ccnovels #435 - The immortal talisman is showing its evil power!
#435 - The immortal talisman is showing its evil power!
"Commander, spatial transmission fluctuations detected!"
"Try to interrupt it."
"Interference wave launched… Interference wave ineffective."
As Peony's report ended, the suddenly appearing black light cluster abruptly collapsed, and right above where the Sky Net troops were located, as well as several nearby military camps, a simple, bronze giant door opened.
Inside the door, light shimmered, and dozens of figures came rushing out.
Wang Jixuan frowned upon seeing this.
The Sky Net troops below were dumbfounded.
Forty-two powerful auras rapidly spread across the sky and earth, as if forty-two brilliant light pillars had appeared!
Forty-two experts!
And all of them were cultivators from the True World and the Void World!
Taoist Wang was momentarily speechless, feeling as if he had boarded the wrong ship. How could the strength of Sky Net be so different from that of the Dark Sect!
The number of people sent by both sides in the second wave must have been the result of intelligence gaming, and a strength assessment carefully considered by the higher-ups of both sides.
Within these forty-two auras, Wang Jixuan even felt three or four existences that could exert pressure on his current self.
At least two Grand Ascension stage experts!
For a moment, the thought of surrendering flashed through Taoist Wang's mind, but he immediately reacted.
"Let the Sky Net troops charge into outer space!"
Wang Jixuan made a decisive decision, and Peony had already begun executing the order.
Twelve streams of light darted towards the front left from the camp. That was the Stream of Light Transformation technique that cultivators after the Transformation God stage could use, with fast escape speed but huge mana consumption.
It was precisely because Wang Jixuan's order was fast enough that the Dark Sect disciples who had just teleported over didn't even have time to spread their spiritual senses before the Sky Net troops began to run.
Otherwise, it would be wishful thinking for the Sky Net troops to want to fly into the sky.
"Sky Net!"
"Kill them!"
A group of Dark Sect disciples shouted directly using the Thousand Mile Sound Transmission technique, their momentum was magnificent for a time. Ignoring everything else, dozens of people chased after their mortal enemies, the Sky Net troops, wanting to rush into the high sky.
Taoist Wang, however, knew that both the Sky Net troops and their own fleet needed a certain amount of time to deploy.
Moreover, he also wanted to make contact with the Dark Sect, to compare the two sides and see whether the Dark Sect's purpose was to capture him or kill him, and whether there was a possibility of cooperation.
If the Dark Sect disciples were following the will of the master of the Immortal Finger to erase his existence, then he could only compete with them.
He, the host, stood up!
"Hahahaha!"
According to the rules of the cultivation world, laughing first expresses one's lack of hostility.
Wang Jixuan gave a few fake laughs, immediately attracting the attention of this group of Dark Sect disciples.
He stepped on a flying sword and rose into the air, deliberately revealing his cultivation of only the Transformation God stage.
Transformation God, Integration, Tribulation Transcendence, Grand Ascension.
This could be considered as him hiding eighty or ninety percent of his strength.
Wang Jixuan cast a spell and said loudly: "Fellow Daoists of the Dark Sect, what an honor it is for you to grace this humble place with your presence! Please, fellow Daoists, move to a place for a chat!"
The group of Dark Sect disciples who were about to chase after the Sky Net troops hesitated at this moment.
Three gray-haired elders wearing black half-face armor turned to look at where Wang Jixuan was.
One of them made a gesture, and the other two gray-haired elders immediately led about two-thirds of the Dark Sect disciples to chase after them into the high sky.
Wang Jixuan secretly calculated in his heart, also sweating for the upcoming battle in outer space.
Although his side had transferred fleets, spiritual practitioners, and built planetary defense systems outside the Earth's outer space and atmosphere… facing nearly thirty great cultivators, these were probably not enough.
Surface cities were also easily affected by the aftermath of the battle.
And the twelve or thirteen people he was facing…
The Taoist priest didn't really take it to heart.
Wang Jixuan cupped his hands from afar: "Everyone, could it be that there is a language barrier? Do you not know the language of this world?"
The leading gray-haired elder had an jade cicada in his palm.
The remaining twelve Dark Sect disciples began to slowly fly around, vaguely forming a large net to trap Wang Jixuan.
The gray-haired elder's voice sounded, somewhat obscure and very hoarse:
"Wang Zheng, hand over the core circuit and spare yourself the suffering of tormenting your primordial spirit."
Wang Jixuan: …
What the hell;
That's the classic villain speech!
Taoist Wang's smile faded, he snorted coldly, and used his spiritual sense to observe the positions of Gao Huating and Shen Qionglin, confirming that they had been transferred to a safe area, and he no longer had any worries.
"It seems that everyone is here to kill this poor Taoist?"
Wang Jixuan stood with his hands behind his back, his figure proudly upright:
"A Grand Ascension stage Fellow Daoist should already be enough, why let your subordinates come forward to seek death?
"How about you and I exchange a few moves?"
The gray-haired elder remained unmoved.
The other Dark Sect disciples, seeing Wang Jixuan so calm, worried that Wang Jixuan had some hidden arrangements, and their figures became a little hesitant.
This time, they directly used three elders because the previous batch of Dark Sect disciples who came to this world were all beheaded.
In their view, this place was also a bit of a dragon's pool and tiger's den.
The gray-haired elder said indifferently: "Destroy his body, keep his primordial spirit, the first to succeed will receive a triple reward."
One person suddenly shot a stream of light at Wang Jixuan, and twelve people attacked almost simultaneously!
They either sacrificed flying swords, or threw out large seals and small pagodas, or condensed palms, or held magic weapons and swept out a sky full of fire.
All kinds of attacks fell at the same time!
A few sneers appeared on the corner of Wang Jixuan's mouth, his figure was like a falling leaf, the Wangxiang Valley's 'Green Ripple Art' was used, and many attacks were easily thrown to the left of his figure.
He raised his hand and threw out a sword qi.
This sword qi seemed soft and weak, but it contained a continuous and unending sword momentum.
Streams of spiritual energy surged towards the sword qi, and in a few moments, this sword qi swelled into a towering giant sword, crushing towards the gray-haired elder.
The gray-haired elder's wide sleeves billowed, and a pitch-black God-Extinguishing Claw shot forward.
The world suddenly lost its color.
The thin spiritual energy on the Earth's surface seemed to be drawn here.
Wang Jixuan's spiritual sense was slightly throbbing.
The black claw easily shattered the giant sword and returned to the gray-haired elder's palm, and the gray-haired elder was immediately wrapped in strands of black energy.
Wang Jixuan stared at the black claw for a few moments, and found that this should be the claw of a certain eagle-like, eagle-like great demon, which had been refined into such a secret treasure, surrounded by resentment, and its power was comparable to a great spiritual treasure.
The Taoist priest secretly said in his heart that it was troublesome.
The twelve people had already turned into streams of light and shot towards him.
Wang Jixuan turned around and fled towards the ground, wanting to repeat his old trick and use the self-controlled mechanical army to set up a formation.
Peony had already hidden in the underground darkness and began to issue orders.
However, before those self-controlled mechanical bodies could appear, the leading gray-haired elder had another seemingly ordinary talisman in his palm.
As soon as this talisman came out, Wang Jixuan's spiritual sense throbbing became more obvious.
He felt a clear immortal power.
That's right!
This talisman was definitely not from the hand of a lower realm cultivator, and the talisman contained an extremely strong power of thunder.
The gray-haired elder threw out the talisman and pointed a finger at the surface of the earth.
The immortal talisman instantly turned into a sky full of lightning, covering an area of thousands of miles, and the lightning condensed into thunderballs that fell, suspended in the air, and released countless tiny lightning in all directions.
Various electronic instruments in the human world began to malfunction.
Most of the self-controlled mechanical bodies that were originally operating normally had this or that small problem.
Many mechanical bodies directly began to emit smoke from the top of their heads.
Wang Jixuan: …
Good fellow, the Dark Sect has special means to deal with technological civilization!
The corners of Wang Jixuan's mouth twitched lightly a few times.
His tried-and-true drone formation could not be used, and now it was not appropriate to fight.
He turned around and fled directly.
The twelve experts maintained their original positions and chased after him with all their strength.
A few sneers appeared on the gray-haired elder's face, and his figure flickered continuously, landing in front of Wang Jixuan, but he refused to let Wang Jixuan escape from the area covered by the immortal talisman.
In the eyes of the gray-haired elder, Wang Jixuan seemed to be grasping at straws, and rushed towards himself with a spear in his hand.
Simply seeking death.
"Your death is near, don't struggle anymore."
The gray-haired elder urged the God-Extinguishing Claw in his hand, and the black claw slammed down on Wang Jixuan's head.
Wang Jixuan pursed his lips tightly, and did not reply. The Dragon Python protected his body, and the magic weapon spear bloomed with a thousand feet of black light, colliding head-on with the black claw!
Clang! Buzz—
First, a crisp collision sound resounded through the sky and earth, and then there was a continuous noise of boiling spiritual energy.
A shock wave rippled from the sky and earth!
The God-Extinguishing Claw and Wang Jixuan's figure each retreated.
The gray-haired elder leaned back, his blood surged, and a few surprises appeared in his eyes.
This surprise turned into anger a few seconds later.
No other reason, Wang Jixuan seemed to have calculated it, and forcibly resisted his God-Extinguishing Claw, and used the momentum generated by the fight between the two to fly backwards towards the three Dark Sect disciples behind him.
Those Dark Sect disciples widened their eyes.
Was there such a good thing?
A large reward seemed to be beckoning to them!
In their view, Wang Jixuan was injured by their elder's 'immortal weapon', and this was a great opportunity to pick up the slack, so they ignored maintaining their formation and rushed towards Wang Jixuan's back at the same time.
In just one breath, the three were about to grab Wang Jixuan at the same time.
The flying Taoist Wang suddenly turned around, with a slight sneer on the corner of his mouth, holding a large machete emitting a blazing red light in his hand. The exaggerated machete bloomed with a light arc, and suddenly magnified in the pupils of the three.
Whoosh!
A head, a body, and a thigh flew upwards at the same time.
A fire-red arc bloomed towards the sky and earth behind the three.
The black dragon roared, and the primordial spirits of the two had fallen into the dragon's head, and were directly crushed by the tyrannical power of the demonic art.
The great cultivator in the Integration stage who lost his thigh could not even dodge, and was pierced through by the spear held in Wang Jixuan's other hand.
Wang Ji Xuan's sneak attack was executed with seamless precision.
The three Composite Realm cultivators, consumed by greed, lost their lives so easily before the treasure forged in his second life.
The remaining Dark Sect disciples were wide-eyed with shock and alarm bells rang in their heads.
How could they dare to advance any further?
This group of Dark Sect disciples unleashed their full power from afar, intent on obliterating Wang Ji Xuan directly.
Daoist Wang dared not be careless, and putting away the large cleaver, he immediately fled forward.
In a battle of this level, to take down three people with a sneak attack was already a pleasant surprise. In a head-on fight, it would take him some effort to deal with even one Dark Sect disciple.
But a life-and-death struggle wasn't a ring match; how could there be so much head-on fighting?
Wang Ji Xuan adjusted his newly acquired treasure, the immortal sword Moonflower, to the very edge of his right-hand storage ring, making it easily accessible.
Next, as long as he could find an opportunity to get close to that old Great Ascension stage fellow…
"Bastard!"
The gray-haired elder roared in furious rage, the frequency of his movements suddenly increasing. Ignoring the loss of mana, he directly used the Soul-Destroying Claw as a flying sword, relentlessly pursuing Wang Ji Xuan.
Wang Ji Xuan was momentarily in a perilous situation.
This wasn't him deliberately feigning weakness; it was simply that this black bird's claw had too great a pedigree, and he dared not be touched by it in the slightest.
The other nine Dark Sect disciples were also working very hard, wishing they could unleash all ten levels of their mana.
Wang Ji Xuan looked at the layers of lightning on the ground, and he was also somewhat anxious in his heart.
Logically speaking, with the development of autonomous mechanical bodies to this extent, they should already possess extremely strong anti-interference and anti-electromagnetic technology.
But in the face of that immortal talisman's lightning, they were actually completely powerless to resist.
On closer thought, Tian Luo and the Dark Sect traveled through various realms, and it was highly likely that they had encountered advanced technological civilizations similar to Earth's civilization. The energy that technological civilizations could utilize was also just these few things.
The Dark Sect's methods were quite up-to-date.
The finger that the old man pointed out earlier was actually using a sealing technique to prevent the ground from being able to perform earth遁.
However, if it was just this little trick, it would be far from enough to bring Daoist Wang to his wit's end.
Wang Ji Xuan had mingled for six thousand years in his second life, and the means he had accumulated could be called 'rich and varied'.
He suddenly turned around and flung out hundreds of streaks of black light, and the Dark Sect disciples who were blocking him immediately dodged.
Peng peng peng!
Bursts of black smoke exploded, enveloping Wang Ji Xuan in a spherical range of thousands of feet, nearly ten thousand meters in diameter.
Whether it was the gray-haired elder or the other Dark Sect disciples, at this moment they were all unable to lock onto Wang Ji Xuan's figure with their spiritual sense, and their eyesight and other detection methods also failed.
That black claw also seemed to have lost its target.
"Playing tricks!"
A colorful bird fan appeared in the gray-haired elder's palm—a magic weapon made from immortal bird feathers.
He waved it violently, and a violent wind arose between heaven and earth.
But the black smoke remained motionless.
The gray-haired elder roared, "Where are your magic weapons!"
The nine Dark Sect disciples each took out their own treasures for long-range attacks. Bows and crossbows, flying swords, hidden weapons, and flying stones—all kinds of treasures were available, and they simultaneously smashed them towards the black smoke.
But they never expected that the treasures they sent out would lose contact with their primordial spirits as soon as they entered the black smoke.
Before long, one treasure after another was wrapped in black air and fell freely to the ground.
Wang Ji Xuan hid in the black smoke, a slight smile on his lips.
He was stalling for time.
Immortal talismans were also talismans, and talismans could not continuously exert force for too long. He only needed to wait for the immortal power within this immortal talisman below to be exhausted, or wait for the ground's Solidifying Earth Technique to dissipate. He could either summon a million mechanical body army or escape underground and return to Cloud City.
As for methods like black smoke, the inventive Sanjie Langlangzi had prepared dozens of them for him!
He could exhaust them to death!
A little bit of confidence from a Great Ascension stage weapon refining grandmaster.
Just as Wang Ji Xuan became idle, thunder was already coming from above.
Countless beams of light filled the sky.
That was the brilliance of Earth's planetary defense system (hundreds of thousands of Earth's near-Earth orbit and synchronous orbit self-maintaining laser cannons) firing.
Unlike the planetary defense systems developed by other technological civilizations, Earth's system also considered attacking spirit practitioners, so the minimum locking unit was no less than ten centimeters in diameter.
Although that group of Dark Sect cultivators would not be directly blasted to death, their own mana and the spiritual power of their treasures would inevitably be consumed somewhat.
The great battle in space would probably result in a large number of casualties.
Those two Great Ascension stage Dark Sect disciples were not vegetarians either.
Wang Ji Xuan's thoughts flickered slightly.
If he was only dealing with a dozen enemies alone, it would naturally be fine to spend a little more time.
But now, he was the backbone of his side. If he could kill these guys as soon as possible and rush up to support them, that would naturally be the best.
'Forget it, I'll just waste some treasures.'
Daoist Wang's gaze locked onto the gray-haired elder in front of him, a murderous intent hidden in his eyes. A black needle as thin as a cow's hair appeared in his palm.
He deliberately stimulated them by saying, "What, are you all at your wit's end? The Dark Sect is nothing more than this."
The group of people outside were unmoved.
Wang Ji Xuan's different soul transformed into a wisp of black smoke, merging with the surrounding black smoke, and carried those black needles to the edge of the black smoke.
Then Daoist Wang suddenly struck out with his palm, and bursts of black smoke exploded like fireworks, showering the ten enemies like rain…
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