At the sight, the yellow and golden streaks of light ahead wheeled around without hesitation and flew directly above the light barrier.
Their radiance faded, revealing Elder Miao and a burly man with long hair hanging over his shoulders.
"Good, well done! Now hold firm against this beast's counterattack while we subdue it with the rare treasures we borrowed!"
Elder Miao spoke with delight on his face. Then he exchanged a glance with Elder Gu, and both reached into their robes and drew out an object.
They were a pair of ancient, weathered bronze dagger-axes, dull and utterly unremarkable in appearance.
The two Core Formation Stage elders of the Six-Linked Hall assumed solemn expressions and began chanting. The dagger-axes floated out of their hands, giving off a yellow glow that grew steadily brighter.
Meanwhile, the Infant Carp Beast trapped inside the light barrier seemed to realize its predicament.
After a series of shrill infant cries, the white mist spanning over a hundred feet abruptly contracted toward its center. In an instant, it shrank to just over a hundred feet across, forming a milky-white shroud.
At the same time, the thunder within the mist gradually merged into an unbroken roar, like ten thousand galloping horses. It shook the cultivators maintaining the formation so badly that their ears rang and nearly went deaf, leaving them all secretly alarmed.
Suddenly, the infant's cries stopped!
Countless fist-sized balls of blue light then shot out of the white mist in a dense barrage, hurtling fiercely toward the blue light barrier. The ferocity of the attack made everyone's heart tighten!
When they were roughly a hundred feet from the barrier, a broad swath of azure radiance appeared, and some of the light balls vanished into it in a flash.
They then appeared out of thin air