But before Xu Taiping could speak, Fairy Lingyue answered in her exceedingly cold, clear voice:
"There's no need for such trouble."
With that, Fairy Lingyue controlled Azure-Eyed Evil Lord's body and stamped hard.
"Bang!"
Amid the tremendous quake, golden rune patterns appeared one after another beneath the ghost creatures' feet with Fairy Lingyue's stomp.
Then, with a thunderous boom, dozens of thick rock spears burst out of the earth through those rune patterns.
"Shrrrip!"
Apart from some Flying Jiangshi and the few ghost creatures with combat strength at the Wandering Corpse level, almost the entire ghost horde beneath the ghost tree was impaled on those rock spikes.
Cloud Crane True Lord said in some astonishment:
"Is that my Earth Rock Spear?"
Although Earth Rock Spear was a Heaven Rank earth-element spell, Cloud Crane True Lord had barely practiced it, so he could summon only one or two rock spears from underground at a time.
It was of little use, yet a shame to discard.
That was precisely why he lost his composure upon seeing Fairy Lingyue use Earth Rock Spear to wipe out more than half the ghost creatures in one stroke.
Azure-Eyed Evil Lord, however, was thoroughly unimpressed:
"Little fellow, tell that expert behind you that our opponents aren't these small fry."
Yet the instant his words fell, Fairy Lingyue suddenly called out:
"Unshakable!"
No sooner had she spoken than chains composed of countless golden seal-script characters appeared around the Cloud Tower Barrier, locking the entire barrier fast.
"Bang!"
When those few Wandering Corpse-level ghost creatures joined forces to strike the Cloud Tower Barrier again, it remained "unshakable," just as Fairy Lingyue had chanted.
This time, it was the Pearl Relic House Master's turn to lose his composure.
His voice was full of astonishment:
"To wield such powerful True