As the poisonous miasma thinned a little, the pirates hiding in the rooms charged out under the leadership of Tong Zhifeng and his wife.
Their trusted subordinates formed a formation, each holding one of the Five Elements Command Banners of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, drawing on the treasure ship for support.
Although corpses littered the place, the true elites had all been hiding and had suffered no losses. These pirates had deep reserves. More than a dozen extraordinary cultivators and over a hundred martial artists, their faces covered with sweat cloths, crowded shoulder to shoulder like a well-trained army, pouring in immense amounts of blood energy.
Someone tossed a fist-sized object onto the ground. At once, its flesh began writhing and rapidly swelling.
Within a few short breaths, the fist-sized embryo transformed into an octopus-like monster several feet tall, with tentacles over thirty feet long, and it continued to grow.
This was the embryo of a miraculous ocean species, wholly unbound by the normal laws of growth and development.
"Water Essence Armor!"
Li Ling's true self floated in the air and naturally noticed this, but those people had deliberately or otherwise formed a formation that faintly enclosed the creature in its protection. For the moment, striking secretly was difficult.
With a slight stir of thought, he directed his avatar to control water essence and condense two short spears, pointed at both ends.
Zzz, zzz, zzz...
Deep-blue lightning lit up at the spear tips, thrusting forward amid the roar of wind and thunder.
Boom!
A tremendous thunderclap exploded. The crowd shuddered violently as the attack collided with a thick gang-energy wall before them.
"So it's nothing but fancy moves. Is that all you can do?"
At some point, Tong Zhifeng had taken a position up high. Watching his subordinates