Several spirit insects suddenly appeared in the belly of the mountain, and something felt wrong.
Could it be that the previous enemies were catching up? The Corpse Bear hurriedly released its spiritual sense to explore the surroundings, especially those wide mountain cracks.
As the spiritual sense spread, he discovered that the cracks from which the spirit insects flew extended for a long distance, leading to another cave several miles away. A group of hundreds of spirit insects gathered there, seemingly devouring something.
Upon closer inspection, this group of spirit insects was devouring a lizard demon beast. It was an ordinary second-order demon beast, and it was already dead. Observing this scene, the Corpse Bear sneered and withdrew his spiritual sense.
This situation was not unusual, especially in a secret realm with abundant spiritual energy, where it happened every moment. Besides this, there were no other abnormalities around.
He escaped into the mountain belly to temporarily suppress his injuries. He would not stay here for long.
However, this place was indeed not safe, and the Corpse Bear felt a trace of unease in his heart. Although he had dealt with the golden flames in his wound and suppressed most of his injuries, he could not guarantee that the enemies would not catch up, so he should not stay in one place for too long.
The Corpse Bear thought for a moment and decided to find another safe place to recover from his injuries. He pointed at the jade bottle he had just taken out, and the jade bottle burst, releasing a cloud of blood mist.
The Corpse Bear took a big gulp, planning to suck the blood mist into his mouth and leave this place.
Just at this moment, the ground shook, and a cloud of black and blue mist rose up, turning into a rotating ice mist. In the blink of an eye, countless ice thorns condensed from the ground, and the ground turned into a sheet of frost.
The Corpse Bear did not expect this sudden change, but his reaction was also extremely quick. The moment the ice mist rose, his figure flickered and floated in the air, and a cloud of gray-green corpse energy emerged from his body, protecting himself.
With a thought, the gray-white treasure pearl he had just used for healing trembled and began to merge into himself. This was no ordinary treasure; it was a corpse pill cultivated using a secret method. It could not be lost.
Clang!
A loud bell sound suddenly rang out.
The Corpse Bear was caught off guard and stunned for a moment. His daze time was very short, but in this blink of an eye, a green light flashed before his eyes, and a green ray of light suddenly struck the corpse pill.
The gray-white corpse pill was immediately knocked away, the Corpse Bear trembled, and the corpse fire rising from his body collapsed by a small half, becoming unstable.
This was not the end. The ice mist under his feet had enveloped the entire cave, and countless black and shiny ice thorns, like arrows, came impact.
For a time, the sounds of banging and clanging were continuous, and the Corpse Bear's body was immediately submerged in them.
At the same time, a figure emerged from a corner of the cave, which was the Profound Turtle controlled by the second soul.
The Profound Turtle's hands turned into two giant claws covered with hard carapace, rapidly flicking, shooting out strands of black pointed ice, joining the attack.
Opening its mouth, a black and shiny light mirror quickly rotated, blasting out a ten-foot-large black-blue lightning. With a loud rumble, this thick water thunder directly hit the Corpse Bear.
Seven green lights rose from the other side, instantly converging in the air into a dazzling azure light sword, slashing horizontally with a sharp aura.
A series of attacks all hit the Corpse Bear. Zhang Ling also emerged from the place where the sword light rose, and with a wave of his hand, strands of yellow silk threads quickly wrapped around the gray-white corpse pill.
In a moment, the corpse pill was wrapped into a head-sized yellow ball of light, and with a flip of his hand, he put it into his storage bag.
After doing all this, the Two Instruments Gourd appeared beside him, releasing a large amount of Heavenly Star Sand. Before he could join the attack, he heard an angry roar.
The Corpse Bear was not killed by these many attacks. Instead, his aura suddenly increased greatly. After a roar, one of his arms suddenly swelled, turning into a black bone claw more than ten zhang large, just in time to resist the huge sword light that was slashing down.
The sound of wind and the sound of piercing were constant, earth and stones splashed, and the entire cave quickly collapsed.
The huge sword light was immediately bounced away, transforming back into seven flying swords and flying upside down. The black bone claw quickly clapped, creating countless claw marks in the air, sweeping around like wind blades.
The ice thorns released by the Profound Turtle were immediately shattered. Zhang Ling did not dare to neglect and condensed the Heavenly Star Sand into a sand wall in front of him to block the flying claw awn.
What shocked him was that the claw awn were exceptionally sharp, and he had to mobilize a small half of the Heavenly Star Sand to resist them.
As for the Profound Turtle, it was not seriously injured. A layer of black-silver protective shield resisted these attacks, protecting itself.
This layer of spiritual force shield was not an ordinary shield stimulated by demon power, but a protective shield cultivated using the demon clan's secret technique Taotie Devouring Spirit Art, integrated with a part of Heavenly Astral Silver, which was enough to be equivalent to a top-notch defensive magic weapon.
In this round of sneak attacks, the Corpse Bear was even more disheveled, his body tattered. His chest seemed to have melted, and most of his flesh had disappeared. This was the damage caused by the Water Divine Thunder. One of his legs was emitting a great chill and was frozen in a layer of black ice.
Such injuries would have seriously injured or even destroyed the physical bodies of ordinary human cultivators. However, the Corpse Bear's physical body was that of a demon corpse, and it did not seem to be a major problem.
The Corpse Bear's entire body was surging with corpse energy, melting away the frozen body. The black bone claw, which had become extremely large, waved and released a large number of claw awn, covering the surroundings.
"Who are you, and why are you ambushing me?" The Corpse Bear's ferocious eyes locked onto the Profound Turtle and Zhang Ling, uttering a hoarse voice.
"What? Don't you recognize me? This body used to be one of my puppets," Zhang Ling sneered and replied expressionlessly.
"It's you, this kid. You've even broken through to the Nascent Soul realm," the green light in the Corpse Bear's eyes flickered, revealing a hint of surprise. He cried out in disbelief.
"Since you recognize me, fellow daoist friend, return this demon corpse today."
Zhang Ling did not care about the expression in the Corpse Bear's eyes. Seeing that the Corpse Bear could recognize him, he knew that the one controlling the Corpse Bear now was still the gray Nascent Soul that had seized control in the first place.
The Corpse Bear was already seriously injured and had lost his Corpse pill, so his strength must have weakened by more than half. Naturally, there was nothing to say at this time.
With a thought, the Profound Turtle turned into a black shadow and rushed over. Both hands flashed with black and silver light, and a large number of claw prints were blasted out, directly attacking the Corpse Bear at close range.
At this time, the Profound Turtle, like the demon cultivator who had fought not long ago, transformed into a half-demon state and fought at close quarters.
Seeking death!
The Corpse Bear's entire body condensed, and he rushed over without hesitation. He seemed to be planning to fight at close quarters as well.
This was not strange. The corpse demon body was often stronger than the physical bodies of ordinary demon cultivator, so naturally, he would not be afraid of close combat.
Zhang Ling also shot at the same time, summoning the flying swords to transform into seven rays of light and attack. At the same time, two golden and silver copper rings appeared in front of him. With a spell cast on them, the two copper rings swelled to the size of ten zhang. With a gentle shake, countless golden and silver ring shadows attacked with a whoosh.
Then, with a shake of his left arm, a section of vine stretched out from his arm, revealing azure and crimson spiritual light. Small gray-white vine threads separated from it and wrapped around in the air, forming a dozen huge vine giant snakes, all of which wrapped around the Corpse Bear.
However, the Profound Turtle fell into a disadvantage the moment he engaged in close combat with the Corpse Bear. After one or two breaths, the protective shield on his body, which was not weak in defense, was directly broken, and a black bone claw slammed the Profound Turtle away.
The Corpse Bear spewed out a large cloud of gray-green corpse energy, in which green light flickered, revealing a dozen ferocious ghost shadows.
These ghost shadows seemed blurry, but the aura of each one was no weaker than that of a Golden Core mid-stage ghost. They also carried magic weapons such as knives and swords. Among them, an azure-faced ox-headed ghost, and a blood-red ghost head, had Yin evil energy that was no weaker than a pseudo-Nascent Soul cultivator.
These dozen or so ghosts unceremoniously besieged the Profound Turtle. For a time, they also entangled the Profound Turtle.
The Corpse Bear himself shook his body and rushed towards Zhang Ling. All the flying swords were knocked away by the giant bone claw and could not attack the Corpse Bear at all.
The two golden and silver copper ring ancient treasures also failed to achieve anything, and those vine giant snakes were instantly torn to pieces.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling's face sank. He secretly thought that this man was indeed powerful. Especially this black bone claw, which was not an ordinary magic weapon and was extremely powerful. Not only could it easily block his flying sword attacks, but it could also break through the Profound Turtle's spiritual force protection.
He had noticed this arm just now. It was not the Corpse Bear's own bear paw, but some kind of magic weapon.
Because the Corpse Bear had lost an arm when he was in his hands. At that time, he and Huo Long Shangren and others were exploring the ice-fire jade mine, and finally encountered that strange blood-colored monster. In the battle, the Corpse Bear lost his left arm.
The current Corpse Bear was naturally not comparable to what he was before. He did not know how the gray Nascent Soul had refined him into this state in such a short period of less than a hundred years.
His body's corpse energy was three points stronger than that of ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators.
This thought flashed through Zhang Ling's mind. Watching the Corpse Bear rush over, the Heavenly Star Sand quickly rotated and turned into several giant sand dragons that impact over.
The Corpse Bear laughed loudly, his momentum unabated. Relying on the power of the black bone claw, he scratched out countless claw awn, like a large wind blade sweeping through, instantly smashing the sand dragons to pieces.
The bone claw continued to skyrocket, turning into a giant bone claw more than twenty zhang large, fiercely clawing over. Before the attack even arrived, Zhang Ling clearly sensed a burst of pressure.
Zhang Ling naturally did not dare to neglect. He controlled several flying swords and copper rings to constantly obstruct him. At the same time, spiritual light flickered in his hand, and another thick vine rushed out. Unlike before, this vine was flashing with spiritual light, and gray-white patterns appeared on it, turning into a bone whip, hitting down with a sound of breaking wind.
The Corpse Bear only glanced at the bone whip and waved his giant claw in disdain, smashing a large section of the bone whip.
But at this time, seven or eight black-cyan round beads were revealed from the broken bone whip. They all lit up with dazzling lightning, and the sound of thunderclap was loud.
The round beads exploded, turning into thunder fire that covered a large area. The Corpse Bear bore the brunt of the attack and was surrounded by the thunder fire. After two or three breaths, the Corpse Bear rushed out in a sorry state, but waiting for him were more than a dozen strange vines, which wrapped him in the air circle by circle.
The Corpse Bear naturally would not sit still and wait for death. With an angry roar, the corpse energy in his body surged, and the vines wrapped around him were all corroded.
What was strange was that some strange blue-red vine threads were unaffected, like earthworms, drilling into his body.
Only then did the Corpse Bear's face change. He wanted to mobilize the corpse energy in his body, but he felt that his aura was out of control. His body swayed a few times and he fell to the ground.
Zhang Ling was overjoyed and immediately blasted out a thick and condensed Heavy Yuan Profound Light, directly pressing the Corpse Bear to the ground.
"How is it possible? You can still control this body."
The Corpse Bear obviously did not expect this situation and cried out in surprise. The sudden loss of control over his body caused him to be captured instantly.
The blue-red vine threads entered the Corpse Bear's body and had already sealed all the meridians in the Corpse Bear's body at this time. With the spiritual force not flowing smoothly, the Corpse Bear was unable to control his body.
Zhang Ling naturally would not explain these things. He quickly spewed out a ball of essence blood, condensing it into dense blood-colored runes, which flew towards the Corpse Bear's body.
This was a secret technique in the Evil Demon Art. Once successfully integrated into the Corpse Bear's body, it would not be difficult to regain control of the Corpse Bear.
This Evil Demon clone was originally refined by him using the secret technique in the Evil Demon Art. Although it had been re-refined by this gray Nascent Soul, the foundation was still there, and it was easiest to regain control with this secret method.
In an instant, the blood-colored runes merged into the Corpse Bear's body.
But at the same time, a layer of gray-black spiritual light strangely appeared on the Corpse Bear's body. This layer of spiritual light quickly gathered between his chest and abdomen, lighting up a dazzling halo.
The Corpse Bear's body also swelled up, as if it had been inflated, and erupted with violent spiritual force fluctuations.
This is... self-destruction.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling's eyelids twitched, and he quickly retreated to the other side.
Just after retreating more than ten zhang, a terrifying air wave hit his body, and his body flew out involuntarily, smashing into the mud behind him.
Even so, his body did not stop, and the surrounding earth and stones quickly collapsed. It was not until three or four breaths later, after the terrifying air wave had weakened by half, that he stabilized his body.
At this moment, the Yellow Luo Umbrella was also sacrificed, and a high-level defensive talisman was pasted on his body. He did not suffer much damage, but his aura was a little unstable due to the impact of the spiritual force fluctuations.
Just at this moment, a section of black bone claw quietly flew out of the smoke and shot towards him, fiercely slapping towards him. By the time he discovered it, this thing had already attacked him.
The bone claw was so powerful that Zhang Ling did not have confidence that the two layers of defense on his body could block this attack. He immediately released a condensed Heavy Yuan Profound Light to cover his body.
The bone claw's attacking momentum was slightly paused when illuminated by the spiritual light.
Taking advantage of this time, a small spiritual shuttle appeared in Zhang Ling's hand, and the thunder attribute spiritual force contained in the Thunder Light Spell in his body was injected into it.
The Thunder Spirit Shuttle burst out with a layer of thunder light, carrying him to move horizontally a few zhang away, barely dodging this attack.
The black bone claw also instantly broke free from the spiritual light, but it only extinguished a remnant shadow. After failing to hit, the bone claw drew a circle in the air, and a gray Nascent Soul the size of an inch emerged on it, and called out with a slight surprise.
"Thunder escape technique."
