Unfortunately, Jiu Xia merely shook her head. "I truly only know that this thing is called a Jiajie Worm, and that it specifically breaks cultivators' mana and swordsmen's sword essence. This is also my first time seeing them. How could I know their weakness? Asking me... isn't that like asking the blind for directions?"
"Alas..." Xiao Mao did not quite believe that Jiu Xia, who seemed to know everything, did not know the Jiajie Worms' weakness. He sighed softly, seeming to feel that Jiu Xia would gladly watch these Jiajie Worms breach Hongdi Village and slaughter every soul warrior and earthling!
Faced with so many Jiajie Worms, Hongdi Village's soul warriors and soul beasts truly seemed too few! Several hundred soul beasts spread out, only managing to shield part of the main village where Xiao Mao and the others stood. They had no time to attend to the rest of the mountain at all...
"Buzz, buzz, buzz..." Amid the Jiajie Worms' surging vibrations, another chanting sound arose. At first, it was extremely faint, almost too soft to hear, yet in only a moment it grew loud. Pale, ghostly green emerged from where the sound began, and all of Hongdi Village seemed to have been shrouded in mist, gradually swallowed by that dim green hue.
Xiao Hua narrowed his eyes. He saw clearly that the hundred or so soul warriors who had previously stood behind them had now run to the plaza before the wooden houses. There... a great many soul warriors, along with numerous soul beasts unable to fly, had gathered. As though divided into different formations, they began dancing and gesturing, strange sounds issuing from their mouths.
These sounds somewhat resembled the language Xiao Mao had mentioned before, yet they were utterly different! As the chanting and dancing continued,