Jiang Xueling shook the whisk in his hand, and after swinging it a few times, the whisk threads condensed into one, as if it had turned into a sharp sword, directly facing the fierce sword moves of the Miaoyun Demon King.
"when… "
The tip of the whisk collided with the demon sword, making a crisp and loud roar, and even stirred up a strong wind, which cleared away all the turbid air and dust around.
Demon King Miaoyun smiled as he drew his sword and changed his moves. His figure appeared like mist behind Jiang Xueling. Demon swords also appeared, as if many sword lights appeared from all directions at the same time in an instant.
Jiang Xueling's whisk swung out a white light, covering her entire body in protection, and she engaged in an intensive battle with the Demon King's swordsmanship for a short period of time.
This scene was neither magnificent nor fairy-like, but the flashing sword light changed extremely quickly. The sword energy frequently cut thin scars on the head of the Sky-Devouring Beast. The sword intent attacked in all directions, causing the temperature of the top of the Sky-Devouring Beast's head to drop continuously, and a layer of frost even formed around Jiang Xueling's feet.
The sword energy and sword intent of this demon king are so sharp and so methodical. Compared with some sword immortals in the conventional sense who specialize in swordsmanship, the demon king's swordsmanship has the meaning of combining the sword skills of a warrior with the sword techniques of cultivation. Jiang Xueling's response is also outstanding, and she looks like a swordsman rather than a fairy holding a whisk.
Ji Yuan's eyes lit up when he saw this scene, while Ju Yuanzi and Lian Baiping were already secretly summoning their magic power.
On the other side, the Leopard Demon King roared and landed on the back of the Sky-Devouring Beast, trying to tear its skin and flesh, but the Sky-Devouring Beast had thick skin and rough flesh, and the little wound on its back was nothing. Moreover, with its own spiritual light flourishing, it was like a mountain of gold and stone shaking constantly in the air.
"Hahahaha, let's see whether you have thick flesh or sharp claws and teeth. Let's see how long you can last!"
The Leopard Demon King roared and laughed, but raised his head to look at the sky. There were more than a dozen fairy lights flying in the air with flowing colors. They were the dozen or so disciples of the Weimei Sect headed by Zhou Xian, each of whom had a high level of cultivation.
"How dare you, evil creature!" "Die!"
Zhou Xian led her fellow sisters and brothers, and descended from the sky onto the back of the Sky-Devouring Beast. After a shout of "formation", more than a dozen disciples of the Weimei Sect immediately used the formation on the back of the Sky-Devouring Beast to shuttle back and forth around the huge leopard, attacking it with magic and fighting with the Demon King.
While watching the battle between immortals and demons, Ji Yuan also glanced at Ju Yuanzi and Lian Baiping. The situation this time was a little special, and he needed to think carefully about how to proceed.
"Ji Yuan, what were you thinking when you fell to the ground?"
A slight and hoarse voice came into Ji Yuan's ears. He glanced at Ju Yuanzi and Lian Baiping, but there was no reaction from them. The source of the voice was of course the Xiezhi scroll in his sleeve.
Ji Yuan didn't move his mouth, but his voice went back to his sleeve along the same path.
"Master Xiezhi, you should be able to see that the blood of Kun contained in this Sky Devouring Beast is not low, right? Xiao San's blood is even higher than that of the Giant Whale General."
"Humph, that's irrelevant. Can't I see that? If you don't take action, relying on that girl from Weimei Sect and the two people beside you, even if you can temporarily protect the Sky Devouring Beast, it will go crazy and devour in the Southern Wilds, and sooner or later it will attract more and more monsters. You must know that its mouth is now a bottomless pit and it will never be full. Rather than dying in the Southern Wilds, it's better for me to eat it."
You are the combination of Kun and Taotie, right? Ji Yuan complained in his heart, and was also slightly surprised that the Sky-Swallowing Beast could not eat enough at the moment, but he chose to believe Xiezhi and only replied in a voice transmission.
"It all depends on fate."
After Ji Yuan finished speaking, there was no more sound from his sleeves, so he didn't say much. Ji Yuan naturally had a plan in mind, but sitting here at the moment was far from being calm and composed.
In Ji Yuan's opinion, the hunger felt by the Sky-Swallowing Beast when it woke up did not necessarily mean that it needed to be full before it could transform. What it brought about was a calamity of heaven for it.
Just as a Jiaolong needs to borrow the power of running water to transform into a real dragon, running water is both a help and a disaster. Its purpose is not to cause a flood to bring disaster to the world, but to become a real dragon. The situation of the Tianyan Beast is similar at this moment.
According to past experience of Weimei Sect, there were limited times when the Sky-Swallowing Beast transformed over the long years, and all of them were protected within the sect's large formation, which was not necessarily "real", so they all failed. What Xiezhi said made Ji Yuan realize this point clearly.
At this moment, the Sky-Swallowing Beast was basically in a state of madness due to extreme hunger. It could only listen to a little bit of Jiang Xueling's guiding words. This was a disaster for the Sky-Swallowing Beast. If it could survive, it would be like a golden scale turning into a dragon when encountering the wind. If it couldn't survive, the Sky-Swallowing Beast would most likely die.
The two wastelands are the most taboo places in the eyes of the righteous. The Black Wasteland is almost completely a realm of terror. The Southern Wasteland is slightly better, at least there are some basic tacit understandings with all walks of life. In name, it has drawn a clear line with the Black Wasteland and does not care about it privately, but on the surface, it has an agreement with the various cultivation circles.
Some things were not as exaggerated as those in the Black Wasteland, but if you say how good they were, they were not very good. Just look at the miasma and hostility that filled the Southern Wasteland and you will understand the situation.
Even Ji Yuan understood that the probability of staying clean and untainted was much greater than that of being corrupted by the company of ink. Even though he could not agree with Jiang Xueling's "old idea" that immortals and demons could not coexist, in the current situation, they were all in the same boat. The Weimei Sect could not abandon the mad and uncontrollable Sky-Devouring Beast, and Ji Yuan and the other two could not just walk away.
At this moment, when they really faced off against the two demon kings of the Southern Wilderness, the situation inevitably became serious.
These two demon kings were certainly not good guys, which Ji Yuan could see clearly with his divine eyes, but they were representatives of a kind, representatives of the southern demon world.
The demons in the Southern Wilds still have some rules and tacit understandings. The last time the tacit understanding was broken was when a big demon stole the precious elixir from the Tianji Pavilion, which led to a large number of demons causing chaos in the Southern Wilds. Changjian Mountain and the Tianji Pavilion joined forces to kill the demons, and the mountain god of Hengshan was furious and took action. Some old demons and demon kings in the Southern Wilds have remained relatively silent.
This time, it was the Sky-Swallowing Beast that broke the tacit understanding.
The core of Ji Yuan's back-up plan is to hope that the Heaven-Devouring Beast can successfully transform, or even if it fails but can be awakened to its senses, so that everything can be salvaged, and there is still room for negotiation with the Southern Wilderness Demon King. Otherwise, even if he uses his sleeves to hide the Heaven-Devouring Beast, it will not work.
Because a very fatal reality is that the Sky-Swallowing Beast is definitely one of the very few creatures that can break free from the Sleeve Qiankun Technique in a short period of time.
The horrific consumption of mana is only secondary. The core of the magical method of "The Universe in the Sleeve" comes from the Sky-Devouring Beast, and the Sky-Devouring Beast has a world of its own inside its body. Although it is very small, it really exists. "The Universe in the Sleeve" uses Ji Yuan's sleeves as a boundary to trap people, but it cannot restrict people who can form their own "world" to some extent. The Sky-Devouring Beast's realm is not high, but it has a good foundation of talent. At least now Ji Yuan can calculate by himself, and he cannot trap the mad beast, unless it regains rationality and cooperates.
As long as the Sky-Swallowing Beast could cooperate, or if all else failed he could put it into his sleeve and then rush out of the Southern Wilderness with Jiang Xueling and the others. Ji Yuan thought he should be able to do it.
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A monster fell into the mouth of the Sky-Devouring Beast in extreme despair. The light in front of it slowly disappeared, and the suction from the back was endless darkness. Although it was not inside a bloody mouth, and there were no sharp teeth to tear its body apart, but once it entered the darkness, all its magic power seemed to be frozen.
"It's over. I'm dead now..."
In the darkness, patches of white mist appeared around him. In a trance, the spirit seemed to see other demons and monsters that were also swallowed by the giant monster. Some were giant wolves, some were birds, some were like cats, and some were still in human form...
The monster could see that all the demons were suspended in the mist. It was dark all around except for the mist. Almost all of the hundreds of demons and monsters that had been swallowed by the Sky-Devouring Beast were alive. They looked like they were all dead, but the monster felt as if they were all still alive. He sensed himself and found that he was also curled up in the mist, motionless with his eyes closed, just like the other demons and monsters.
'I'm not dead?'
The monster thought so in his heart, but the excitement was soon diluted by boredom and fear. There seemed to be no concept of time here. He felt like he had just come in not long ago, but it seemed like several years had passed.
The monster could feel the spiritual power in his body, the demonic power of other monsters, and the demonic energy of the devil, all evaporating away bit by bit. Yes, evaporating, and disappearing after leaving the body, while this cloud of mist was slowly growing larger.
Vaguely, the goblin understood that this process would be extremely long, perhaps so long that his will would naturally dissipate. He didn't know whether other demons and monsters had the same awareness. Anyway, he could only sense that they were motionless but still alive, and there was no communication between them.
"It would be better to just eat me and chew me up..."
In this fog, there would occasionally be a slight vibration, and the fog would tumble. After a few tumbles, the monster seemed to vaguely feel that there was a huge island deep in the fog.
At first he thought it was an illusion, but after seeing it twice, he could see pavilions and towers above, as well as the shining fairy light. Unfortunately, he could not shout or call out, and the fairy island seemed extremely far away. Not to mention asking a fairy to save him, he felt he could not even ask the fairy to kill him.
'Someone please save me. Although I was born in the Southern Wilderness, I have never done anything that would harm the heavens or the law. I just followed the king to get some money...'
The little paper crane was currently wandering around the fairy island inside the Sky-Devouring Beast. There was no one on the island right now, and it was the only living creature on the entire island. It was wandering around and there was no cultivator from the Weimei Sect to stop it. It actually felt quite interesting.
Suddenly, the little paper crane seemed to hear something. It tilted its head and looked at the clouds outside the island. The fog was thicker than before.
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