No wonder the two great cultivators, Dao Sheng and Tian Xiang, hadn't acted in time to eliminate Mara after the reinforcements from the North Sea had arrived. There was an Asura spying on them!
It seemed that the two Laozu, Dao Sheng and Tian Xiang, had discovered Mara's weakness. Mara had his own plans. He had originally planned to have two Jade Shuras lead the Mara clan to attack Frost Island, while the Mara would lead the remaining two Jade Shuras and a group of Mara to intercept the cultivators heading north to reinforce Frost Island.
The forces gathered by Mara should have been enough to carry out their plan, but two unexpected things happened. One was that Xiang Lou Laozu, who wielded the Bell of the Ocean, acted alone and avoided Mara's interception, appearing near Frost Island. The second was that the North Sea humans and demons, who were originally enemies, had secretly joined forces.
Because of Xiang Lou Laozu's appearance and harassment, the sects of the North Sea managed to hold on under the great formation that the demonic cultivators had secretly set up. At the same time, they managed to restrain the existence of a Jade Shura.
With the cooperation of the humans and demons, the human cultivators easily broke through the obstruction of Mara's group led by the Asura and arrived at Frost Island's sea in time.
At this time, Lu Ping was hiding in a quiet place within Zhenling's island's great formation. He didn't join the cultivators of the other sects in chasing after the defeated Mara.
Lu Ping held an upper rank spirit stone in his hand. As he recovered his inner energy, he used his mind to observe the changes in his heart core space.
The higher the rank of a Mara, the purer its origin essence was. After a blood asura died and its corpse returned to its origin, the origin essence it emitted was naturally enough to make Lu Ping drool.
Although this origin essence was extremely difficult to collect, Lu Ping had Linglong, a spirit treasure made from Taoist Ape's natal spirit treasure, the Spirit Calming Iron. The moment the blood asura was killed by Lu Ping, she managed to collect a certain amount of origin essence in time.
This was also why Lu Ping had chosen to ambush the Water Shura. Apart from the fact that its natal spirit treasure was shattered by Tian Cheng Laozu to avenge Laozu, another important reason was that this blood asura's origin essence was suitable for Lu Ping to absorb.
Although Lu Ping had Linglong to help collect the origin essence, it was extremely difficult to store. If Lu Ping didn't absorb and refine it in time, Linglong wouldn't be able to keep it for too long.
Although Lu Ping seemed to be recovering his inner true essence, most of his energy was spent on refining this water attribute origin essence.
Inside the core space, every time a wisp of essence escaped from Linglong's wine cauldron, it would immediately be swallowed by the purple mist and then absorbed by the golden core at the center of the core space. To be more precise, it was absorbed by the strange serpent inside the golden core.
And every time Lu Ping absorbed a wisp of dispersed essence, he could clearly feel a significant increase in his cultivation base. It could save him at least a month's worth of cultivation.
When Lu Ping finished absorbing Linglong's origin essence, Lu Ping felt as if he had been in seclusion for two or three years.
It was still a chaotic battle outside of Frost Island. Although the human race had the absolute advantage right now, the destruction of the great formation at the center had caused the human race and Devil Luo to mix together a long time ago. There was me in you, and you in me. Even if they wanted to cast large area of effect offensive divine abilities, they were still restricted. They could only fight in close combat.
At this time, Lu Ping obviously couldn't cultivate in seclusion for a long time. After he finished refining the origin essence, Lu Ping threw himself into the pursuit of Mara.
However, when Lu Ping got up, Linglong's wine cauldron spat out a translucent bead. It was a miniature Spirit Gathering Bead.
Previously, Linglong had said that it could condense a miniature spirit vein from a recently fallen Blood Shura. He didn't expect it to actually succeed.
However, when Linglong said this, she thought that Lu Ping would only be able to condense a Spirit Gathering Bead through the wine cauldron after his cultivation reached the Dharma stage. She didn't expect that Lu Ping would be able to fully utilize the power of a spirit treasure and condense a miniature Spirit Gathering Bead when he was only at the peak of the Core Forging stage.
Dao Sheng, Tian Xiang, the two demon race cultivators, and the Asura were long gone from the sky above Frost Island. Only four Jade Shuras were still fighting the mid Dharma adepts of the North Sea sects. The remaining twenty or so Blood Mara had already fled in all directions. The sects of the North Sea seemed to have made up their minds to win this battle. Many Dharma adepts had already begun to work together to hunt down the traces of Mara.
At the same time, among the turbulent waves, demon cultivators in human form occasionally rushed out of the sea and joined forces with the human cultivators to kill the defeated Mara.
Tian Kang Laozu had already given up on the Jade Shura that he was fighting with earlier. Even though he could fight a Jade Shura to a standstill with the Mountain Splitting Axe, it was almost impossible for him to win. Tian Kang Laozu gave up on the Jade Shura and turned to join forces with Tian Fan and Tian Xue to kill the other Jade Shura.
Now that the human cultivators had firmly gained the upper hand, the defeat of Mara was already a foregone conclusion. Without Tian Kang Laozu's entanglement, the Jade Shura was eager to have a chance to escape.
However, in reality, even without Tian Kang Laozu's obstruction, there were still cultivators from the other sects who came forward to stop the Jade Shura. This was an extremely rare opportunity to capture all the North Sea Mara in one fell swoop. Naturally, no sect would be willing to play any tricks. Even the demon race cultivators who rushed to help were the same. Right now, the Jade Shura that Tian Kang Laozu had abandoned had already been surrounded and killed by the two mid Dharma adepts of the human race and two demon race cultivators, Laozu.
After Lu Ping flew out of Frost Island, he reached out and waved his hand. The cloud sail that was floating above the area where Zhenling was stationed shrank back to the size of a palm and was put into his core space.
At this time, the human race cultivators had already joined forces to chase Mara out of Frost Island. Right now, the entire sea outside Frost Island was a battlefield. The human and demon race cultivators were working together to kill the defeated Mara in the sea and in the sky. There was no need for the cloud sail to help Zhenling's island protection formation.
Lu Ping's divine consciousness swept out, then he turned and headed southeast. The Mara that he met along the way avoided him, and Lu Ping's pair of flying swords did not stay idle either. They followed Lu Ping as he flew, killing everything in his way. By the time Lu Ping stopped, at least four or five Great Shuras of the Core Forging Stage had been killed by him. There were even more Shuras that were undergoing Minor Repairs.
At this time, the three Laozu of Tianshan, Tianfeng, and Tianshu were working together to kill a Wind Shura in the Dharma stage. Although this Shura had been suppressed by the three Laozu, it was impossible to kill it in a short period of time.
The Wind Shura had a companion spiritual treasure in his hand that seemed to be in between a tangible and intangible state. It swam around his body, causing the three Laozu of Tianshan, Tianfeng, and Tianshu to be extremely wary and unable to attack freely.
From Lu Ping's point of view, rather than saying that the three of them were besieging the Blood Shura, it was more accurate to say that the three of them were working together to prevent the Shura from escaping. If this continued, the Wind Shura would definitely be able to find an opening in their defense and escape.
Lu Ping saw that among the three Laozu, Laozu of Tianfeng was the most proactive. Looking at the faintly discernible silk-like companion spiritual treasure around the Wind Shura, he wondered if Uncle Tianfeng had taken a fancy to this companion spiritual treasure.
Lu Ping swung the Five Elements Cloud-Light Robe behind him to conceal his figure and fled to the periphery of the three Laozu. At this time, the Wind Shura swept away the two Laozu of Tianfeng and Tianshu. The two of them were wary of the power of this companion spiritual treasure and did not dare to face it head-on. They could only retreat. However, they did not expect the Wind Shura to transform into a gust of wind and rush at full force towards Tianshan Laozu, who had the strongest defense among the three.
Tianfeng Laozu looked anxious and said, "Oh no, the Wind Shura is going to leave!"
As he spoke, the Wind Shura had already broken through Tianshan Laozu's obstruction. Just as he was about to transform into a gust of wind and escape, a piercingly cold Sword Qi unexpectedly shot out from Tianshan Laozu's side.
The Sword Qi split into four in mid-air, but its power was not reduced at all. As the four Sword Qi slashed down from the sky, even the space that the Sword Qi passed through began to wrinkle, as if it was about to be cut by the Sword Qi at any time, let alone the oncoming wind.
Under such circumstances, the Wind Asura was naturally blocked, so he could only revert to his original form. The faintly discernible belt of wind turned into a green substance, blocking, circling, and shaking at the four streaks of sword Qi in the air. The four streaks of sword Qi were actually sent flying backwards in different directions.
A small flag with a mast suddenly appeared in the void. With a gentle wave of the flag, countless clouds surged up from the surface of the flag. The four strands of Sword Qi slashed into the clouds like clay oxen entering the sea.
In just a moment, the Wind Shura had already lost the opportunity to break free from the three Tianfeng Laozu's entanglement. It was once again surrounded by Tianfeng Laozu's group.
What was different was that this time, there were not three people attacking the Wind Shura, but four.
Above Lu Ping's head was the Cloud Sail. Around him were four flying swords, the Beautiful Lady in Autumn Waters, and the Flowing Stream. He was right in front of the Wind Asura.
The reason why Tianshan, Tianfeng, and Laozu could not do anything to the Wind Shura earlier was that none of them could withstand the power of the Wind Shura's companion spiritual treasure head-on.
Now that Lu Ping had the cloud sail, an authentic defensive spiritual treasure, the four of them had the ability to face the Wind Shura head-on. The Wind Shura, who had suppressed the power of the companion spiritual treasure, was at best an ordinary early Dharma adept. It was no match for the three Tianshan, Tianfeng, and Tianshu Laozu's combined forces. Furthermore, the two pairs of flying swords in Lu Ping's hands were not something an ordinary early Dharma adept could underestimate.
Under the suppression of absolute power, the Wind Shura very quickly had one of its legs broken by Tianshan Laozu's Mountain Driving Whip. Immediately after, the Wind Shura's belt of wind that was trying to entangle Tianshu Laozu was once again blocked by the cloud sail. Tianfeng Laozu took the opportunity to slash the Wind Wheel at its back. Even though the Wind Shura tried its best to dodge, half of its shoulder was still sliced off.
The Wind Shura, who had been severely injured, saw that there was no hope of escaping. It wrapped the belt of wind around its body and charged towards Tianfeng Laozu.
However, the Wind Shura only felt a flash of light before its eyes. It looked at the familiar body in front of it with a confused expression. Why did this headless body look so familiar?
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