Chapter 495
Nangong Wan also responded with full concentration. She waved her hands and cast a spiritual barrier to temporarily block the Yue Opera silk threads. But as the silk threads accumulated, the pressure on the barrier became greater and greater. She gritted her teeth and tried to maintain the output of spiritual power, while keeping her eyes on the female ghosts, trying to find the pattern of their attacks.
The elders and monks also cast their own spells for defense. Some elders cast earth spells and built earth walls to try to resist the airflow attack brought by Qinqiang; some monks summoned spiritual power whirlwinds to blow away the musical note arrows of Huangmei Opera. However, the attacks of the female ghosts continued, and everyone gradually became exhausted.
While defending, Fu Shaoping carefully observed the attack rhythm of the female ghosts. He found that every time a female ghost finished singing a complete line, the attack would pause briefly. He had an idea and shouted loudly: "Everyone listen carefully, when the female ghosts finish singing a line, we will launch a counterattack!" Everyone nodded when they heard his words, concentrating their attention and waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.
Just after killing four female ghosts, the vanguard team had no time to catch their breath when a stronger chill surged over them. In the darkness, eight white figures slowly emerged, like evil ghosts crawling out of the Netherworld. These eight female ghosts also held green lanterns, and the green light flickered in the darkness, revealing endless gloom.
Eight female ghosts sang in unison, and the sounds of various operas intertwined, like a symphony from hell. The female ghost singing Yue Opera sang in a gentle voice: "Brother Liang! If Yingtai were a red-dressed woman, would you be willing to marry her?" As the lyrics were sung, spiritual runes appeared out of thin air. These runes flashed with strange light and were shaped like delicate butterflies, flying towards the crowd. Each butterfly rune contained powerful power, and wherever it went, ripples appeared in the space.
The female ghost singing Huangmei Opera then sang: "Dong Lang hurriedly walked in front, and the seven women followed with tears in their eyes." Her lyrics turned into runes, which took the shape of teardrops, crystal clear but with a biting cold. These teardrop runes gathered in the air into an icy stream of water, sweeping towards everyone. The water contained a strong impact force, as if it could freeze everything.
The female ghost singing Qinqiang had a high-pitched voice: "Wang Chao and Ma Han shouted, Mo Huwei retreated." The runes transformed from her lyrics looked like majestic soldiers, holding sharp blades, and charging towards the crowd in a neat formation. The soldier runes exuded a powerful spiritual power fluctuation, and every step they took on the ground made the earth tremble slightly.
The female ghost singing Pingju was not to be outdone: "Flowers bloom and fade every year, but youth never comes back." The runes formed by her lyrics were like carved flowers with sharp saw teeth on the petals. These flower runes rotated in the air, forming a huge flower disk, which rolled over the crowd. Wherever the flower disk passed, a gust of bitter cold wind blew.
What was even more terrifying was that these eight female ghosts knew how to form a formation. They stood in the directions of the Eight Diagrams, and the green lanterns in their hands released rays of spiritual energy, connecting each other. As the formation was formed, their cultivation instantly rose to the realm of transformation. The already powerful attack became even more terrifying under the blessing of the formation.
Everyone in the vanguard team suddenly felt unprecedented pressure. Fu Shaoping's face was solemn. He knew how powerful the power of the spirit transformation realm was. He quickly circulated the spiritual power in his body to the extreme, forming a thick spiritual power shield around his body. This shield was shining with a faint golden light. It was condensed from his spiritual power cultivated for many years and could resist ordinary attacks.
Fu Shaoping took the lead. He quickly formed seals with both hands and chanted: "The Great Vajra Seal, appear!" A huge golden seal appeared in front of him. The seal was engraved with ancient runes and exuded a powerful force. The Great Vajra Seal flew towards the butterfly rune of the Yue Opera ghost. The two collided with each other, making a deafening roar. The space around the golden seal was distorted by the shock. Although the butterfly rune was blocked, it continued to impact the seal, and the two were in a stalemate.
However, the ghosts' attacks did not stop. The cold water flow formed by the teardrop runes of the Huangmei Opera ghosts had already rushed in front of everyone. Seeing this, Fu Shaoping immediately performed the Qiankun Niluan Palm. He turned his body and pushed out his palms. A powerful spiritual power wave spread out with him as the center. This spiritual power was like a whirlpool, sucking the cold water into it. The spiritual power of the Qiankun Niluan Palm and the spiritual power of the teardrop rune entangled and collided with each other, and the cold and hot spiritual power intertwined. The surrounding air was frozen and melted instantly, and water vapor spread.
At this time, the Qinqiang female ghost's soldier rune phalanx was approaching. Fu Shaoping did not dare to neglect it. He gritted his teeth and cast the Prisoner Ice Seal. A blue ice wall rose from the ground, and mysterious runes flashed on the ice wall. The ice wall expanded rapidly, trying to block the charge of the soldier rune. The soldier rune collided with the ice wall, making a sound like metal collision. Although the ice wall temporarily blocked the rune phalanx, the power of the rune phalanx was too strong, and cracks began to appear in the ice wall.
The female ghost who sang Pingju opera also pressed forward with a huge flower disk composed of flower runes. Fu Shaoping knew that he could not let these attacks hit everyone at the same time, so he shouted and summoned twelve Thunder Swords. Twelve swords appeared around him in an instant, and the power of thunder and lightning flashed on each sword. Fu Shaoping waved his hands, and the twelve Thunder Swords formed a Taiyi Sword Formation. After the sword formation was formed, a dazzling lightning flashed and shot towards the flower disk runes. The lightning and the flower disk runes collided with each other, and the power of lightning raged on the flower disk. The petal runes were hit by lightning and exploded one after another, but the overall power of the flower disk was still very strong and continued to crush everyone.
At this critical moment, Fu Shaoping used his special skills again. A strong light suddenly burst out from his body. This was the spiritual light of Fei Tian Fu Mo's body protection. This layer of light was like a golden armor, wrapping him tightly. At the same time, he took out a natal spirit seal from his arms. This natal spirit seal was made by him using his own spiritual power, and it was extremely powerful. He threw the natal spirit seal, and the spirit seal quickly enlarged in the air and flew towards the center of the female ghosts' formation. Wherever the natal spirit seal went, the space was torn into black gaps, which showed how powerful it was.
However, the female ghosts were also extremely defensive under the blessing of the formation of the spirit transformation realm. Although the natal spirit seal hit the center of the formation, it only caused the formation to tremble slightly, and did not cause any substantial damage to the female ghosts.
At this time, Fu Shaoping felt that his spiritual power was greatly consumed, but he knew that he could not give up. He decided to summon the Heavenly Dragon God of the Underworld Temple for help. He put his hands together and chanted an ancient and mysterious spell. As the spell was chanted, the sky suddenly became overcast, and a huge crack appeared in the clouds. A huge Heavenly Dragon God slowly emerged from the crack. The Heavenly Dragon God exuded a sacred light all over his body, his dragon scales shone with a metallic luster, and his huge dragon eyes exuded majesty.
After the Dragon God appeared, he swooped down towards the female ghosts' formation. He opened his mouth and spewed out a stream of blazing flames. This flame was different from the previous attacks. It contained the mysterious power from the underworld temple. The flames burned towards the female ghosts' formation. The female ghosts felt threatened and turned their rune attacks towards the Dragon God.
The butterfly rune, teardrop rune, soldier rune, and flower rune all flew towards the Dragon God. The Dragon God waved his huge dragon claws and fought fiercely with these runes. The dragon claws collided with the runes, sparks flew, and powerful spiritual power waves spread in all directions. The surrounding space was like fragile glass, and cracks continued to appear.
The other members of the vanguard were not idle either. Nangong Wan waved her hands, and streams of spiritual power flew out from her hands, entwining the female ghosts' formation, trying to disrupt their attack rhythm. The elders also used their own unique skills. An elder cast an earth spell, and huge earth mountains rose from the ground and pressed towards the female ghosts. Another elder cast a wood spell, and countless thick vines emerged from the ground, entwining the green lanterns of the female ghosts, trying to destroy their formation connection. The monks formed a spiritual power shield formation to protect everyone. They concentrated their spiritual power and continuously strengthened the shield to resist the aftermath of the rune attacks of the female ghosts.
However, the attacks of the female ghosts were too powerful. Although everyone worked together, they were still at a disadvantage. Fu Shaoping's spiritual power had been consumed by more than half, and the Dragon God was gradually unable to resist. He was extremely anxious and carefully observed the formation of the female ghosts again.
He found that although the female ghosts' formation was powerful as a whole, there was a spot in the southwest corner where the spiritual power fluctuations were slightly weaker. He suddenly thought and shouted to Nangong Wan, "Nangong, lead a few cultivators and concentrate all your spiritual power to attack the formation in the southwest corner! I will attract their attention!"
Nangong Wan understood, and she selected several stronger monks and quietly moved towards the southwest corner. Fu Shaoping, despite his tired body, once again used the Daluo Diamond Seal and rushed towards the main attack force of the female ghosts.
The Daluo Diamond Seal collided with the rune attack again, emitting a dazzling light. Fu Shaoping felt as if his body was being pressed down by a mountain, unable to withstand the pressure of the rune attack. But he gritted his teeth and persisted, buying time for Nangong Wan and the others.
After Nangong Wan and several monks arrived at the southwest corner, they simultaneously gathered their spiritual power to the extreme. A sword emitting powerful spiritual power appeared in Nangong Wan's hand. She inserted the sword into the ground and muttered something. Other monks also injected their spiritual power into the sword. The spiritual power on the sword became stronger and stronger, and finally formed a huge spiritual power beam, shooting towards the southwest corner of the formation.
This beam of spiritual power hit the weak point of the formation accurately. With a crisp cracking sound, a crack appeared in the formation of the female ghosts. As the crack appeared, the spiritual power of the formation began to become disordered, and the female ghosts' cultivation instantly fell from the realm of incarnation.
Seeing this, the morale of the crowd was boosted. They seized this opportunity and launched their strongest attacks. Fu Shaoping recalled the Dragon God, and then rushed towards the female ghosts with the Dragon God. He used the Star Scimitar, which flashed with the power of the stars, and chopped at the female ghosts. The Dragon God also spewed out flames again, and the flames surrounded the female ghosts.
Nangong Wan held a sword in his hand and led the monks to rush towards the female ghosts. Wherever the sword went, the female ghosts' bodies were easily pierced. Other elders also cast various spells to eliminate the remaining female ghosts one by one.
With the concerted efforts of everyone, the eight female ghosts were finally killed, and the surroundings returned to their previous silence.
When everyone was still immersed in the exhaustion and relief of having just defeated eight female ghosts, the surrounding Yin Qi suddenly surged wildly again. In the depths of darkness, sixteen white figures loomed and slowly emerged. The aura of these sixteen female ghosts was stronger and more sinister than before, and the chill they exuded seemed to be able to penetrate people's souls directly.
Sixteen female ghosts began to sing in unison, and the sounds of various operas mixed together, no longer chaotic, but formed a strange rhythm. The female ghost singing Yue Opera sang gracefully: "Three years of schoolmates' love is as deep as the sea, Shanbo can't bear to leave Zhu Yingtai." There is endless sorrow in her voice. The female ghost singing Huangmei Opera continued to sing: "The birds on the trees are in pairs, and the green water and green mountains bring smiles." The voice was crisp but revealed a sense of weirdness. The female ghost singing Qinqiang roared loudly: "My ancestral home is Hancheng County, Shaanxi, and my home is in Xinghua Village." There were also female ghosts singing Pingju Opera and other female ghosts of other operas who sang their own lyrics.
The runes transformed by the lyrics no longer fought on their own, but began to gather together. The butterfly runes, teardrop runes, soldier runes, flower runes and other runes quickly merged to form a huge, glowing sphere. The sphere kept spinning, and the runes flowed and flickered in it, like a small universe.
They named this killing array "The Ghostly Soul-Destroying Array". In this killing array, the power of the runes was multiplied. The power fluctuations emitted by the Ghostly Soul-Destroying Array were like surging waves, sweeping towards the vanguard team.
The vanguard team suddenly felt a strong sense of oppression, which was several times stronger than the previous time when they faced eight female ghosts. Fu Shaoping's face became extremely solemn. He knew very well how powerful this killing array was. He quickly adjusted his state and activated the little spiritual power left in his body again. At the same time, he shouted to everyone: "Everyone be careful, this killing array cannot be underestimated. We must unite to deal with it."
Fu Shaoping was the first to rush towards the killing array. He used the Daluo Diamond Seal, and the golden seal flew towards the Youling Absolute Soul Array. However, when the seal came into contact with the light of the killing array, it was like it was stuck in a quagmire, its speed suddenly decreased, and the spiritual light on the seal began to be swallowed up.
(End of this chapter)