The Nine-Child Mother Heavenly Demon kept "plucking" those thousand-year-old Flying Zombies. Shi Feiyang released the Five-Colored Divine Light with a backhand motion, and vast swaths of rainbow radiance blocked the thousand-odd enormous logs shooting toward him from the North.
These enormous logs were sinister, dark timbers refined by the Boatmen's Guild deep in ancient mountain forests. The most vicious evil inscriptions and ghostly seal characters had been carved into them, and ancient human-sacrifice rites had been used to offer them living people's blood and souls. Then "timber tombs" had been built to bury them underground, allowing them to absorb vast quantities of earthly fiend yin qi. Refined over several centuries, each enormous log could shatter a mountain peak. Any inferior flying sword that met one would be blasted apart, utterly incapable of withstanding it.
Shi Feiyang held the enormous logs suspended in midair with the Five-Colored Divine Light. Suddenly, the rainbow light turned red, all its Five Elements Essence Qi transforming into bing fire essence qi. Violent explosions crackled as surging flames rapidly spread through the air, forming vast Fire Clouds that seemed to burn straight through the sky.
The flames engulfed the enormous logs and burned fiercely. The earthly fiend yin qi on them hissed and smoked, consumed in great quantities.
At the same time, waves of Black Fiend Qi surged more than a hundred zhang high in the east, resembling a pitch-black cliff. A host of Black Fiend Sect members stood atop it, unleashing their sect's most famous technique, the Black Fiend Hand. Huge hands of black qi condensed in the air, hundreds forming in an instant. The largest, naturally unleashed by the Black Fiend Cult Master, were as big as mountain peaks; even the smallest were the size of cartwheels. From their commanding height, they all slapped