"Damn it, Ling Tian, we're in trouble, we're out of bullets!" Ali suddenly said to Ling Tian. Ali was very aware of the situation in the spiritual realm space.
Equipped with these two Gatling Vulcan cannons, Ling Tian had purchased 100,000 rounds of ammunition. However, they had been used quite a bit recently, and now, they were out of bullets.
"It's fine, we don't rely on this to make a living!" Ling Tian said. With a flash of thought, the two Gatling Vulcan cannons were stored into the spiritual realm space by Ling Tian.
"Alas, what a shame. I still wanted to turn that old hag into a sieve."
"No matter, we have plenty of ways to deal with it!"
The two of them conversed as if nothing had happened, a move that completely enraged the old hag.
Cixi the Lich, having lived for a thousand years, considered herself a noble witch, a great lich, and believed all beings should prostrate before her. The disrespectful behavior of the pair before her was nothing short of a provocation.
Thus, Cixi the Lich approached the edge of the platform made of human bones, about 50 meters away from Ling Tian and the others.
"Humans, how dare you disrespect the great Cixi? You will surely pay with your lives! I will imprison your souls and torment you forever!
Of course, if you surrender at my feet and swear to be my servants, I can spare you and grant you eternal life!"
"Surrender to you? You must be dreaming!
Eternal life? If I were to become like you, I'd rather die immediately!
You're just a pile of stinking bones, not even a dog would want to eat them!" Ling Tian sneered dismissively.
"You... you will pay for your words!
Don't think I don't know your weapon is out of bullets. Die!"
Cixi the Lich roared, stepping back half a pace and hiding behind a low wall on the platform, beginning to chant a spell.
Suddenly, a chilling human voice echoed throughout the underground space, a rustling sound like something digging through sand.
Soon, Ling Tian saw what it was. From the alleys on all sides of the underground space, a large number of rats emerged. The sheer number of these rats was terrifying, numbering around ten thousand!
Ling Tian's Heavenly Eye divine ability scanned them immediately. He quickly noticed the difference in these rats. Rather than calling them rats, it was more accurate to say they were rat zombies!
There were many rats in the mine, but affected by the Yin energy within the mine, these rats had all died and were then turned into rat zombies by Cixi the Lich using a secret art.
The spell she was currently chanting was to summon these rat zombies to attack Ling Tian and the others.
Although these rats were dead, their teeth remained sharp, and these rat zombies also carried a large amount of corpse poison. If a person were bitten and not treated promptly, they would truly die without a burial place.
Dead rat zombies possessed an advantage over ordinary rats: they were fearless. Unless they were reduced to a pulp, even with all four legs broken, these rat zombies would still crawl towards their target, refusing to die!
The world is such that no matter what it is, even if it's harmless, once its numbers reach a certain level, it becomes a disaster.
Take these rat zombies for example. An adult with a stick could handle two or three of them. But the problem was, with ten thousand rat zombies swarming at once, even with a Gatling gun, you might not be able to deal with them.
This was precisely why Cixi the Lich had deployed this ultimate weapon right from the start.
Facing the overwhelming tide of rat zombies, Ling Tian smiled slightly. With a mere thought, two small suns suddenly appeared in the space around Ling Tian!
These were not actual small suns, but Fire Spirits!
previously, on the volcanic island of Hell's Paradise, Ling Tian had used a secret art to transform several Fire Spirit essences into Fire Spirits. These Fire Spirits then consumed a large amount of Fire Spirit essences around the volcano, becoming even more powerful Fire Spirits.
And over the past year, with the supply of countless spiritual energies from the altar in the spiritual realm space, the power of these Fire Spirits had grown increasingly stronger!
When the Fire Spirits appeared, these flame elementals, radiating temperatures of five to six thousand degrees Celsius, were like two suns, illuminating the entire underground space brightly!
"This is... Fire Element!"
Cixi the Lich on the opposite platform was utterly stunned.
Among the Western sorcerers, there were those who wielded great power, the power to control various elements of nature.
For instance, the power of flames, the power of water. The essence of these elements formed elemental beings, essentially Fire Spirits and Water Spirits.
These sorcerers were known as Elemental Sorcerers, and each was a being of immense strength. However, becoming an Elemental Sorcerer was extremely difficult, requiring exceptionally high demands on both magical power and mental strength.
Another crucial factor was elemental affinity. Without elemental affinity, it was very difficult to become an Elemental Sorcerer.
In fact, this could also be explained by Ling Tian's theory, which was the sorcerer's own bodily attributes.
For example, if your body's attribute was fire, cultivating fire-attribute spells would yield twice the results with half the effort, and summoning fire-attribute fire elements would also be successful.
Otherwise, a sorcerer whose body attribute was not fire, attempting to cast spells to summon fire elements rashly, would only be met with instinctive attacks from the fire elements and perish.
Seeing the Fire Spirits, or what she perceived as fire elements, two of them at that, Cixi the Lich realized her opponent was likely a powerful Elemental Sorcerer!
A powerful Elemental Sorcerer was fully capable of defeating her, a Lich, especially since fire elements were the natural nemesis of Liches.
With this thought, Cixi the Lich loudly chanted her spell. The overwhelming swarm of rat zombies instantly went berserk, with a large number of them fearlessly charging towards Ling Tian and the others.
Seizing this opportunity, Cixi the Lich quickly turned around, as if to retrieve something.
With a flash of thought, Ling Tian saw the two Fire Spirits. At a distance of about ten meters from Ling Tian and the others, their forms gradually separated, and the two Fire Spirits merged, forming a circular wall of fire about a meter high, enclosing Ling Tian and Ali within.
At this moment, the rat zombies arrived. They were fearless, charging one after another towards the wall of fire.
The wall of fire formed by the Fire Spirits had a temperature of over 6,000 degrees Celsius, a temperature comparable to the surface of the sun.
Although the temperature slightly decreased after forming the wall, it was still over 5,000 degrees Celsius!