What surprised him was that, with his divine sense, he was actually unable to capture Xiao Yusheng's presence at this moment. He could only vaguely sense that she was somewhere within this area.
Just then, howling winds rose, and enormous sandstorms that seemed to blot out the sky and cover the earth suddenly appeared in the desert, sweeping toward him.
The ground began trembling in waves as well. One strange beast after another, each several zhang tall, crawled up from beneath the earth.
They resembled lizards, scorpions, giant turtles, and the like. Formed from yellowish-brown rock, they all exuded the aura of at least Second-tier Demonic Beasts. Among them were no fewer than a dozen third-grade sandstorm beasts.
In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred such sandstorm beasts had appeared and lunged at Ning Fa as well, their offensive surging like a tidal wave.
After his initial surprise, Ning Fa let out a cold snort. Thinking they could defeat him with something like this was far too naive.
A silver lightning sea immediately surged from his body, spreading outward from him to a radius of over a li in an instant.
Strands of Silver Lightning churned within the lightning sea, crashing like raging waves toward the sandstorms and sandstorm beasts rushing in from all directions.
Yet whenever those sandstorms and sandstorm beasts were destroyed, an endless stream of new sandstorms and beasts emerged from the desert, as though they were inexhaustible.
For a time, the two fought without pause.
The Huayu Sect members who had long since retreated into the distance felt their hearts leap into their throats again just as they had begun to relax.
While Ning Fa and Xiao Yusheng were locked in the heat of battle, over at Tianyin Pavilion—
Mo Yu, dressed in