Chapter 1151 Demonic Shadow
Suddenly, a black shadow shot out from the fog and rushed towards Lan Xiaoxiao.
Lan Xiaoxiao reacted extremely quickly, swung her sword, and with a "clang" sound, the black shadow was repelled. It turned out to be a giant wolf covered with black scales.
Another one pounced on Luo Li. Luo Li swung her sword and chopped it off. The giant wolf turned into mist and disappeared.
She immediately said, "It's an illusion!"
Immediately afterwards, more black shadows came from all directions, so many that they seemed endless.
Song Wanbai formed seals with his hands and muttered something. Several flames shot out from his fingertips, forming a wall of fire around everyone, temporarily blocking the monster's attack.
"These magical beast phantoms seem to be controlled by some force. We have to find the source!" Song Wanbai shouted loudly.
Luo Li's eyes glared. "Ah Ming, you and Song Wanbai hold the rear, while Lan Xiaoxiao and I will scout ahead! Everyone else, stay with them and guard the area!"
Di Xuanming nodded, and condensed a golden energy barrier in his hand, which cooperated with Song Wanbai's fire wall to keep the monster phantom firmly outside.
Qianren, Fu Yu and the others also stared at their surroundings without fear, and would directly destroy any phantom that attacked.
Luo Li and Lan Xiaoxiao flashed and rushed into the depths of the fog.
As we went deeper, the phantoms of the monsters around us became more and more powerful. Not only were they larger in size, but they also emitted a disgusting stench.
Lan Xiaoxiao wielded the Canghai Sword. Every time the sword flashed, it could kill a monster. At the same time, with the help of the water vapor in the surrounding air, the power of the sword moves was doubled.
Luo Li tightly grasped Xuan Yue, and wherever the silver sword light went, the monsters turned into ashes.
Suddenly, a cold laugh came from the depths of the fog, the sound coming and going, as if coming from all directions.
"A bunch of ignorant ants, just die here." A black shadow slowly emerged from the mist. It turned out to be a mysterious man in a black robe with a blurred face.
He was surrounded by black mist and held a bone staff engraved with strange runes in his hand, each rune flashing a dark red light.
When Taixu Ancient Dragon saw this person, he immediately screamed in fear: "It's the Demon Shadow! Haven't I already left the Great Wilderness?! How can I still see this kind of ghost thing!"
Luo Li turned around, "Demon Shadow, what is that?"
Taixu Ancient Dragon quickly explained, "They're a type of demonic being, skilled at creating illusions and magic. They can materialize the fears deep within people's hearts, causing them to lose themselves in the illusion until they collapse and die. The third floor definitely wasn't like this originally. They're the ones behind it!"
The mysterious man waved his bone staff, and the surrounding fog instantly boiled over. More and more powerful phantoms emerged, including everyone's former enemies and monsters transformed from their inner demons.
"Don't be fooled by illusions, these are all fake!" Luo Li loudly reminded Lan Xiaoxiao and the people behind her. The power of chaos surged on the Xuan Yue Sword, and the light became brighter, dispelling the approaching illusions.
She suppressed the turmoil in her heart and calmly analyzed the situation. "We must find the Demon Shadow's true form as soon as possible. Once we defeat him, these phantoms will naturally dissipate!"
Lan Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth, and the blue light of the Canghai Sword surged. "I just don't believe that these illusory things can still stop me!"
She forced herself to suppress the uneasiness in her heart, and her figure moved as fast as lightning, shuttling among the phantoms, searching for the trace of the evil shadow.
At this time, Di Xuanming and Song Wanbai, who were guarding the rear, were also facing tremendous pressure.
More and more phantoms broke through the defense line, and they had to fight with all their strength.
Emperor Xuanming waved his spear, and wherever the golden spear light went, the phantoms shattered; Song Wanbai's formation kept changing, burning the phantoms that tried to approach to ashes.
But as time went on, their spiritual energy was consumed greatly and their defense line began to loosen.
The forces of the Ji family would just hide in the center and would not expend their spiritual energy to help Di Xuanming and the others like other people.
Seeing this, the Demonic Shadow Master laughed triumphantly: "Struggle, suffer, and slowly die in fear and despair!"
With a wave of the bone staff in his hand, the power of all the phantoms instantly increased several times. Luo Li and Lan Xiaoxiao were forced to retreat repeatedly by the powerful attack, and many scars appeared on their bodies.
Luo Li wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, and caught a glimpse of Lan Xiaoxiao's hair being cut off by the sword energy, and it was spinning in the air and falling.
She suddenly realized that every time the Demon Shadow manipulated the phantom to strengthen, the runes on the bone staff would emit a more dazzling red light - those runes were clearly drawn with the essence and blood of some living creature!
"Xiaoxiao! Attack his bone staff!" Luo Li suddenly held the Xuan Yue Sword across his chest, and the power of chaos condensed into a silver shield, resisting the bite of a giant python transformed from an illusion.
She took the opportunity to throw out a sword energy that wrapped around the demon's ankle, "Xiao Liu, spit fire! Burn the runes!"
Xiao Liu had been so anxious that she had been stamping her feet in the Tower of Gods. Upon hearing this, her true form suddenly emerged from between her eyebrows, and she opened her mouth and spit out a ball of red-gold dragon flame.
The Demon Shadow obviously did not expect that the monster could break through the illusion. He hastily waved his bone staff to resist, but the rune light became dim under the burning of the dragon flame.
In the blink of an eye, Lan Xiaoxiao's Canghai Sword broke through the air with an icy blade condensed from water mist.
The sword edge brushed past the demon's face, cutting off a few pieces of the black robe, but when it was about to touch the bone staff, it was blocked by a group of phantoms that suddenly appeared.
The phantoms grinned and stretched out their barbed arms to wrap around her tightly.
"Xiaoxiao!" Luo Li's heart tightened. Just as she was about to rescue, she suddenly felt the ground beneath her feet shaking violently.
The demon shadow took advantage of their distraction and slammed the bone staff heavily on the ground. Countless black vines broke out of the ground and wrapped around everyone's ankles.
Human faces appeared on the surface of the vines. They were all humans killed by the evil shadow. They wailed and dragged everyone, trying to pull them into the ground.
"Break it for me!" Di Xuanming's angry roar came from behind.
He forcibly broke through the encirclement of the phantom, golden light burst out from his body, and his spear turned into a meteor and pierced the demon shadow.
Feng Wuhen followed closely behind, the flame in his hand condensed into the shadow of a phoenix, and as his wings spread, he burned all the phantoms along the way.
A trace of panic flashed in the demon's eyes, and he waved his bone staff to summon a more powerful phantom to block it.
Qianren and Fu Yu took the opportunity to encircle the Phantom from both sides. Qianren's short blade emitted a dark blue poisonous light and accurately pierced the Phantom's joints. Fu Yu's scepter turned into a soft whip and wrapped around the Phantom's neck like a spirit snake. The two cooperated tacitly and tore a gap in an instant.
Seeing this, Song Wanbai in the back formed seals with his hands and changed them. The wall of fire suddenly rose higher and turned into a fire dragon that pounced on the demon shadow. The red light of the runes trembled violently under the scorching flames.
Luo Li seized the opportunity, and the Xuan Yue Sword burst out with brilliant silver light, using the power of chaos to shatter the phantom that was entangled with Lan Xiaoxiao.
After Lan Xiaoxiao escaped, the Canghai Sword attracted the surrounding water vapor, condensing it into a huge ice sword, and attacked the demon shadow at the same time as Luo Li.
The demon shadow retreated one after another, and the black robe was cut by the sword energy, revealing the skin covered with dark red lines underneath. Those lines were exactly the same as the runes on the bone staff.
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