Becoming a Saint by Touching Corpses - Chapter 521 - 498: Allied Sect Reinforcements (Part 1)
Chapter 521: Chapter 498: Allied Sect Reinforcements (Part 1)
“The evil bird is coming again, quickly activate the array!”
As soon as the words were spoken, several intense white lights suddenly shot up from the city wall.
Then they interconnected, forming a hemispherical shield that tightly covered everyone.
Two elderly men dressed in black robes, exuding powerful auras, flew to the city wall in an instant, looking ahead into the sky with somewhat grave expressions.
A massive bird, measuring about thirty to forty feet in length, was rapidly approaching.
It had a large fan-shaped fleshy crown on its head larger than a house, and its feathers were flaming red, surrounded by a bright red glow.
As soon as it drew near, wisps of white mist arose all around. Even with the city defense array as a barrier, everyone could feel the heat in the air, leaving them parched, with sweat streaming down their bodies.
“Screech!”
The firebird’s enormous red eyes were like two suns, glinting with a cruel, fierce light.
The next moment, it opened its beak, spewing a spiral flame of red and blue, blasting towards the front of the city’s protective shield!
“Quick, dodge!”
The cultivators in the front scrambled to the side to avoid it.
As the spiral flame touched the array’s light shield, it began burning with a sizzling sound, the area of the light shield visibly shaking violently, its color lightening, with the danger of breaking at any time.
The nearest sections of the city walls to the shield rapidly turned black, with new cracks constantly forming.
The cultivators who moved a bit slower had their hair curled, and their clothes became extremely sticky, clearly near-melting from the intense heat.
Even with the powerful city defense array separating them, part of the fire demon’s flame’s heat penetrated through, showing just how potent its flames were!
All the human cultivators, including the two elders from the Corpse-Driving Sect, looked on grimly as the bird demon wreaked havoc overhead, without any intention of going out to fight.
At this moment, an excited voice rang out:
“The allied sect has arrived!”
As the words fell, a group of over twenty cultivators, wearing orange-yellow and orange-red Daoist robes, all bearing proud expressions, ascended the city wall from within the city passage.
The leading elder from the Red Sun Sect looked to be in his forties, sporting a bushy beard and wearing a bright red Daoist robe. His robust build and surging spiritual essence made everyone from the Corpse-Driving Sect show a solemn demeanor.
“Elder Fan!” A black-robed elder from the Corpse-Driving Sect stepped forward to greet them, forcing a smile on his face, “Long time no see, I didn’t expect you to lead the team this time.”
“So it’s Elder Qi, indeed we haven’t met in fifty to sixty years.” The leading elder from the Red Sun Sect seemed slightly surprised to see that the person guarding the city was an old acquaintance.
Pointing to the arrogant bird demon flying and circling wildly in the sky, he frowned and said, “Are we just going to let this demon hang out up there without going out to kill it?”
Elder Qi smiled bitterly, “Though this bird demon is at a mid-level Demon General stage, comparable to our cultivation.
But the temperature of its demon flame is extremely high, nearly burning up my Lifebound Corpse.
It is likely to possess strong bloodlines of ancient fierce beasts, it cannot be viewed with common sense.”
Before Elder Fan from the Red Sun Sect could respond, a proud voice sounded from behind him.
“What’s difficult about that, I’ll take it down!”
In everyone’s gaze, a young man with a plain appearance but with a prominent flame mark on his forehead stepped forward with large strides.
He slightly revealed his aura, astonishingly showing himself to be an advanced Foundation Establishment cultivator.
And his cultivation was even slightly higher than the leading elder from the Red Sun Sect, just one step away from the late stage.
“And this is…”
“One of our sect’s most outstanding talents in nearly a thousand years, Xia Hong.
Breaking through the Foundation Establishment before forty years old, even I may have to rely on him in the future, hahaha.”
Everyone who heard this was full of admiration.
Anyone who advances to the Foundation Establishment within fifty years of age is a rarity in each sect, they can be called a prodigy.
The younger a cultivator advances to the Foundation Establishment level, the younger their appearance remains.
Many times, the potential of a Foundation Establishment cultivator can be judged by their appearance.
“Friend Xia’s cultivation is indeed profound, but caution is still necessary.
Both Elder Qian and I suffered under this bird demon before, and an elder was burned, nearly falling back to the Qi cultivation level, now resting back at the sect…”
Elder Qi had not finished speaking.
From the Red Sun Sect’s disciple ranks, a slightly mocking murmur sounded, “Breaking through to the Foundation Establishment before fifty, and at one or two hundred years, can that be the same?
Our Red Sun Sect’s direct disciples, and those from some small sects, are they the same?”
The voice was very low, but everyone present was a cultivator, with keen ears and eyes, how could they not hear it?
The disciples of the Corpse-Driving Sect showed expressions of anger upon hearing this.
Elder Qi’s face also turned somewhat unpleasant.
Elder Fan from the Red Sun Sect stepped in to mediate with a ’haha’, “Friend Qi, don’t worry, our Red Sun Sect is a great fire element sect.
No matter how powerful this bird demon is, using fire technique in front of us is like an ant trying to move a tree, it will have no effect.”
“Then I’ll look forward to Friend Xia’s brilliant move,” Elder Qi said faintly.
In the back, disciples from the Corpse-Driving Sect, not convinced, ’quietly’ discussed, “They haven’t seen the firebird’s ferocity, let them taste defeat, only then will they know the difference!”
“That’s right, soon, this genius at the Foundation Establishment will still have to obediently flee into the city defense array?”
Listening to the small voices around him, Xia Hong’s face showed a hint of mockery.
Beneath his feet, suddenly appeared a flying magical artifact shaped like a banana leaf glowing red, carrying him instantly outside the city defense array, his whole body floating in mid-air.
In the sky above, the bird demon saw someone boldly stepping out from the array, a hint of cruelty flashed in its eyes.
With a swoop, it dove down towards Xia Hong, accompanied by a piercing sound of breaking air.
The sharp bird beak, like a gigantic spear, seemed to aim at piercing the tiny ’insect’ in front of it to death.
“Beast, still not surrender and perish swiftly?”
Xia Hong shouted lowly, his whole body bursting forth with spiritual essence.
As he swung his sleeves, a large mass of black clouds formed in front of him, growing larger and larger, finally rushing up into the sky.
It unexpectedly formed into a bird-shaped black cloud, comparable in size to the bird demon, pouncing towards the demon.
The red bird demon’s eyes flashed with disdain, its mouth opened.
This time it spewed out a fiery blue spiral flame, attempting to engulf Xia Hong’s magical black bird.
The spiral flame’s color was deeper than before, its power became quite astonishing, burning the void into a tremble, the air echoing with a sizzling grilling noise that made one’s scalp tingle.
For a moment, everyone in the Corpse-Driving Sect hoped Xia Hong would suffer a setback to humble himself, yet they were also worried for his life and safety.
After all, he was the main force supporting them. If he died, it would be beneficial to no one.
As everyone was conflicted, Xia Hong’s magical black bird also opened its mouth anthropomorphically, surprisingly swallowing the spiral flame wholly into its belly.
Following that, not only did nothing unexpected happen, but moments later its form even grew significantly, seemingly having digested the fire demon’s flames.
Seizing the moment of the red bird demon’s dumbfoundedness, the magical black bird accelerated skyward, crashing fiercely into the bird demon, eliciting a sharp, mournful scream from it!
The bird demon was instantly stained with a touch of black.
Then, like a spark spreading, in just a few breaths, it was surrounded by layers of blackness.
On closer inspection, they were clusters of small black flames gathered together.
The bird demon screamed, continually flapping its wings, circling back and forth in the air, and rolling on the ground, but it couldn’t escape the black flames no matter what.
In no time, it was burned to ashes, not even leaving a single trace of its body, as if it had never appeared in the world.
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