Judging from the three men's bloodthirsty appearance and frenzied demeanor, they must have been attacked by the vengeful spirit of the Duck Beast King earlier.
Then hide in the crowd, and when you reach the crucial moment in your spellcasting, approach and deliver a fatal blow!
Who says ferocious beast tribes lack great wisdom?
A chill ran through Xu Long's heart; the Duck Beast King was truly cunning!
Despite suffering repeated defeats in battle, the Duck Beast King was growing stronger through these struggles, constantly probing Xu Long's trump cards.
Now that his Xuan Lei had been unleashed, the three thieves hidden within it were right before his eyes.
If he had reacted even a fraction slower, he would have been the mangled body lying beneath the three magic seals.
The three of them had probably been possessed by vengeful spirits for a long time. At this moment, they were more like walking corpses, devoid of any spiritual intelligence of cultivators.
Once those three magic seals are activated, the three people will no longer be of any use.
The Duck Beast King had them lie in wait for so long, all for that sudden attack.
As the curtain wall shattered, the vengeful spirit hidden within the spirit platform surged forth in an instant, resembling a three-headed demon, poking half its body out from the crowns of the three cultivators' heads.
At this moment, the three people were not yet dead. The vengeful spirits were tearing and gnawing at their souls from within their spirit altars, and then peeking out from the top of their skulls.
This action was extremely brutal and forceful, leaving no room for the cultivator to resist.
He could only watch helplessly as his soul was devoured, and in excruciating pain, the vengeful spirit ripped open his skull and pulled him out.
Although they had lost their intelligence, the three cultivators still retained their Beast instincts.
As the skull was forcibly ripped open, the vengeful spirit began to writhe and squeeze out.
The three cultivators' faces contorted in extreme rage, and they let out violent howls like Beast.
The vengeful spirit didn't care about the lives of the three cultivators at all, and kept squeezing, twisting and protruding its body from the top of their heads.
The remnant soul within was still tearing at the cultivator's soul.
"Ah! A vengeful... ghost... ghost!"
The three cultivators screamed in agony in front of Xu Long, their faces contorted in agony.
The intense pain seemed endless, yet they were powerless to resist.
It could only watch helplessly as it was devoured, leaving behind only a mournful roar that sounded like both crying and laughing between heaven and earth.
As the vengeful spirit emerged from the top of Xu Long's head, he watched as the three were about to die a gruesome death right before his eyes.
He was never a soft-hearted person, but seeing this scene and hearing the sounds of crying and laughing echoing in his ears, he still felt a chill run down his spine.
The shimmering light in his eyes swirled around in an instant, and the Dharma Body behind him stretched out its arm, pressing down on the swirling sword light in mid-air.
A huge black shadow enveloped the people below in an instant, and the three vengeful spirits were stunned in front of Xu Long.
When they looked up at the sky above, they found that the enormous body of the Dharma Body had already bent down and approached.
A glint of light flashed in his eyes, a thin layer of cold glint passing through the air.
The three vengeful spirits instantly felt their bodies lighten, and the sword light in the arena had already swirled away!
The Dharma Body swirled around with its sword in hand, its enormous form bending downwards above everyone's heads.
As it charged forward, its sword flashing, a chilling glint of light sliced across the necks of the three figures.
The wailing and laughing stopped abruptly, and the three vengeful spirits were instantly killed on the spot, as if they had never been in front of Xu Long.
When the three heads fell to the ground simultaneously, the contorted struggle on their faces vanished.
Tormented by vengeful spirits, it seems that a swift death is the best possible end.
And in the depths of their empty eyes, a swirling stream of light was simultaneously reflected.
From the moment the magic seal was unleashed to Xu Long's slaying of the three vengeful spirits, it all happened in the blink of an eye.
Although the incident was sudden and caught everyone off guard, Xu Long's extensive experience in combat allowed him to resolve the crisis in the blink of an eye.
Although the three unexpected crises were resolved, Xu Long still suffered considerable damage.
The three Earth Immortal Dharma Seal erupted at such close range, and since the user was completely unprepared, relying solely on the barrier to defend was truly insufficient.
Moreover, there was a mysterious lightning bolt brewing above his head. Although this crisis was not serious, it was extremely dangerous for Xu Long.
After the three vengeful spirits were shattered, the few remaining wisps of souls instantly broke free from the crowd and rushed towards the vengeful spirits on the outer perimeter.
Seeing the vengeful spirits surging towards them, Xu Long knew that this was definitely a tactic prepared in advance by the Duck Beast King.
This intricately linked plan was almost impossible to break, if not for the defensive wall it possessed.
Under the influence of the three magical seals and the vengeful spirit, their soul and body would likely be devoured.
The Duck Beast King was plotting a treacherous scheme, while Xu Long was also devising a way to solve the problem once and for all.
At this moment, seeing that the vengeful spirits had already entered the crowd, the profound lightning energy above Xu Long had also been fully prepared.
Once the Earth Eye was opened, all the vengeful spirits were captured, and those spirits present could no longer escape.
From the three cultivators' sneak attack on Xu Long to Xu Long's counterattack and killing of the vengeful spirit, it seemed that too many things had happened in the blink of an eye.
Although everyone was surrounding Xu Long, they all felt that they couldn't see through this Earth Immortal cultivator.
When the vengeful spirit's demonic voice rang out from the center of the crowd, everyone's despair had reached its peak.
However, before they could react, the vengeful spirit's demonic chant stopped abruptly, and the three figures had already been killed by the sword light!
After Xu Long replied, everyone felt a sense of annihilation gradually spreading throughout the area.
Even though they are Earth Immortal or Heavenly Immortal immortals, they possess the energy to communicate with the Reincarnation Temple of Heavenly Dao and the rules of the world.
But this was an energy they had never experienced before; it seemed to belong neither to the Earth Realm nor to any energy that any cultivator could control.
A trace of reminiscence flashed in the eyes of some of the older cultivators, among whom were those who had overcome their own tribulations.
Then it dawned on me—that annihilating energy seemed to be—divine punishment!
Rumble!
A dull thud echoed overhead, and countless arcs of electricity seemed to flash within the giant eye.
As the flickering light and shadow swept by, the monstrous face of the Dharma Body appeared even more ferocious.
The muffled sound, as if suppressed for a long time, emanated from the giant eye, carrying a faint hint of inexplicable anger.
An invisible power emanated from the giant eye, and a majestic aura was revealed within it.
Those streaks of lightning resembled the flint and steel in the hands of ancient people.
Those bursts of thunder sounded like the cries of our ancient ancestors.
That giant eye seemed to be the gaze of an ancient god.
The Heavenly Immortal cultivator's eyes were filled with an expression of utter shock...
That was... divine punishment!
That was the most violent energy in the world! That was energy that cultivators had never been able to control before!
How could this happen to Perfected Yunmo...?
"Imperial Edict!"
Before the Heavenly Immortal cultivators could understand this, Xu Long, under the Dharma Body, had his expression tighten to the extreme.
He looked at the vortex above his head and immediately uttered a single word.
As soon as the word was uttered, the enormous vortex within the Celestial Phenomenon seemed to be disturbed and stopped spinning for a moment.
Then a flash of lightning suddenly appeared within the giant eye, illuminating the entire sky above the Pinglu Daoist Sanctuary with a bolt of lightning.