"Xiao Xiao, you..."
Before Ye Feng could finish speaking, Xiao Xiao shook her head and interjected, "Big Brother, I'm fine, it's just a small wound!"
As she spoke, Xiao Xiao quickly bandaged the bleeding wound on her hand with a bandage.
The sharp true energy from the black shadow puppet had not only cut Ye Feng but also injured her.
Ye Feng nodded slightly, not saying much more. He was quickly contemplating the current situation, planning to leave directly if necessary...
"Whoosh~ Sizzle~"
At this moment, the black shadow puppet turned, attacking Shen Yun Yao with extreme speed.
As Shen Yun Yao dodged and counterattacked, a bloody gash was cut into her side by the true energy.
The black shadow puppet did not continue to attack Shen Yun Yao, but instead, it brought Shen Yun Yao's blood to its mouth, chewed it, and then looked at Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao, as if making a comparison...
"Slurp, slurp~"
After a while, the black shadow puppet extended seven or eight scarlet tongues from its mouths, constantly licking, and then suddenly lunged at Ye Feng.
"Whoosh~ Sizzle~! Bang!~"
"Crack~ Bang~!"
Facing the long, slender sword formed by true energy in the black shadow puppet's hand, Ye Feng, whose previous attacks were all ineffective, could only dodge rapidly.
For a time, many things in the entire area were knocked over, and even the walls bore numerous gashes...
"This guy... after comparing, it's specifically targeting me?"
After a fierce engagement, Ye Feng seemed to understand.
Instead of feeling fear or dejection, Ye Feng was relieved, as this lightened his pressure...
Otherwise, if this black shadow puppet kept attacking Xiao Xiao and Shen Yun Yao, he would indeed find it troublesome... and it would be difficult to probe and analyze the dark shadow puppet...
"Yun Yao, your father likely fought this dark shadow puppet before. Search through your father's remains and see if there's anything that can deal with it!"
"Xiao Xiao, scout the surroundings and find an escape route!"
Ye Feng shone a powerful spotlight at the black shadow puppet. The puppet paused slightly, and he seized the opportunity to shout to Shen Yun Yao and Xiao Xiao.
The two women did not reply and immediately separated, beginning their tasks.
Ye Feng did not keep the spotlight on continuously, because from the performance of the glow stick earlier, the black shadow puppet would preferentially attack things with brilliant light, and its speed would increase...
"Ye... Ye Feng, I... I didn't find anything that seems like it can deal with the black shadow puppet..."
Shen Yun Yao's voice was a little anxious. "However, my father was an outstanding master of arcane rune formations, with extensive research into arcane runes and arcane energy... If there's anything that can deal with the black shadow puppet... then... then it should be arcane formations..."
"Arcane formations?"
Ye Feng's brow furrowed.
Although Shen Yun Yao's words made sense, he couldn't immediately think of an arcane formation that could counter this black shadow puppet. He knew too little about this dark shadow puppet...
"Sizzle~..."
"The person who turned into a skeleton once attempted to use this formation to deal with the dark shadow puppet, but ultimately failed!"
At this moment, after a few crackling sounds of electricity, the mechanical female voice from the energy core spoke again.
As the voice fell, a holographic projection of a hexagonal rune formation appeared on the ground around the energy core.
"Hmm?"
Ye Feng's eyes narrowed slightly. With a few leaps, he moved to the edge of the hexagonal rune formation to examine it.
"This formation... seems like an arcane formation, but also not quite..."
After a brief observation, Ye Feng had to leap away again, as the dark shadow puppet was catching up.
"Whoosh~ Whoosh~ Boom~"
"Whoosh~ Swish~"
At this moment, the flames unleashed by Xiao Xiao and the water arrows fired by Shen Yun Yao struck the dark shadow puppet.
"Hiss~ Caw~ Caw~!"
The dark shadow puppet immediately stopped its pursuit of Ye Feng. It slowly turned its head, its seven or eight large mouths opening wide, emitting shrill cries, and then lunged ferociously at Xiao Xiao and Shen Yun Yao, seemingly enraged by the two women's recent attacks.
Understanding the two women's intentions, Ye Feng did not rush to help. Instead, he went to the energy core and carefully observed the hexagonal rune formation on the ground.
"This formation... seems to have some connection with one, two, three... formations recorded in the Fire Seed Chronicle..."
"However, the runes that make up the formation are not all arcane runes, but some rather similar, yet different runes..."
"These few runes... look very much like the runes on the Angelic Armor..."
After a period of research, Ye Feng discovered that this formation, which Shen Lang had once tried to use against the dark shadow puppet, was quite complex.
"Hey, Energy Sister, Shen Lang failed to deal with the dark shadow puppet using this hexagonal rune formation back then, was it because the formation was ineffective?"
Ye Feng pondered for a moment and asked.
"No... Before the formation was activated, the person in the corner who had already turned into a skeleton had his arm severed by the dark shadow puppet!"
"The formation seems to have been incomplete..."
The mechanical female voice quickly replied.
"Incomplete?"
Looking at Xiao Xiao and Shen Yun Yao in the distance, who were covered in multiple wounds but were still continuously attacking the dark shadow puppet with arcane energy to contain and attract it, Ye Feng felt a pang of anxiety in his heart.
"According to Shen Yun Yao and Shen Bo Tian, Shen Lang was a super genius, with an extraordinary understanding of arcane runes and arcane formations... It's unlikely he would create a useless formation..."
"It's just that this formation seems to have been incomplete, and it's a mixed one..."
Ye Feng looked at the hexagonal rune formation on the ground and quickly started thinking.
"Wait... The runes within... seem to be... runes from the Demon Dagger?" He looked at the runes.
Suddenly, Ye Feng's eyes narrowed.
Because he observed that within one of the mixed runes, there were not only arcane runes but also runes from the Demon Dagger.
"What the hell?"
Ye Feng was utterly perplexed.
"Wait... mixed runes..."
Suddenly, Ye Feng's eyes lit up. "What if the runes in this formation are out of order... or the combination method is wrong..."
With this thought, Ye Feng took out a pile of ice-attribute arcane origin stones and carved the runes from the projection onto them using his arcane energy.
"So... how should they be arranged?"
Immediately, another problem presented itself to Ye Feng.
"Let's try the formation recorded in the Fire Seed Chronicle first!"
Ye Feng quickly came up with an idea.
Because the arcane runes within the mixed runes were familiar to him, and they could precisely form the formation recorded in the Fire Seed Chronicle.
"This..."
After arranging the carved ice-attribute arcane origin stones, Ye Feng was surprised to find that the arcane runes could indeed be arranged into the formation from the Fire Seed Chronicle, although several arcane runes were missing.
Subsequently, Ye Feng took out more ice-attribute arcane origin stones, carved the missing arcane runes from the formation, and then adjusted their order before placing them into the already laid-out arcane formation on the ground.
"It really is!"
Ye Feng muttered. Just as he was contemplating how to deal with the remaining rune stones, the arcane rune formation he had arranged suddenly emitted a glow, enveloping the remaining rune stones...