Alda clutched his lower abdomen, while Bilibili held his shoulder. The two demons narrowed their eyes and glared viciously at Lan Ling and Lan Mei. Bilibili's eyes rolled incessantly as he plotted how to salvage his pride. Alda, meanwhile, muttered under his breath, chanting one demon curse after another—vicious, filthy curses that had no place in this world.
Invisible and traceless demon curses poured toward Lan Mei. This was the power of demons, a peculiar law. Anyone entangled by a demon's curse would encounter all manner of unimaginable misfortune, and their body would suffer strange injuries as well. Demon curses were the most troublesome kind of attack. During the ancient divine war, even the gods had not dared casually let a demon unleash curse-words upon them.
Lan Ling's expression abruptly turned grave. She chanted softly, and polygonal crystal shards several meters across continuously surged forth around her and Lan Mei. These transparent shards, so thin they could almost be ignored, formed a circular barrier roughly a hundred meters in diameter around them. Countless black flashes flickered rapidly across the barrier's surface, while the seawater around them swiftly writhed and turned into black, foul-smelling toxic sludge.
Alda's curses were blocked by Lan Ling's Celestial Crystal Barrier, and the evil power within them was absorbed by the surrounding seawater. The crystal-clear water immediately became violently poisonous liquid. Like living creatures, the black toxic sludge writhed swiftly, transforming into black venomous snakes that darted through the sea. Even Lin Qi's scalp went numb at the sight of their savage, terrifying forms.
Lan Ling laughed mockingly. Looking at Lin Qi, she gently shook her head. "Any other tricks? If not, we'll be taking control of the Penglai Five Islands! Master Yin is a fool. He can't do anything right, but if we act personally,