At Green Willow Lake, as the formation activated, the lake water flipped and rolled apart as though someone had cleaved it into two with a blade.
All the water surged toward the banks, uprooting and washing away many of the green willows on both shores.
This completely exposed the two Blood Jade Eels. At this moment, both of their cheek pouches were bulging.
Rampaging blood-red light flared around them as they prepared to flee through the air.
Clearly, these two Blood Jade Eels were as nimble as spirit serpents and were wholly unaffected by water or soil.
Of course, without water, their speed was still far inferior to what it was at their peak.
Ye Jingyong was the first to charge out. Standing atop a peak second-rank Silver Moon Python, he moved with astonishing speed.
Countless water arrows shot toward the two eels first.
The Silver Moon Python's huge silver eyes also shone with brilliant spiritual light.
Yet at that instant, the two Blood Jade Eels' cheek pouches swelled again, and their eel whiskers rose high.
It was as though a profound and mysterious pulling force had emerged.
In an instant, the blood qi throughout the Silver Moon Python's body and Ye Jingyong himself both faltered.
The eels' spell was surprisingly somewhat similar to the blood-qi breath of Ye Jingcheng's Five-Colored Cloud Deer.
Both could stir the blood qi of cultivators or demon beasts. While they could not inflict fatal harm, at critical moments, they could nip a cultivator's secret art or a demon beast's attack in the bud.
While Ye Jingyong held them back, Ye Xingqun released two silver-ring artifacts, Ye Jingli brought out a black jade bottle artifact, and Ye Jingyun used the formation to surround them.
The Blood Jade Eels were only late second-rank beasts after all.