After a moment of silence, Liu Hanyan frowned and asked, "So what should we do next? Continue searching for the demon spirit in the desert?"
Rong Jiaojiao said worriedly, "Just now underground, the spiritual essence of the two demonic spirits was not eliminated, and the blood evil below did not have time to be purified. I am worried that the demonic spirits have not been eliminated."
Everyone looked at the pit not far away, and they all shared the same worry.
Qi Lan said, "Let's leave here first and go somewhere far away to recover our spiritual energy. Otherwise, if there's an emergency, we'll be in a very passive position."
Everyone nodded, put away their weapons, and flew away on their swords, heading away from the pit and the oasis corrupted by demonic energy.
The night wind whipped up fine sand, which shimmered with a silvery light under the moonlight, adding a touch of tragic grandeur to their journey.
They stopped behind a towering sand dune, and Qi Lan quickly set up a concealment formation, which allowed everyone to relax a little.
Everyone took out the pills and swallowed them, then closed their eyes and began to regulate their breathing.
Zi Ling lay on Rong Jiaojiao's shoulder, her whole body shimmering with purple light, clearly still digesting the power of the demon seed.
It occasionally let out a soft growl, as if sensing the changes in the power within its body.
Several hours later, everyone woke up one after another, and by then they were all back to their best condition.
Everyone gathered in a circle to discuss their next move.
Mo Zhizhou sat cross-legged, holding a cracked golden compass in his hand, his brows furrowed: "Those two demonic spirits are likely recovering with the help of the blood evil underground. Now we have no choice but to go down again and completely eliminate them."
Upon hearing this, Mo Bai looked up at the distant night sky and said in a deep voice, "Moreover, if there was once a Water Spirit Orb here, then after it was corrupted by demonic energy, it is very likely that it has already merged with the blood demon underground. If it is not completely purified, the demonic spirit will sooner or later use the Water Spirit Orb to lure more people to their deaths."
Mo Zhizhou stood up, his gaze grave: "We cannot sit and wait for them to recover; we must find the Water Spirit Orb and the Demon Spirit Lingmei now."
Qi Lan nodded, her gaze resolute: "I agree. We can't give the demons any more chance to recover. This time, we must eliminate them completely."
Liu Hanyan nodded: "We need to find the essence of the demonic spirits. Only by completely destroying their core can we truly eliminate them."
Zi Ling jumped off Rong Jiaojiao's shoulder and let out a low growl, expressing her determination.
Its purple light was even brighter, clearly indicating that it had recovered a significant amount of power from the demonic seed it had just absorbed.
“Alright, let’s go down one more time.” Qi Lan stood up, picked up her longsword, and said, “This time, we must completely eliminate them.”
Everyone nodded, picked up their weapons, and prepared to re-enter the cave corrupted by demonic energy.
In the darkness, they flew on their swords, heading towards the original oasis.
The moonlight shone on them, as if illuminating their path forward.
When the group returned to the oasis, the sight before them caused everyone's pupils to shrink in shock.
The cave entrance, which had collapsed, had miraculously repaired itself, and twisted flesh and blood spread across the sand, forming a huge spiderweb-like structure.
Even more terrifying, the flesh and blood were devouring the surrounding sand at a visible speed, turning the entire oasis into a constantly writhing living thing.
"They are reconstructing their nest." Mo Zhizhou's golden compass hovered in the air, displaying a warning hexagram. "Two demonic spirits are merging!"
As if to confirm his words, a huge bulge suddenly rose from the ground.
With a tooth-grinding tearing sound, three bloodshot giant eyes suddenly opened from the ground!
The pupils of each eye reflected the horrified faces of the crowd, and black veins crawled across the whites of their eyes, oozing pus and blood.
Qi Lan shouted, "Stop it!"
Before he could finish speaking, everyone had already made their move. Rong Jiaojiao's Heavenly Thunder Talisman immediately formed the Three Talents Heavenly Thunder Soul Extinction Array in the air, and the spiritual power was linked to activate the talisman.
In an instant, bolts of lightning poured down, about to strike the ground.
Suddenly, countless fleshy tentacles emerged from the ground, weaving a blood-red net in mid-air. Although they hissed and crackled from being scorched by lightning, they still kept the lightning and electricity at bay.
Even more terrifying, countless human faces appeared on those tentacles, each face distorted and indistinguishable from the others.
Rong Jiaojiao called out, "Ziling!"
Zi Ling immediately flew into the sky, and a lightning domain descended, causing the lightning to surge several times over and ignite the blood-red net.
The crimson net burned fiercely under the blessing of Zi Ling's lightning domain, emitting a piercing shriek.
Those distorted faces melted in the lightning, turning into foul-smelling black smoke that rose into the air.
However, just when everyone thought they had succeeded, the three giant eyes suddenly shed tears of blood at the same time!
"Oh no! It's sacrificing itself!" Mo Zhizhou shouted. "These are the souls that have been devoured; the demon is using them to counteract the heavenly lightning!"
Rong Jiaojiao's pupils shrank suddenly. She saw that every drop of blood and tears that fell to the ground transformed into a blood-red puppet, and each puppet had a fragment of a water spirit pearl embedded in its chest.
Even more terrifying is that these fragments are frantically drawing in the impure energy of heaven and earth, transforming it into raging demonic flames!
"Let me do it!" Qi Lan suddenly bit her tongue and sprayed her blood essence onto the Azure Dragon Sword.
The inscriptions on the sword lit up one by one, transforming into a lifelike phantom of a blue dragon.
"Azure Sky Demon Slayer, go!"
The azure dragon formed from the sword energy split into nine, weaving into a net in the air.
However, the blood-red puppets neither dodged nor avoided the sword energy, allowing it to pierce their bodies.
New flesh and blood immediately grew from the severed wound, and it was completely restored in the blink of an eye!
"They can regenerate indefinitely!" Night Owl's mechanism spun wildly. "We must destroy all the Water Spirit Orb fragments at the same time!"
Liu Hanyan suddenly took out three golden needles and, without hesitation, inserted them into her Baihui, Tanzhong, and Qihai acupoints: "Three Yuan Needles!"
Her aura surged instantly, and as she formed hand seals, countless silver needles flew out from her sleeves, each one precisely piercing the fragment in the puppet's chest.
"Clang, clang, clang—" A series of crisp cracking sounds rang out, and more than a dozen puppets fell to the ground. But more puppets were born from blood and tears, filling the gaps in the blink of an eye.
Mo Bai suddenly sat cross-legged and stuck the Demon-Subduing Brush in front of him: "Everyone, help me!"
He formed complex hand seals, and the tip of his brush emitted a dazzling golden light. "The profound origin of heaven and earth, the root of all qi—Golden Light Divine Mantra, open!"
Everyone immediately understood and poured their spiritual power into the Golden Light Spell.
The talisman shone brightly, transforming into a golden pillar of light that shot straight into the sky.
Suddenly, lightning flashed and thunder roared in the night sky, and a bolt of purple lightning as thick as a bucket came down as summoned!
"Now!"
Rong Jiaojiao's three-colored seal flew into the sky and transformed into a three-colored demon-suppressing stele, which floated above the demon spirit. The three-colored runes flowed wildly on the surface of the stele.
Zi Ling let out a long howl, and all the lightning in her body poured into the monument.
Guided by the Demon-Suppressing Stele, the heavenly lightning transformed into countless tiny electric snakes, precisely striking each blood-red puppet!
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