"What is that?!"
Before Hao Shimo could make out what the black line rushing from the connected sea of fire-clouds was, a violent and powerful aura surged straight at him. Sensing danger, he struck his twin staffs together again, scattering countless golden lightning orbs like splashing droplets before him as he swiftly swept backward.
"Not good! It's Earth Fiend Fire Qi from the earth's core!"
The old Daoist Ling Xu and Fan Wuchang both felt warning bells ring in their hearts. As they narrowed their eyes at the black line, they saw a stream of purple-black fire qi as thick as a water barrel, dense as black oil, whoosh before Hao Shimo and forcibly glue his figure in place.
In that brief pause, a massive streak of purple-black light suddenly lashed toward Hao Shimo.
"What flying sword is that? It's so powerful—and it has a strange beast sealed inside it too? It's practically stronger than an immortal-grade magic treasure!"
In that instant, the pupils of Ling Xu, Fan Wuchang, and Hao Shimo all contracted sharply. The three of them clearly saw that the thing charging from the ruby-like heavenly fire was a flying centipede over a dozen zhang long, entirely covered in a purple-black carapace, its whole body seemingly forged from refined metal. Thick Earth Fiend Fire Qi continuously spewed from its mouth, making it unspeakably savage and terrifying.
Seeing Hao Shimo trapped by the Black Fiend Fire Qi spewed by the savage flying fire centipede and unable to evade in time, Ling Xu and Fan Wuchang both hurriedly raised their hands and sent streaks of radiant light crashing into the flying centipede.
"What kind of centipede is this? Why doesn't it seem like a living creature, but more like a magic treasure?"
Yet when the two spear-like streaks of