A series of clanging sounds echoed within the sea of thunder, and countless sword energies instantly surrounded the Shankui.
Beyond a ball of gray flame, endless sword shadows lurked, constantly pouring in Xu Long's Magic Power.
Streaks of sword energy, carrying lightning, rushed into the gray flames. The purple lightning and fire instantly contracted violently, and the previously tumultuous state paused for a moment.
The condensed lightning and fire trembled incessantly, as if enduring immense pain, while the heavy sword energy attacking from outside continuously cleaved the gray flames.
The breathtaking flames were shattered by the sword energy, and then, as countless sword shadows swept past, they transformed into wisps of energy that drifted into the sea of lightning.
At this moment, the Shankui was completely different from its previous arrogant and domineering aura, and was even disturbed and dispersed by this delicate sword energy.
Xu Long, who was on the periphery, was still on high alert. When he saw that Shankui had concealed his figure, he raised the array diagram on his back.
The atmosphere within the sea of thunder suddenly became somewhat turbulent, with bursts of energy emanating from it appearing incredibly violent, and a feeling of unrestrained energy rising in Shankui's heart.
He was trapped by the heavy sword energy and could not easily escape from it. Although turning into wisps of death energy was not a big problem, it would take a lot of effort to gather them together.
But before he could even begin to gather his death energy, Xu Long's attack came in quick succession!
Rumble!
A tremendous sound reverberated through the sea of thunder.
A series of shockwaves instantly erupted from the endless sea of lightning, and violent energy exploded all around Shankui.
The lightning and electricity echoed each other, like the roars of ferocious beasts or the emergence of dragons from the sea, transforming the area of lightning into a turbulent world.
The world seemed to have turned upside down. The roaring sounds in my ears and the shockwaves in front of me kept rising up, as if mountains were collapsing, seas were churning, stars were falling, and the sun and moon were losing their light.
The continuous shockwaves caused the Heaven Patroler's massive seal to tremble, and the thick curtain of lightning was instantly torn open.
As if sensing something, the Ancestral Spirit cast its golden gaze, which lingered for a moment on the array diagram behind Xu Long.
Just now, when Xu Long was withdrawing his Magic Power, he was already preparing for a " Spiritual Qi Bombardment ". At this moment, he was taking in the power of lightning from the sea of thunder through the Celestial Phenomenon.
The Shankui was first dispersed by the sword energy of Xiu Kou, and then covered by the " Spiritual Qi Bombardment ". These successive methods were something Xu Long had already planned in his mind.
After unleashing his sword energy, he began to release the energy from the array. At this moment, the sea of lightning was already being stirred up into chaos, and the gray figure of the Shankui had dissipated by more than half.
At this moment, the Shankui's power had completely vanished, and the gray flames almost disappeared without a trace in the sea of lightning.
The enormous alien creature had vanished without a trace, leaving only countless wisps of death energy swirling in the air.
Xu Long gazed into the distance from within the embrace of the Dharma Body. He had just unleashed the " Spiritual Qi Bombardment " and then began to retreat rapidly.
Seeing that Shankui seemed to have lost all power, he stood alone in the sea of thunder, his Dharma Body behind him becoming incredibly illusory.
Having already been struck by the Shankui's seal, it was at its last gasp. When it drew its sword again, it had exhausted its energy, and its Dharma Body was on the verge of shattering.
The fire poison within his body was being suppressed with all his might by the Wisdom Sword; the battle with the Shankui just now had been extremely dangerous.
Xu Long is beset by internal and external troubles, and is attacked from all sides. If he is not careful, he will be ravaged by the fire poison or completely devoured by the Shankui.
However, the Shankui's body was already on the verge of destruction, and there were signs of surging energy all around. In that chaotic energy, the ball of purple lightning was nowhere to be seen.
Xu Long stared for a moment and, seeing nothing unusual, temporarily put the thought aside and turned to go back to the young man's side to provide cover.
Behind them, a flock of gray crows cackled incessantly, with a ball of purple lightning at their center.
At this moment, the gray crows circled around the youth, their cawing sound almost deafening, arousing a strong sense of resistance in him.
The young man relied on the Blood Dragon and the Gray Raven to keep fighting. Perhaps it was due to the Blood Dragon itself, but these undead were particularly adept at dealing with it.
It seems they have no real bodies to rely on; they are all bodies of Blood Fiend and death energy, lacking absolute suppression.
The two sides surged and tangled within the sea of lightning, the energy in one world constantly being scattered and then re-condensed.
While the purple lightning was among the gray crows, it also kept an eye on Xu Long's battle.
Seeing Xu Long, despite his own serious injuries, launch a series of powerful attacks, and the gray flames even showed signs of being extinguished under his onslaught, Shankui was somewhat surprised.
He was Undying and Indestructible Body, completely unafraid of being annihilated, but Xu Long demonstrated a powerful offensive to him on the spot, dispersing the Shankui's death aura into wisps.
Even if he needs to condense death energy again, it will take enough time, and that time is what Xu Long and the young man have bought for him!
Buzz!
A high-pitched sword cry suddenly erupted from the chaotic sea of lightning.
A streak of light shot out from the shockwave, cutting through countless arcs of lightning and leaving a long trail as the sword light spread toward Gray Raven.
A sword's light was instantly reflected in the purple lightning and fire.
A ball of lightning suddenly swelled up, as if it had been stimulated, and rose up abruptly from its original position.
As the sword light drew ever closer, the fluttering gray crows swiftly turned back, their bodies heavily enveloped in purple lightning and fire, filling the sea of lightning with gray.
However, without the filling of deathly flames, gaps of varying sizes appeared at the junctions of the gray crows.
"Condense!"
As the sword light was about to arrive, Shankui could no longer withstand the chilling power, and countless gray crows roared into the sea of lightning.
His voice carried a solemn tone, devoid of the previous clamor. Xu Long's series of powerful attacks had put immense pressure on him.
At this moment, Shankui sighed inwardly: Xu Long is truly a formidable fighter!
Having fought his way here, traversing countless heavens to reach the Golden Immortal Realm realm, he thought he was more than capable of dealing with them. However, with these two joining forces, he found himself struggling to withstand their combined attack.
The fact that Golden Immortal with independent laws was at a disadvantage against Xu Long and the young man infuriated the arrogant Shankui.
But he was not one to act impulsively, nor was he a mere show-off like Wang Yan.
As a veteran high-ranking cultivator of the Heavenly Palace, a powerful being who had survived calamities, he did not care about his reputation when he was at a disadvantage.
He gathered the gray crows to solidify himself, and then, relying on these undead gray crows, he once again condensed the death energy scattered in all directions.
The dead and death energy are originally formless entities in the world, and the two would not easily combine, but in the hands of the Shankui, they took on a tangible form.
Xu Long had contacted the other party several times but still couldn't figure out his origins. He was a being shrouded in deathly energy, which could be said to be intolerable to heaven and earth.
But it seems to have obtained some kind of mysterious law, allowing it to exist eternally between heaven and earth, and especially during battle, it seems to have inexhaustible energy.
What is the origin of the Shankui?
Xu Long's doubts deepened, and he saw that the deathly aura around him was showing signs of condensing together again.
The gray crow opposite them opened its bloodthirsty eyes and stared intently at Xu Long and the young man.
Amidst the chaotic energy fluctuations, a ball of lightning, as if summoned, rose from the sea of lightning like a tiny spark.
He was surrounded by a dense aura of death, and as the lightning and fire appeared, Gray Raven immediately parted to create a path.
With a "whoosh," two streaks of lightning flashed within the flock of gray crows, and the tiny spark from before instantly transformed into a raging inferno.
As the gray aura of death swept in, the gray crows in the air danced for a while, as if they were merging with the gray flames. Upon close contact, the two transformed into a gray hurricane.
The hurricane roared loudly, and just a breath later, a huge skull reappeared in the sea of lightning.
However, the skull that solidified this time looked much more ethereal.
Perhaps because Xu Long had annihilated too much death energy earlier, Shankui was unable to gather a particularly dense amount of death energy in a short period of time, and his aura had weakened considerably.
Hehehehe!
The piercing cries of laughter and tears emanated from the skull again, and countless gray crows, connected with the gray death energy, forcibly formed a gigantic skull in the sea of lightning.
The gray flames raging on all sides made the skull look particularly sinister.
As Xu Long watched the Shankui about to solidify into a skull again, a sense of urgency gripped him.
We just went through a lot of trouble to extinguish its death aura; if we let it gather again now, all our efforts will be in vain.
Without Xu Long giving any instructions, the young man standing to the side darted out and headed towards the Shankui.
Xu Long, who was standing to the side, also focused his attention on the sword light. Just now, when the Shankui condensed its skull, the sword light had already pierced into the formation.
Amidst the deathly stillness, a stream of light could be clearly seen churning and surging within.
The sword light, floating in the deathly aura, was like a ship on the sea, braving the wind and waves as it faced the surging waters.
The sharp edge emanating from the sword cleaved through layers of deathly aura, and the gray flames dispersed, creating a path before the sword.
The sword light was like a giant guillotine, carving a straight path in front of the Shankui.
Closely following behind was the youth's sword formation. The two advanced continuously amidst the deathly aura, and much of the gray flames were dispersed by the two fierce sword energies.
Upon seeing this, the Shankui opposite him felt a chill run down his spine. He had originally intended to gather his death energy and Gray Crow for another battle.
But to his surprise, the young man and Xu Long launched one attack after another, clearly not wanting to give him any breathing room, determined to completely annihilate him with swift and decisive measures.
The sword light in the sea of lightning came with lightning speed, followed by a black streak of light. When the sword light got close, it suddenly trembled in the thick death aura.
Then the sword twisted once in place, revealing a sharp edge bursting forth from its blade.
It struck first like an armor-piercing spike, scattering in all directions as if the blazing sun were shining in the sky.
The sound of clanging abruptly broke the silence amidst the deathly aura. As the sword light approached, the Shankui opened its massive maw and devoured it.
The giant maw of the skull contained the gray crows, and the sword light, undiminished in its power, instantly killed them all.
Shankui suppressed the heartache of Grey Crow's death, like a gambler placing his hopes on that giant maw.
After the sword light completed its rotation, the gray crows within the giant maw were all gone. However, at that moment, the sword light suddenly dimmed, as the Shankui's massive maw had completely swallowed them.
"Roar!"
A furious roar came from inside the skull.
After swallowing the sword light, the Shankui snapped its jaws shut in an instant. The sword light within its massive maw was about to be completely sealed away when the sword formation behind it attacked.
Buzz!
A dull sword cry resounded through the sea of thunder. What started as a streak of light had transformed into more than a dozen sword energies by the time it reached Shankui.
The sword energies coalesced in front of the skull, forming a giant umbrella-like canopy that entered the skull's mouth, preventing it from closing.
Disturbed by the Shankui formation, the gray skull trembled in the sea of lightning, and the countless gray crows were about to take flight again.
At that moment, the young man had a sudden thought, and the stacked sword formation was about to unfold in an instant, with the sword light within it also bursting forth at the same time.
Unable to defend itself on both sides, the giant skull was forced to open its massive maw as it clashed with the two sword beams.
With a flash of light, Xu Long's sword light swirled out in an instant, while the young man's sword formation was still within it, confronting Gray Crow.
Shankui thought that the power would be reduced with the absence of a sword light, but he did not expect that the sword formation, which was stacked like an umbrella, would change rapidly.
In just a moment after the sword light swirled, it had already transformed into a black lotus flower.
Within the skull's gaping maw, a black lotus formed by a dozen sword lights was opening and closing, while tiny sword energies were being drawn in from all directions.
The constantly rising sword energy resembled water droplets between lotus petals, appearing particularly sharp as it lingered within the black lotus flower.
The young man and Xu Long joined forces to firmly restrain Shankui. After launching a series of powerful attacks, the two did not forget to use swift and decisive measures to completely annihilate Shankui.
At this moment, the opening lotus flower had already forced open the giant mouth, and the condensed sword energy roared inside the skull.
After enduring countless layers of deathly aura and annihilating numerous gray crows, the sword formation finally gained the upper hand among the skulls.
Shankui saw himself being expanded by a black lotus flower, and the gray crows and deathly aura within it all dissipated.
In the midst of the crisis, he hastily opened his body, and the gray crows, connected with the death energy, dispersed in an instant, causing the originally tight formation to show signs of disintegration.
As the gray flames pulsed, the spatial barrier suddenly showed signs of blurring, and the enormous skull stretched out outside the lotus in an instant.
The original skull shape had now transformed into a net, and the Lotus Sword Formation suddenly expanded within the net.
After Shankui snorted coldly, the net burst open in an instant, revealing a gray magic seal within the lotus flower.
Boom!
A tremendous sound resounded through the sea of thunder.
The magic seal appeared at the center of the Lotus Sword Formation. The blooming lotus could not close it, and the heavy sword energy detonated the magic seal in an instant.
A tremendous amount of energy was released instantly, and when a Golden Immortal Seal burst forth, it almost tore the sea of lightning apart.