An hour later, above Nanyue Marketplace.
By this point in the great battle, aside from the many Golden Core Cultivators fighting high in the sky, the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining Stage low-level cultivators below had also suffered heavy casualties. Several hundred more cultivator corpses, devoid of all breath, now littered the battlefield.
Midair, Linghu Jie and the Gu-surnamed Golden Core Cultivator, who were fighting Song Qingming, could only defend passively against the fierce attacks of Song Qingming and Golden Wind. They were beginning to falter.
"Boom!" After a deafening crash, the golden Bronze Bell before Linghu Jie suddenly cracked under Song Qingming's repeated attacks. The protective barrier formed by the bell immediately shattered before him.
Seeing his strongest Defensive Magic Treasure broken by Song Qingming's attack, Linghu Jie was greatly alarmed. He could only take out a Defensive Talisman and cast it before himself, barely blocking the massive axe in Golden Wind's hands.
Before Song Qingming's next attack could arrive, Linghu Jie immediately flashed to one side and hurriedly cast a spell, directing the black eagle Puppet Beast behind him forward to block the enemy.
Under a full-force strike from Song Qingming's Golden Radiance Treasure Ring, the Grade 3 Low-grade Puppet Beast was, unsurprisingly, destroyed on the spot after holding out for only a moment.
It then reverted into a palm-sized black wooden block and fell directly from the sky.
With the Grade 3 Low-grade Puppet Beast behind them destroyed by Song Qingming's single strike, the Three Talents Formation cast by Linghu Jie and the Lu-surnamed Golden Core Cultivator immediately failed. They were forced to face the attacks of Song Qingming and Golden Wind separately.
Whether Linghu Jie or the Lu-surnamed cultivator, without the support of the Three Talents Formation, was clearly no match for Song Qingming and Golden