Chapter 178: Fishing with iron ropes and eating dragons with mayflies
As Nanke 蚍蜉 continued to swallow the essence of the mirage, the six Shezhao Taoist priests outside the Dragon Palace Formation also panicked.
They stared at the mirage below where corpse energy and essence energy were constantly falling, and their hearts were bleeding.
"Hey! What on earth is going on!" A Taoist priest was furious as he hammered the formation, as if he wanted to directly break through the formation and then grab out the mirage underneath.
However, when Xu Dao completely activated the dragon-transforming blood-exchange formation, the entire formation continuously absorbed the spiritual energy from Sheshan's spiritual veins. The formation was fully effective, and it was not something that a Taoist priest in the foundation-building realm could easily defeat.
Even if the Taoist priest of the Hammer Formation breaks through the formation barrier, it does not dare to enter the formation easily because it has already sensed a strong sense of crisis from the turbulent formation.
Not only was it like this, but the other five Taoist priests who gave up the imperial edict were also like this. They all looked at the formation with fear. You looked at me, I looked at you, but no one was willing to use all their strength to enter the formation to find out the situation.
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Taoist priest Linghu stayed aside. He was eating happily, but then he saw something unexpected happened in the Dragon Palace, and the six Taoist priests of Shezhao were a little helpless.
Taoist Linghu felt confused and couldn't help but say:
"Even if this formation is very powerful, is it possible that it can withstand the combined efforts of six fellow Taoists? If not, try it with Pindao."
A toad Taoist priest nearby heard it, but his throat growled and he muttered: "Thank you very much for your kindness, fellow Taoist Linghu."
"But what fellow Taoists don't know is that this formation is really powerful! According to records, this formation is like a cage. Even if a monster at the foundation-building level falls into it, it will have no chance of escaping. If someone controls the formation, even a foundation-building monster can
There is a possibility of being refined alive."
Another centipede Taoist priest heard that its tentacles were shaking constantly, and he also responded: "Exactly. Although this formation is now dilapidated, there is no guarantee that its effectiveness has not been lost. Look! Even the vitality of the centipede can be destroyed by the formation.
It cannot be easily ingested, so the danger inside is certainly not small."
When Taoist Linghu heard the answers from the two Taoist priests beside him, he completely put away his initial feeling of contempt and belittlement.
It secretly used its spiritual consciousness and mobilized its magic power to break through the barrier of the formation and enter the Dragon Palace to explore. However, when it reluctantly sent its spiritual consciousness in, a wave of evil aura immediately blew away the little bit of its spiritual consciousness.
Scattered away without any trace or feeling.
"It's true!" This also made Taoist Linghu's expression change immediately.
Originally, he wanted to use his secret technique to show the profound Taoist skills of White Bone Temple to help the six Shezhao Taoist priests, but when encountering this situation, the little Jiujiu in Taoist Linghu's heart completely disappeared.
I saw it cupping its hands, and in an instant it was almost twenty or thirty feet away from the Dragon Palace Formation. Then it cupped its hands and said, "Fellow Taoists, please. I am a poor Taoist who has little talent and little knowledge, so I will not show my shame."
The consciousness of several Shezhao Taoist priests swept over Taoist priest Linghu one by one, with some surprise and ridicule, but Taoist priest Linghu didn't blush and had no intention of getting in front again.
After all, it had no idea what was going on under the Dragon Palace, so why would it get into trouble for a few Taoist priests who gave up the imperial edict.
You must know that after it penetrated its spiritual consciousness just now, even its heart twitched faintly, which indicated that there must be a big crisis in the Dragon Palace.
The six-path spiritual consciousness separated from Taoist Linghu and twisted into a ball outside the Dragon Palace formation. The Taoist priests communicated at the speed of lightning and flint, and could transmit more than a thousand words in an instant.
The efficiency of such communication is far better than the communication between mortals and Taoist disciples. This is another manifestation of the extraordinary extraordinaryness of the foundation-building Taoist priests. Of course, this method cannot be easily achieved.
In less than ten breaths, the consciousness of the six Shezhao Taoist priests was withdrawn, and they nodded towards each other.
At the same time, a Taoist priest called to Taoist Linghu: "This place is no longer safe. Please step back a few steps, my fellow Taoists. Why don't you go back to Sheshan Taoist Mansion and wait for the six of me to return?"
Hearing this, Taoist Linghu originally wanted to reply shamelessly: It is not afraid of danger and can skim the formation. But immediately, it felt that it was locked by several strands of divine consciousness.
And what was different from before was that in addition to being sarcastic, these strands of consciousness also showed a cold feeling, wandering over its body as if someone was licking its entire body with its tongue.
"Damn it! These cowards!" Taoist priest Linghu immediately cursed in his heart, knowing that the six Shezhao Taoist priests did not welcome it, and directly issued an order to expel the guest, with the intention of threatening it.
Seeing the other party's attitude, Taoist priest Linghu felt regretful for a moment, secretly thinking that he might not have been too timid just now, but should have chosen to face the difficulty with pretense. In this way, the six Taoist priests of Shezhao might not directly choose to expel it.
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The reason why Taoist priest Linghu regretted was not that he felt he had lost face or felt that he had been despised by others, but because he thought that although there were risks in the next step, great benefits would probably occur, so the six Taoist priests suddenly changed their faces and directly
To drive it away.
The Taoist priest rolled his eyes several times, but finally he still showed a fox face, forced a smile and said to several Shezhao Taoist priests:
"Very good. In that case, I will not disturb you fellow Taoists from their busy work and go ahead."
After saying that, it really swam leisurely over the lake, and the speed was not slow, as if the soles of its feet were greased.
The spiritual consciousness of several Shezhao Taoist priests also followed it closely. When their spiritual consciousness could no longer be traced and the figure of Taoist Linghu could no longer be seen, they withdrew their gaze and turned to stare at the mirage in the Dragon Palace.
Dragon body.
"The formation has changed for some reason. It may be a hidden trick left by the person who set up the formation in advance. We will catch the mirage quickly before it suffers irreparable damage."
"Yes! If you delay for a moment longer, a hundred years of hard work will be in vain."
The six Taoist priests reached a consensus. They were lying outside the dragon palace's formation, their faces crowded at the boundaries of the formation, their mouths drooling and twisted.
boom!
Their bodies that were several feet in size swayed, and six majestic pillars of mana rose from their bodies, penetrated the lake water, and connected to their backhands that had been prepared for a long time.
Then there was a crashing sound.
The ground shook slightly, and a dozen thick black iron chains were seen penetrating the soil and hanging from the sky above the lake into the lake. Because the momentum was so fast, it caused a lot of splashing waves.
The faint metallic luster reflects from the black iron chains. If anyone takes a closer look, they will find that these chains are all formed from the iron cable bridges that were originally tied to both sides of the Wuxia River. Their roots ripple in the lake, making them appear sonorous, powerful and indestructible.
Click! The black iron chain twisted into a ball and landed on the Dragon Palace like an anchor, blasting out the slightest crack in the Dragon Palace formation that had become tough.
It struck the Dragon Transformation and Blood Exchange Formation one after another, as if it were knocking on a hard egg shell.
The six Shezhao Taoist priests were constantly swimming around the iron rope. The iron rope was wrapped in thick demonic aura, and the energy and blood in their bodies were exerting terrifying magic power.
Buzz!
The movement in the Dragon Palace formation was also transmitted to the iron tower.
Xu Dao was immersed in the process of driving the worms to devour the essence of the mirage. He stared closely at the ant king in his hand and the earthworms around him that were undergoing earth-shaking changes, and he was filled with joy.
However, the movement outside the formation prevented him from immersing himself in practice, so he had to focus on two things and pay attention to the changes in the Dragon Palace.
Through the panoramic view of the Dragon Palace, he quickly saw clearly the actions of the Shezhao Taoist priests and what their intentions were.
He saw six Taoist priests showing off their power, stirring up the entire dark lake and making him restless.
"I want to steal the benefits from Pindao." He suddenly sneered in his heart.
If he were outside and saw this scene in front of him, not to mention the six Shezhao Taoist priests, even if he was just one of them, he would hide as far away as possible.
But it's different now. He is in the hub of the Dragon Palace Formation. He has the formation as a support and Sheshan Dragon Vein as a source of power, but he doesn't have to fear the Foundation-Building Taoist Priest for the time being.
Xu Dao squinted his eyes and was about to drive a burst of mana into the iron wall of the secret room, activating the formation patterns on it.
Whoosh! The runes on the iron wall twisted, and surging spiritual energy was extracted from the spiritual veins by the formation. While squeezing the essence of the mirage even more crazily, it also tried its best to resist the attacks of the Shezhao Taoist priests.
Not counting expenses and losses.
And in the iron tower, the speed of the changes of each Nan Ke Pingfly is also faster, simply traveling thousands of miles a day.
The ant king's body swelled up like a balloon, and the two sharp corners on its head became more prominent. It was full of evil spirit, and its body changed in a slender direction.
In just a few dozen breaths, the temperament of the Ant King was completely changed, and it even showed an aura that made many people feel oppressed.
"Transform into a dragon!" Xu Dao looked at this change with surprises in his eyes.
The other earthworms around were also running straight in the direction of the dragon, but their speed and level were far inferior to that of the ant king.
For a time, Xu Dao began to feel regret in his heart.
"If I had known that there would be a good opportunity like this, where I could swallow the essence of miraculous dragons, the more I swallowed, the more benefits. I should have raised more crickets, instead of just keeping these Qi-refining-level crickets...
Otherwise, the number of mouths that can swallow the essence of the mirage can be increased ten times or even dozens of times!"
If he had millions of jellyfish in his hand, he would probably be sure to drain all the essence out of the mirage, turning all the centuries-old plots of the Taoist priests of Shezhao into nothing.
"continue!"
Since he was in a hurry and couldn't open a few more mouths, Xu Dao naturally had no choice but to hurry up and let the Gu insects eat their energy and transform into dragons, so as not to waste the great opportunity.
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Click! A huge cracking sound sounded.
On the other side, after a stalemate for a hundred years, due to the broken dragon-transformation formation, the formation barrier could not withstand the simultaneous efforts of six Shezhao Taoist priests. The chains formed by the iron cable bridge broke through the barrier and stretched into
Go to the Dragon Palace.
"Hahaha!" In the lake, the Taoist priests roared loudly, and their laughter rolled, wantonly and proudly.
Blah blah blah!
The sound of rolling black iron chains rang out, and more than a dozen chains bifurcated again, falling to various positions on the mirage's head, and then pierced directly into the body of the mirage like needles, and then condensed into one again, trying to
Drag the huge mirage body up.
The Taoist priests' voices of joy came again from outside the formation: "The big fish is hooked!"
"Everyone, please work harder!"
A huge force was transmitted through the iron chain, and the corpse of the mirage, which weighed an unknown amount of tens of thousands of kilograms, was hooked up and pulled out of the formation one foot at a time.
Although its speed was slow, it did not stop for a quarter of an hour.
Seeing that the energy of the mirage was still draining away in vain, the movements on the hands of the six Shezhao Taoist priests became even more urgent. They frantically mobilized their magic power to completely drag the mirage out of the Dragon Palace as soon as possible to prevent it from being transformed into a dragon for blood exchange.
The array absorbs essence and corpse energy.
Because in just a few hundred breaths of time, the level of energy in the mirage's body dropped a lot again, almost losing 10%.
Although the number of 10% seems small, you must know that this mirage has been raised by the Taoist priests of Shezhao for two to three hundred years.
One of the achievements is the hard work accumulated over 20 to 30 years.
While the Taoist priests were fishing for dragons, more and more energy gathered in the Iron Tower of Dragon Palace.
The secret room deserves to be called a pool of blood. The ant king in Xu Dao's hands is already a majestic figure and initially has the appearance of a dragon species.
The huge amount of energy was rolling around in the secret room, which made him really envious. He wanted to swallow the energy inside, but at the same time, he was also terrified.
Because the corpse energy around him had become so thick that it turned black. If he hadn't taken out the earthworm flag just now and wrapped it around his body, I'm afraid he would have been corroded by the corpse energy, and his body might have been destroyed beyond recognition.
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At such a tense moment, Xu Dao didn't have time to worry about too many things besides urging the formation to continue and squeeze the mirage's essence even more violently.
But for the six Shezhao Taoist priests, their struggle finally bore fruit.
The mirage was caught, and its head had already touched the edge of the Dragon Palace Formation. Because the corpse energy and granulation on its body acted independently, the barrier of the Dragon Palace Formation was pierced through like paper.
The entire mirage began to squeeze outside the Dragon Palace, and its head was slowly poking out. But just when the Shezhao Taoist priests were about to rejoice, there was a buzzing sound in the Dragon Palace.
An astonishing burst of evil energy suddenly entered the perception of the Taoist priests from below. When they lowered their heads and looked at it, they all exclaimed: "There is evil energy!"
Buzz!
One by one, the extremely ferocious and weird-looking insects jumped out from the iron tower, fell hard on the mirage, and began to eat the flesh and blood.
The insects have slender bodies, with transparent wings on their backs and six legs on their abdomens. They look like fat, strange snakes with wings. Each of them has two protrusions on its head.
There were tens of thousands of them, more than one hundred thousand. After tearing apart the flesh and blood of the mirage, they all squirmed and got into the body of the mirage...