Chapter 289
Chapter 289: Retaliation
In truth, the gold divine light of the copper bell wasn’t invincible, and it exhausted Song Zhong’s Primal Spiritual Qi . Facing the joint attacks of so many YuanYing cultivators, every attack would exhaust almost half of his magical Qi . In actual fact, it was already an amazing feat for only half to be exhausted . Due to the might of the Primal Chaos Formula, his magical Qi was a good ten times stronger than other cultivators . Even half his magical Qi had the might to split mountains . But in comparison to YuanYing cultivators like Huo Qing Yun, that couldn’t be considered much . With a full strength attack, thousands of sword Qi would appear, and the other spells and magical artifact would exhaust a frightening amount of spiritual Qi .
The largest reason why Song Zhong was able to rely on that meager amount of spiritual Qi to block the attacks of so many experts was largely due to the amazing copper bell . Despite having had it for so many years, Song Zhong had never been able to fully uncover its mysteries . Every time he had a growth in strength, he would think that he would be able to have a deeper understanding of the copper bell . But, he would always be disappointed to realize that the more he understood it, the more mysteries he would unravel . The things he seemed to be unable to understand would also greatly increase . Take this time for an example, Song Zhong originally thought that the copper bell was an attack-type treasure which relied on sound waves . But after advancing into the JinDan stage, a protective ability appeared . Furthermore, this ability was different from other treasures . The divine light from the other treasures completely relied on magical qi to forcefully defend against the attack . However, the divine light of this copper bell was different . It was actually able to absorb a portion of the opponent’s attack, converting it into spiritual Qi to strengthen the divine light . This was the reason why Song Zhong could block the attacks of the many YuanYing cultivators with so little spiritual Qi .
Of course, blocking a wave of attacks with half his spiritual Qi was also a considerable amount of exhaustion . If it was anyone else, he would definitely be helpless after a few waves of attacks . However, Song Zhong was unafraid of such this . He had an abundance of five element pure water, to the point he could use it to brew tea and drink it like water . As such, a large amount of spiritual Qi had been stored in his body over time . While nurturing his body and strengthening it, it also strengthened his spiritual Qi . This was also the reason why his magical Qi was abnormally dense . In such a ferocious battle, he would naturally not be stingy about this little bit of five element pure water . Huo Qing Yun and the other YuanYing cultivators were all extremely knowledgeable, and would naturally be able to tell what Song Zhong was drinking . In Song Zhong’s hands, the precious five element pure water became even more worthless than water in the well . With every single move of his, he swallowed a few mouthfuls of five element pure water, drinking tens of thousands of spiritual stones without feeling any heartache . While Song Zhong did not feel the heartache, the others could not take it . All of them could not help but scold, “This damn wastrel, would anyone drink the five element pure water like that? That is a treasure to refine elixirs, how can he waste it like that?”
“This daoist here has plenty of it and cannot be bothered . Can you do anything if I want to waste it?” As Song Zhong finished his words, he threw the half-filled bottle of five element pure water into the ocean .
This obvious provocation had enraged all the YuanYing cultivators to the point they started cursing, with their attacks becoming more and more ferocious . While they looked enraged on the surface, they were feeling worried in their hearts . If this brat is able to throw out the five element pure water like that, just how much of it does he have? With such abundant five element pure water to replenish his magical Qi, he will probably still be full of vigor when we are all exhausted . But now that things had developed to such an extent, they did not have any routes of retreat left . Thus, they could only grit their teeth and intensify their attacks . High above in the skies, an intense battle broke out with sword Qi’s cutting through the clouds, divine lightnings lighting up the sky, and colored fireballs exploding all around . The surrounding 300 miles had all been turned into a battlefield with no one able to interfere .
Despite facing the attacks of the many YuanYing cultivators, Song Zhong relied on his perverse defense and powerful divine lightning to fight them evenly .
After an hour of fighting, Song Zhong was still extremely energetic because of the five element pure water . As he got more and more used to using his divine lightning, he became more and more ferocious as he fought . As for the YuanYing cultivators who were attacking with all their might, they grew tired from the previous full force assault and seemed to be losing their edge . A bunch of seniors ganging up on a single junior was already an extremely embarrassing affair to begin with . Now that they were on the losing end, all of these reputation loving fellows didn’t know where to hide their faces! These old fellows also knew what shame meant, as they tried to intensify their attacks to win them back some face .
Right at this moment, the battle between the flying beasts and flying ships had a change .
It turns out, when Huo Qing Yun was fighting with Song Zhong, the flying beasts had a large amount of reinforcements . Amongst those reinforcements were two group of flying beasts . One of them were the red-billed ducks and the other was the sky-flying bird . While they weren’t very powerful, they were extremely fertile and had numerous descendants . In order to back up the Eastern Ocean’s Crown Prince, both the red-billed ducks and sky-flying bird sent out all of their descendants, numbering several hundred thousand each . Just the addition of these two races added up to about a million demonic beasts . When the demonic beasts were receiving a large amount of reinforcements, the human cultivators were growing weaker . After their first flying ship was sunk, a good eight to nine YuanYing cultivators were now held back by Song Zhong . After a long battle, the demonic beasts slowly gained the edge . Thankfully, while the human cultivators were small in numbers, they were able to hold on with their powerful giant magical artifacts . However, misfortune does not come alone and fortune never comes in pairs .
When the battle in the sky was at a stalemate, the battle in the Gold Dragon ship saw a change . Apart from the two flying-type demonic beasts, the rest of the reinforcements were five types of Water-type demonic beasts . There were even two different species with an exceptional battle prowess, the flexible octopus and crossbow prawns . The flexible octopus was a fourth grade demonic beast with a body that was a few hundred feet wide . While it looked extremely soft and weak on the surface, it was extremely dangerous . They specialized in the use of Water type spells and their almost transparent body could be completely hidden by Water type spells . They would then be able to sneakily approach their enemies and tangle up their enemies in their eight tentacles . The venom on their tentacles would then seep into their enemies through their claws . A foundational cultivator would not even have the chance to let out a cry before his whole body turned numb and become a puppet of the flexible octopus . Even a JinDan cultivator would face great trouble when meeting with it . After all, they were demonic beasts who knew spells . Apart from ambushing someone from close range, they were able to launch long range Water type attacks . In a single description, they were extremely irritating to deal with . But compared to the crossbow prawns, the human cultivators would probably rather face the flexible octopus . While the crossbow prawns were only first grade demonic beasts two to three feet long and did not have any close range attacks, they had an extremely perverse method of attack — the bone spike in their mouths .
This bone spike was only a foot long and a crossbow prawn was only able to fire out a few of them . It is said these bone spikes were made from the ribs of the crossbow prawns and each of them was extremely sharp and laced with venom . This was the only ability of the crossbow prawn and every attack the crossbow prawn made would be done with its full strength . Together with the aid of a Water type spell, the crossbow prawns could easily shoot the spike a few thousand feet through the water .
Of course, the crossbow prawn was only a first grade demonic beast, and its magical Qi was limited . While their ambush was effective against XianTian cultivators, a foundational cultivator would be able to block it easily . However, while a foundational cultivator was able to block a few hundred, they could only run in the face of thousands . But this time, millions of crossbow prawns were here, forming a dense sea of them . Facing the attacks of this many crossbow prawns, not to mention a foundational cultivator, even a JinDan cultivator would feel the headache!
Thus, after the flexible octopus and crossbow prawns joined the battle, the cultivators in the Gold Dragon ship felt an immense pressure . Under the command of the nine beauties, the ambush of the flexible octopus and attacks of the crossbow prawns achieved their optimal effect, creating huge casualties amongst the human cultivators . After the fight over the treasures in the Gold Dragon ship, the human cultivators were already extremely fatigued . After battling the demonic beasts for such a long time, they were already at their wits end . Now that they suffered such heavy losses from the reinforcements of the demonic beasts, their not-so-united alliance was immediately dissolved .
The cultivators could no longer be bothered with finding Song Zhong anymore, escaping from the Gold Dragon ship in all directions . While the space in the Gold Dragon ship was extremely large, the roads in it were still rather narrow . Thus, the large wave of escaping cultivators could not avoid arguments as a few skirmishes broke out . When these cultivators finally charged out under the lead of the YuanYing cultivators, they were shocked to realize that only a few hundred people were left . In other words, more than half of their troops had perished in the Gold Dragon ship, but they had not found even a single trace of Song Zhong . However, they obviously did not have the time to think about this matter . They suddenly realized that they were not safe despite exiting the Gold Dragon ship . The flying beasts were extremely frustrated from being unable to destroy the flying ships . Seeing the sudden bunch of cultivators appear from the Gold Dragon ship, wasn’t that akin to sending food into their mouths?
This time, without Lei Shan’er’s command, the flying beasts in the air let out a loud cry, diving down at these unprotected cultivators . At the same time, the land-type beasts which the big-headed birds threw down also charged forward, surrounding these cultivators completely .
These poor cultivators, entering a tiger’s den after leaving the wolf’s nest . Many of them could not even react before being shredded by the demonic beasts . If not for the fact that there were many YuanYing cultivators present, all of them would have died already .
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