At this critical moment, the news that Ling Yu was controlled by Qing Yun was like a bolt from the blue to Ouyang Xiao Leng. But Xia Qiu didn't have that much time to explain to him the incredible scene he had just seen, because Qingyun and Lingyu were right in front of them and could launch an attack at any time.
The subordinates led by Qianqi, who was sent to guard the huge pool in the lower city, were all selected from the troops sent by the Amber Dragon King from Dongyao. Together with Qianqi, they stared at the seemingly calm water, their eyes unblinking, catching any signals that might appear at any time.
Every second became slower, and the surroundings were so quiet that only the sounds of insects in the grass on the water bank could be heard. Qianqi wanted to quickly get rid of the monsters that moved through the liquid space so that he could quickly return to Xia Qiu and others, but there was still no movement in the water in front of him.
In Qianqi's team, Water Monkey, his deputy, couldn't help but ask: "Young Master, will those monsters really appear?"
Just when Qianqi was about to respond to him, small bubbles suddenly appeared one after another in the water facing them in the distance. The bubbles that appeared at the beginning were too small to be noticed, and the intervals were very long. Later, The blisters began to gradually grow larger, as if a large hole had been opened at the bottom of the underwater pond.
"Get ready!" Qian Qi ordered his men.
Their tactic was to use the water control technique to trap these monsters together with the water around them as soon as these monsters appeared on the surface of the water, while his men took advantage of this opportunity to attack those monsters.
When they just raised their weapons, the empty water demons finally revealed their true colors. Their head looks like a coconut, with brown hair that almost covers their entire face. Two black eyes appear and disappear. Judging from the width of their shoulders, their bodies should not be very large.
Qian Qi used his magic power to control the water, turning the water around the empty water demons into water columns, pulling them out of the water together with the empty water demons, and pulling them to the shore.
Those air and water monsters struggled in the air, but the first one to be scratched ashore was the water monkey whose head was chopped off by the deputy general. Watching the monster's head roll to the ground, the other warriors were inspired to kill the next few who came ashore. Kill all the air and water demons.
"What?! I thought they were so powerful, but that's all."
Just when Qian Qi was about to feel confident about his tactics, his deputy, Water Monkey, reminded him loudly: "Young Master, look!"
Bubbles began to appear on the surface of the water again, this time in more than one place. Those huge water bubbles popped up from countless locations at the same time, which meant that countless channels for space movement had been opened by the Sky Water Demon.
Sure enough, in the blink of an eye, hundreds of air and water demons appeared on the water at the same time. The way they swim is very strange, almost running with their limbs against the water. This time, Qianqi and the others were finally able to see clearly what these monsters looked like. Their bodies were long and thin, their hands and feet were webbed, and they held a sharp harpoon in one hand.
As they approached the shore, they displayed another unique skill, which was their ability to control water. Their water control skills have certain limitations, and they can only bring water up a certain distance from the pool.
The water they brought up turned into waves and crashed to the shore. The Sky Water Demon used these waves to fly ashore, and used the driving force of the water waves to attack Qianqi and his men.
Qian Qi was just focused on watching the various moves of these monsters, and for a moment he forgot to cast spells. Only then did he react and quickly used his water control technique to form a shield to defend himself and his men.
But he soon discovered that there was a drawback to using water control techniques to deal with the empty water demon. Because these monsters happened to use liquids to move in space, they could use this ability to easily penetrate the shield he formed with water. In this way, he actually helped them.
As a last resort, in order to ensure the safety of his men, he had to temporarily order them: "Everyone, retreat!"
The second round of the Kong Shui Demon's attack had just succeeded, and their next move made Qian Qi and others dumbfounded. After these monsters reach the shore, the air and water monsters in the front row will melt themselves into liquid, while the ones in the back row will use this method to move in space. Then the air and water demons that moved to the front will turn into liquid again, while the ones at the back will recover and move. After alternating several times, they came to Qianqi and others.
This is how the Sky Water Demon, which cannot move without water, attacks forward. They seem to have evolved in a short period of time. Not only their abilities have improved, but their numbers have also increased significantly. At this time, Qianqi still didn't know that Qingyun also used the World Destruction System to copy and transform them.
Qianqi tried to calm himself down and think about countermeasures. The first way he thought of was to use the art of water control to move the liquid magically produced by the empty water back to block their progress, but the speed of his spell casting was not proportional to the number of these monsters.
The soldiers in the front row were constantly injured by the air and water demons. Their harpoons were very strange. They looked like simple double prongs, but there were actually many barbs on each fork. Once they were stabbed by them, they would break free. When it comes out, the wound will expand and blood will burst out.
Seeing that Qianqi and his men were about to be outnumbered, a sheet of white suddenly fell from the sky, as if it was snowing heavily, but they all knew that it was summer and there would be no snow.
"It's salt!" someone shouted.
Qianqi also licked the particles that fell on the corner of his mouth. The salty taste was conveyed to his brain through the taste buds on the tip of his tongue. It was indeed salt. What confused him and his men even more was that the bodies of those air and water demons began to melt immediately after encountering salt. Although they would recover after a period of time, this had already slowed down their speed.
Not only did they sigh, this was really a good way to deal with the air and water demons that was not even recorded in the monster secret book that Ran Tianyou desperately brought back. But without bothering to find out who sprinkled the salt that fell from the sky and helped them a lot, Qianqi quickly ordered to his subordinates: "Now!"
They worked hard and fought back against the empty water demons. They kept slashing and killing, and large areas of the empty water demons fell down. They also gradually forced the group of monsters back to the water. The empty water demons lurked in the water, not They planned to retreat, but they still seemed to be holding on to a glimmer of hope and could strike back at Qianqi and the others at any time.
Qianqi once again used the technique of controlling water, intending to catch all these empty water demons trapped in the water. When the monsters saw that something was wrong, they immediately sank to the bottom of the water and disappeared.
"We won!" Deputy Water Monkey cheered.
Qianqi checked and found that although many of his men were injured, fortunately none of them were life-threatening. Now he finally had a chance to see who had helped them at the critical moment.
He looked up into the sky and saw a group of beautiful cranes circling above them, and he recognized at a glance that the man with pure white wings behind him among those cranes was the Yuhe Sage.
According to Xia Qiu, there has been no news since the Yuhe Immortal disappeared after the battle with the Black Crane in the Realm of Soul Lift, but now he suddenly appears, which really makes people have endless reveries.
The situation on the main battlefield gradually became clearer. Qingyun's battle in Qingyang became more and more like a military training exercise, and its main purpose seemed to be to take away Lingyu. His thoughts have always been difficult to grasp. First of all, he pulled away just after the battle began, leaving both Rakshasa and Yaksha in shock.
Sure enough, shortly after Ouyang Xiaoleng went to look for Xia Qiu, a signal came from Qingyun to withdraw his troops.
"I'm in high spirits, but I haven't had enough fighting yet!" Mother Rakshasa complained, and left under the cover of the tree demon.
Mochizuki, who had just fought against the Rakshasa Mother, turned to attack Yaksha together with Ouyang Hongye. Yaksha was surrounded by them and could not escape for a while, so he had to continue fighting.
There was something wrong with Mochizuki's state today. Ouyang Hongye knew that he wanted to vent his resentment for causing Little Snow Rabbit to lose his mother, as well as all the previous hatred, in this battle. But he knows better than anyone that the more you hold this mentality, the more likely you are to get hurt.
Fortunately, this fierce war ended so hastily, and he could now focus on catching Yasha.
"I want to see how you escape this time! It's a pity that you were abandoned by your master!" Ouyang Hongye pointed at Yasha with the sword in his hand.
But Mochizuki who was behind Yasha took this opportunity to launch a sneak attack on him. Unexpectedly, this guy seemed to have eyes on his back, and a translucent shield from the staff actually blocked Mochizuki's attack.
"Hmph, it's not that easy to sneak attack me!" He didn't seem to feel any fear, and there was even a bit of contempt in his tone.
Ouyang Hongye slashed at him with his sword. He turned his staff to face Ouyang Hongye to block it, and used the spear in his other hand to confront Mochizuki's Moon Shadow Saber.
Mochizuki swung his sword continuously to tear apart the shield formed by his staff, and he had no choice but to fight back with his halberd. Ouyang Hongye drew his sword faster and faster. Just when he and Mochizuki thought they would be able to catch Yasha this time, a figure suddenly appeared and threw a hidden weapon similar to a smoke bomb. The smoke released was extremely pungent. For fear of poisoning, Ouyang Hongye and Wangyue had to temporarily cover their mouths and noses, while Yasha took this opportunity to escape.
"Damn it, let him run away again!" Mochizuki looked around angrily, but Yaksha was nowhere to be seen.
"The one who helped him escape just now was"
Ouyang Hongye found it very strange. Judging from the timing of the appearance of the person who helped Yaksha escape, he should have been observing the battle between them and Yaksha not far away, but he was very sure that the only people around them were the Royal City Army. and demon warriors.
As Yasha fled, the tree demons also began to fight and retreat. Both Wang Cheng's army and the demon spirit warriors suffered casualties, but the number was not large. Hyacinth and the guard warriors also only suffered minor injuries.
"We won?! Why did everyone escape?!" Mochizuki couldn't believe that such a difficult battle could end in an anticlimax.
"It seems so at first glance, but it's not true!" Ouyang Hongye had already guessed that Qingyun had other intentions, and when Ouyang Xiaoleng and Xia Qiu returned, his guess was confirmed to be correct.