The 'Heaven's Light Mirror' that Gu Zheng spoke of was an energy gathering immortal artifact that absorbed the essence of the sun. Previously, it had been given to Fang Xing during the distribution of treasures.
Although the 'Heaven's Light Mirror' was only a middle-grade immortal artifact, since sunlight was the bane of the bat monsters, it should be able to deal with them.
Actually, an immortal artifact like the 'Heaven's Light Mirror' that could gather the essence of sunlight could be considered a relatively ordinary immortal artifact. However, because it was too ordinary, Gu Zheng had already disposed of it when he came to the Aparagodaniya Continent, although he also had one before! Who would have thought that he would need to use this kind of immortal artifact at this time?
"Ah? Heaven's Light Mirror? Damn it! When we were resting in the valley, I gave the Heaven's Light Mirror and some other resources to Huang Qi as a parting gift! "
Almost along with Fang Xing's vexed voice, the bat monsters that were originally chasing him and Gu Zheng had already arrived in front of them.
"Don't attack them. The more you attack them, the stronger they will be!"
Gu Zheng reminded Fang Xing. At the same time, he flew to the top of the cave that was seven to eight zhang high. Fang Xing immediately flew up after him.
"Fellow Daoist Bai, why don't we use the Immortal Realm first and trap these monsters!" Fang Xing said in a panic.
Gu Zheng frowned. "It has been less than a day since the last time I used the Immortal Realm. We can't use it now!"
"Alright!"
Looking at the bat monsters on the ground, Fang Xing appeared very anxious.
The bat monsters on the ground raised their heads and looked at the two people on the top of the cave. They didn't fly up after them. Instead, they all opened their mouths towards the top of the cave.
Streaks of blood-red light that were as thick as chopsticks shot into the sky from the bat monsters' mouths.
While Gu Zheng was dodging, he deliberately let one of the streaks of red light hit his immortal energy shield.
After taking the hit of the red light, the immortal energy shield shook slightly. Gu Zheng also knew the destructive power of the red light. It was equivalent to the attack of an early stage cultivator like Jin Xian. With his current cultivation and the support of the immortal artifact, he could still withstand a lot of this level of destructive power.
Relying on the protection provided by the high-grade immortal artifact, Fang Xing, who also suffered from the red light beam, appeared to be a little anxious. Although this red light beam did not cause any harm to him due to the protection of his immortal weapon, his strength was only at the early stage of Jin Xian. When the immortal weapon could no longer provide him with protection, the red light beam would pose a great threat to him.
"Do you have any other immortal artifacts that can condense the essence of sunlight?" Gu Zheng asked.
"No."
As Fang Xing shook his head, he took out a glove from his storage belt. This glove was actually a high grade immortal equipment, which Gu Zheng had never seen before.
"What are you doing?" Gu Zheng asked.
"I'll try using a special attack against them!" Fang Xing said.
"Don't attack them. The more you attack them, the stronger they become!" Gu Zheng reminded again.
"If I don't try, I won't be able to hold on for long!"
Looking at the bitter smile on Fang Xing's face, Gu Zheng didn't say anything more, tacitly agreeing to what Fang Xing was about to do.
Fang Xing took out a white object from his storage belt.
The white object was a white bone arm, but it wasn't human bone. It looked like the arm of some kind of humanoid spirit beast. It had an extremely strong immortal energy fluctuation and an ice-cold evil aura, which meant that it was a top grade demonic artifact! This top grade demonic artifact came from the treasure chest inside the corpse tree. Gu Zheng was curious at that time why Fang Xing would give up the high-grade immortal artifact and choose this demonic artifact that could not be activated unless one cultivated a special demonic art. Now it seemed that with the help of the high-grade immortal artifact glove, Fang Xing should be able to use the divine ability of this demonic artifact.
Sure enough, after Fang Xing held the white bone arm through the glove, the entire arm suddenly became like a black jade, and the powerful immortal energy fluctuation on it became even stronger than before!
"Whoosh …"
Fang Xing waved the white bone arm downwards, and suddenly a huge gust of cold wind was created. There were actually thousands of demon spirits in it, and they violently rushed towards the bat monsters.
Gu Zheng frowned, he could feel the strength of the demon spirits! It would be best if the bat monsters were killed by the demon spirits, but if the bat monsters were not killed by the demon spirits, and instead devoured by the demon spirits, then the bat monsters' strength would definitely increase.
Sure enough, the bite of the demon spirits had no effect on the bat monsters. The bat monsters cried out as if they had seen a delicacy, and they opened their mouths to release a suction force that wasn't too strong. However, the strong demon spirits had no resistance to this suction force. No matter how much they struggled, they were still sucked into the bat monsters' mouths. As the bat monsters were devouring the demon spirits, their aura was also constantly increasing.
"Stop attacking!"
Seeing that Fang Xing was unwilling to give up and wanted to wave the white bone arm again, Gu Zheng quickly reminded him.
At the same time, the artifact spirit's voice rang in Gu Zheng's mind. She told Gu Zheng how to break the restriction and remove the black barrier.
"Stop attacking these monsters, you stay here and delay them. I'll go break the barrier!" Gu Zheng said.
"There are monsters below. If I don't attack to attract their attention, how am I going to attract their attention?" Fang Xing didn't understand.
"You just need to fly around and dodge. I have my own ways to deal with them."
Actually, when Gu Zheng knew that almost all of the attacks he used to kill the bat monsters had no effect on them, he tried to use some methods to get out of this predicament. However, these methods weren't offensive methods, so even Fang Xing didn't notice some of them. Among the methods he used, one of them was concealment.
Cultivators all have concealment methods. They can use their immortal energy or divine sense to affect their target, thus achieving the effect of concealment.
However, traditional concealment methods were useless against the bat monsters. The concealment method Gu Zheng was going to use is called 'Turn a Blind Eye', and it can be considered as a unique skill of the Kongkong Sect.
The Kongkong Sect was the sect where the thief came from. When Gu Zheng was in the Kongkong Sect's treasure, he obtained many secret manuals and the like. In the end, he almost filled up the Emei Sect's library. Among these secret manuals, Gu Zheng not only learned the 'Lang Ya Flying Body Technique', he also learned a few other techniques of the Kongkong Sect. One of them was the 'Turn a Blind Eye'.
The 'Turn a Blind Eye' was not a high-level concealment method. Even cultivators without immortal energy could easily learn it. Because of this, its effect wasn't good, and it couldn't be hidden from cultivators.
However, when he was in the valley where he killed the Corpse Tree, Gu Zheng saw Feng Weikong use a concealment method similar to the 'Turn a Blind Eye'. At that time, Feng Weikong's body was translucent, and he relied on this method to not be discovered by the Corpse Tree until he attacked it. This was something that traditional concealment methods couldn't achieve!
It was just an experiment, but who would have thought that the moment Gu Zheng used the 'Turn a Blind Eye', the bat monsters that were originally targeting him immediately changed their target. When Gu Zheng stopped using the 'Turn a Blind Eye', the bat monsters targeted him again! This undoubtedly showed that the 'Turn a Blind Eye' that Gu Zheng didn't pay attention to before, had a miraculous effect at special times.
Now, Gu Zheng wanted to break the restriction that created the black barrier. After using the 'Turn a Blind Eye' again, although his body wasn't as translucent as Feng Weikong, the effect was real. All of the bat monsters targeted Fang Xing in the air.
Seeing that Gu Zheng had safely arrived near the black barrier, Fang Xing, who was dodging in the air, didn't reveal joy in his eyes. Instead, there was a trace of coldness.
Fang Xing quickly took out a jade bottle from his storage belt and crushed it.
The jade bottle contained a type of liquid. This liquid evaporated when it was exposed to the wind, turning into a faint white smoke that lingered around Fang Xing's surroundings.
At the same time, the bat monsters that were attacking Fang Xing immediately stopped their attacks as if they couldn't see Fang Xing.
"Whoosh …"
Fang Xing waved the white bone arm in his hand, and an enormous cold wind immediately swept towards Gu Zheng.
The bat monsters, who had lost their target, immediately chased after the demon spirit towards Gu Zheng when they saw it appear.
Fang Xing, who had launched a sneak attack on Gu Zheng, wasn't happy. Instead, he was very nervous. This was because when he raised his white bone arm and waved it towards Gu Zheng, Gu Zheng suddenly turned around and looked at him with a cold and disdainful gaze! This made him feel that Gu Zheng had never fully trusted him. Gu Zheng had already seen through his scheme!
"Die!"
Gu Zheng's gaze made Fang Xing's hair stand on end. Fear made Fang Xing roar. He waved the 'Ice Crystal Fish Bone Fan' and released a huge ray shadow that crashed towards Gu Zheng.
"Is this the chance you've been waiting for?"
Gu Zheng sneered. As he flew up, he slashed his blade towards the ray shadow.
The black blade aura carried an incomparable aura as it split the ray shadow in half. As for the demon spirits that Fang Xing released earlier, they were directly ignored by Gu Zheng.
Demon spirits weren't evil spirits or undead spirits that were related to humans. They were a special kind of spiritual life form, and could be considered as Tang Mo's food! Therefore, all the demon spirits that pounced towards Gu Zheng were devoured by Tang Mo. The speed at which they were devoured was even faster than the bat monsters on the ground.
Moreover, this was not the first time Tang Mo had devoured a demon spirit. Back on Earth, when Gu Zheng had killed the first immortal cultivator, Ancestor Xue Guang, he had used Tang Mo to devour a demon spirit released by Ancestor Xue Guang.
In the air, Fang Xing's face was ashen. Originally, Gu Zheng had continuously used up his trump cards along the way. This made Fang Xing secretly happy. Just now, he confirmed that his Immortal Domain Divine Ability had yet to recover.
Fang Xing originally thought that by deliberately obtaining the 'Heaven's Light Mirror' and using the Astragalus to take it away, Gu Zheng wouldn't be able to do anything when facing the bat monsters. But who would've thought that accidents would happen one after another!
Gu Zheng being able to make the bat monsters ignore him was an accident. Gu Zheng being so guarded against him was also an accident. Gu Zheng's Tang Mo being able to devour demon spirits was an accident!
Without the help of a powerful demon spirit, he, who knew how powerful Gu Zheng was, didn't dare to fight with Gu Zheng. He could only dodge and defend as much as possible.
For a person's first impression, this was something that was difficult to change! Fang Xing didn't leave a good first impression on Gu Zheng. Gu Zheng also didn't trust him very much.
Especially after Astragalus and Yang Jue left, Gu Zheng was even more vigilant against Fang Xing. One of the reasons for this was that Fang Xing's cultivation wasn't as high as Astragalus and Yang Jue. In a situation where Astragalus and Yang Jue had already retreated, he still chose to continue. This made Gu Zheng have no choice but to be cautious! After all, they had already obtained a lot of treasures in the treasure trove. Each of them could be said to be a small moving treasure trove.
However, distrust was only precaution. Gu Zheng didn't have any concrete evidence to prove that Fang Xing was scheming against him. After all, Fang Xing had been pretending very well.
Not long ago, Gu Zheng's suspicion towards Fang Xing had increased. According to the trust Fang Xing had shown him along the way, after he said that the bat monsters couldn't be attacked, Fang Xing shouldn't have insisted on attacking! And since the bat monsters couldn't be attacked, then Fang Xing's intentions needed to be even more vigilant!
"Why aren't you attacking? Are you afraid? "
Gu Zheng had already slashed twice at Fang Xing, but Fang Xing used a very strange method to dodge.
"Your luck isn't bad. After the Corpse Tree died, not only did you get a top grade Demon Tool, you also got a pair of leg guards with such a miraculous effect!"
At the same time that Gu Zheng transmitted his voice to Fang Xing, he slashed at him again.
However, Gu Zheng's slash didn't have any effect. Because in that short moment, the demon spirits were all sucked clean by the bat monsters! Without any demon spirits to eat, they aimed their spears at the sky. Just as Gu Zheng's blade light appeared, the strange suction force that sucked in demon spirits was released. The blade light was instantly divided up by the bat monsters.
"How can you make these monsters ignore you!"
Fang Xing transmitted his voice to Gu Zheng, sounding like he was going crazy. He originally thought that even if Gu Zheng could avoid the demon spirits to open the seal, once he was forced to make a move, the demon spirits would definitely attack Gu Zheng! After all, the most frightening thing about traditional concealment is to use Immortal Force to use some method. That would cause the concealment to disappear. Unfortunately, Gu Zheng could do the same thing as him. His attacks weren't affected at all. The bat monsters couldn't see them at all.
"Wait until you're dead, then you'll know!"
Gu Zheng sneered. He no longer used any Immortal Techniques and directly flew towards Fang Xing, as if he wanted to kill Fang Xing with one slash.
Although the environment was special, it wasn't difficult for Gu Zheng to get rid of Fang Xing. The reason why he didn't get rid of Fang Xing was because he wanted to see who exactly Fang Xing was waiting for! If he got rid of Fang Xing now, it might alert the person who was about to come.
From Gu Zheng's point of view, the fact that he could avoid the bat monsters to open the seal was already greatly out of Fang Xing's expectations! With Fang Xing's cautious nature, if he didn't have any help, he wouldn't bet on whether or not he would attract the bat monsters' attacks when he attacked. Moreover, after Fang Xing saw that he wasn't afraid of the bat monsters, he had an anxious look on his face. That kind of anxiety was very similar to when he was waiting for someone.
As for whether he wouldn't be able to deal with Fang Xing after his help arrived, Gu Zheng wasn't worried at all. If Fang Xing and his help were really strong enough to get rid of Gu Zheng, then Gu Zheng didn't think he would have to go through so much trouble to use the bat monsters to make a fuss.
"Get lost!"
Facing Gu Zheng who was getting closer and closer to him, Fang Xing screamed and slashed at Gu Zheng with his flying sword at the same time.
The bat monsters on the ground raised their heads as if waiting for food to be thrown at them chose to ignore attacks like flying swords. It was as if metal wasn't their food.
Clang!
The sound of metal clashing rang out. Fang Xing's flying sword was sent flying by Gu Zheng's attack.
At the same time, a strange sound rang out. The black barrier that originally sealed the cave was broken. A skinny old man with grey hair appeared in front of Gu Zheng and Fang Xing.
When Fang Xing saw the skinny old man appear, his face immediately lit up with excitement. He immediately transmitted a message to the skinny old man. And this skinny old man also had a way to deal with the bat monsters. A faint white fog surrounded his body. It looked somewhat similar to Fang Xing's.
Gu Zheng's guess was right. Fang Xing was indeed waiting for someone!
"This is the teammate you've been waiting for? This is your final trump card? Jin Xian's cultivation is in the late stage, and he has a chronic illness? If that's the case, then you can all go die! "
Gu Zheng transmitted a laugh. Together with Fang Xing and the skinny old man, they all attacked him.
Fang Xing and the skinny old man both had a better understanding of the bat monsters. One of them used a flying sword, while the other used a cauldron-shaped immortal artifact to smash at Gu Zheng. And this kind of immortal artifact attack wouldn't be devoured by the bat monsters, so there was no need to worry about its power being reduced.
"Go die!"
Gu Zheng shouted. As his brows furrowed, the Natal True Gold in his body vibrated violently. He used the Metal Manipulation Art, which he hadn't used for a while. The two immortal artifacts attacking him turned around at the same time.
Fang Xing and the skinny old man's expressions were filled with shock. They never thought that the immortal artifacts they sent out would turn around and attack them. For a moment, they both wanted to take back control of the immortal artifacts.
But struggling was futile. There was a big gap between their strength and Gu Zheng's. Especially Fang Xing! His struggle for control of the flying sword was so weak that it couldn't even withstand a single blow from Gu Zheng. The rapidly returning flying sword didn't take his life. Instead, under Gu Zheng's deliberate control, it pierced through his abdomen!
Fang Xing was crippled. The ball of immortal power in his body was destroyed by the flying sword. A blinding white light rushed out from his abdomen. That was the release of energy after the ball of immortal power was destroyed.
The bat monsters on the ground let out strange cries. They once again smelled the scent of food. They all opened their mouths and released a strange suction force, happily devouring the energy released by the ball of immortal power in Fang Xing's body.
"No!"
Fang Xing let out a heart-wrenching cry. Thousands of years of cultivation were destroyed in an instant.
As if they were very sensitive to screams, the bat monsters on the ground all turned their heads in the direction of the scream.
But to the bat monsters, screams like this were no longer enough to distract them. They still had a big meal waiting to be enjoyed.
Therefore, the bat monsters that had turned their heads in an instant put their heads back in their original position and continued to happily devour the energy provided by Fang Xing.
"Bam!"
Before Fang Xing could cry out happily, the flying sword that destroyed his ball of immortal power flew back again. The hilt of the sword hit the back of his head, knocking him unconscious.
With a wave of his hand, Gu Zheng pulled the unconscious Fang Xing into his hand and flew out of the cave with him.
As they flew, Fang Xing's ball of immortal power continued to shoot out energy. The bat monsters on the ground followed behind and continued to devour the energy in the air.
As for Fang Xing's original helper, he had already escaped to who knows where! When Gu Zheng used the Metal Manipulation Art and turned the tide of the battle, he immediately fled without any hesitation. He didn't care about Fang Xing's life or death.
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