"Who are you?!" the man with gold-rimmed glasses shouted sharply, a cold red light flashing in his eyes, and a bloodthirsty aura began to spread around him.
He suddenly took a few steps back, quickly formed hand seals, and chanted an obscure incantation.
"He's summoning a demon!" Zi Ling warned urgently.
Leng Muya snorted coldly, and with a swift slash of her copper coin sword, golden sword energy shot straight towards the bespectacled man's throat: "Dream on!"
However, the bespectacled man's body suddenly twisted and deformed, black lines under his skin wriggled, and his whole body swelled up as if it were being inflated!
"Oh no! He's going to self-destruct!" Zhang Zekai's expression changed drastically, and he quickly threw out several evil-suppressing talismans in an attempt to suppress his bloodthirsty aura.
Rong Jiaojiao immediately contracted the barrier, and then added several more layers of barriers inside the original barrier, sealing the bespectacled man alone in a small space. At the same time, she shouted, "Everyone, get out of the way!"
"boom--!"
With a muffled thud, the bespectacled man's body exploded, splattering black blood everywhere, but he was firmly contained within the barrier.
The demonic spirits inside the barrier were frantically ramming against it, and the barrier was on the verge of collapse.
Even more terrifying, countless tiny black worms were wriggling in the black blood, frantically crashing against the barrier!
"As expected, there's a Soul-Devouring Demon Seed!" Chen Pengfei's face paled. "This guy actually had so many hidden inside him!"
Leng Muya's gaze turned icy: "Jiaojiao, maintain the barrier! Zhang Zekai will destroy the demonic seed, Zhang Pengfei will kill the demonic puppet, and I'll deal with the demonic spirit!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Zekai immediately pulled out a handful of cinnabar from his pocket and chanted urgently, "The profound origin of heaven and earth, the root of all qi!"
The cinnabar transformed into countless golden specks in the air, raining down on the demonic seeds within the barrier.
Each grain of gold dust that landed on the demon seed emitted a hissing, burning sound.
Chen Pengfei then formed hand seals and summoned the Five Thunder Talisman: "Five Thunder Generals, expel evil and bind demons!"
Bolts of lightning descended from the sky, striking the eight controlled workers with pinpoint accuracy.
They let out a shrill scream, their bodies radiating black energy, but it was quickly purified by the lightning.
The golden flames on Leng Muya's copper coin sword surged, and she bit her fingertip and smeared it on the sword: "Burn!"
The sword instantly burst into purple-gold flames, and she threw it into the barrier without hesitation.
The copper coin sword transformed into a streak of purple-gold light, piercing straight into the core of the demon spirit.
"roar--!"
The demon spirit let out a deafening roar, its black mist-like body twisting violently.
Just as the copper coin sword was about to strike, the demon spirit suddenly split into three black shadows, narrowly avoiding the fatal blow.
"Damn it, it's another clone technique!" Leng Muya's face darkened.
Fine beads of sweat appeared on Rong Jiaojiao's forehead as she continuously reinforced the barrier with her hands forming hand seals: "Uncle-Master, it's devouring demonic seeds to increase its power!"
Inside the barrier, three dark shadows were frantically devouring the surrounding demonic seeds, their size expanding at a visible rate.
Even more terrifying, the devoured demonic seeds actually reorganized inside the shadow, forming hideous ghost faces.
"It's evolving!" Zhang Zekai exclaimed. "We must stop it immediately!"
A cold glint flashed in Leng Muya's eyes. Suddenly, she bit her tongue and spat a mouthful of blood into her palm: "Heaven and Earth are boundless, borrow the power of Heaven and Earth!"
She clasped her hands together abruptly, and the purple-gold flames on the copper coin sword instantly tripled in size, dyeing the entire interior of the barrier purple-gold.
\"boom!\"
A heart-wrenching scream echoed from within the flames. Three dark figures struggled desperately, but couldn't escape the encirclement of the flames. Just when everyone thought victory was assured, the largest dark figure suddenly self-destructed!
"Bang!"
The powerful shockwave caused the barrier to shake violently.
Rong Jiaojiao let out a muffled groan, and blood seeped from the corner of her mouth.
From the black mist created by the explosion, a beam of blood-red light suddenly shot out, heading straight for her brow!
"Master, be careful!" Zi Ling leaped from her shoulder and swallowed the bloody light.
"Zi Ling!" Rong Jiaojiao exclaimed. The little sable was curled up in pain, its purple and gold patterns flickering on and off.
Zhang Zekai reacted swiftly, placing a soul-suppressing talisman on Zi Ling's forehead: "Seal!"
The runes lit up, temporarily stabilizing the little ferret's condition.
Leng Muya's face darkened: "It's the demonic spirit Lingmei. It wants to possess you, but I don't know what will happen after it's swallowed by Ziling."
She looked at the mess around her and ordered, "Clean this up first."
Chen Pengfei and Zhang Zekai immediately purified all the blood-fiend energy before looking at the eight workers.
They had all collapsed to the ground, bleeding from their seven orifices. After examining them, Chen Pengfei said in a deep voice, "The demonic marks within their bodies are backfiring."
"I'll do it."
Leng Muya stood up, took out eight calming talismans, and stuck them on the workers' foreheads.
As the talisman ignited with blue flames, the workers gradually fell into a deep sleep.
Leng Muya sighed, "Their souls have been almost completely devoured. They won't live for more than a few days. I can only make their deaths less painful."
Suddenly, a ship's horn sounded in the distance. Chen Pengfei looked up and said, "The cargo ship is leaving!"
Leng Muya glanced at it as well, and said coldly, "They can't escape."
As Leng Muya said, after the ship left the port, the people who had been lying in wait on the ship quickly took control of everyone on board.
A team of soldiers came up to take over, and Leng Muya went to hand over the duties to them.
The purple patterns on Zi Ling's body flickered intermittently, and Rong Jiaojiao sent it a telepathic message to ask how it was doing.
Zi Ling weakly replied that she needed to refine the demonic spirit Ling Mei, so Rong Jiaojiao could only repeatedly use the Soul Purification Talisman and the Evil Removal Talisman on Zi Ling.
Purple Spirit Refines Demonic Spirit
Zi Ling curled up in Rong Jiaojiao's arms, her small body trembling incessantly. Her once smooth purple fur now emanated an eerie black aura, as if something was tearing at her body. Her eyes alternated between clear and blood red, and painful whimpers escaped her throat.
Rong Jiaojiao felt heartbroken and gathered spiritual power at her fingertips, applying soul-purifying and evil-repelling talismans to it again and again.
The talisman turned into golden light and merged into Zi Ling's body, but the black energy seemed to be alive, constantly struggling and even backfiring on the power of the talisman.
"Ziling, hold on!" Rong Jiaojiao whispered to comfort her, her voice trembling slightly.
Zi Ling barely opened her eyes, a struggle flashing in her pupils, and weakly transmitted her voice, "Master... it's devouring my divine consciousness..."
Before it could finish speaking, it suddenly began to convulse violently. The purple-gold patterns on its body dimmed abruptly, replaced by hideous black lines that spread out like a spider web!
"Not good! The demonic spirit is taking over!" Upon seeing this, Zhang Zekai immediately bit his fingertip, drew a blood talisman in mid-air, and slammed it onto Zi Ling's forehead. "Soul-suppressing and spirit-locking, seal!"
"Buzz—" The blood talisman transformed into a crimson chain, wrapping around Zi Ling's body in an attempt to suppress the rampaging demonic energy.
However, the black lines continued to spread and even began to erode the chains!
Leng Muya's expression turned grave: "The demonic spirit Lingmei is more dangerous than we imagined; it is using Ziling's spirit body to reshape itself!"
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