Boom! Streaks of black light slammed into the Nine-Palace Heavenly Spirit Walls, unleashing earthshaking explosions. The Repeating Spirit Cannons kept firing out to sea, but many demon beasts still approached fearlessly beneath the water. Nearly half were blasted apart, yet the cannons could not kill them all.
The battle beneath the Treasure Ship Market was growing even fiercer. Although these black-robed masked cultivators were considerably stronger than the previous ones, they were no match for the elders of the Heavenly Dao Sect. With Liu Xian'er, Zhang Hong, Elder Wang, and the other late Nascent Soul-
-stage cultivators joining the fight, most of the black-robed masked cultivators were soon driven onto the defensive. Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong even joined forces with the Water-Fire Sky-Piercing Pearl to kill one of them. However, many demon beasts had also arrived from beneath the sea, bursting out of the water one after another. Several were ninth-rank demon beasts that had assumed human form. They helped the black-robed masked cultivators fight the Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators, making it genuinely difficult to kill all the masked attackers at once.
"Tsk, something isn't right." Li Xiaoya surveyed the surrounding scene with his divine sense, an inexplicable sense of foreboding rising in his heart.
Bang! Bang! Two more disciples' Nine-Palace Heavenly Spirit Walls shattered, and they hurried to replace them. Meanwhile, a disciple operating a Repeating Spirit Cannon had exhausted its spirit stones and was taking out a fiery-red Storage Pouch to reload it...
This won't do. Fighting like this consumes far too much! Seeing this, Li Xiaoya thought to himself. Yet High Person Qianshan and the other two Spirit Communion cultivators still had not acted, evidently guarding against unforeseen developments. With that in mind, he said nothing. Watching the black beams continuously bombard them, he murmured, "These