"Boom! Sizzle!"
"Ugh! Ah!"
As Xikela's words fell, his figure flashed, and Old Liu Shai and the others instantly let out screams, spitting blood, and were sent flying. Several Golden-level Auspicious Ones were even torn to pieces.
"Gulp! Sizzle!"
Xikela's claws lightly brushed, and space twisted. Several Auspicious Ones who were charging at him were instantly cut in half, screaming repeatedly...
"Crack! Crack!"
Just as Xikela was about to act again, a bolt of lightning struck him, forcing him to retreat. It was Wu Ye Lan, wielding a three-pointed, double-edged saber, who had arrived.
"Hmm?"
Ye Feng's expression was surprised because he noticed that the attack from Wu Ye Lan's three-pointed, double-edged saber, which was engraved with mysterious runes, also carried spatial energy fluctuations.
Xikela had just condensed spatial energy, attempting to manipulate space for a kill, but was interrupted by Wu Ye Lan.
"Clang! Crack!"
"Crack! Boom!~"
Wu Ye Lan, wielding the three-pointed, double-edged saber, engaged Xikela in battle. His attacks were fierce, one after another, dense and continuous, forcing Xikela back. It was clear he didn't want Xikela to act again and intended to draw him away from here.
"Ugh! Ah!"
"Sizzle! Ah!"
"Pfft! Ah!"
At this moment, several shrill screams rang out.
Ye Feng turned his head and saw that the fake Old Liu Shai had been killed, dissipating into a cascade of arcane runes.
However, before Old Liu Shai and the others could breathe a sigh of relief, a green mist surged past. Many people around Old Liu Shai's body suddenly split open, with vines and branches growing out from within...
"It's Zeng Jing's Strange Sprouts! Everyone hold your breath and don't inhale the green mist!"
Seeing this, Wu Ye Lin's expression changed. As she shouted anxiously, a handful of talismans appeared in her hand. "Everyone stick this lightning-attribute talisman on yourselves. It can clear the Strange Sprouts from your bodies!"
As she spoke, Wu Ye Lin had already affixed lightning-attribute talismans onto several Auspicious Ones. Old Liu Shai also reacted and helped Wu Ye Lin affix talismans...
"Sizzle! Sizzle!~"
After Wu Ye Lin's talismans were attached to the Auspicious Ones, including Old Liu Shai and Miao Wen Jing, the lightning-attribute arcane talismans were instantly activated, and lightning flashed across the scene.
The entire group of Auspicious Ones was engulfed in electric currents, and almost all of them screamed, including Old Liu Shai, who looked pained.
"Hoo! Boom!~"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao pushed her hands forward, and a massive flame surged past, scattering the green mist in front of them. Wu Ye Lin, Old Liu Shai, and the others also used their means to contain the green mist and quickly retreated to the side.
"Hmm?"
As the green mist dispersed, Ye Feng frowned slightly. He saw a figure covered in green, with multiple burnt patches, which was Zeng Jing.
At this moment, Zeng Jing only had one leg left, and his head was only half there. Yet, strangely, he was not dead, and he was staring at Ye Feng with hateful, bloodshot eyes.
The Auspicious Ones whose bodies had split open and sprouted vines and branches had now become gaunt mummies. Their flesh and blood had been absorbed by Zeng Jing along the vines and branches.
Green light surged from Zeng Jing's wounds, and he was healing at a visible rate...
"What the hell is this guy? He was almost blown up by a fireseed bomb, and he's still alive?"
Ye Feng was quite puzzled and his expression was solemn.
Xikela possessed spatial power and could create spatial barriers. Although the power of the fireseed bomb explosion was comparable to a nuclear bomb, it couldn't harm Xikela, who was hiding behind a spatial barrier, so Ye Feng was not surprised...
Wu Ye Lan, at the half-step Epic level, took a step and seemed to have traversed thousands of meters in an instant, avoiding the fireseed bomb explosion. Miao Dao, clearly prepared for Ye Feng's plan, found the opportune moment to dash into the teleportation array, and the person named Miao Feng chased after him...
So, it was understandable that these few were not seriously injured. But Zeng Jing was almost at the epicenter of the fireseed explosion, and Huang Renxin was also alive...
"Did Xikela protect Zeng Jing and Huang Renxin? No..."
Ye Feng narrowed his eyes, as he noticed spatial energy fluctuations on Zeng Jing as well.
"Whoosh! Clang!"
Suddenly, an exceptionally fierce wind-attribute arcane energy slash appeared and struck the recovering Zeng Jing. It was Miao Dao who, while fighting Miao Feng, changed his target midway. Liu Laotou's iron mace, filled with metal-attribute arcane energy, also hit Zeng Jing.
However, neither Miao Dao's nor Old Liu Shai's attacks were effective because, at the last moment before reaching Zeng Jing's body, they were blocked by a spatial energy barrier.
"Stupid low-class humans!"
Zeng Jing snorted coldly. A green light flashed from his right fist, and vines rapidly wrapped around Old Liu Shai's iron mace, crushing it before lunging straight at Old Liu Shai, who had to quickly leap away.
"This is getting a bit tricky!"
Ye Feng squinted. He had initially predicted that Xikela and Elias would have spatial power, but now there was Zeng Jing, and Elias had not appeared yet...
"Ye Feng, over there!"
At this moment, Qiao Ying pointed towards the direction of the demon forest.
"What's going on?"
Ye Feng looked in the direction Qiao Ying pointed and was immediately surprised. Many large trees remained in the demon forest, which was at the core of the fireseed bomb explosion.
What gave Ye Feng a bad premonition was that the space around those remaining trees was slightly distorted, a clear indication of spatial power.
"Ye Feng, those trees have bulges, and inside each bulge is a dark and oppressive aura, like that of a hellhound!"
At this moment, Qiao Ying spoke again, her expression solemn. "The aura I sensed earlier should have come from those bulges... Zeng Jing's demon forest likely absorbed a pile of arcane energy and the flesh and blood of numerous corpses to cultivate something!"
"Lin, take Old Liu Shai and the others and get out of here quickly!"
Ye Feng pondered for a moment and quickly spoke to Wu Ye Lin, his tone somewhat urgent.
"Stupid low-class humans, witness this! The super-warriors cultivated by Lord Xikela using the divine stone!"
At this moment, Zeng Jing gritted his teeth and roared, his expression filled with madness.
As his voice fell, spatial power surged from Zeng Jing's body. With a flash of green light, he slapped the ground with both hands, and the space twisted and rippled.
The demon forest in the distance immediately brightened with green light, and the spatial distortion around the bulges on the surviving trees intensified.
"Pfft! Pfft!"
"Hiss! Sizzle!"
Immediately, the bulges all burst open, and figures slowly emerged from them.
Almost simultaneously, powerful pressures surged from the direction of the demon forest...