“An Illusion Formation…” One of the lizards uttered softly while its eyes flickered.
Being part of the Twelve Walkers, they were naturally not nobodies, and they were knowledgeable. Therefore, they noticed that something was off as soon as they entered the illusion.
Although they knew it was an Illusion Formation, it would not be easy for them to break free.
Ou Yangming and Big Yellow looked at each other. The Illusion Formation could affect the lizards, but it could not affect them due to their Concentric Knots’ unique abilities. With that, they flashed and pounced on the last lizard.
The lizard was alone, but it was the one that held the line for the other lizards. Unquestionably, it was the most formidable powerhouse among them.
Even though it entered an illusion, it did not panic at all. Instead, it extended its neck and scanned its surroundings with its cold and ruthless eyes. Furthermore, it swung its tail slightly and stirred up a queer energy fluctuation.
The second Ou Yangming and Big Yellow lunged at the lizard, it straightened its long tail abruptly and aimed it in their direction.
It could actually identify directions after entering the illusion.
“Pow…”
The lizard suddenly whipped its tail and caused an intense shock as it swept across the air. The shock’s power soared along with the air as though it was going to slash the lizard’s enemy into 2 at the waist.
Ou Yangming took a deep breath and channeled his spiritual power to forcibly halt in mid-air.
Big Yellow roared at the same time and accelerated to overtake Ou Yangming. Its enormous body charged at the lizard at lightning speed.
“Boom…”
Next, Big Yellow collided hard with the lizard, causing a deafening boom to be heard.
Big Yellow’s power was far greater than that of ordinary equal-ranked beasts. While the lizard was a high-rank spirit beast, the big yellow dog had a mightier piece of White Silver Equipment. It incited the equipment’s power when it charged at its opponent, and the power that burst out was forceful beyond the limit of ordinary spirit beasts.
As for Ou Yangming, instead of falling at once, he floated in mid-air as if something was supporting his body.
He waved his hands at the same time and drew mysterious symbols one after another. The symbols drifted in the void and released mysterious energy, which renovated with the formation boards’ powers from afar, causing the influence of the abnormality nearby to be more significant.
Big Yellow let out a weird bark. The power of the lizard’s tail turned out to be greater than it expected. Consequently, it bounced up high after their collision and was going to crash into the tough mountain rock behind it. Nonetheless, it was then when the rock, which looked like it had existed since the dawn of time, caved in all of a sudden. A gigantic leg extended out to support the big yellow dog and steadily unloaded the enormous power on it.
In comparison, the lizard was not so lucky. It fell hard to the ground, and its straight tail waved as it could not point out where Ou Yangming and Big Yellow were.
Its collision with Big Yellow and the reinforcement of the formation boards’ mightiness by Ou Yangming caused it to lose control of its targeted enemies.
Every secret technique had a limit. As the young fellow and the big yellow dog joined hands, they happened to exceed the lizard’s withstandable limit, hence it could not sense them anymore.
Ou Yangming’s eyes lit up. White releasing his mental power, he shook his hand and retrieved a spear.
It was a magic tool at the peak of Good Grade, and it was attached with a White-Silver-level Power attribute, as well as the simplest yet the most useful skill.
Sharpness.
If the skill was released, the magic tool’s attacking power could be increased by 50% from its basis. It might be a Good Grade magic tool but along with the power increment too, it would not be inferior to most High Grade magic tools.
The lizard sensed that something was off as soon as Ou Yangming stabbed with the spear. It kept flashing as swaying as though it was drunk, but its nimbleness helped it to dodge the spear.
Nevertheless, Big Yellow pounced on it again at the next moment.
Without showing a weak impression at all, it struck the lizard with its massive body. By relying on its tremendously tough pieces of equipment, it turned out to be powerful enough to suppress its opponent.
The lizard lost its balance right after they collided.
Ou Yangming watched coldly on the side and attacked with his spear again without any hesitation. It was not an ingenious strike, but it was exceptionally fast, such that the lizard could not evade it despite its power and speed as a high-rank spirit beast.
“Pfft…”
The spear penetrated the lizard’s body at lightning speed and pinned it to the ground.
It was such a mighty attack that the tenacious lizard could not resist it at all.
The best weapon and the Sharpness skill created the nearly miraculous effect.
At the spur of the moment, the lizard shrieked and arched its body, then it bounced up as if spring was mounted on its body. The power of its jump was incomparable as it somehow managed to get out from the end of the spear.
Ou Yangming’s face changed. Sure enough, an insect’s way of fighting was out of his expectations. If a human or a walking beast was stabbed by the spear through the chest or abdomen, even if they would not die on the spot, they would not be much better.
However, an insect’s life force was absurd. After the lizard’s chest and abdomen were pierced, it forcibly pulled its body out from the spear and still jumped around without showing any signs of imminent death.
Such a life force could only be described as absurd.
The lizard was severely injured after it was hurt by the spear, but it managed to locate the host of the formation once again.
It widened its large mouth, causing its stinking breath to fill the space around it. Following that, it attempted to bite Ou Yangming with its bloody teeth.
Ou Yangming was in admiration, but he still sneered disdainfully. He flew backward at the same time and crashed into the mountain rock behind him.
The lizard finally managed to lock on Ou Yangming, thus it was not going to let him go so easily. Its huge mouth was similar to a bottomless hole, and its eyes looked so fierce that anyone that wanted to intervene would want to think thrice.
Concurrently, the lizard’s legs and tail vibrated in a particularly subtle amplitude. It had confirmed the direction where Ou Yangming had escaped.
There was a hole in its body, but it never gave up as it wanted to tip its enemy into pieces.
Having said that, it widened its eyes at the next instance.
This was because it saw the mountain rock behind the human cave in and sucked him in just like that.
‘Mountain rock… Sucked in?’
The lizard’s eyes lit up. It bared its teeth and whipped its tail hard at the rock.
A thunderous sound was heard, and the lizard rolled and fell on the ground. It finally confirmed that the mountain rock was the toughest rock in the world because the backlash made it dizzy, and its tail even went numb.
‘But how could such a tough mountain rock suck in that detestable human?
‘Is this Illusion Formation so profound that I’m starting to hallucinate?’
While the lizard was dazed, its body hurt without warning as an intense feeling, which made it feel like it was skinned or its blood was sucked, spread from a certain point to its whole body.
Big Yellow had reached out its claws to pierced them deep into the lizard’s body. Unlike normal times, a peculiar luster could be seen at the tips of its claws. The light was so brilliantly red that it appeared to be redder than blood.
The lizard twisted its body furiously but soon realized that its power was flowing away quickly.
It was appalled, and it immediately knew something was up with the damn dog’s claws.
; The lizard suddenly exerted force through its limbs to rise into the air, then it somersaulted in mid-air and zoomed toward the notably tough mountain rock. It wanted to utilize the rock’s toughness to crush the despicable dog into meat paste.
Who knew, the mountain rock moved out of the blue just as its body was halfway in the air.
The lizard looked in disbelief. It was frustrated and regretful.
It turned out that the mountain rock was a monster that was even more fearsome than it was.
“Pow…”
The big lazy turtle extended its giant head and bit the lizard’s body.
Almost at the same time, Ou Yangming showed up from beside the turtle’s head and jabbed his spear into the lizard’s chest and abdomen.
The immense pain stimulated the lizard, and it wanted to fight in desperation. That said, its body was being restrained by an enormous power, and it was losing energy from its flesh and blood faster than before.
It took only a brief moment before the body of the potent high-rank spirit lizard shriveled at a visible speed. After whining as if it was crying for help, its limbs twitched for a while, and it died as ghastly death.
Chapter 655 - Getting Away Strangely
Withdrew the spear, removed the claws!
Ou Yangming and Big Yellow let go at the same time almost at the instant they confirmed that the high-rank spirit lizard was dead.
Their consciousnesses had almost connected such that they were one. Inside Ou Yangming’s spiritual world, he even fed back every situation on the outside to himself.
The high-rank spirit lizard’s flame of life was initially burning like a pillar of fire, but it completely disappeared at this moment.
Although the Insects were extremely unyielding and were known as the most tenacious beings, after being attacked by Ou Yangming, Big Yellow, and the lazy turtle, the lizard died in a split second.
The effect of their first joint attack turned out to be spectacular, which was out of their expectations.
Nonetheless, it was not time for them to celebrate yet because another similarly powerful high-rank spirit east was still inside the Illusion Formation.
Therefore, even though Ou Yangming and Big Yellow were overwhelmed with indescribable pleasure after devouring the lizard, they refrained from absorbing energies from its flesh and blood once it was dead. Instead, they targeted the other high-rank spirit lizard.
The big lazy turtle widened its mouth to bite the lizard. It tried its best to remain stable, but the power of the high-rank spirit beast was enormous, hence the inside of its body trembled when they resisted each other.
It was an incredibly subtle tremble, which would normally be difficult to notice.
Having said that, the physically strong high-rank lizard that previously entered the Illusion Formation turned around indeed and stared at the mountain rock in front of it with wildfire-like eyes.
It was worthy of being a real insect powerhouse because it vaguely sensed the movement inside the mountain rock at this moment.
Despite the sinister look in the lizard’s eye, it dared not act rashly because it was in an illusion, which might have given it that feeling.
During the moment of delay, the lizard suddenly felt very uneasy as the atmosphere around it became oppressive without warning.
The Illusion Formation was refined by Ou Yangming through hard work, where he perfectly imprinted his spiritual world on the formation boards. Thus, as long as he was inside the formation, and the absolute strength did not exceed his strength too much, he was the ruler.
Needless to say, every spirit beast was strong-willed. As for spineless fellows, they would have been eliminated long ago and would not become spirit beasts. This was the reason Ou Yangming could not really lure the spirit beasts’ minds or control their actions though he could affect them.
Nevertheless, the young fellow could hide or create things inside the Illusion Formation if he wanted to.
As at this moment, when Ou Yangming and his comrades killed the first high-rank lizard, it let out a deafening shriek and released a unique aura to warn its partners, but the warnings were ineffective inside the formation.
Whether it was its sound or its aura, they were confined to a small area, and there was no chance of them being spread at all.
Even so, being a high-rank spirit beast, while the other lizard did not sense its partner’s warning, it sensed danger due to its instinctive alertness.
The lizard swung its large tail and suddenly extended its sharp claws to scratch the mountain rock in front of it hard.
“Bang…”
Following an ear-shattering sound, the mountain rock remained the same, whereas the high-rank lizard’s claws hurt.
In the Spiritual Realm, throughout countless years of natural selection, numerous races had been eliminated because they could not adapt to changes in the environment. That said, various races evolved into special forms to survive.
The Turtles were not fast, and they were ridiculed by many races. Yet, it was undeniable that any race would be envious if they faced a turtle’s thick shell.
It was worth noting that a turtle’s shell was exceptionally tough and solid. Equal-ranked powerhouses would not be able to break it, but even powerhouses in a higher rank might not be able to crack it.
The high-rank lizard’s claws were toughened, by which ordinary mountain rocks would have crumbled if they were knocked by them. Who knew, it was wishful thinking for the lizard to leave even a slight mark on the shell with its claws.
It took several steps back with a fierce look in its eyes.
At this point, while it did not know what exactly the mountain rock was, it knew it was not an ordinary rock.
The big lazy turtle stretched its neck and said to Ou Yangming, “Oh no, it found out.”
Ou Yangming smiled coldly and responded, “It’s too late for it to find out now. Kill it!”
In a flash, he and Big Yellow pounced on the high-rank spirit beast.
If the 2 high-rank spirit beasts were together, Ou Yangming and his companions might not have the guts to ambush them at the same time.
Those were high-rank spirit beasts, after all, and the effect of 1 plus 1 would definitely be bigger than 2.
However, Ou Yangming and his comrades killed one of the high-rank spirit lizards rather easily by surprise, thus they were highly-spirited like never before.
Since they could kill the first lizard, why could they not kill the second one too? Ou Yangming and Big Yellow had actually sentenced that lizard to death.
A stream of light was seen as the young fellow and the big yellow dog incited their White Silver Powers concurrently and lunged at the ferocious high-rank lizard.
The Illusion Formation had a wonderful effect of hiding their figures. In fact, they could even hide their killing intents before the lizard found them.
In spite of that, the formation also had a limit, or Ou Yangming was not capable enough, so he could not control the formation enough to hide everything from high-rank spirit beasts. As such, the big fellow noticed them once they were within 10 meters from it.
The lizard’s enormous tail whipped like a long whip, causing a lash to be heard in the air.
Ou Yangming cursed internally, ‘These lizards’ tails are so annoying.’
He had the most formidable divine weapon and skill, so he was confident about breaking the lizard’s defense, but he dared not go head-on against the thunderous whip.
The young fellow stopped and pinned his feet to the ground.
A yellow figure flashed beside him as Big Yellow faced the attack without fear. It was its second time facing a whip attack from a lizard’s tail, so it knew very well how forceful it would be. The big yellow dog was fully protected and had activated its White Silver Power, but it could only manage to match the lizard.
“Pow!”
The lizard withdrew its tail, but Big Yellow was lashed away.
Ou Yangming’s face changed. The exchange
of blows only lasted for a second, but he could sense that this lizard’s power was a whole lot higher than that of its high-rank comrade.
They were both high-rank spirit beasts, but there was a huge disparity between their cultivation bases and combat powers.
Now, it seemed like Ou Yangming and his companions had encountered an outstanding member of the Twelve Walkers.
No matter what, Ou Yangming could not give up at this stage. He grunted and kept shaking his spear to release peculiar energies one after another.
Skill Runes were Ou Yangming’s biggest trump card. He unleashed his mental power to its maximum and released plenty of Rune Spells in a short period. Consequently, the spells poured down on the high-rank spirit lizard like a stormy rain.
Nonetheless, the lizard did not panic at all. Whether it was when it fell into the Illusion Formation trap, failed to attack the mountain rock, or being attacked by spells, it was always as calm as ice and was not agitated at all.
It looked with its ice-cold eyes in Ou Yangming’s direction, then it moved its body and adopted various dexterous means to disintegrate the spells one by one. It looked like the process was a breeze for it.
The lazy turtle raised its head high and narrowed its eyes.
A yellow figure slowly went behind the lizard as Big Yellow was also waiting quietly without attacking rashly.
After withstanding the spell attacks for a long time, the lizard finally opened its mouth and screamed weirdly. Subsequently, it flashed and lunged at Ou Yangming, who was in front of it.
It was being confused by the Illusion Formation, but it still found the right direction at once.
Ou Yangming was frightened. He flew backward to evade the lizard but in terms of speed, how could he be compared with a high-rank spirit beast?
The lizard had a cruel and hideous look in its eyes. It swung its large claws ruthlessly at the human in front of it.
“Pow…”
Nevertheless, the lizard found it odd because the human seemed to be overly light; he rolled backward and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
‘Sh*t!’
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