family had lost a Golden Core cultivator, with the protection of the Flying Cloud Gate, nothing would happen for a long time.
And a hundred years later, the Hu family used this Flying Cloud Token to exchange for several kinds of spiritual objects for breaking through to the Golden Core stage, and another Golden Core cultivator appeared.
But these are all stories for later.
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