Furthermore, Lin Jingting has now set up a powerful talisman array, so they probably won't be able to kill this kid with a single blow: they have to break the talisman array first before killing him.

After a while of this stalemate, the eldest of the Five Elders of Meishan finally seized the opportunity to break away and directly attacked the talisman array set up by Lin Jingting.

It is both a symbol and an array.

Some talismans have relatively lenient requirements for spiritual power and consciousness when activated, allowing them to be used beyond one's level, or even several levels higher. However, while they can be used, they can never unleash the full offensive and defensive power of the talisman.

To activate the array, spirit stones need to be placed at the array's core; sufficient quality and quantity of spirit stones are required.

The talisman array provides enhanced effects, but activating it requires both spiritual power and spirit stones. Li Yun and Lin Jingting took turns activating the talisman array to prevent their spiritual power from being depleted too quickly.

However, they were ultimately only at the Nascent Soul stage, while Elder Mei was the strongest among the Five Elders of Meishan, whose cultivation level was unfathomable among cultivators.

With his knowledge, he naturally knew the power of this talisman array. Moreover, they needed to hurry up and could not fight for a long time, so he used all his strength from the start and also activated his natal magic weapon with extremely strong offensive capabilities.

The array of runes, though not yet destroyed, began to shake violently after the attack.

Li Yun and Lin Jingting began to work together to activate the talisman array.

However, it only lasted until the third strike. After Boss Mei's third strike, the talisman array broke. Fortunately, the talisman array had already neutralized Boss Mei's attack; otherwise, if it had hit the two Nascent Soul cultivators, they would have been reduced to ashes.

Seeing this, Elder Mei's natal magic weapon, the Demon Blade, flew out again, directly slashing towards Lin Jingting. At the same time, he released his Mahayana aura, causing Li Yun and Lin Jingting to feel as if Mount Tai was pressing down on them, rendering them unable to move.

Faced with a Demon Lord at the peak of the Mahayana stage, Lin Jingting, a cultivator who had just entered the Nascent Soul stage, was unable to move or activate any spiritual talismans. As the huge blood-red demonic blade hurtled towards his head, his mind went completely blank.

"Jingting!" Li Jueyin exclaimed in alarm upon realizing the danger.

The demonic blade struck Lin Jingting's forehead, but was blocked by an invisible magical energy and bounced backward.

Mei was shocked. Anyone who could block his natal magic weapon must be a powerful figure with a cultivation level comparable to his.

"May I ask which fellow Daoist is here?" Elder Mei spoke in a deep voice, "We, the five brothers of Meishan, are handling private matters here. We hope you will not interfere, or don't blame us, the five elders of Meishan, for settling scores later."

Seeing this, Li Jueyin breathed a sigh of relief and focused on her own battle.

Now, both she and Lin Zhao understood that the purpose of these demon lords abducting them was not to seize the treasure, but to kill Lin Jingting. Therefore, their coincident appearance here must have been at Wen Ruyan's behest.

The Lin couple hated Wen Ruyan to the core, but because of Wen Ruyan's status as the Wen family's little princess, they could only pretend they knew nothing. They really didn't know when they could kill this bastard!

The battle between the two sides reached a stalemate again, because Boss Mei kept launching killing moves, but every time the demonic blade attacked Lin Jingting, an invisible protective shield appeared in front of him to ensure that he was unharmed.

Lin Jingting initially wanted to hide. Although he was only at the Nascent Soul stage and couldn't possibly dodge a Demon Lord's natal magic weapon, his survival instincts led him to try to hide.

But later on, he simply stood there motionless, letting Boss Mei keep waving his knife in front of him—ha, watching it all became like watching a clown, and he couldn't help but laugh.

After a while of this stalemate, Lin Jingting couldn't hold back any longer and said sarcastically, "I say, Venerable One of the Demon Realm, your Demon Clan has no one else besides that Hua Nian, right? I think she's the only one who's really powerful. No wonder she absorbed several of your Demon Clan's Demon Venerables before she even stabilized her realm after just entering the Ascension stage."

Mei Laoda was already furious at the strange situation before him. He thought to himself: If there really is a fellow Mahayana expert protecting Lin Jingting, then show yourself! Show yourself and let's fight! What's the meaning of this?

He neither showed up nor made a sound, as if he didn't exist, just waiting for him to swing his demonic blade before the protective shield would light up. What does this mean?

Hearing that Lin Jingting, a mere Nascent Soul cultivator, dared to wear a mocking smile and make sarcastic remarks to him, he became even angrier and roared, "Lin Jingting, I swear I won't rest until I kill your father today!"

Lin Jingting raised an eyebrow and smiled in a way that was incredibly irritating, saying, "Let's talk when you can actually hit me!" After saying that, he even tried to move his feet a little.

He can actually move! And even when the demonic blade chased after him, it couldn't hurt him!

Lin Jingting's eyes darted around, shifting left and right, up and down...

The demonic blade moved with him, flipping up, down, left, and right. Later, Boss Mei chased after him, blade in hand.

It wasn't that Boss Mei couldn't catch up with Lin Jingting, but as soon as he got close to Lin Jingting, he would be repelled by the protective shield in front of him, just like the effect of the Demon Blade approaching Lin Jingting. So he chased after him for a long time with the blade raised, but still to no avail.

It's normal for a battle between experts of this level to last for a month or two. The current situation is clearly a stalemate; the two sides have been fighting for a day and a night, and the restrictions set up by the Five Elders at the exit have long been broken by a passing Mahayana Daoist.

As the two-day deadline given by Chu Nian drew to a close, with only two or three hours remaining, the number of cultivators near the exit increased dramatically. It seemed that everyone, having received a warning from a powerful figure, dared not take the risk. In any case, leaving a few days early was better than being truly trapped here and unable to get out.

Near the exit, a fierce battle was raging among Mahayana experts. Those juniors who were protected by Mahayana seniors had already made their way out. However, there was a group of juniors without the protection of their elders. Due to the powerful magic surrounding the battle, they were unable to approach the exit and were forced to remain there.

What's more, both the Five Demons and the Lin couple were great figures who had cultivated in the cultivation world for thousands of years. Which one of them didn't have two or three friends with similar cultivation levels? So, at first it was just a fierce battle between the two sides, but later, several more Demon Lords and the Great Ascension Dao Venerable of the Nebula Sect joined in.

"Senior Brother Tao, take Jingting out first!" Seeing that the stalemate was difficult to break, Lin Zhao transmitted his voice to Tao Anbo, who was fighting a demon lord.

The Five Demons' target is Lin Jingting. As for the other Demon Lords who joined the battle, their motives are another matter; they might just be trying to take advantage of the chaos!

Therefore, once Lin Jingting manages to escape the "gap," the five Venerables will most likely give chase, potentially breaking the stalemate. They can't let a bunch of junior cultivators remain trapped near the exit indefinitely!

Lin Jingting is still being watched by Boss Mei, and Boss Mei and his magic weapon are still unable to actually hit Lin Jingting. The stalemate between the two sides is a bit strange, and the Mahayana Supremes who participated in the battle have long noticed this.