The Zither Worms hid beneath the earth, easily evading Ling Tian and the others' search. The warning restrictions they had laid down were no use against them, either. The moment Ling Tian sensed something amiss underground, he decisively ordered everyone into the air. Before his words had even faded, countless black shadows burst from the earth and coiled toward them.
Though some were resting and others cultivating, Silver Fox and the others didn't dare let their guard down completely in the Barbaric Land. Each kept a thread of Mental Power extended, so they all reacted in time. Fairy Meng Shang, however, was asleep, and countless black shadows swept toward her.
Seeing this, Ling Tian turned pale with fright and was about to rush to her rescue, but the scene that followed stunned him:
As the black shadows coiled toward Fairy Meng Shang, she seemed to sense the danger. Vast, surging waves of power radiated from her body, and a slender strand of silkworm silk sprang forth on its own. It split into more than a dozen strands, winding like dragons as they coiled toward the black shadows.
That wasn't all. A bone-chilling aura spread through the air, and inch-long ice needles floated around Fairy Meng Shang. On closer inspection, there were exactly one hundred and eight of them.
"The Divine Silkworm Silk and Ice Soul Divine Needles!" Ling Tian's eyes lit up, and he let out a long breath. "Divine artifacts can protect their owners on their own. With the Divine Silkworm Silk and the needles there, the Zither Worms won't be able to do anything to Meng Shang for a while."
Sure enough, as the black shadows surged in, the Divine Silkworm Silk coiled around them, easily ensnaring several. The rest were pierced by the Ice Soul Divine Needles,