Zhang Ling prepared himself for the battle.
However, with another flash of golden light, the golden Nascent Soul instantly reappeared on the other side. It didn't get any closer to him; instead, it left a strange golden halo in its original spot.
This person teleported several times in succession, leaving a golden halo wherever he went. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen golden halos appeared around, vaguely forming an encirclement.
Naturally, Zhang Ling wouldn't let it succeed, and he moved quickly. Although his movements weren't as fast as teleportation, he still flashed to a spot seven or eight zhang away.
With another flash, he broke free from the encirclement of the golden halos.
However, as soon as he moved, a faint golden light followed him with a flash, appearing right in front of him—it was the golden Nascent Soul.
This person gently waved his hand, and more than a dozen white light threads wrapped around him.
These white light threads seemed to be the same as the threads flowing in the golden light outside, but they seemed to possess some other supernatural power, being exceptionally tough. The white-clothed woman and Elder Wang were trapped inside and killed.
Knowing their power, Zhang Ling didn't want to confront them head-on. He moved his body, trying to slip past from the side.
Two more golden halos appeared there, shooting out golden light thorns.
Zhang Ling's mind flickered slightly, and the azure sword light slashed over. A series of crisp sounds rang out, and his expression turned grim. The sword light transformed from his flying sword managed to block the golden light thorns but was suppressed to a disadvantage.
It took several sword lights to extinguish a single ray of golden light. His flying sword had been practicing in his body for quite some time, but he didn't expect to be at a disadvantage as soon as they exchanged blows.
Immediately afterward, dense white threads wrapped around him.
Zhang Ling formed hand seals, and the yellow sand around him flowed, shooting out countless earth cones. However, they were easily cut into pieces by these light threads.
Their power was even greater than he had anticipated. No wonder the white-clothed female cultivator and Elder Wang were entangled and had no power to resist.
Fortunately, the earth cones were all formed from Heavenly Star Sand and were not greatly damaged.
Under his deliberate control, these shattered earth cones reformed into quicksand, gathered together, and condensed into several Di Sha Earth Dragons, baring their fangs and claws as they charged towards the golden Nascent Soul.
At this moment, a series of whooshing sounds erupted from behind as countless golden light thorns bombarded him.
Zhang Ling didn't pay much attention to the attacks from behind because Jade Fairy had also followed, releasing an ice dragon and a fire dragon to help him block these attacks.
As for the white light threads that were wrapping around, he clapped his hands together and released an earth-yellow light sphere, illuminating it with a bright yellow glow.
When the white light threads fell into it, they produced a sound like metal being cut, but their speed greatly decreased.
After some probing, Zhang Ling roughly judged the power of these threads. Although they were tough, they were not to be feared as long as he didn't get entangled.
He waved the Four Directions Flag, and a cloud of gray light swept out, directly trapping the white light threads in mid-air about five or six zhang away, making them no longer a threat.
"Eh, the Four Directions Flag? How do you have this treasure? Could you be an elder from Myriad Manifestations City? No, there's no one from there here..." Suddenly, a surprised voice came from somewhere above. The voice stopped abruptly halfway through.
Zhang Ling's expression darkened, and he moved more than ten zhang away. He scanned with his divine sense and vaguely saw a faint golden light hidden above where the voice came from. It was very difficult to detect.
It was obviously the golden Nascent Soul, hiding there again, planning to launch a sneak attack. This person was so skilled at concealment that it would be easy to fall for his tricks.
With a flick of his hand, two flying swords shot over. The golden Nascent Soul's expression turned slightly gloomy, and with a flash, it disappeared again.
All of his divine power surrounded him, constantly searching for this person's踪迹. Occasionally, there was a flash of golden light, but it didn't get too close to him, just hovering around ten zhang away.
Circles of golden halos appeared around him, constantly shooting out light thorns, and white threads wrapped around him.
These attacks were all well blocked by Zhang Ling, and they didn't cause him any harm. It seemed that the golden Nascent Soul couldn't find a good opportunity to launch a sneak attack.
However, Zhang Ling's expression grew increasingly somber because the longer it dragged on, the more he felt uneasy.
After all, this person had the cultivation of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator. Although he didn't have a physical body, his methods were still considerable. He didn't believe that he would only use these sneak attack methods.
Fortunately, temporarily holding on like this was quite beneficial to him. With a thought, Zhang Ling conveyed the order to act to Black Tortoise.
Black Tortoise was not by his side at the moment, nor was he in the gourd on his body. Instead, he was lying in wait on the other side.
Following his order, a situation occurred with the Frost Lion King and the round-faced female demon.
After being trapped in this place, the two demon cultivators saw the Wolf Demon suddenly attacking the white-clothed woman and planned to come to her aid.
As soon as they acted, a ball of light fell from the sky, and a figure rushed out from inside. That person's aura condensed, transforming into a monster covered in scales with a single horn on its head.
This scene was the same as what happened to Elder Wang and Zhang Ling.
The only difference was that the unicorn monster was much stronger, with the strength of a peak early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, and he was also proficient in escape techniques.
The Frost Lion King had lost his physical body and only had his demon spirit left. The body he had temporarily condensed only had a little more than 30% of its original strength.
Coupled with the eighth-order round-faced female demon, although they suppressed the unicorn monster, they couldn't win in a short time.
The unicorn monster was covered in fish-scale-like scales, and the horn on its head was two feet long, as sharp as a curved blade. It looked extremely uncoordinated.
However, its speed was extremely fast, and its movements were like the wind. It was using a wind escape technique that was no less than a lightning escape technique.
Wind and lightning escape techniques were both extremely fast escape techniques.
In terms of speed alone, lightning escape techniques were better. When used by experts, they were even comparable to the teleportation of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
Wind escape techniques were not slow either, but they were better at being unpredictable and were extremely good at entanglement. The unicorn monster was constantly dodging the attacks of the two demons by relying on the wind escape technique.
The round-faced female demon and the Frost Lion King were both ice-attribute demon cultivators, and they used ice-water-attribute attacks. The range of their attacks was very large. Although they could restrict the unicorn monster, their effective attacks often missed. That was why they had been unable to win.
If the Frost Lion King's strength was complete, it would be no problem for him to take down this monster. However, the current situation was so passive that the Lion King hated the Wolf Demon to the extreme.
During the battle, they also observed the situation of the white-clothed woman and Elder Wang being killed. They knew that the situation was extremely bad.
"Lion King, that golden Nascent Soul seems to have a tenth-order cultivation. If we delay any longer, we will also lose our lives here. Why don't we get rid of this difficult monster first, then break through the golden light outside and leave this place?" the round-faced female demon said through voice transmission while fighting.
"My strength has been greatly damaged now, and I can only exert less than 30% of my original strength. It's not easy to get rid of this guy who uses wind escape techniques, let alone break through the light curtain outside and leave. Even if you add you, I'm afraid it will be difficult to escape.
It's better to act together with the humans. The chances of success will be greater.
Look at this Zhang kid. He has considerable strength and dares to fight this Nascent Soul head-on. Maybe he can break the situation," the Frost Lion King's ice-crystal-like body shook, shooting out countless ice thorns, attacking the constantly moving unicorn monster.
"Lion King, these humans are not reliable. Two of them died in less than a moment."
The round-faced female demon seemed to want to say something else, but the Lion King snorted. "I know you have concerns, but the current situation forces us to join forces. That's the best decision. If we act alone, maybe..."
The Frost Lion King didn't finish his words when he suddenly sensed a wave of divine consciousness, which was actually eavesdropping on their voice transmission. He immediately became vigilant, thinking that it was the golden Nascent Soul hiding and launching a sneak attack.
Although his physical body was destroyed, his demon spirit power was not weak.
"Don't panic, fellow Daoists. I am Xuan Ling, a companion of that Zhang Daoist. I'm here to help you fight. I'm also a demon cultivator." The wave of divine consciousness that the Frost Lion King sensed was actually Black Tortoise controlled by Zhang Ling's second Nascent Soul.
As Black Tortoise quickly transmitted his voice, the Frost Lion King and the round-faced female demon naturally wouldn't easily believe a strange aura that suddenly appeared.
Black Tortoise had no choice but to quickly explain a few words, trying to gain their trust.
"Regardless of whether you believe me or not, I am not your enemy at this time. I will hide by the side and use methods to severely injure this monster. Then, you two can cooperate to deal with this guy."
In the end, Zhang Ling controlled Black Tortoise to transmit a sentence and then stopped talking. It was impossible to gain someone's trust with just a few words, especially in the current situation.
Fortunately, Zhang Ling didn't need to know how the two demons believed him. He just needed to cooperate with Black Tortoise to solve the unicorn monster first. Then, the two demons would naturally stand on the same front and fight the golden Nascent Soul.
That was his purpose. If the situation was not good, he had to unite everyone present to have a greater chance of winning.
At this time, the unicorn monster let out a roar, and baleful aura fluctuated all over its body, turning into a huge black light wave, which shattered the countless ice thorns that were attacking it.
A flash of green light appeared on its body, and it rode the wind, using the wind escape technique to turn into a faint green light, instantly reaching more than ten zhang away. The horn on its head shook, shooting out seven or eight huge beams of blood light, attacking the round-faced female demon.
The round-faced female demon had a cold face. With a wave of her hand, a large patch of snowflakes swept up in front of her, blocking these attacks.
The unicorn monster made a strange squeaking sound. Its figure flickered, and it used the wind escape technique again to reach the other side, releasing several more beams of blood light and attacking the Frost Lion King again.
The Frost Lion King's strength had greatly decreased, but he was not afraid.
He greeted the attack extremely valiantly. The blood light hit his body, producing a crisp sound. Several cracks appeared on his ice-crystal-like body. The Lion King was completely unaware. Ice energy surrounded his body, and the traces of ice cracks were instantly repaired. He opened his big mouth, and a sound wave mixed with snowflakes rushed over.
A lion's roar rang out.
The unicorn monster's body was shaken, and at the same time as the sound wave hit its body, it used the wind escape technique to dodge to the other side.
This monster's figure turned into an afterimage, constantly moving and constantly attacking. It never fought head-on, only harassing.
At this moment, a sudden change occurred.
When the unicorn monster appeared again, a cold wind swept up beside it. Several black lights flashed out from the front, back, top, and bottom of its body for no reason, and dozens of black, bright ice thorns attacked.
These ice thorns didn't seem like much. The unicorn monster just condensed the baleful aura all over its body, turning it into a huge black gas ball that exploded, seemingly to disperse these attacks.
However, the black ice thorns also exploded, turning into a black ice storm that enveloped it. A black light flashed beside it, and a miniature black turtle also appeared.
This small turtle transformed and swelled, turning into a giant turtle more than ten zhang tall, rotating and ramming into it. With a clear sound, Black Tortoise knocked the unicorn monster out of the black ice mist again.
At this time, most of the unicorn monster's body was covered with a thin layer of black ice crystals. This was the Ice Soul Poison that Black Tortoise cultivated, and its power was more than that. However, in order to succeed in the secret sneak attack, not much was used.
"Fellow Daoists, why aren't you acting yet?"
The direction in which the unicorn monster was knocked away was directly in front of the Frost Lion King and the round-faced female demon.
The monster roared, and the ice layer covering its body shattered. It regained its ability to move. A flash of green light appeared, and it wanted to use the wind escape technique again. Circles of substantial sound waves rushed onto its body in the next moment. The unicorn monster's body shook, and it stiffened in the air.
A flash of blue light appeared in the round-faced female demon's eyes, and she spat out a blue spiritual light, slashing over fiercely. On closer inspection, it was actually an ice crystal flying knife as thin as cicada wings.
A flash of blue light, and the knife flew off the unicorn monster's head, killing the monster.
However, a black light flashed on the severed head of the unicorn monster, and a black-golden strange insect rushed out, covered in scales. It looked a bit like a small flood dragon, and it also had many centipede-like limbs, which was extremely strange.
The strange insect was not a physical entity, but more like a demon spirit-like spiritual body. It let out a piercing shriek and shot out, fleeing towards the golden Nascent Soul.
Black Tortoise had expected this. At the same time as the strange insect let out a cry, he raised his claws, and a silver-black arc of light slashed out.
The strange insect was directly cut into two pieces. However, it did not die, but its aura dropped by more than half, and it still wanted to escape.
However, the silver arc of light did not give it a chance, slashing back and forth more than a dozen times, directly cutting the strange insect into more than a dozen pieces.
Black Tortoise chased after it, quickly pinched with his hand, and directly pinched the fragments of the strange insect into wisps of green smoke, completely destroying this thing.
"You destroyed my split soul. You're courting death."
A roar rang out.
A flash of golden light appeared several zhang away from Black Tortoise's side. The golden Nascent Soul was furious, releasing countless white threads that wrapped around him.
Black Tortoise shrank his body, directly shrinking into his turtle shell. The entire turtle shell released a silver-black protective spiritual light, protecting his whole body. The white threads wrapped around it, making a sound like metal being cut.
A flash of black light appeared on Black Tortoise's body, turning into a black ice ball and rushing out suddenly.
Although the white threads were extremely tough, cutting out some fine traces on the turtle shell, it was far from enough to break through Black Tortoise's defense.
As a demon cultivator, Black Tortoise's strength had already reached the peak of the eighth order, only half a step away from the ninth order. The defense of his turtle shell was even more outstanding.
Covered in Ice Soul Poison, extremely cold air surged, freezing these white threads first. The entire turtle shell quickly rotated, using the power of his physical body to break free from the white threads and fly out.
