"Coo coo~" Strange notes rose from the mouths of Elder Wu and the other soul warriors at once. They swung their soul weapons in perfect unison again, and dozens of enormous pillars of light shot into the sky—only this time, they flew toward Ji Man rather than the Jiajie Worms.
"Buzz~" Every pillar of light struck Ji Man, only to be absorbed by the green runes covering her body. They spun rapidly, forming an enormous sphere of light.
The sphere was dark green, with azure soul inscriptions flowing through it.
Though the Jiajie Worms in the sky descended slowly, they were steadily drawing nearer. By the time the sphere around Ji Man had formed, the densely packed worms had already surged before it. Countless Jiajie Worms writhed and formed different patterns, truly resembling a grotesque giant face as they lunged at the sphere with a savage grin.
"Wooo~" With a tremendous roar, the sphere around Ji Man shot outward, transforming into a curtain of light several hundred zhang wide. The light curtain spread toward the Jiajie Worms overhead, each slender ray like a sword that killed, piercing through the worms that had blotted out the sun!
A gap nearly a thousand zhang wide opened amidst the tide-like swarm of Jiajie Worms!
"Good!" Xiao Mao could not help clapping in praise.
The soul warriors and natives in the square also leaped up, as though victory had already been won.
Yet before they could rejoice for even a moment, the remaining Jiajie Worms not only failed to scatter, but attacked even more fiercely. The worms near the thousand-zhang gap surged faster than waves crashing against the shore, swiftly filling the breach!
The daylight that had appeared vanished again, and all of Hongdi Village fell dark once more.
"Coo coo, caw caw!" The