With a crisp crack, the barrier split apart, but the sword's momentum did not lessen in the slightest, driving straight for Wei Henian's back.
"Li Yunjing, are you trying to kill me to the last?"
Wei Henian sensed the sharp wind behind him, cold enough to pierce bone, and in his haste he turned back and slapped his palm against the spine of the sword.
The instant his palm collided with the sword's spine, he felt a berserk force of Wuxing explode up his arm. As his qi and blood churned, the trajectory of his Blood Escape Technique was forcibly broken, and his figure staggered out of the black mist, tumbling onto another coral reef a hundred zhang away.
"True Person Nine Nether, deal with those merfolk!"
Before Li Yunjing's words had even fallen, he had already transformed into a streak of purple lightning and chased after him.
"Leave them to me."
True Person Nine Nether gave a cold laugh. The ghostly shadows on the bone banner swelled once more, surging toward the Merfolk Clan like an inky tide.
Those ghostly shadows specialized in devouring the souls and essences of living beings, perfectly countering the merfolk's divine abilities that were rooted in qi and blood. In only a few moments, several dozen merfolk were devoured by the ghosts, and screams rose one after another.
"Yunyi, Ruoxi, Qi'er, hurry and treat Elder Leijie!"
As Li Yunjing pursued Wei Henian, he shouted loudly.
"Understood!"
Yu Yunyi and the other two responded and moved at once, their figures darting like swallows as they swept across the battlefield and landed beside Elder Leijie.
At this moment, Elder Leijie was already like an oil lamp burned dry. The purple lightning barrier had completely dissipated, his Daoist robe was corroded by the blood mist until it