Repeatedly Taking Spirit-Recovery Pills Turns the Tide

Several days later.

On this day, Ling Pengyun rode Wind Shadow Peng to patrol the territory of the Cloud Mist Wen Clan.

As they passed through a dense forest, a thousand evil spirits, all at least at the Qi Training Late Stage Refining and clad in thick armor, suddenly flew out from the forest below and attacked Ling Pengyun.

Seeing such a large number of evil spirits attacking, Ling Pengyun, who was sitting atop the Wind Shadow Peng, frowned deeply.

He quickly used his Divine Sense to scan the attacking evil spirits and discovered that there were no Foundation Establishment Realm evil spirits among them, which eased his furrowed brows.

"Fortunately, among these thousand evil spirits, there are none at the Foundation Establishment. However, now that Old Devil Li, who was famous for controlling ghosts in Huai River County, has been killed, how can there be anyone who can control a thousand evil spirits all by himself?"

Although he didn't realize that the demonic Devil Cultivator, he wasn't stupid.

The thousand evil spirits that rushed towards him all shared the same origin, clearly stemming from the same Devil Artifact.

Because he was in a critical situation, he dared not be distracted for too long. He immediately made a hand Hand Seals and used the Primal Water Technique to set up a Primal Water Light Screen to cover the surrounding area.

Then, he waved his hand and took out the Mixed Rock Shield from his Storage Bag, creating a Mixed Rock Light Screen.

As soon as this light barrier was formed, the thousand Qi Training Late Stage evil spirits that were attacking from the dense forest below also pounced on the outermost Primal Water Light Screen.

Because there were too many evil spirits, and their strength was all above the Qi Training Late Stage.

In the blink of an eye, the outermost layer of the Primal Water Light Screen was shattered.

The thousands of evil spirits then pounced on the solid magical shield.

This light barrier was, after all, erected by Second Rank Low Grade magic shield, so its defensive power was relatively strong.

Even if a thousand evil spirits at the Qi Training Late Stage Refining or above attacked simultaneously, it would be difficult to break through in a short period of time.

However, in order to maintain the Mixed Rock Shield supporting the light barrier, the Liquid Spiritual Power in Ling Pengyun's Dantian was also being rapidly consumed.

This situation is not good for Ling Pengyun. If it drags on any longer, his spiritual power will be exhausted.

Without spiritual power, he, a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, is only physically stronger.

"Evil spirits fear fire."

Ling Pengyun had a sudden inspiration. He waved his hand and patted the Storage Bag at his waist, from which he summoned a Spirit Talisman Cave covered with red flame patterns.

This Spirit Talisman Cave is called the Fire Bird Talisman. It was given to Ling Pengyun by Wu Yan, a descendant of the Golden Core, many years ago.

As soon as the talisman was taken out, Ling Pengyun infused it with spiritual power and launched it out.

The Spirit Talisman Cave flashed with light and transformed into a vast expanse of flames.

These flames quickly converged and gradually formed a firebird five zhang in size.

Once the firebird was formed, it charged into the horde of demons.

Any evil spirit struck by that firebird was instantly reduced to ashes.

Any evil spirit touched by it will also be tainted by the flames and burned to ashes.

The thousands of evil spirits were powerless against the firebird conjured from flames.

When the firebird exhausted its remaining strength, a total of 150 or 160 evil spirits were destroyed.

Ling Pengyun was thus given a Hand Seals to create three protective barriers of Primal Water Light Screen around himself.

Then, he took out eighteen Azure Spirit Sword and formed Sword Formation.

Once the Sword Formation was complete, a two-zhang-long Sword-Ray suddenly appeared from the tip of each flying sword.

All eighteen flying swords emitted more than ten inch-long sword Sword-Ray.

"Go."

The eighteen flying swords, carrying Sword Light Torrent, swiftly plunged into the horde of evil spirits.

The demonic armor formed from demonic energy on the bodies of those evil spirits at the Qi Training Late Stage or above has extremely good defensive capabilities.

In addition, the eighteen Azure Spirit Sword that formed the Sword Formation were only First-Tier Superior-Grade.

For a time, the Sword Formation also struggled to achieve much success.

In one round trip, only about ten evil spirits were killed.

Seeing this, Ling Pengyun's expression hardened slightly. He no longer worried about consuming the spiritual energy in his Dantian and changed the finger techniques in his hands.

"The Melt Word Swordplay Secret"

"Condensation."

The eighteen Azure Spirit Sword that had plunged into the horde of evil spirits trembled in the void, quickly merging together and ultimately becoming one.

It transformed into a flying sword covered with sword patterns, and at the tip of this flying sword, there was a Sword-Ray three zhang long.

The giant Sword-Ray beam was extremely powerful; a light touch was enough to shatter the demonic armor that had been transformed by demonic energy on the bodies of those evil spirits.

The situation changed in an instant, in just over ten moves.

The giant Sword-Ray then annihilated more than two hundred evil spirits.

Just as Ling Pengyun was rejoicing over his achievements, a large amount of rich demonic Spiritual Qi suddenly surged from the dense forest below, filling the bodies of the more than six hundred evil spirits.

As demonic energy surged in, the strength of the more than six hundred evil spirits rapidly increased.

Their magical armor had also become thicker.

The massive Sword-Ray struck the thick demonic armor, causing it to pause for a moment.

It was precisely because of this that the number of evil spirits killed by that giant Sword-Ray gradually decreased.

Its spiritual energy consumption rate is also increasing.

Upon seeing this, Ling Pengyun narrowed his eyes and quickly scanned the dense forest below.

Finally, atop a tree canopy, they found a cultivator who concealed his aura, wore a black robe, and had his face veiled with a black gauze.

The Black Robe cultivator was also holding a demon banner in his hand.

The demonic energy injected into the bodies of those six hundred-odd evil spirits surged out from within the demonic banner.

If not for this action, Ling Pengyun would not have been able to discover this person.

"The Thousand Ghost Banner? So it really is that."

"My Huai River County is located in the Yan Kingdom, which is too far from the major sects of the Demonic Cult. Apart from the Devil Cultivator of the old Old Devil Li's lineage who control ghosts, there is no one else in the Yan Kingdom?"

"Nine times out of ten, this person is a remnant of Old Devil Li's forces."

"Thinking about it this way, it's no wonder that this person can summon so many evil spirits. This person must be the Devil Cultivator who has recently been causing trouble for the Cloud Mist Wen Clan, the Azure Bamboo Wang Clan, and the six Foundation Establishment Family of Ice Flood Dragon County."

"Judging from his aura, he is only at the first level of Foundation Establishment. He probably just broke through to the Foundation Establishment and stabilized his cultivation not long ago. His aura is not strong."

"If we want to break this deadlock, we can only start with that Foundation Establishment Devil Cultivator."

Ling Pengyun made a plan in his heart, quickly Hand Seals, and unleashed his strongest attack.

Within the vast expanse of Mount Sumeru, a dazzling blue flying sword, six zhang long, transformed into a blue rainbow, swiftly slashing through dozens of greatly enhanced evil spirits, breaking through their encirclement, and heading straight for the Foundation Establishment Devil Cultivator below who was holding a demon banner.

However, the Devil Cultivator was no pushover. Relying on the Thousand Ghost Banner, he temporarily erected a black defensive light barrier, which was even stronger than the light barrier erected by the Mixed Rock Shield, and temporarily blocked the dazzling rainbow.

But the next moment, another blue sword light struck the black light screen.

The two swords combined their power and shattered the black light barrier.

As soon as the light barrier shattered, two blue flying swords rushed in, aiming straight at the Foundation Establishment Devil Cultivator.

The Foundation Establishment Devil Cultivator was Tian Yuan Tian Yuan. Seeing the critical situation, Tian Yuan panicked and, without thinking, used his Essence Blood to unleash the Demonic Art "Blood Source Shield".

In an instant, a thick, blood-red light barrier appeared, blocking the two blue flying swords.

The two Azure Sea Sky Sword had already consumed sixty or seventy percent of their power when they shattered the black light barrier erected by the long banner, and now they had very little power left.

After a three-breath standoff with the red light barrier, the two Azure Sea Sky Sword also exhausted their remaining power and dissipated.

The crimson light that protected Tian Yuan had dimmed somewhat, clearly indicating that it had expended considerable energy to withstand the two Azure Sea Sky Sword.

The horizon.

Seeing that he had unleashed two deadly attacks but failed to kill the Foundation Establishment Devil Cultivator, Ling Pengyun, riding the Wind Shadow Peng, felt helpless.

Those two Azure Sea Sky Sword just now consumed 60% of the spiritual power gathered in his Dantian.

Now, he only has 20% of his spiritual power left in his Dantian, making it difficult for him to use the Azure Sea Sky Sword, which consumes a lot of spiritual power.

"The only option left is to take the Spirit Returning Pill."

Ling Pengyun quickly took out a Second Rank Low Grade Spirit Returning Pill from his Storage Bag and swallowed it.

As soon as the pill entered his stomach, its medicinal power spread rapidly, filling all of Ling Pengyun's meridians and making them bulge.

Ling Pengyun's meridians were already quite strong, so he could barely withstand the impact of the medicine.

In the short span of a breath, Ling Pengyun's spiritual power increased by 70%, and when added to the original 20%, he had a total of 90% spiritual power.

With sufficient spiritual power, Ling Pengyun unleashed the Azure Sea Sky Sword once more.

The incredibly powerful Azure Sea Sky Sword swiftly materialized.

However, Tian Yuan, who was in the dense forest below, had witnessed the power of the Azure Sea Sky Sword and was on guard.

When he saw the Azure Sea Sky Sword attacking again, he waved the Thousand Ghost Banner in his hand, commanding the remaining six hundred or so evil ghosts above the Qi Training Late Stage Refining to rush towards the attacking Azure Sea Sky Sword.

With the overwhelming number of evil spirits blocking its way, the power of the Azure Sea Sky Sword was instantly exhausted.

However, this Azure Sea Sky Sword was not without effect, slaying more than 150 evil spirits and creating an opening.

Then, two more Azure Sea Sky Sword were unleashed, shattering the barrier of hundreds of evil spirits and striking the Xue Yuan light screen protecting Tian Yuan.

The Xue Yuan light barrier had already been weakened by the attacks of the first two Azure Sea Sky Sword.

Now, bombarded by two Azure Sea Sky Sword, each retaining more than 70% of its power, the body trembled violently.

Its brilliance also quickly faded.

But at that moment, Tian Yuan forced out a mouthful of Essence Blood onto the blood-red light screen.

With the support of spiritual energy, the power of the blood-red light barrier gradually recovered.

The light barrier and the two Azure Sea Sky Sword were locked in a stalemate for three breaths, both exhausting all their power and dissipating into the world when their remaining strength was depleted.

Ling Pengyun had only a few strands of spiritual power left in his body after activating the Azure Sea Sky Sword three times in a row.

His expression hardened, and he took out another Spirit Returning Pill from his Storage Bag and swallowed it.

Perhaps because his meridians were already strong, when he swallowed the second Spirit Returning Pill, the impact of the pill's medicinal power on his meridians only caused him some soreness. Unlike ordinary cultivators who would experience meridian damage after swallowing two Spirit Returning Pill in succession.

This news delighted Ling Pengyun.

However, this is not the time for joy.

He swiftly conjured a Azure Sea Sky Sword, which directly wiped out the remaining hundred or so evil spirits.

He then directly controlled the massive, three-zhang-long Sword-Ray formed from the Sword Formation and slashed it towards Tian Yuan in the dense forest below.

Tian Yuan Ling Pengyun take out two Spirit Returning Pill and change the situation, Tian Yuan was filled with rage.

If Ling Pengyun didn't have those two Spirit Returning Pill, he could definitely rely on the evil spirits to surround and kill Ling Pengyun.

But things had come to this point, and another giant flying sword came flying at him. He dared not stay any longer. Relying on the little Essence Blood he had left, he used the Blood Source Escape Technique, transforming into a blood-red shield of light, and quickly fled.

The giant flying sword's attack thus missed its target.

Ling Pengyun still had 40% of his spiritual power remaining, and due to the strength of his meridians, he was confident that he could take another Spirit Returning Pill to restore his spiritual power.

Furthermore, the two Spirit Returning Pill he took this time are worth at least three hundred Spirit Stone each on the market.

Two of them would cost six hundred dollars, but they're still hard to find, except during major market auctions.

If it were Ling Clan for Ling Yunhong, a Second Rank Low Grade Alchemist, Ling Pengyun wouldn't have had such a large number of Spirit Returning Pill.

Having used two Spirit Returning Pill worth six hundred Spirit Stone, Ling Pengyun naturally couldn't let that Devil Cultivator escape for nothing.

Moreover, the Devil Cultivator's Thousand Ghost Banner had been slain, which affected Devil Cultivator combat strength.

If not now, when?

Ling Pengyun made a decisive move and immediately rode his Wind Shadow Peng to give chase.

Although the Blood Source Escape Technique was fast, it quickly left Ling Pengyun more than ten miles behind.

However, the Foundation Establishment Devil Cultivator Tian Yuan had already consumed a lot of his Essence Blood by using the Blood Source Shield Technique, and there was not much Essence Blood left in his body, so it was difficult to maintain the Blood Source Escape Technique for long.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ling Pengyun caught up and, with the giant Sword-Ray formed by the Sword Formation, cut it in two.

After collecting the spiritual items from the Foundation Establishment Devil Cultivator Tian Yuan, Ling Pengyun burned his corpse and then rode the Wind Shadow Peng away from the place, returning to his Lineage to prevent any other unexpected changes.

Several hours later, Ling Pengyun safely returned to his cave at the top of Ling Xiao Mountain Top Cave Residence, and his anxious heart was finally at ease.