At almost the same moment, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, long staff in hand, carried Xu Taiping and Mo Qingzhu down from tens of thousands of zhang in the sky and slammed into the ground.
"Boom!"
Amid the thunderous impact, a deep crater was smashed into the hard ground.
Yet the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage stood at the center of the crater completely unscathed.
Xu Taiping and Mo Qingzhu, whom he carried on his long staff, had not even expended the slightest trace of True Essence.
The commotion the three made was completely drowned out by the explosion of the Immortal Boat. With the Heaven-Escape Talisman in effect as well, it was even less likely that anyone would notice them.
"Whew..."
Now that his feet were on the ground, Xu Taiping let out a long breath.
Beside him, Mo Qingzhu asked:
"Elder Ding, what should we do next?"
But Mo Qingzhu had barely spoken when, with a boom, a figure wrapped in gray mist suddenly shot past overhead.
By the time Xu Taiping and Mo Qingzhu reacted, that gray shadow had already flown down to where the Immortal Boat had exploded.
Then, before their astonished eyes, several more figures wrapped in gray mist flew toward the shattered Immortal Boat in succession.
A short while later.
Only then did the sounds of figures tearing through the air gradually subside.
Xu Taiping immediately turned to the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage with a grave expression.
"Elder Ding, those just now..."
Before Xu Taiping could finish, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage nodded.
"That's right. Those should all be Blightbone Demonic Beasts."
Although he had already guessed as much, the sight of those Blightbone figures circling the wreckage of the Immortal Boat like a great flock of birds still made Xu Taiping's scalp prickle.
The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage frowned