"Hiss! Water-element arcane energy? Good perception!"
Before Ye Feng could ask for details, Ke Leji's voice rang out.
"There's no other way, I'll deal with you first!"
With that, he withdrew his hand from the Everfrost Ice, extended his palm forward, and a long, fleshy tube sprouted from his palm, piercing directly into the spine of the Snow Ghost on the monster's back.
"It hasn't woken up for so long, I assume its entire condensed spiritual form is gone... No help for it, might as well put it to good use!"
As Ke Leji's words fell, the person who had been lying on the monster's back, looking much like a monster themselves, suddenly sat up. Then, forming a hand seal, a semi-transparent figure instantly appeared.
"Whoa, it's a Snow Ghost!"
Seeing the semi-transparent figure before him, whose mouth split wide like the Kuchisake-onna, with eyes that were one triangular and the other an irregular polygon, the eyeballs cloudy white, and the facial features contorted, Ye Feng was genuinely startled.
No wonder the person on the monster's back felt familiar. Those twisted features were practically cast from the same mold!
"Little girl, am I beautiful... I'm so cold..."
The semi-transparent figure spoke strange words and lunged directly at Ye Feng and the others. The stone walls and ground it passed over were instantly frozen.
"Whoosh!"
At this moment, Ke Leji also tossed a large glass sphere towards Ye Feng and the others.
"Clang!"
In mid-air, the large glass sphere shattered, and a mass of flesh rapidly grew and divided.
Soon, it transformed into a large swarm of blood-red bats with wings, baring their fangs as they flew towards Ye Feng and the others.
"Ye Feng, you deal with that Snow Ghost!"
Old Man Liu shouted, then turned to Nian and Lei Jian, "We'll handle this swarm of blood bats!"
Nian and Lei Jian understood immediately. After all, if they went to deal with the semi-transparent Snow Ghost, it would be twice the effort for half the result...
Ye Feng understood in an instant. The light flashed in his hand, and his Tang saber appeared. He gazed warily at the semi-transparent figure.
"Arcane·Earth Burial!"
Lei Jian shouted, forming a hand seal. The stone walls instantly came alive, encircling and engulfing a large number of bats. Finally, the stone walls hardened, crushing dozens of bats into mincemeat.
"Arcane·Arrow Rain!"
Nian's voice followed closely. A multitude of bright white, elongated water needles shot towards the bat swarm surging from above.
"Sizzling! Puff..."
The water arrows carrying arcane energy pierced through a large swarm of bats like sieves.
"Whoosh! Sla-sla!"
Then, Old Man Liu's nimble, twisting metal blade dispatched the few straggling bats.
"What?"
Just as they eliminated a large swarm of blood bats, Nian, who had been feeling quite pleased, suddenly changed expression.
Because the blood bats that had been cut into pieces, even reduced to paste, by her, Lei Jian, and Old Man Liu were wriggling and developing, eventually growing into more blood bats...
"Nian, Lei Jian!"
Old Man Liu frowned slightly but did not panic. He gave the two a glance, looking towards the nearby glowing red lava.
The two immediately understood!
"Arcane·Water Bubbles!"
"Arcane·Stone Coffin!"
As Nian and Lei Jian spoke, a large number of water bubbles directly enveloped the ferocious, fanged blood bats and flew into a massive, square stone box.
"Whoosh!"
At this moment, Ye Feng, who had been dodging and parrying the Snow Ghost without attacking, moved.
He gripped his Tang saber, his body suddenly accelerating. The light of the Tang saber flashed rapidly across the Snow Ghost.
"Sizzle sizzle!..."
A dense sound of corrosion erupted. The Snow Ghost's semi-transparent figure, as if in a death zone, was cut into numerous small pieces by Ye Feng and was rapidly dissipating.
Meanwhile, the stone coffin created by Lei Jian had already pushed the swarm of blood bats into the lava. The intensely hot lava also sizzled as it burned the blood bats.
For a moment, it was impossible to distinguish whether it was the dissipation of the Snow Ghost's semi-transparent form or the sound of the blood bats being scorched...
After completing this, Ye Feng and the others turned their gaze to Ke Leji.
"Boy, where is the spiritual form condensed by the Snow Ghost?"
At this moment, Ke Leji had withdrawn his hand from the Everfrost Ice. He looked at Ye Feng with a puzzled expression, his voice icy.
Because the large stone coffin had blocked Ke Leji's view, he hadn't seen how the Snow Ghost's condensed spiritual form had vanished.
He could only infer from Old Man Liu's previous words that Ye Feng had done something!
This was precisely Ye Feng's intention. After all, this guy named Ke Leji seemed quite mysterious, and his abilities were somewhat strange. He didn't want the opponent to understand his strength too early.
"Tell me, and I'll leave you a complete corpse later!"
He paused, and Ke Leji's cold voice rang out again.
"Nian, Lei Jian!"
Old Man Liu nodded to the two.
Nian and Lei Jian immediately formed hand seals, preparing to act.
"Stop!"
Suddenly, Ke Leji's voice rang out, and his tone and timbre seemed to be different from before.
And after Ke Leji spoke, Nian and Lei Jian actually stopped their actions. Their expressions were somewhat dazed.
"Nian, Lei Jian, what's wrong?"
Seeing this, Old Man Liu's face immediately changed drastically.
"Hmph, overestimating yourselves!"
Ke Leji snorted coldly, looked at Nian and Lei Jian, and said lightly, "Kneel!"
"Thump!"
Lei Jian's knees buckled directly, and he knelt on the ground. Nian also bent her knees slightly, but she gritted her teeth, trembling, struggling to maintain her balance, her expression filled with pain.
"Sound... Sound Control Technique?!"
Old Man Liu looked at Ke Leji with an extremely astonished gaze.
At this moment, he had already plunged a dagger into his thigh, using the intense pain to keep himself awake, but his body was already unable to move properly...
"Oh? The old man knows quite a bit!"
Ke Leji seemed surprised as well. He glanced at Old Man Liu lightly, "Kneel!"
This time, his voice was noticeably louder than Ke Leji's previous utterances, and it was even more peculiar, even creating echoes around them.
Old Man Liu's eyes rolled back, and he could no longer support himself. Like Lei Jian, he knelt on the ground, while Nian fainted and fell to the ground...
The three who had instantly annihilated Ke Leji's bat swarm couldn't even find an opportunity to attack Ke Leji. With a few words, in a few breaths, he had brought all three of them to the ground!
On the scene, apart from Ke Leji, only Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao remained standing.
"This..."
Ye Feng's heart was filled with dread. What kind of monster was this Ke Leji?
Ye Feng had observed. Old Man Liu was very strong. Based on the information he had gathered so far, even he himself couldn't guarantee a win against him.
Yet Ke Leji hadn't even used his hands, just moved his lips and...
Moreover, when the other party spoke just now, Ye Feng felt a severe dizziness in his mind, and even an urge to do as the other party said, to "kneel"...
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