Steadying himself, the outermost white jade Ruyi(如意: an S-shaped ornamental object) mist shield around Zhang Ling's body shattered instantly, and even the inner layer of the Yellow Luo Umbrella light shield developed cracks, nearly being breached.
A trace of blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, but this was not from the attack, but rather from some damage his two flying swords sustained after being knocked away.
His two flying swords were natal flying swords, and any damage to them would inflict some injury upon himself.
Zhang Ling quickly circulated his cultivation technique, and only then did he feel much better.
"You little brat actually has two decent defensive ancient treasures." The big-headed strange person on the opposite side let out a surprised sound when he saw that Zhang Ling hadn't been killed by his magical treasure attack.
While surprised, the person's mind stirred, and the green flying knife shook again, transforming into a green light that continuously slashed over. A series of knife lights constantly struck his body, producing a series of crisp sounds.
Zhang Ling found it difficult to maintain his balance, constantly being forced back by the attacks. The yellow light condensed by the Yellow Luo Umbrella flickered, almost shattering.
Zhang Ling was even more exasperated. But this strange person was a Nascent Soul old monster, and his seemingly ordinary attacks were comparable to his full-strength strike.
If it weren't for the Yellow Luo Umbrella's decent defense, ordinary defensive magical treasures would have been breached in no time.
Seeing that the Yellow Luo Umbrella couldn't hold on much longer, he dared not delay any longer. He opened his mouth and spat out a cloud of hazy yellow essence, and as his hands danced rapidly, strands of spiritual light shot out from this cloud of essence. Instantly, a layer of condensed yellow spiritual light lit up around him, covering a range of several dozen feet.
The green flying knife's attack speed decreased by a third when illuminated by this layer of spiritual light.
This was naturally the Heavy Yuan Profound Light he cultivated, although only an auxiliary means, using it here could reduce the attacks he received.
The big-headed strange person's small eyes narrowed, also sensing that the flying knife had become more difficult to control after being illuminated by the yellow light.
With his knowledge, he immediately saw that the yellow light was formed from pure earth spiritual power. The magical treasure was subjected to a lot of squeezing force within it.
But to think that this alone could trap his magical treasure was simply wishful thinking. The big-headed strange person stretched out his withered fingers and flicked them repeatedly, and streams of green light condensed into dense runes, which disappeared into the flying knife.
Instantly, the green flying knife swelled greatly, transforming into a giant blade thirty feet long, and with a gentle wave, it produced phantom-like blade awns.
Wherever the knife awns passed, it directly pulled out green light marks in the yellow light, and the Heavy Yuan Profound Light was instantly shattered like rags.
Fortunately, at this time, Zhang Ling released the Two Instruments Gourd floating, and Heavenly Star Sand emerged from it, turning into quicksand and forming another layer of protective shield. The knife awns collided with it, being dispersed by countless grains of sand, forcibly resisting these attacks.
But the flying knife's main body slashed horizontally within the knife awns, once again sending him flying.
However, this time, with full defense, he was much better, only being knocked back three or four zhang. This was naturally nothing to be happy about.
Zhang Ling knew that he had no chance of winning against a Nascent Soul cultivator. Being able to barely block one or two strikes was already his limit.
At this moment, he pinched a black spiritual talisman in his hand. This spiritual talisman, two fingers wide, was engraved with strange spiritual patterns. It was a Thousand Miles Escape Light talisman that he had recently exchanged for from Sun Zhangmen(孙掌门: Headmaster Sun) of the Flying Cloud Sect.
Now he could only rely on this talisman to quickly escape from this place.
Several streams of spiritual power struck it, and this talisman lit up with a dark black light. He unhesitatingly slapped the spiritual talisman on his body, and the black light on the spiritual talisman spread all over his body, making him look like a black shadow.
Zhang Ling's black figure swayed left and right a few times, and five identical black shadows appeared on his side. Together with his main body, the six figures immediately flew in all directions, scattering and fleeing.
"Hmph, courting death, actually trying to use illusions... no... this is not an illusion."
Seeing the six identical figures, the big-headed strange person sneered. His powerful divine sense swept over these figures, and his face immediately turned gloomy. He couldn't tell which one was the real body for a moment.
In the moment of his being stunned, the six figures had already flown twenty or thirty zhang away from each other.
The big-headed strange person's face darkened, and he controlled the green flying knife to quickly slash, instantly killing three figures. But there were still three figures, one flying forward, and two flying to the left and right, about to escape from sight.
This person hummed and a blood-red token appeared in his hand. His finger pointed at the token, and this treasure vibrated buzzing. At the same time, he took off a leather belt from his waist, and three large spirit beasts flew out from it.
One was a giant wolf with snow-white fur, with a single horn growing on its head. With a howl cry, the giant wolf transformed into a white light and pounced towards one of the figures. Its speed was not weaker than that of a Golden Core late-stage cultivator's escaping light.
Another was a black two-headed dog, and the two dog heads spewed out a large cloud of thick black mist, wrapping itself and rushing towards another figure.
The last spirit beast was a pure gold flying bird, instead of rushing towards Zhang Ling's last figure, it circled once and flew towards the clouds below.
The big-headed strange person only glanced in that direction, hummed and no longer hesitated, blue light rising from his body as he chased after the last figure.
The giant wolf, two-headed dog, and pure gold flying bird released by this person were all seventh-order in strength after careful sensing.
And the direction the pure gold flying bird flew was the direction Su Yu'er had escaped in while the two were fighting.
This woman was quick to seize the opportunity. She didn't escape at first, but only transformed into a fire light and fled towards the clouds below the moment Zhang Ling escaped.
Zhang Ling's main body had already flown forty or fifty zhang away, sensing that the three phantom clones were instantly killed. At this time, he held a translucent colorful bubble in his hand. Spiritual power was quickly injected into it, fully stimulating this treasure.
Seeing the big-headed strange person transform into blue light and chase after one of the figures, Zhang Ling slightly relaxed. His divine sense controlled the two figures, quickly flying further away, hoping to lead the big-headed strange person away.
However, the roar of beasts also came from behind, and the two-headed dog wrapped in a layer of black gas quickly chased after him.
Zhang Ling was slightly surprised, not expecting this person to release three seventh-order demon beasts. Could it be that he was a cultivator proficient in beast control.
But then his face sank, because he instantly discovered that the two-headed dog chasing after him was not a demon beast, but a desolate beast.
The big-headed strange person could actually control desolate beast as spirit beasts. Zhang Ling immediately thought of the red-faced man he fought a few hours ago, could there be some relationship between the two.
With the increase of cultivation, Zhang Ling's knowledge has also increased a lot. desolate beast cannot be tame to become spirit beasts.
However, some powerful cultivators can indeed forcibly control desolate beast. Due to the erosion of turbid air within the desolate beast, the demon soul consciousness is extremely chaotic.
