As his words fell, his whole body abruptly trembled.
An exceptionally pure surge of Great Cultivator-level true essence gushed from his body, flowing down his arm into the jade talisman.
At the same time, the flesh on his chest split open, and dozens of threads of blood wriggled out like little snakes, winding around the jade talisman's surface.
The jade talisman had initially been only about an inch across, but as the bloody light poured into it, it rapidly swelled, becoming the size of a millstone in the blink of an eye.
Chan Master Hui'an hesitated no longer. The Three-Crossing Buddhist Prayer Beads shot through the air, their twelve beads igniting with golden Buddhist flames as they bore straight down upon Mad Shark True Lord's head.
"Stop him!"
Yue Hanshan roared at the same time. His spear shook, and countless streaks of spear radiance poured down like a collapsing mountain, stabbing straight at the vital points all over Mad Shark True Lord's body.
But Hu Xing Walker and the Gu Dao cultivator had already moved.
Hu Xing Walker threw back his head and roared. The phantom of an eight-hundred-zhang striped tiger appeared behind him, its claws closing together to forcibly seize Yue Hanshan's spear radiance.
Spear energy instantly slashed bloody wounds all over his body, yet he refused to retreat even half a step. Instead, he bared his teeth in a savage grin. "You stinking fish and rotten shrimp think you can thwart the Great King's plans? Even Xiao Canglan couldn't do it if he came!"
On the other side, the Gu Dao cultivator shook both sleeves. Countless tiny black-and-red insects surged out, forming an insect net that blotted out the sky and blocked the Buddhist prayer beads.
As the Buddhist flames burned, swathes of venomous insects turned to ash,