After marking the location of the cyan-blue stone mountain, Zhang Ling flew away from the mountain towards the horizon.
However, after flying only about a mile away, he saw a dark mass in the sky, a flock of black birds flying towards him.
Taking a quick look from afar, he realized they were a flock of cinereous vultures, numbering several hundred, but among them was a large bird with golden feathers all over its body. Just one glance at it made Zhang Ling's expression drastically change.
Damn it!
He cursed inwardly, and Zhang Ling quickly turned around and flew back towards the mountain behind him. Although the flock of demonic birds was still some distance away, he sensed an astonishing aura from that golden bird, it was actually a high-level demonic beast.
Before long, Zhang Ling reached the other side of the mountain, and then he landed at the foot of the mountain, but even then, he wasn't at ease.
He took out a cyan-colored spiritual talisman from his storage bag. This spiritual talisman was semi-transparent, with spiritual light faintly visible on it. It was a "Shadow遁 Talisman" spiritual talisman that he had exchanged for merit points in the Immortal City.
This was a third-order spiritual talisman, with the ability to quickly escape and hide one's form. It had cost him a lot of Immortal City merit points.
But facing a high-level demonic beast, he gritted his teeth and activated this precious talisman. Then, he patted the talisman on his body, and a layer of cyan light enveloped him.
The cyan light flickered a few times, and Zhang Ling's figure gradually blurred and disappeared. But he was still in the same spot. Then, Zhang Ling formed a hand seal and sank into the seawater.
He stopped after sinking more than ten zhang. The third-order spiritual talisman was already a high-level talisman. As long as he didn't use large attack-type spells and magical instruments, using some small spells wouldn't damage the talisman's effectiveness.
This was also a characteristic that distinguished high-level talismans from low-grade talismans, especially this kind of special talisman. If he used an ordinary invisibility talisman, he wouldn't be able to cast any spells at all. Now, he was fully exerting his energy-concealing technique to suppress his spiritual power to the lowest level.
At the same time, he took out a white jade bottle with one hand, poured out a blue pill from it, and swallowed it. This was the Blue Water Pill he had refined, which could allow a cultivator to breathe underwater for three days. After swallowing a Blue Water Pill, he no longer needed to waste spiritual power to cast a water-avoidance spell.
Now, he only hoped to escape that high-level demonic bird. Of course, he could also choose to run away now. The Shadow遁 Talisman also came with the ability to transform his form and quickly escape. There was also a certain chance of escaping.
If it were other sea beasts, he might have already escaped. He didn't expect to be so unlucky. He saw that it was a high-level demonic bird, which was inherently good at flying. Directly escaping in front of it would be courting death.
Zhang Ling was lost in thought, just hoping that the high-level demonic bird hadn't discovered him.
While he was waiting nervously, he glanced at the mountain rock beside him. Although it was in the seawater, this cyan-blue stone mountain was also surprisingly large in the underwater part.
The part that protruded out of the water was only a small section. And at the same time, amidst a soft cry, the flock of cinereous vultures had arrived before the cyan-black stone mountain.
The golden-feathered bird among them also stopped. It tilted its head, and a hint of human-like intelligence appeared in its eyes as it sized up the cyan-blue stone mountain, as if it had also discovered the mountain's unusual nature.
High-level demonic beasts were different from low-level demonic beasts, they already possessed a bit of intelligence. Although they were still not comparable to humans, it would be a big mistake to treat them as wild beasts.
Some of the special demonic beasts, such as foxes and other demonic beasts that were inherently intelligent, if they could grow to the fifth or sixth order, their intelligence would be no weaker than that of an average adult.
This golden bird observed the cyan-blue mountain for a while, then suddenly flapped its wings. Its wings, when spread, were a full fifteen to sixteen zhang in size, with golden light flowing on them. It shot out countless spiritual light feathers, like sharp arrows, hitting the cyan-blue stone mountain.
A series of flat banging sounds rang out. After the golden light passed, the cyan-blue mountain rock at the place where the bird attacked was still the same as before Zhang Ling's attack, without a trace.
This scene fell into the bird's eyes, and this high-level demonic bird was also stunned, as if it had never encountered this situation before.
Then, the golden bird let out a howl, and a ball of golden flames spewed out from its mouth, shooting a golden beam of light onto the cyan-blue stone wall.
Instantly, the golden light was dazzling. After attacking for more than ten breaths, the bird stopped attacking, but what was shocking was that its attack still didn't leave a single trace on the stone wall.
Seeing this situation, the golden bird seemed unable to believe it, and roared out in anger. Its aura condensed, and a fierce look flashed in its bird eyes, as if it wanted to attack again.
Its body was flowing with golden light, and a fierce look flashed in its bird eyes, as if it wanted to attack again.
But at this moment, the cyan-blue stone mountain in front of it suddenly shook twice, and a black light flashed. The mountain rock actually rose up into the air out of nowhere.
The sea surface below made a loud noise, and the seawater was like a shaken water basin, setting off monstrous waves.
The speed at which the cyan-blue stone mountain rose was very fast. Large patches of seawater were brought up, and some uneven places on it poured down like waterfalls.
Such an unbelievable scene naturally startled the flock of cinereous vultures, and some of the cinereous vultures that were close to the cyan-blue stone mountain didn't have time to react when the mountain rose, and were directly knocked backwards, turning into a cloud of blood mist.
In the blink of an eye, the original hundred-zhang-high cyan-blue stone mountain became as high as a thousand zhang, with no end in sight.
The mountain peak shook from left to right! A place on it cracked open, and a huge black pupil appeared there. This eye was nearly a hundred zhang in size, with blue and cyan light appearing in it, like a galaxy, very beautiful.
At this moment, the golden bird appeared in the sky not far away. This high-level demonic bird raised its head and happened to see the giant eye on the stone mountain.
Instantly, a sense of fear arose in the golden bird's heart, and it froze in place.
After a few breaths, the golden bird belatedly reacted. It flapped its wings and flew towards the distance. In the blink of an eye, it was more than twenty zhang away. Then, with another flap of its wings, it turned into a golden light and quickly escaped towards the distance.
Its speed was more than twice as fast as that of an ordinary high-level sea beast. In the blink of an eye, the golden bird flew more than a hundred zhang away.
At this time, the other cinereous vultures reacted and flew towards the bird's direction one after another.
But at this moment, the eye of the stone mountain blinked and looked in the direction of the bird. Then, the entire mountain shook violently.
Roar!
A shocking roar came from the sea. This sound was like that from ancient times. Instantly, the surrounding air seemed to freeze.
For a time, even the golden bird a hundred zhang away inexplicably stopped.
The surroundings were first quietly silent for a moment, and then a strong wind rose. The sky, which was clear and cloudless a moment ago, was now turbulent, with large patches of white clouds rolling, and the seawater rolled back, setting off hundred-zhang-high waves.
Between heaven and earth, white light and black light appeared, and streaks of thunder formed out of thin air.
As for Zhang Ling, at this moment, he was in a recessed place on the mountainside, tightly grasping a protruding rock to fix his body on it, but his eyes were staring blankly at all of this.
