"Since this King has agreed to Daoist Huangyun's request, I naturally won't go back on my word. Let's quickly deal with these vicious insects."
"Haha, Daoist is right." Realist Huangyun glanced at the swarm of insects about to surround them, still smiling as he said, "My divine sense can't exert its full strength, so my junior sister and I will take care of these four insect nests. The three over there will be left to Daoist Xuanling."
The second soul controlled the Xuan Turtle, sweeping its gaze across the entire insect cloud without saying a word. Icy spiritual energy rapidly flowed around it, enveloping itself and transforming into a whirlwind of ice, directly plunging into the left side of the insect cloud.
They were currently located in the middle of the entire insect cloud. Taking this as the dividing line, there were five insect nests on the right side of the insect cloud and three on the left.
Seeing the Xuan Turtle rush into the insect swarm without a word, Realist Huangyun's divine sense phantom nodded towards the old woman, and they both plunged into the insect cloud on the right.
At the same time, the phoenix formed by Sect Leader Sun using the Flowing Cloud Formation also flapped its wings and followed closely behind. For a time, various spiritual lights burst forth in the insect cloud, accompanied by a series of muffled booming sounds.
The entire insect cloud also began to shake violently, seemingly thrown into chaos. A large number of Spirit Devouring Insects continuously fell from it, either turning into ashes, dust, or being frozen into chunks of ice.
The cultivators and mortals in the city wall area also stabilized their positions with the power of the formations. Although there were still many scattered Spirit Devouring Insects attacking the formations, their numbers were greatly reduced compared to before.
Some Core Formation cultivators with great skill and daring even rushed out of the formations and into the insect cloud. It seemed everyone knew that victory was at hand, and the reality was indeed so.
Just after the Xuan Turtle and the red-haired sable left, Sect Leader Sun sent a message, and in an instant, everyone in the city wall area knew that the giant turtle that had appeared earlier was their reinforcement and had already dealt with the Spirit Devouring Insect's nests.
At this moment, Sect Leader Sun and several elders were still controlling the Flowing Cloud Grand Formation. Suddenly, an elder next to him said, "The spiritual power of the grand formation has been fully accumulated. Activating the killing formation once more can eliminate millions of Spirit Devouring Insects."
But before he could finish speaking, Sect Leader Sun said, "Don't activate the killing formation yet. The Old Ancestor just informed me to secretly gather the grand formation's spiritual power towards that area a hundred miles away."
"Why is that? Sect Leader, activating the killing formation and annihilating another wave of Spirit Devouring Insects will resolve the crisis on Flying Cloud City's side. Even if there are a few insect nests left, they won't pose a threat here."
"Hmph, this is the Old Ancestor's command. Don't ask more questions, just do it." Sect Leader Sun glanced at the elder who spoke, grunted, and stopped talking. The other elders exchanged glances and obeyed the order, quickly controlling the formation.
Meanwhile, Zhang Ling was still guarding the green small formation eye.
At this moment, the green formation light screen had shrunk by more than half, only covering a three-zhang radius around the center of the formation stone platform, but the density of the light screen was several times greater than before.
Although there were still a large number of Spirit Devouring Insects lying on it, frantically gnawing at the formation light screen, these Spirit Devouring Insects alone were no longer enough to damage the formation.
This formation actually no longer needed his protection.
Zhang Ling was not consuming spiritual power to attack the Spirit Devouring Insects outside. He was currently looking up at the direction of Flying Cloud City, his brow furrowed as he communicated with his second soul.
Now, the second soul was very close to his location, only a little over a hundred miles away. It was controlling the Xuan Turtle and the Flying Cloud Sect's Nascent Soul-level old woman to destroy the insect nests.
Messages from this distance were very accurate, and he was constantly paying attention to the situation there.
Suddenly, Zhang Ling glanced at a black jade pendant on his waist. The jade pendant shook a few times, its surface flashing with spiritual light, and strands of spiritual power condensed into several glittering characters.
"Fellow Daoists, your task of guarding the formation is complete. You may now return to Flying Cloud City."
This was the message token that Sect Leader Sun gave them when they took on the task of guarding the formation flags. In case of emergency, they could request reinforcements through the message. Seeing the information that appeared on it, their formation guarding task was complete.
Calculating the time, it was still two or three quarters of an hour short of the originally stated one-hour guarding period. Could it be that Sect Leader Sun saw that the insect swarm was no longer a threat and allowed them to return early?
Zhang Ling couldn't help but think in his heart. He naturally wouldn't return to Flying Cloud City now. As soon as he joined up with his second soul, he could leave this place immediately.
Thinking this, he quickly sent a message to his second soul, instructing it to control the Xuan Turtle to come to the valley where he was currently located.
In the insect cloud, booming sounds continued.
The Xuan Turtle transformed into a whirlwind of ice, smashing a pitch-black insect nest to pieces. The core of this insect nest was a loamy yellow rock, seemingly a kind of spiritual ore.
With another impact, the rock directly cracked into several pieces, and thousands of two-winged Spirit Devouring Insects flew out from inside, but other than that, there were no special Spirit Devouring Insects. Subsequently, a burst of extreme cold air shot out, and the Xuan Turtle swallowed the shattered insect nest into its belly.
After resolving one insect nest, the Xuan Turtle rushed towards another insect nest without stopping. Naturally, a large number of two-winged Spirit Devouring Insects intercepted it along the way.
But it didn't care about these at all, rolling its massive body, like a giant spinning top, extremely rampantly stirring in the insect cloud.
Wherever it passed, it released a large amount of icy cold air. The Spirit Devouring Insects within the closest hundred-zhang area were immediately frozen into ice crystals and shattered into ice shards by the Xuan Turtle's violent collision.
In the blink of an eye, it saw another insect nest hidden in the spirit insects. The cold mist on the Xuan Turtle's body immediately condensed in its mouth, and as a faint blue spiritual light flickered, it shot out a series of ice thorns, densely packed, all attacking the insect nest.
A series of clanging sounds were heard, and a large number of ice thorns collided with countless Spirit Devouring Insects, producing the sound of metal clashing. This killed thousands of Spirit Devouring Insects in one fell swoop, clearing out an area.
The buzzing sound continued, and there were extremely many Spirit Devouring Insects, quickly gathering into a black mist and wrapping the insect nest in the center. The insect nest was once again hidden in the insect swarm.
The Xuan Turtle naturally had no intention of giving up. After spitting out the ice thorns, its main body also crashed into it fiercely. After a few loud noises, the insect nest was sent flying hundreds of zhang away.
But then it didn't attack this insect nest again, but instead turned its body and crashed into another insect nest not far away.
In a series of booming sounds, the two insect nests were knocked several miles away by the Xuan Turtle's overbearing aura, separated from the entire insect cloud, and gradually moved away.
At this time, the old woman and Realist Huangyun's divine sense, as well as the phoenix transformed by Sect Leader Sun's formation, also cooperated to resolve an insect nest.
Although their speed was also very fast, they were much slower than the Xuan Turtle.
