Joining Forces to Defeat the Bee King

"Everyone, take Oscar's three kinds of sausages. Once you're ready, we're going in." Ignoring Dai Mubai, who was sulking by himself, Xia Tianling continued laying out the battle plan.

Seeing that everyone was ready, he gave the command.

"Go!"

The three of them swallowed the Speedy Flight Dash Sausage at the same time and charged toward the Bee King from their prearranged positions.

"Seven Treasures Manifesting Glazed Tile, the Seven Treasures have names: first, strength; second, speed."

Their speed instantly increased by Thirty Percent.

Ma Hongjun directly lit up all three of his spirit rings.

First Spirit Skill: Phoenix Fire Line!

Second Spirit Skill: Phoenix Bathing in Fire!

Third Spirit Skill: Phoenix Wing Soaring!

Though the names were the same, the skill attributes were different. After cultivating the Phoenix Fire Technique, Ma Hongjun could not only withstand stronger spirit rings, but had further enhanced the effects of his original skills.

The Phoenix Fire Line, twice as thick as before, passed over the heads of the other two and struck first, blasting fiercely into the hive.

Dense Phoenix Desire Fire erupted across the hive, thick as liquid as it splashed in all directions.

Even Oscar broke into a slight sweat from the scorching heat overhead, let alone the ordinary Devil Bees.

The instant the flames struck, countless burning Devil Bees burst apart and scattered through the air. Their lives bloomed like dazzling fireworks in the night sky before swiftly vanishing without a trace.

Seeing the devastating result of his attack, Ma Hongjun cackled in midair, swallowed an enhanced Recovery Great Sausage, and continued using Phoenix Fire Line to clear out the ordinary Devil Bees.

A piercing cry rang out. It was the Devil Bee King.

Unable to endure watching its subjects be slaughtered any longer, it shot straight toward the fatty.

"Think you can get through?"

Using the Speedy Flight Dash Sausage's effect, Oscar dashed into the air and struck toward the Bee King with a Buddha's Palm.

The Bee King's reactions were fairly quick. It actually managed to perform an emergency stop in midair before dropping vertically.

But the golden Buddhist hand seal was simply too large. Even so, one of its wings was swept by the attack, and it immediately lost its balance and fell.

As it struggled to steady its body, Xiao Wu, who had taken a wide detour, had already reached its rear.

Waist Bow activated.

Before it could regain control of its body, the Bee King was sent flying again like a ball being passed around on a playing field.

However, borrowing the force of Xiao Wu's fierce strike, it found an opening and finally had a chance to regain its balance.

The Bee King looked at Ma Hongjun, who was still wildly hunting down its subjects in midair, then roared and charged at him again.

"Perfect!"

Tang San, who had been waiting below for a long time, also rose into the air. He threw a large number of "hidden weapons" from all sorts of bizarre angles.

They were nothing particularly special—mostly stones and discarded chunks of metal, mixed with a small number of hidden weapons such as Bone-Piercing Nails and Coin Darts.

Seeing so many strange "attacks" flying toward it, the charging Bee King had no choice but to continuously shift through the air to dodge them.

What the Bee King did not know was that these hidden weapons flying at it had extremely low attack power. Their only purpose was to restrict its movement.

My turn.

Xia Tianling exchanged a glance with Tang San in the distance, then shot upward from below.

In midair, the Dawnbreaker Martial Soul appeared as a single hammer. The latter two spirit rings on his body lit up in sequence.

Second Spirit Skill: Attribute Buff.

Third Spirit Skill: Attribute Burst.

The two stacked directly on top of each other.

Violent lightning flickered across the enormous hammer, crackling sharply.

Entanglement!

Tang San seized the right moment and released his First Spirit Skill.

Blue Silver Grass instantly bound the Bee King, which was desperately dodging, tightly in place. Tang San then immediately canceled the skill and activated his Second Spirit Skill, Parasitism!

Xia Tianling, who had been prepared for a long time, was already in position. The enormous thunder hammer came crashing down viciously from above toward the Bee King.

But a Thousand-Year Spirit Beast had not survived for so many years in the Star Dou Great Forest for nothing. Sensing a life-threatening crisis, the Bee King twisted its body to the limit in its desperation. Using its sharp stinger as an arrowhead, it unleashed its only skill.

Decisive Strike.

A Devil Bee's stinger was the hardest part of its entire body, and also its only worthwhile means of attack.

But hard as it was, Xia Tianling's hammer was harder.

The Bee King's stinger shattered instantly. Its Decisive Strike was simply not worth mentioning before Xia Tianling's power. The hammerhead, black with a faint golden gleam, smashed viciously into its tail. Amid the explosive roar of violent lightning, the armor on its abdomen shattered, and the dark green blood that flowed out was instantly vaporized by the lightning's intense heat.

After being heavily wounded by the combo, the Bee King was now under the double control of Blue Silver Grass's Parasitism and lightning's paralysis effect. It could not move in the slightest.

"Zhuqing, attack its head!" Xia Tianling shouted.

But before he needed to say it, Zhu Zhuqing, who had long been waiting in the trees, had already shot out the moment his first syllable left his mouth.

With the buffs of Void Walking and the Speedy Flight Dash Sausage, Zhu Zhuqing's nimble figure flashed before the Bee King almost instantly.

The pitch-black Assassin's Claws merged into one beneath a streak of black light and, aided by gravitational acceleration, pierced directly through the Bee King's massive head.

Just as Zhu Zhuqing completed Hell Stab, the Bee King's huge corpse finally crashed to the ground with a rumble.

A purple glow rose up and slowly condensed into a ring above its corpse.

The Devil Bee King had fallen.

A mighty Devil Bee King with five thousand years of cultivation had been instantly killed by their combo. If they had spent more time together and been more familiar with one another, the Bee King would not even have had a chance to dodge. It would have been locked down by their chain of control until it could not move, before Zhu Zhuqing finished it off.

As for severely injuring it first and then going in to finish it? That would have been far too troublesome.

"Clap clap clap clap clap clap." A burst of applause rang out as two figures walked toward them one after the other. The one in front was the Spirit Hall Spirit Douluo leading the group, while Zhao Wuji followed behind with a helpless look on his face.

"Wonderful, truly wonderful. Such exquisite coordination, and you little ones were capable of pulling it off? When this old man was your age, I was nowhere near as good. I am truly ashamed of my inferiority."

"Zhu Zhuqing, go absorb the spirit ring first." The Spirit Douluo stroked his beard, his face full of satisfaction.

"Yes, Teacher Liu." Zhu Zhuqing responded, then sat down cross-legged and began absorbing the spirit ring.

"Teacher Liu, why did you come out?" Xia Tianling scratched his head.

"Hahaha, wasn't it because you little ones worked together so brilliantly that I couldn't resist? Besides, we've come this far. We probably won't run into anyone else." The Spirit Douluo laughed loudly. "Say, Zhao Wuji, why not let these three little ones follow me? Keeping them at your Shrek is simply a waste!"

Zhao Wuji wore a bitter smile. "Senior, please don't make things difficult for me. How could I possibly make that decision?"

From a distant corner, Dai Mubai watched the others receive praise and clenched his fists tightly again. I should have had a share of that too. I should have!