In the rapidly flowing white mist, two streaks of light were flying. The figures inside were none other than Sect Leader Yan and Yan Shiming.
They also noticed that the white mist suddenly surged, sensing a spiritual energy fluctuation increasing ahead.
At this moment, Sect Leader Yan revealed a hint of joy, "The God Banning Token is reacting; the Nether Maiden is ahead." The Soul Nourishing Wood Token in his hand finally emitted a faint red light, allowing him to sense the Nether Maiden's aura.
"Judging by this activity, the Nether Maiden has most likely successfully advanced. Let's go, subdue the Nether Maiden, and my sect's grand plan will be accomplished."
Their speed instantly increased a bit.
In another area of thin white mist, two cultivators were facing off. One transformed into a ten-丈 (33 meters) tall Heavenly Ghost, holding a Soul Refining Banner in one hand and wielding a black sickle in the other, his entire body filled with dense Yin energy.
The Heavenly Ghost roared, releasing countless gray-black Soul Refining Chains from the Soul Refining Banner, and the black sickle cleaved out dazzling blades of light.
This forced back two extraordinary-looking Luan birds.
"Old Devil Hundred Flowers, why must you keep targeting me? In this independent space, our spiritual power is severely depleted. Continuing to fight will only result in mutual destruction," the Heavenly Ghost, with half a human face, said with a gloomy snort.
Upon entering this space, he immediately contacted the Sect Leader using a secret method, planning to rendezvous and act together.
Unexpectedly, he encountered this Old Devil Hundred Flowers midway, leading to the ongoing struggle. If he couldn't get rid of this person quickly, he might delay the Sect Leader's important matters.
Elder Guiche's frustration at this moment was imaginable.
"Old Ghost, your Ghost King Sect brought us to this place and slaughtered many fellow cultivators. Do you really think we're all made of clay?" Old Devil Hundred Flowers coldly snorted, expressionlessly, and shot out two beams of light with a flick of his finger.
The two Luan birds that had been forced back let out soft cries, merging together and transforming into a giant blue and red Luan bird in the air.
With a sharp cry, the Luan bird flapped its wings, releasing waves of sword light as it charged forward again.
At the same time, Old Devil Hundred Flowers lightly waved the folding fan in his hand, creating clusters of pink fragrant wind, from which emerged more than a dozen beautiful maids. Each with a springlike expression, they besieged Elder Guiche.
Elder Guiche's expression naturally turned ugly. This old devil had already used the Joyous Union Sect's Yin-Yang Harmonizing Skill, truly igniting the flames of battle. Furthermore, the fellow carried the Phoenix Luan Twin Swords. If he continued to be entangled, even with his Heavenly Ghost body, he would definitely suffer a great loss of vitality.
He couldn't keep persisting like this; it was better to escape first.
The Heavenly Ghost, in his transformed state, suddenly clapped his two ghostly hands together, retracting both the black sickle and the Soul Refining Banner. His entire body swayed, and his originally semi-illusory form turned into a mass of black shadow.
The Heavenly Ghost opened his mouth and spat out a cloud of green gas, containing a jade-green pearl, which was the Ghost Soul Pearl formed from cultivating the Heavenly Ghost body.
This pearl floated above his head, emitting a green light.
"Since you, old devil, want to fight me to the death, then try my secret technique," the Heavenly Ghost said with a sinister laugh.
Two clumps of pale white flames suddenly rose from the Heavenly Ghost's two ghostly hands. The Ghost Soul Pearl trembled slightly, simultaneously releasing two clumps of black gas that merged into the two clumps of flames.
Instantly, the power of the two clumps of pale white flames greatly increased. The ghostly hand lightly shook, and the two clumps of flames merged together, like a white ball of light.
The Heavenly Ghost opened his mouth and swallowed the flame, instantly transforming into a fire ghost with white flames burning all over his body. His aura instantly increased by thirty to forty percent.
The Heavenly Ghost grinned hideously, and with a flick of his two ghostly hands, he shot out clumps of white flames.
The beautiful maids conjured by Old Devil Hundred Flowers's technique were instantly reduced to ashes when these flames stuck to them.
The Heavenly Ghost laughed maniacally, his entire body shaking, and two identical flame ghosts appeared on either side of him, charging towards Old Devil Hundred Flowers together.
It looked like a desperate attempt.
Seeing this scene, Old Devil Hundred Flowers didn't dare to be negligent. After all, the opponent was a cultivator of the same rank, and a desperate struggle was no joke.
He naturally knew that killing a cultivator of the same rank, especially one in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, was even more difficult.
Therefore, he had been dragging out the fight to wait for High Priest Luo Ming to arrive, so they could besiege and kill this person with a greater chance of success.
Then, the Ghost King Sect would only have that Sect Leader Yan left, making him easier to deal with.
Although this space was very strange, with both spirit-nullifying areas and mist that constantly interfered with divine sense, the entire space wasn't very large. He had previously contacted the High Priest using a secret technique.
But until now, High Priest Luo Ming had not arrived.
Countless pale white flames attacked, and Old Devil Hundred Flowers dodged while using his techniques. The Phoenix Twin Swords were also summoned back to his front, transforming into a field of sword light to protect his entire body.
Flames and sword light clashed, and muffled sounds erupted in the air. The surrounding white mist was completely shattered.
But then he discovered that after withstanding the initial wave of attacks, the second and third waves of white flames weren't very powerful and were easily dispersed into black smoke by the sword light.
The three flame ghosts that had charged over so aggressively were also penetrated by the sword light, and they vaguely transformed into three clumps of flames that disappeared with a puff.
Seeing this scene, Old Devil Hundred Flowers' expression darkened, realizing that this seemingly powerful wave of attacks was just a bluff.
His powerful divine sense scanned the surroundings, but he couldn't sense the enemy's aura. The opponent had used a secret technique to escape.
Old Devil Hundred Flowers' mind flickered, and he retracted the Phoenix Luan Twin Swords, transforming into a streak of light and leaving.
As for what Luo Ming was doing at this moment, this High Priest of the Otherworld Demon race also had a gloomy face.
He was currently entangled with a black chain, tightly binding the Ancient Demon Blood Heart.
"You fiend, at a time like this, you still have the mind to devour other people's Nascent Souls. Don't you know the situation you're in? It would be one thing if you devoured the Nascent Souls of human cultivators, but you're even devouring my own race. Do you really want to be refined by me?" Luo Ming High Priest looked at the Ancient Demon Blood Heart, which had already been subdued, and a trace of killing intent appeared in his eyes.
"High Priest, if you hadn't arrived in time, I would have been devoured by this fiend. Keeping such a fiend in this realm will always be a disaster. It's better to kill it now," said a disheveled woman shrouded in a cloud of blood light beside Luo Ming High Priest.
It was Madam Meixie. At this moment, the woman's legs were missing, her aura had decreased by more than half, and she looked miserable.
"Hmph, a few Nascent Souls of your race are nothing. Killing them only replenished a bit of my energy. Are you going to fall out with me over this?" The Ancient Demon, trapped by the Demon Binding Lock, was uncomfortable but still mocked unceremoniously.
"You fiend deserve to die," Madam Meixie shouted angrily. Although she was still recovering from her injuries, she still released a black flying knife towards the Ancient Demon's head.
The Ancient Demon snorted coldly. Although trapped by the Demon Binding Lock, it wasn't without resistance. A flash of blood light appeared behind him, and two tentacles covered in red scales immediately shot out, entangling the flying knife.
A series of cracking sounds rang out, and the spiritual light on the black flying knife instantly dimmed by more than half. It seemed that this guy wanted to destroy the flying knife directly.
"Enough," Luo Ming High Priest said with a dark face, shooting out a beam of purple light that directly severed the two scaled tentacles.
"Listen to me, if you dare to act without my orders again in this place, although it will be troublesome for me to kill you, it's not impossible."
The Ancient Demon shook its head, the blood light in its eyes flickered, and it temporarily yielded. "Alright, I'll do as you say."
"High Priest, he..." Madam Meixie was unwilling to give up, seeming to want to say something, but was interrupted by Luo Ming High Priest. "Alright, he still has some use, we can't have infighting now. This Blood Pú Pill can quickly restore your body. The most important thing right now is to leave this space first. The people of the Ghost King Sect are our great enemy."
As Luo Ming High Priest spoke, he tossed out a red jade bottle, which landed in front of Madam Meixie.
"Yes, then I won't pursue this matter with this fiend for now. Thank you, High Priest, for the medicine." Madam Meixie glanced at the Ancient Demon, suppressed the anger in her heart, took the red jade bottle, poured out a purple pill from it, and swallowed it.
Immediately, her missing legs visibly grew back. The Blood Pú Pill was the Demon Soul Hall's supreme healing medicine.
It could be said that as long as the body hadn't directly collapsed and lost its vitality in an instant, it could be quickly restored to its original state.
Luo Ming High Priest then looked at another person beside him, naturally the ugly-faced youth. He asked expressionlessly, "How did you end up with this guy?"
"I..." The ugly-faced youth frowned a few times, and said hesitantly, "It's really dangerous here. I know this fiend is controlled by the High Priest, so I followed him to be safer. I didn't know this fiend would also kill people of my race."
Although he said these words, the ugly-faced youth felt even colder in his heart. Originally, he was considering whether he could rely on the High Priest's methods to remove the restrictions the Ancient Demon had placed on him, thereby escaping the fiend's control.
But the Ancient Demon seemed to know his thoughts, and as he opened his mouth, he heard the Ancient Demon's warning in his heart. "You think your High Priest can remove my Blood Demon race's slave seal? He's just a cultivator from the lower realm. Even if he's a Transformation God cultivator, he can't remove the Blood Demon slave seal."
This threatening voice suppressed the ugly-faced youth's impulse.
"Forget it," Luo Ming High Priest snorted, seeming to have no intention of getting to the bottom of it. However, he changed the subject and asked, "Have you contacted the Holy Maiden?"
"She... I contacted her using a secret technique just now, but didn't get a response." Hearing the High Priest ask about Dongfang Ya, the youth came back to his senses and said with a somewhat gloomy expression.
"During the chaos in Yanhai City, did the Holy Maiden take the magic stone mine into her possession?"
"Yes, the magic stone mine that my race prepared for battle is in her hands," the ugly-faced youth nodded in response.
"That's good, let her quickly rendezvous with us. With the magic stone mine, we don't have to worry about our own demonic energy consumption here," Luo Ming High Priest instructed again.
A moment later, Madam Meixie's body was completely restored. Luo Ming High Priest led the others and headed towards the center of the white mist without delay.
With his cultivation, he had naturally sensed the activity there long ago.
Dongfang Ya hadn't joined up with the Otherworld Demon race because she had also encountered trouble.
This woman and Ancestor Tianfeng had previously discovered many aborigines in a certain mountain valley. They went down into the valley to contact the aborigines and learn about the situation here.
At first, everything was fine, and they learned about the situation in this space, but when the two wanted to leave.
One of the aborigines suddenly ambushed them, and then a black wind surged from the mountain valley, trapping them inside.
At this time, the other aborigines in the mountain valley were swept up by the black wind. All of them disintegrated and turned into ashes. Tianfeng Ancestor and Dongfang, caught off guard, weren't directly killed, but they were both injured.
Tianfeng Ancestor lost an arm, and his aura decreased by a third. Dongfang Ya's mouth was bleeding, her face was pale, and her situation didn't seem good either.
The aborigine who ambushed them laughed loudly. His body directly shattered into pieces, but his aura soared to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm, transforming into a two-faced ghost.
This was a humanoid ghost, covered in black hair, like a black ape, with only a head of disheveled white hair. The entire head was three times larger than an ordinary person, and the face had two faces. It looked extremely ugly, as if two faces were fused together.
The left half of the face was a middle-aged man with a blue face, and the right half of the face was a pale woman's face. The two faces were fused together, making it extremely bizarre.
Moreover, there was a dark ghost eye growing on the forehead, emitting an evil gaze.
"Junior Sister Wu, after waiting for so many years, Nascent Soul cultivators have finally come to this place again. Last time, it was just a man. If you hadn't stopped me, I would have escaped long ago. Now, there's a man and a woman. As long as we seize these two, we can be reborn."
"Senior Brother, don't talk nonsense. Last time, you were too heavy-handed. This time, be careful not to damage the woman's body. We can finally remove the Soul Fusion Curse and separate again."
"Hmph, these two have already been hit by your Soul-Reaving Nails. Their Nascent Souls have been severely damaged, and they can only exert thirty to forty percent of their strength. I can easily take them down."
The cold male voice and the sharp female cry came from the monster's mouth at the same time. The voice was incoherent and very manic. It was like a madman talking.
As they spoke, the two-faced ghost attacked. It stretched out two black-haired claws, grabbing a skeleton staff in one hand and a Soul Refining Banner from the Ghost King Sect in the other.
The bone staff struck out with a field of staff shadows, and black skull heads rushed out from the Soul Refining Banner.
Tianfeng Ancestor and Dongfang Ya didn't know what this strange monster was, but they knew that they were about to fight to the death.
During this time, Tianfeng Ancestor quickly swallowed a few pills to temporarily suppress his injuries, and threw out a few magic treasures to protect his entire body.
He roared and waved the white feather fan in his hand, summoning a gust of wind to block in front of him.
Dongfang Ya acted faster, quickly throwing out a colorful spiritual talisman. This colorful spiritual talisman didn't attack the two-faced ghost, but rushed to the top of her head. With a light shake, it split into eight spiritual talismans of different colors.
The eight colored spiritual talismans flew out, transforming into eight spiritual light pillars, covered with runes, forming a small array that protected herself and Tianfeng Ancestor, who was not far away.
