C224 fighting to the death

Countless Single Horned Cloud Leopards and more and more black snake began to surround them. The disciples on the Heavenly Ranking had already started to cooperate with the four elders who were still alive to fight against the horde of beasts with their lives on the line.

The howls of the beasts and the shouts of the cultivators mixed together. As they fought to the death, blood continued to shoot out and the smell of blood began to spread.

While they were fighting, they were also on guard. They were carefully moving toward the outside as they wanted to get away from the beasts' encirclement as soon as possible.

At this moment, Xiao Meng, who had been in Zhao Mingzhe's sleeve all along, climbed onto Zhao Mingzhe's shoulder at an extremely fast speed.

Zhao Mingzhe felt that Xiao Meng had probably found something, and was just about to warn everyone to be careful, when one of the disciples who was standing in the periphery, had already landed on the ground. A few of the Celestial Sect disciples who were standing in the surroundings subconsciously took a few steps back.

When everyone looked over, the disciple was already the same as the two dead elders, his face was completely black, foaming at the mouth, and he had died under the black snake's deadly poison.

Zhao Mingzhe frowned, and realised, the location of the dead disciple, was in the direction of the cry that Xiao Meng had made just now. It seemed that Xiao Meng, who was extremely sensitive to beasts, had detected the presence of a high levelled black snake beforehand.

After the successively powerful disciples and artifact soul level elders had died, no one present had been able to find out where this high level black snake, who killed people, was hiding!

Facing this high level black snake that was like a ghost, many of the people present had turned pale. After all, looking at the current situation, everyone present had the possibility of becoming the next person to die!

At this time, one of the remaining four elders suddenly gave a loud whistle, and his body shot up into the air, fleeing into the distance in the blink of an eye!

Many of the disciples paled once more, knowing that this elder must have felt something was wrong and ran away by himself. Right now, these disciples were worried that the remaining three elders would abandon the rest of the disciples and directly flee for their lives.

Due to the fear in their hearts and the elder's solo escape, most of the people were a little distracted. Many Single Horned Cloud Leopards and the black snake that could see the sword took the opportunity to attack from several directions!

When the others had yet to react, Zhao Mingzhe had already begun to shout loudly:

"Dragon Soars the Eight Directions!"

In the blink of an eye, the water-repelling spear started to spin, Zhao Mingzhe was surrounded by eight dragon like spear images, they shot out like lightning!

The instant the water-repelling spear pierced through a few Single Horned Cloud Leopards, Zhao Mingzhe felt that a whirlpool had appeared in his dantian's aura sea. A few strands of weak spiritual energy came from the water-repelling spear and was directly absorbed by the whirlpool.

Zhao Mingzhe felt that these auras were similar to the auras he had initially eaten from the Spirit Beasts and animal core. Could it be that, the moment the water-repelling spear had stabbed into the bodies of the Single Horned Cloud Leopards, it had actually absorbed the spirit energy contained within the animal core?

As he thought about it, Zhao Mingzhe attacked again with his long spear, instantly killing another horned cloud leopard. As expected, a weak spiritual energy once again flowed from the water-repelling spear into the dantian's aura sea.

The more Zhao Mingzhe thought about it, the more he felt that the idea that the water-repelling spear could directly absorb the animal core's spirit energy was true. However, the situation was too dangerous, Zhao Mingzhe did not have much time to think about it, he could only put this idea aside and continue killing the beasts that pounced on him.

At this time, while blocking the attacks of the Single Horned Cloud Leopard and black snake, Elder Liu Zhi said loudly:

"Elder Zhou, Elder Li, the two of you aren't thinking of escaping right? Don't forget, even if we abandon these disciples and escape for our lives, Great Elder Qin Lie would definitely not let us off. "

"I definitely won't escape!"

"This old man doesn't know either!"

Elder Zhou and Elder Li had just finished answering, when from a distant direction suddenly came a miserable scream that resounded through the horizon, followed by a cry for help. However, the sound disappeared in a flash, and in that direction, tranquility had returned.

Many people could already hear that the one screaming for help was the Artifact Soul Elder who had run away. It seemed that even though this person's mind was crooked, he still couldn't escape in the end. Instead, he died before the rest of the people!

At this time, many disciples who initially had crooked ideas and wanted to escape by themselves no longer dared to act on their own. They were afraid that if they left the large group, they would die even faster like that elder.

Facing the continuously charging horde of demon beasts, Elder Liu Zhi suddenly shouted out:

"Elder Zhou and Elder Li, follow me and attack in one direction!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the enormous sword soul behind Elder Liu Zhi formed a majestic sword screen, sweeping towards the left.

The other two shouts came at almost the same time. The artifact souls of Elder Zhou and Elder Li also swept out in the direction that Elder Liu Zhi had attacked from. Obviously, Elder Liu Zhi wanted to gather all three of them to open up a path for them to escape!

The full power of the attacks from the three Artifact Soul Realm experts was naturally extremely powerful. Many one-horned Cloud Leopards and black snake were torn into pieces by the strong force.

Just then, Xiao Meng, who was on Zhao Mingzhe's shoulder, suddenly let out a mournful "ji" sound.

Zhao Mingzhe who had the previous experience suddenly stretched out, used Floating Willow Body Art to the extreme, and at the same time, shouted explosively:

"Xiao Meng, point the way!"

The cute Xiao Meng, after hearing Zhao Mingzhe's shout, rushed out like lightning towards the left side of Elder Liu Zhi's body.

Although he did not sense anything amiss about that location, Zhao Mingzhe still shouted loudly.

"Furious Dragon Goes to Sea!"

The water-repelling spear emitted a dazzling brilliance, spinning and thrusting towards the direction that Xiao Meng was pointing at. But even after using the entire move, Zhao Mingzhe still did not feel anything special about it.

At this moment, Elder Liu Zhi suddenly shouted:

"Zhao Mingzhe, spear out, towards the southeast direction!"

Zhao Mingzhe relied on his instinctive reaction, and pierced the water-repelling spear in the direction that Elder Liu Zhi had pointed.

"Elder Li, seal off the path of retreat!"

"In the midst of the explosive shout, Elder Li, who was called out by Liu Zhi, turned his whip shaped weapon and struck back in the northwest direction!"

It was also at this time that many people could faintly see that there was a more than a meter long black snake that was as thick as a pinky finger. It was faintly discernible in the dark night, and was located in the middle of the two weapons by Elder Zhao Mingzhe.

An earth-shattering roar sounded as Elder Liu Zhi's sword spirit swept towards the surrounding black snake.

The speed at which Elder Liu Zhi activated the artifact spirit had already reached the limit. The weaker disciples could only see a flash of light, but could not clearly see the artifact spirit itself!

The faintly discernible black snake was instantly cut into three pieces by Elder Liu Zhi's long sword and it fell to the ground.

Elder Li and Liu Zhi's expressions relaxed. Their eyes carried a bit of joy.

Zhao Mingzhe was a little disbelieving in his heart. This high level black snake that had silently killed a few people in a row was actually killed so easily?

Just as he was thinking about it, Xiao Meng, who was on Zhao Mingzhe's shoulder, suddenly let out an extremely mournful "ji" sound as a warning. Following that, Zhao Mingzhe saw something that he would never have imagined in his dreams, and it actually happened right before his eyes …