The wooden box was a unique treasure, obtained from an ancient secret realm. By extracting the essence of demon beasts and placing it inside, it could condense these shadowy figures with black aura for attacks.
Of course, this wasn't the true power of the treasure. The black spiritual power condensed inside the box had the ability to penetrate most protective barriers, making it suitable for ambushing enemies.
That's why it could pass through the array's light barrier.
However, this treasure also had its limits. Its attack power depended entirely on the demon souls invested. He had sealed over a thousand third and fourth-order demon souls inside, their strength equivalent to Foundation Establishment cultivators.
He also used demonic secret methods to allow these demon souls to devour each other, creating even more powerful demon souls. The tentacle monster in the array came about this way.
But condensing such high-level demon souls was very energy-consuming. There was only one seventh-order demon soul in the box.
The black aura on these demon souls also made them more solid, unlike ordinary demon souls that were ghostly beings. The black aura seemed to replace the demon soul's physical body. As for the reason, the green-robed old man had been researching it for many years without a definitive answer.
He could only see that it was due to the special material of the box and the strange effect of the mysterious spiritual patterns on it. He hadn't fully explored the true power of the box, but based on its current performance alone, this item was definitely a special treasure.
The old man continuously activated the box, releasing streams of black aura that transformed into various illusory demon beasts, launching attacks.
Although they weren't considered strong for Golden Core cultivators, the dense swarm of hundreds attacking together suppressed those few Golden Core elders.
The Golden Core cultivators all wore unsightly expressions.
The suddenly appearing, endless demon beast phantoms attacked relentlessly. Although their attacks could kill one or two with each strike, they had already killed hundreds in a short time, but the numbers showed no sign of decreasing.
On the contrary, their spiritual power was constantly being consumed. If this continued, even with their strength, they would only be exhausted to death.
Looking around now, centered on the independent stone pillar that was diagonally inserted into the ground, powerful spiritual energy fluctuations erupted within a few hundred feet, forming several battlefields. The scene was extremely chaotic.
After a series of cicada-like sounds from more than ten feet underground, a crack appeared in the array's light barrier, large enough for one person to pass through. Zhang Ling and the other did not delay, flashing into the Purple Lightning Thunder Array.
Ding Ruozhao flicked her fingers, injecting dozens of silver spiritual power streams into the golden jade cauldron. The jade cauldron became illusory again, turning into a golden mist that enveloped the Spirit-Breaking Insect. With a flash of golden light, the spiritual insect was collected by the woman.
Then, she pointed to the upper left and said, "The Thunderfire Beast is three miles ahead." Zhang Ling didn't delay either, surging spiritual power around them and wrapping the two as they traveled forward.
Whoosh whoosh
At this moment, the Thunderfire Beast was enveloped in a layer of fire clouds, constantly chasing after a ball of white light.
Inside the fire clouds, fireballs the size of wheels shot out with a whooshing sound. Everywhere they passed, the sky was dyed red.
But the white light in front was very agile, dodging most of the fireballs. For the few it couldn't dodge, the white light instantly cleaved out streaks of saber light.
Suddenly, the white escape light stopped in mid-air, swaying left and right a few times, and transformed into four or five identical balls of white light. Each ball of light contained a figure, making it impossible to distinguish which was real and which was fake.
These light balls then increased in speed, turning into several white rainbows that converged in the center into a spiritual light ball several feet in size. Then, it exploded all at once, turning into countless white saber lights, attacking the Thunderfire Beast like shooting stars.
The Thunderfire Beast howled, and the fire clouds around it quickly rolled up and rotated in place. Immediately, the beast's long tail, like a red ribbon more than ten feet long, swung out streaks of fire blades.
White light and fire light collided, with crackling and rumbling sounds constantly. For a time, powerful spiritual energy fluctuations erupted between the one person and the beast.
Suddenly, a white light pillar as thick as a zhang instantly passed through these spiritual lights, and with a muffled bang, directly hit the Thunderfire Beast.
Immediately, the seventh-order demon beast roared, and its huge body became unstable and fell downward. Upon closer inspection, one could see that the beast's abdomen had been pierced through, scattering a large amount of blood.
But high-level demon beasts had tenacious vitality. Although injured, it immediately stabilized its body.
The Thunderfire Beast looked up to the sky and let out a long howl, its horn extending several times in length, aiming at Zhao Yunshan's location. It quickly flicked it, and a thick red spiritual light flashed out.
The red light flashed like lightning, followed by a loud thunderclap, and Zhao Yunshan was also hit by this attack.
But this person only retreated a few zhang away before stabilizing his body. In front of him floated a blue-glowing round bowl, and a layer of dark blue spiritual light blocked the Thunderfire Beast's attack.
At this moment, countless cyan electric arcs appeared on this layer of blue light, which was a layer of thunder light shield.
"Hmph, you beast, dare to use lightning attribute attacks, courting death." Zhao Yunshan sneered, quickly spitting out a ball of essence and quickly pinching the spell with both hands. Immediately, the blue round bowl rotated rapidly, and a layer of dark blue spiritual light lit up in the center.
This person seemed to be about to use some kind of supernatural power, and the Thunderfire Beast immediately sensed a hint of danger approaching. The fire light condensed all over its body, and the long flame tail was replaced by several circles, wrapping around most of its body.
At this moment, a yellow light flashed out from the ground below their battle group, and Zhang Ling and Ding Ruozhao appeared.
As soon as the two appeared, they immediately released their divine senses to scan the surroundings, and both of them showed surprised expressions.
In addition to the Thunderfire Beast fighting with the Golden Core old man surnamed Zhao, the situation inside the array could be said to be a complete mess.
Countless demon beast phantoms had appeared at some point, besieging the other Golden Core cultivators, erupting with intense energy fluctuations that enveloped half of the array.
The two exchanged a few words and directly transformed into escape light, joining the Thunderfire Beast's battle group.
This chaotic scene undoubtedly gave the two some cover, and their combined efforts might be able to instantly recapture the Thunderfire Beast.
At this moment, Zhao Yunshan in the sky continuously activated, and dozens of white spiritual lights submerged into the blue round bowl. Immediately, dark blue bubbles gurgled out of this treasure, like boiling water.
As he continued to cast spells, these bubbles burst and formed strips of pale blue lightning like earthworms. Then, a strange metallic luster lit up in the lightning. At the same time, they quickly entangled together, condensing into blue thunder light balls the size of fists.
This also seemed to be a special supernatural power, and one could sense violent thunder spiritual power in these light balls. The thunder balls were all over the place, and at a glance, there were more than a hundred of them.
