The Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture beat its wings fiercely, and a gale of azure force suddenly rose, sweeping toward the eighteen incoming Corpse-Suppressing Nails.
The eighteen Corpse-Suppressing Nails were pitch-black throughout, their surfaces etched with densely packed runes and emitting a ghostly black glow. They tore through the gale's blockade and swam upstream like fish, aiming straight for the Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture's head.
Yet by the time the Corpse-Suppressing Nails neared the Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture, their momentum had greatly diminished. With a casual flap of its raised wings, the Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture sent them all flying.
Qingxuanzi's expression turned grave.
"Extreme Yin Sect Master, proceed with caution. This beast has successfully survived a heavenly tribulation and possesses the strength of a mid-stage ninth-rank creature."
The moment his words fell, Song Wen had already mobilized the Blood Sea, raising towering waves that blotted out the sky as they crashed down upon the Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture. However, they collided with the azure gale.
Though the blood waves were mighty, they lacked the Corpse-Suppressing Nails' piercing sharpness. They could not break through the gale's blockade at all. Instead, they struck what seemed like a wall of bronze and iron, exploding with a thunderous crash into droplets of blood that filled the air, only to be caught up by the gale and hurled toward the flying ship.
Bang! Bang! Bang—
The gale carried the blood droplets into the flying ship's defensive barrier, producing a dense barrage of booming impacts.
You Xiao and the other three gathered together, with a three-foot-tall array disk floating before them.
Their expressions were solemn as they formed hand seals with all their strength and sent them into the array disk, reinforcing the defensive barrier.
Yet even with the advantage of the formation, it was still far too difficult for cultivators