Yin Shuye hearing this frowned but did not say anything as he looked at the man from the Southern Revolution Faction and asked with interest, "That mind technique you're Nei Sinian aren't you?"
As he heard this, Nei Sinian merely nodded his head as he didn't bother to respond keeping his eyes on Fei Tan who had now retracted his hand.
Xun Yanshan looked at the Nei Sinian in surprise as she thought to himself, "So it was he, the brother of the 'Tyrant of the South.' No wonder Nei Dongyuan could be here. Hmph! How could one notice any of these guys with all of that cloth wrapped over their bodies?"
Fei Tan looked a Yin Shuye with a smile on his face before glancing at all three and speaking, "Should I let you guys in on a little secret."
Hearing his words, the faces of the three of them became solemn as they quietly stared at Fei Tan, Fei Tan smiled as saw their reactions and spoke once more, "Purging everyone here isn't our only goals, for you see, there are also few treasured items that we have to collect."
As he said this, the looks on the faces of Xun Yanshan, Nei Sinian, and Ye Shuye instantly changed becoming filled with shock and anger as they looked towards the Chosen Battle Arena.
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As these battles raged on, there were a few other platforms that started to experience changes of their own.
BLAZE! A sea of fire blanketed a platform as a group of individuals stood proudly inside of fire barrier, positioned at the center of these flames. Their red hairs glowed brilliantly as if they were deities from the fire realm, as they looked at the unmoving Cloudy Ghost Corpses bathing in the sea of flames.
At the front of these individuals stood a youthful looking man who gave off the pressure of a peak low-level Warrior Ream expert, he looked to the people behind and spoke.
"It's time for us to make our stand…"
Chapter 71
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The Situation Changes!
Outside of the Chosen Battle Arena, the platform began to shake as the barrier surrounding the entire area started to show ripples as if it wouldn't take long for it break to pieces. A horde of ghost corpses along with three unique Warrior realm ghost corpses was currently attacking the protection ward covering the chosen battle arena.
As the ward shook, the platform arena below started to shake violently with each collision.
The major influences noticing this scene couldn't help but grow angry and anxious at the same time.
"Blast! How could I forget about those juniors? Quickly, send a squad to stop them before they break through the ward!" Xun Yanshan shouted as his voice travelled across the entire area.
As he struggled to battle a Warrior realm ghost corpse in front of him, Old Zhu went mad, as he shouted towards his clan members, "Xin Clan forces, charge towards the ward and prevent them before they manage to breakthrough!"
"Tang Clan forces, back up the Xin Clan and annihilate the enemies, make your way to the platform of the vanquished after you’re done!" Tang Fei said.
Fei Tan hearing this sneered as she spoke, "As if I'd let you lot do as you wish! Ghost Army! Attack the enemies with all you have don't let up!" As he said this, he rushed forwards and attack Xun Yanshan, Nei Sinian and Ye Shuye once again, there blows leaving a myriad of ruins everywhere their figures appeared.
"Charge!" A group of elite practitioners from both the Xin Clan and Tang Clan managed to pave a bloody path through a sea of ghost corpses as they arrived at the region of the ward.
However, the moment they arrived at this area, a portion of the attacking ghost corpses charged away from the ward, swiftly making their way towards the practitioners followed by one of the three special Warrior realm ghost corpses.
"Damn! Resist! All peak-level True Foundation realm elders form up with me to resist that strange ghostly corpse!" A peak True Foundation realm Elder from the Xin Clan as he rushed towards the special Warrior realm corpse. A group of powerful looking elders hearing his words quickly followed him.
Soon, the clashing of the elders and special ghost corpse erupted a distance away from the leading group.
Sword qi, and energy blasts scattered about the area as a bloody battle erupted between the elite practitioners and the ghostly corpses.
As their struggles continued, one of the two special corpses that were attacking the ward managed to successfully create small crack within the ward, the remaining fraction of its corpse battle qi attack soon after colliding onto the floor of the battle arena.
BOOM! Rumble! Following a loud explosion, a section of the arena was instantly destroyed as its debris were scattered throughout the area. One wreckage shot towards the stunned Xin Qing, who did not manage to escape with her
"Kya!" As if she lost all signs of hope, she started to scream with both her hands placed before her face.
Swish! Bang! At her moment of peril, a flash of blue lightning instantly arrived in front of her crashing into the wreckage creating another explosion followed by a cloud of dust. Within a few moments, the dust cleared as the blue lightning reformed into Dai Lin's figure who stood with his back turned to Xin Qing.
Seeing Dai Lin before her, Xin Qing's heartbeat couldn't help but slightly quicken as she completely forgot the prior near-death experience. She spoke in a soft voice as her face redden slightly, "Fellow Daoist Dai Lin! Thank... thank you for coming to my aid."
As he heard her words, Dai Lin smiled as he turned his head and responded, "No problem at all Miss Qing! Now let us retreat to the edge of the arena as it doesn't look like this barrier will hold off their attacks for much longer."
The moment he finished his statement, he quickly flashed again appearing at the edge of the arena.
"Un,” Xin Qing replied as she turned into a shadow which quickly made its way to the edge of the arena, the figures of Xia Rou and Ye Wang could also be seen standing at the same area with frowns on their faces.
"Damn! How could the trial suddenly turn into this? Why would such a powerful ancient race suddenly attack here? Sigh, and those Warrior realm corpses are no pushover. If we don't do something, we'll be in serious danger the moment the barrier breaks," Ye Wang stated with a frown on his face as he looked at the three special corpses relentlessly attacking the arena ward.
Dai Lin knitted his brows as he heard this, he looked at the group and spoke, "Then is there no way to slow down the rate at which the barrier weakens?"
After a short moment of silence, Xia Rou glanced at Dai Lin, Xin Qing, and Ye Wang as she spoke, "I have an idea if we channel our energies together into a 'Guard Spell.' We may be able to increase the protection capabilities of the barrier for a while longer."
"Is this feasible? How could any spell used by someone below the level of Warrior realm be of aid against the assaults of the two Warrior realm corpses?" Xin Qing asked with puzzlement on her face as she heard Xia Rou's suggestion.
Dai Lin also looked on in silence, Ye Wang who heard her statement had a look of shock on his face as he exclaimed, "Wait! Are you actually planning on using that class 4 spell scroll?"
Swish! As if she was waiting for him to finish his words, a scroll soon appeared in Xia Rou's hand filled with complex writings that glowed strangely. Looking closely, one would see four lines that were parallel to each other on its surface.
Dai Lin and Xin Qing were shocked as they both exclaimed, "A rare Class 4 Spell Scroll!"
Xia Rou smiled and spoke, "Yes! Now isn't the time to be stingy with treasures, not when we're all facing a life and death crisis."
"Good! Then what are we waiting for let's start!" Ye Wang said as he quickly got everyone into position, quickly Xia Rou tossed the scroll at the center of the group while chanting few obscure words.
Phew! Instantly, the scroll began to glow in a dark light as a powerful force was beginning to unseal itself, as this happened Xia Rou's expression began to grow pale as blood started to flow from the corner of her lips, she shouted towards the group, "Cough! I need more of your
essence-energies. If not, I won't be able to fully activate the spell from its seal!"
As they heard this, not wasting any more time they pushed all of their essence-energies towards Xia Rou causing her mage force to increase by multiple levels, within a few moments the light around the scroll expanded soon turning into the beam of dark light that shot towards the ward.
An ancient voice soon sounded from the scroll, "I am the aegis of the night, I am the one shrouds all from darkness. I am Night Shield!"
The instant the voice ended, the dark light that shot towards the ward quickly merged with it becoming one creating a massive dark shield over its surface that repelled all of the attacking ghost corpses.
Thud! Xia Rou having force activated the spell scroll soon collapsed on to the floor, as Ye Wang rushed over to help her onto her feet.
Dai Lin looked at the shield and asked, "How long can this spell last?"
"I... I don't know, let's just hope it will be enough for a while," Xia Rou said.
As she said this, she couldn't help but move her vision towards the outside of the ward at the bloody battle unfolding, Dai Lin, Xin Qing, and Ye Wang also looked outside of the ward with a pensive expression on their faces.
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Far away from the chosen battle arena and floating platforms that were currently locked into heated battle, Gui Sheng who was battling against the woman in with mocked as he sensed the changes occurring at the region of the Chosen Battle Arena.
"Hahaha! A futile attempt to prevent the inevitable! Gui Mei! Gui Zi! Don't hold back any longer use your Cloudy Ghost Shades!" As he said this, his body soon started to change turning into a massive ethereal dark humanoid shade with towering ghostly qi erupting from his entire being.
"Hehehe! Good! We were waiting for this!" Gui Mei said with a look of excitement on her face.
"Hmph! I was wondering how long you wanted us to wait!" Gui Zi replied with annoyance in her voice.
The moment they finished their statements, their bodies started to undergo a similar change turning into large but slender looking ethereal humanoid shades with overbearing ghostly qi coming from their bodies.
"It's not good! Jing Er! Jing Yi! Get away from them now! In this battle state, their ghostly qi will be too much for your too withstand as they are now infinitely close to True Soul realm experts!" The woman in white yelled in panic as she saw this change.
An anxious look came over her face when warned her companions. However, it was too late.
As the towering ghostly qi that shrouded both Gui Mei and Gi Zi's forms started to suffocate both Jing Er and Jing Yi.
"Cough! Cough! Lady Mingyun run away from here! Forget about us!" Jing Yi said as she struggled to keep herself together while coughing up blood.
Jing Er started to lose control of his flying artefact and was about to fall towards the ground.
Upon seeing this, the woman in white's eyes began to grow moist, she was about to rush to save both of them. But sadly, she was prevented by Gui Sheng who abruptly appeared before her, as he saw the scene he sneered and spoke mockingly once more.
"How touching. Allow me to send them off early, kill!" Gui Sheng commanded as they heard this, both Gui Mei and Gui Zi vanished as they moved like formless shades that instantly arrived before the Jing Er and Jing Yi.
They quickly reached out their formless hands out forming ghost-like claws that threatened to pierce through all things in their paths, as they ruthlessly struck towards both of their target’s hearts.
Jing Yi and Jing Er sensing the danger closed their eyes as they were ready to accept their fates of impending deaths.
"No!" The woman in white roared as her energies began to rise as if she was about to transform into an otherworldly entity. However, the instant both of Gui Mei's and Gui Zi's attacks were about to connect with their opponents, there was a sudden change.
"Well-well! Moving onto the conclusion a bit too fast, aren't we?" A random voice said that sounded throughout the area.
As the voice sounded, everyone within the area paused in a state that made them unable to move. A feeling a shock came into the hearts of the Gui Trio, as the woman in white along with Jing Er and Jing Yi were each filled with surprise.
"Do... a Domain! How can this be? Which expert is this?" Gui Sheng said as he felt his powers being oppressed, quickly a form materialized out of nothingness as it stood silently in the air. It was as if it was there and not there at the same time, appearing to exist and not to exist giving off a strange Dao Fluctuation.
As the woman in white saw this form, she was shocked, "You... You are!"
The figure smiled as the wind blew, and the scene shifted back towards the war between the Cloudy Ghost Corpse Army with the trapped influences and practitioners.
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"Argh!" A powerful elder from the Rain Sword Sect fell to his knees as he was ambushed by two special ghostly corpses.
"Damnit! We can't continue like this our casualties are only increasing!" said the Warrior realm leading expert from Seven Blade Mercenaries upon noticing this scene, he frowns as he fought with his special ghostly corpse.
"We have to find a way---" As he spoke once more, his statement was interrupted by a sudden change.
"What's that?!" An individual from the Molten Axe Sect as he spotted a distant flaming red light rushing towards their location at blazing speeds.
"Be careful, it's a fire attack!" Another expert said loudly, a pity, no one could react in time.
Swoosh! Bang! In an instant, the flaming beam appeared within the region of the battling influences and rogue practitioners. Quickly, the flaming beam scattered into multiple particles of light that went into the bodies of hundreds of ghostly corpses.
Blaze! Almost instantaneously, the corpses that the particles of light went to burst into bright flames that quickly and efficiently burnt away all traces of their existences.
A few of the corpses that the smaller particles of flaming light went into managed to release a few screams before turning to charcoal.
"Screak!" The ghostly corpses whose eyes burst into flames screamed in pain, as their mouths soon after started to spout endless fire.
Very quickly, their entire bodies turned into a ball of flame that shortly fell to the ground turning into ashes.
As the surrounding influences and rogue practitioners saw this scene, they became filled with shock.
Fei Tan, Yun Yanshan, Nei Sinian and Ye Shuye who were locked into fierce combat were also forced to stop their battles to pause in awe at the scene, quickly they shifted their visions towards the sky looking at the individuals that stood on top of strange burning disks.
A man wearing red robes with black wrapping over his bald head stood beside another a large man with spiky red and white hair, behind them was a group of men wearing crimson masks and a few other red-haired powerful looking individuals.
"Who the hell are they?" A rogue practitioner.
However, as more and more individuals looked towards their group, a few individuals exclaimed in shock.
"Wait! It's them! Isn't that the Feng Clan members?" A member of the local practitioner's group said.
As the crowd of battling practitioners went into a commotion, the spiky red and white hair man on the flying disk spoke.
"Hehe! Brother Duan, it seems that if we didn't quickly clean up these ghost corpses on our platform and rushed towards this platform, these weaklings might have suffered even more severe casualties!" Elder Chen said in an unbridled manner.
Hearing his words Elder Duan shook his head and responded, "Brother Chen now is not the time for idle banter, let's finish the rest of this group corpses."
"Che! You’re no fun at all! Crimson Soldiers, Elders, let's go!" As he said this, his body started to blaze as he soared on top of his disk towards one of the Warrior realm ghostly corpses.
Seeing his actions, Elder Chen also controlled his disk as he rushed towards the sea of corpses, turning everything in hi
s path into an endless sea flame.
The Crimson Masked Soldiers and Core Officials vanished as they flickered here and there within the sea of ghosts, turning the corpses into minced pieces of burning flesh and ashes respectively.
"Unreal! So, this is their true power!" Old Zhu exclaimed in surprise as he looked at the scene before his eyes.
Tang Fei also watched in shock as he battled with his enemy.
"Damnit! What's going on? This damn clan, how could they be so powerful? I have to prevent them from destroying any more corpses!" Fei Tan roared as he channelled his ghostly warrior qi to attack the Feng Clan group, but he was prevented by three of the high-level Warrior realm corpses.
"Ha Ha Ha! Weren't you confident just now? Why are you all panicked now?" Xun Yanshan said as he launched a barrage of Golden Dragon Fists rendering Fei Tan unable to advance.
Nei Sinian willed for a semi-transparent arrow that fired mental arrows towards each of his vital areas, as Ye Shuye moved like an untraceable assassin attacking each of Fei Tan's blind spots.
"Damn!" Fei Tan complained as he could only helpless watch the corpse army become slaughtered in batches as he struggled with the trio.
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At the core of the barrier formation, a group of chains could be seen flowing through many unusual channels, connecting them to ghostly corpses within the Ten Thousand Cloudy Corpse Formation. At the central position of these chains was a brightly shining five edge star that gave off an invisible and unbreakable prestige.
In front of this course stood a youthful looking man at the prime of his 30's who looked at the core as he spoke with a frown on his face, "Hmm, how troublesome? A Penta Star Layered Formation Core, it would seem that only a True Soul realm's experts attack could break it. "
As Feng Junling said this, his frown instantly changed into that of a smile, "Shall we test it? Your Core Prestige against my own Prestige!"
Chapter 72
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The Mighty Feng Clan! Pandora's Box?
It was a world of flames, as an endless amount of strange looking fire burnt away at the struggling ghostly corpses within their range. Teams of practitioners could be seen making their way around the sea of flames at high speeds, displaying their stunning movement techniques as they battled against the ghostly corpses.
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