Seeing the sharp sword light attacking from all directions, the old man with the surname Jin's expression changed. The black demonic energy all over his body gathered into several black long snakes, blocking the flying sword.
Following closely behind, there were also more than a dozen *Di Sha Tu Ling(地煞土灵: Earthly Fiend Earth Spirits)*, transformed into sand and stone earth dragons, encircling him.
Zhang Ling also surged with spiritual power all over his body, with seven or eight dazzling yellow lights flashing in front of him, also condensed into several *Di Sha Tu Ling(地煞土灵: Earthly Fiend Earth Spirits)*. Added together, he released exactly twenty-four *Di Sha Tu Ling(地煞土灵: Earthly Fiend Earth Spirits)*.
The yellow sand scattered around was also rotating crazily, stirring up a sandstorm.
He was secretly setting up the *Li Tu(戾土: fierce earth)* Formation, which was almost formed. As long as he trapped this person in it, it would not be difficult to kill him.
However, at this moment, the entire Black Wind City shook violently, as if there was an earthquake. Dense cracks appeared on the ground streets, like a landslide.
The distant shouts of killing also clearly entered his ears, along with a heavy sound.
"Senior brother, fellow Daoists. The city's protective formation has been broken, and we no longer need to defend it." The voice seemed near and far, and contained a hint of helplessness.
Zhang Ling was shocked and recognized that it was Xue Hao's voice. He quickly spread his divine sense and noticed the situation on the city wall.
Xue Hao and Elder Sun were flying out of Black Wind City from the south. Two Nascent Soul cultivators were chasing after them.
The city was filled with shouts of killing, and tens of thousands of cultivators fled in all directions. The *Other-Race Demonic* army had already entered the city. *Other-Race Demons* and low-level cultivators on the human side were already engaged in a melee.
At the same time, three Nascent Soul old monsters were flying towards them, each with demonic energy surging wildly.
Zhang Ling sighed in his heart and cast a spell. The several *Di Sha Tu Ling(地煞土灵: Earthly Fiend Earth Spirits)* that had already taken shape in front of him scattered into quicksand and flowed into the Earth Element Gourd.
The dozen or so *Di Sha Tu Ling(地煞土灵: Earthly Fiend Earth Spirits)* that were besieging the enemy also flew back. The flying sword was also retracted at the same time.
With a flash of yellow light, he directly transformed into a yellow escape light and flew towards the east.
Since this city has been broken, there is no need to defend it. It is better to leave as soon as possible.
He didn't want to be trapped in a close siege by fellow cultivators of the same rank.
A thunderous sound exploded behind him. Zhao Guangming, who was fighting with the short old man, created a terrifying thunder dragon to force the old man back.
His whole body was also wrapped in a blue-black spiritual light, and he flew away at a very fast speed.
The short old man's eyes flashed with blood, he snorted coldly and chased after him.
As for the Fire Spirit Old Man and Black Eagle Shangren, they also used their own methods.
One was surrounded by several fire dragons, turning into a ball of fire, and rudely dispersed Elder Wang's attack.
One released a black giant eagle, forcing back the other flying leopard. The black eagle spread its wings and also chose a direction to leave.
The directions in which they fled were different, they did not gather together, but fled in all directions.
They all tacitly understood the matter of escaping for their lives, and fleeing alone would increase the chances of survival.
If they gathered together, the target would be too big, and they would definitely attract the siege of the *Other-Race Demons*.
The old *Other-Race Demon* with the surname Jin also closely followed Zhang Ling and disappeared into the sky.
However, after chasing for a hundred miles, the old man lost Zhang Ling's aura and had to stop chasing.
No matter how fast the opposing cultivator's escape speed was, it was naturally impossible for him to completely disappear in this short period of time. After all, he had used a secret technique to hide himself.
Zhang Ling did not go far indeed. He just used the bubble ancient treasure to transform into five phantoms that fled in all directions during his escape.
His real body concealed his aura and quietly summoned the Void Worm, guiding it into the black and white space broken open in the void.
At this moment, he was two hundred miles away, controlling the Void Worm to rush into the depths of the ground. He was advancing with the help of the Earth Escape Technique.
After half an hour, Zhang Ling estimated that he had escaped thousands of miles away before he emerged from the ground. He appeared in a barren mountain.
He scanned the surroundings with his divine sense. The nearby vegetation was lush, and there were no cultivators except for a few ordinary wild animals.
Zhang Ling stood in the low air and pondered for a moment before casting his escape light again and sneaking away.
Half a day later, he had already left the territory of Dongyu Kingdom, and chose a secret place in a valley on the border of Dongyu Valley to rest.
He sat cross-legged in a small stone room opened in the mountain. Zhang Ling swallowed a few pills to restore his spiritual power consumption.
This battle was not too dangerous for him, but it consumed a lot of spiritual power.
Two days later, Zhang Ling opened his eyes, his condition was completely restored. He waved his hand and took out two black-green storage bags.
These were the spoils of war from killing that pale-faced old man. Now it was a good time to check them out.
After a moment of divine sense intrusion, Zhang Ling was slightly disappointed. Although there were many things inside, their value was not great.
Apart from tens of thousands of magic stones, there were many sundries. This was definitely not the wealth of a Nascent Soul cultivator. It seemed that this person did not bring all his wealth with him.
However, there were a few good magical treasures inside. Although Zhang Ling looked down on them, they could still be exchanged for five or six hundred thousand spirit stones.
After Zhang Ling counted these things, he raised his hand, and a somewhat dilapidated black flying sword appeared in front of him.
As soon as this flying sword appeared, it wanted to break free from his control and fly away. It had a high spirituality.
He pointed at this flying sword and forcibly injected spiritual power to control it. With a thought, the flying sword turned into a black big fish and swam in the air.
"It is indeed a *Qi Ling(器灵: sword spirit)*. A good high-grade magic weapon. Unfortunately, haha, it is useless to me." Zhang Ling summoned the flying sword into his hand, stroked the sword body, shook his head and smiled softly.
This sword was someone else's natal magic weapon, and the original owner was not dead yet. Even if he erased the restrictions on it, the power he could exert would not be as good as his own flying sword.
However, this sword fused with the *Qi Ling(器灵: sword spirit)*, so if it was sold to a cultivator who was interested in it, it could be exchanged for a lot of cultivation resources.
Thinking of this, Zhang Ling suddenly remembered something. With a thought, he summoned the Golden Element Gourd. The spirit patterns on it were golden-white, rendering the entire gourd a pure white color.
Spiritual power hit it, and the gourd swelled to the size of several *zhang(丈: a unit of length, about meters)*. Zhang Ling shook his body and directly entered it.
The space inside the Golden Element Gourd was filled with a golden cloud of mist, and seven flying swords were swimming quickly in it. Occasionally, they turned into small tigers running wildly.
Zhang Ling landed at the bottom of the gourd, sat down cross-legged, took out the black flying sword, opened his mouth and spat out a cloud of condensed yellow fireworks, and began to refine it.
After an hour, he refined the restrictions left by the original owner on this sword. Several more cracks appeared on this sword, making it look even more dilapidated.
With a thought, his own seven flying swords appeared beside him, gathered together, turned into a white tiger, and opened his mouth to swallow the black flying sword.
The White Tiger Sword Spirit stirred its mouth a few times extremely nimbly and made a *kacha kacha(咔嚓咔嚓: crackling)* sound. As if it had eaten something delicious.
Then the white tiger lay beside him and fell into a deep sleep.
Zhang Ling then urged the Five Elements Spiritual Light in the Golden Element Gourd to cover the white tiger.
After a few hours, the White Tiger Sword Spirit roared and spat out the black flying sword that had been broken into five or six pieces.
Zhang Ling sensed that the *Jin Rui(金锐: gold sharpness)* energy on the White Tiger Sword Spirit had increased a little. He was overjoyed.
This black flying sword also contained *Jin Rui(金锐: gold sharpness)* energy and could be regarded as a gold-attribute magic weapon. In fact, most sword-like magic weapons have *Jin Rui(金锐: gold sharpness)* energy on them.
This is the characteristic of fusing gold-attribute materials.
Like the two pieces of spiritual treasure fragments he obtained before, after refining with the Five Elements Spiritual Light, he melted the original White Tiger Sword Spirit on them into his own flying sword.
He used the same method to refine this sword, and then let the White Tiger Sword Spirit devour the black fish *Qi Ling(器灵: sword spirit)* fused with the black flying sword.
Sure enough, it made his flying sword more powerful.
This method was not the first time he had tried it. Zhang Ling had tried it many times.
Like some magic weapons in his hand that he could not use, when he was studying the Five Elements Treasure Technique that Blue Finch gave him, he specially tested the application methods of the Five Elements Spiritual Light recorded in it.
The Five Elements Spiritual Light in the Two Instruments Gourd was originally a special spiritual light for refining treasures. It could refine the characteristics of various materials.
Although the Five Elements Treasure Technique that Blue Finch gave him was not complete, a large amount of space in it was used to record the application methods of the Five Elements Spiritual Light.
Like this kind of putting other magic weapons into the Two Instruments Gourd and refining them with the Five Elements Spiritual Light, you can refine some special spiritual energy to enhance the power of your own magic weapon.
It is one of the application methods.
Due to the different materials, magic weapons will have some special spirituality. Most gold-attribute magic weapons contain *Jin Rui(金锐: gold sharpness)* energy. Earth-attribute treasures contain thick earth power. The same is true for other attribute treasures.
Of course, most magic weapons are also mixed with some other materials to enhance their power. Often, they do not contain only one attribute of spirituality.
According to Zhang Ling's own experience in using the Two Instruments Gourd. The Five Elements Spiritual Light is to strip off the spirituality contained in the magic weapon.
Although there will be a lot of losses in this process, the spirituality stripped off after refining with the Five Elements Spiritual Light will become pure.
This is the biggest secret that the spiritual light in the Two Instruments Gourd can quickly bake treasures.
Of course. How to bake magic weapons depends on your own meaning.
Because the Five Elements Spiritual Light only strips off the spirituality on other magic weapons. It is not completely suitable for integrating into all magic weapons.
Like his several flying swords, the most contained when they were refined was the spirituality of the gold and earth attributes. Gold is hidden in the earth, so there is no rejection.
If the spirituality of the fire attribute is integrated on it, the spirituality of the flying sword will even be consumed and its power will be reduced.
So putting other magic weapons into the gourd, refining the spirituality, and then integrating it into your own magic weapon to increase its power.
There will be many hidden dangers.
So Zhang Ling generally does not use this method. If it were not for the fact that this black flying sword was fused with the *Qi Ling(器灵: sword spirit)*, which was very rare. He had a desire to explore and wanted to learn more about the application of the Five Elements Spiritual Light. He would not do this.
Especially since the Golden Element Gourd is no longer a pure Two Instruments Gourd. It has been refined into his natal magic weapon.
Therefore, in the selection of smelting materials, Zhang Ling still tends to smelt raw materials.
After all, the magic weapons that have been refined into shape contain a variety of spiritualities, which are quite chaotic.
According to his current refining plan, he is currently only missing the last Fire Element Gourd. He can form the Five Lights Treasure Gourd. Multiply the degree of refining of the magic weapon.
Of course, the biggest purpose of forming the Five Lights Treasure Gourd is to bake a magic weapon in each of the five treasure gourds.
Therefore, the choice of smelting materials should be more cautious.
……
Next, Zhang Ling delayed for another day before returning to the sect.
The road was very quiet, and there were fewer cultivators encountered than usual when traveling.
This situation led Zhang Ling to speculate that the news of the fall of Black Wind City had definitely spread.
I don't know if the other people are safe and sound. At the same time, he is more worried that this *Other-Race Demon* war may be more dangerous than usual.
The *Other-Race Demons* seem to be well prepared. I don't know how the Twelve Cities are responding.
Zhang Ling traveled quickly, crossing tens of thousands of miles in an hour. He will be able to return to Cangyun Country in at most one day.
However, just when he thought he would return to the sect all the way like this.
After flying another few thousand miles, suddenly a cyan jade pendant around his waist lit up with a faint cyan light and trembled.
Zhang Ling frowned and pulled off the jade pendant to check the information.
This was a special communication talisman that Senior Brother Tianfeng gave him. It would not be activated unless something major happened.
After his divine sense intruded into it, Zhang Ling's face sank. After checking the information inside.
The information above was not a special message from Senior Brother Tianfeng to him, but a message from Old Ancestor Tianfeng to Lin Fei and him.
The information above showed that Lin Fei had returned to the sect. But he asked Lin Fei to mobilize another batch of disciples to reinforce.
Because the situation in the Twelve Immortal Cities is extremely bad at present.
In the past few days, the *Other-Race Demons* launched a general attack and sent out a large number of elite cultivators in succession. They even dispatched three old monsters in the late stage of Nascent Soul in one day.
They broke three cities in one day.
Now the Twelve Immortal Cities have lost five immortal cities. The name of Black Wind City is on it, and the name of Yanhua City is also on it.
Yanhua Immortal City was also broken a day ago. Zhang Ling saw that the five fallen immortal cities were exactly the immortal cities south of Yanhua City as the boundary.
They are "Yanhua City, Black Wind City, Yuehu City, Shuanghu City, and Jinyun City."
Except for Honghai City, the southernmost city by the sea, it can be said that the Twelve Immortal Cities have lost half of their positions.
Almost half of the entire Lianyun Mountain Range has fallen into the hands of the *Other-Race Demons*.
This situation is extremely bad. The situation of breaking five cities in a row has not happened in thousands of years.
In the past few thousand years, at most two or three immortal cities have been broken by the *Other-Race Demons*. Did the *Other-Race Demons* mobilize the power of the entire clan to launch a war in this short period of time?
Zhang Ling's expression became a little dignified. Yanhua City has also been broken, so the nearby countries will fall into war in a short time.
Among them is their Cangyun Country.
Fortunately, the information above also shows that the Twelve Immortal Cities reacted extremely quickly. A new line of defense was established in Baichuan City, north of Yanhua City.
This is where more than a dozen Nascent Soul elders from the Twelve Immortal Cities gathered. *Lei Guang(雷光: Thunder Light)* Sanren is also stationed there. Senior Brother Tianfeng and many monks from neutral countries have also gathered in Baichuan City.
The last few paragraphs in the communication jade slip were left for Zhang Ling, saying that if he was okay, he should also come to Baichuan City to meet.
If there are obstacles to the action, you don't have to pay attention to these things. The three Nascent Soul cultivators of their Haoyuan Sect have already been to the front line, and the immortal city will not issue any mandatory orders.
