Chapter 602 82: 'Jia-Shang 12

"There's something strange about them. We need to end this quickly. Daoist Wu Quan, Fellow Daoist Gan Qi, follow me to drive back those four Linshui Mansion cultivators first. Fellow Daoist Changqing, you tie up the other four for a moment!"

Zi Luan sent the message via telepathy. Although it was long, it appeared in everyone's minds in an instant. The moment the message arrived, Monk Mingxin had already charged out, his figure streaking across the void above the clouds, seemingly tearing a gash in space itself.

Seeing this, Gan Qi exchanged a glance with Mengxin, then charged out in hot pursuit of Monk Mingxin.

Wu Quan then sent a telepathic message: 'Lure them below the clouds!' Fighting above the clouds was very disadvantageous for Earth Vein Cultivators, unless they had advanced to the Fourth Realm.

As he sent the message, he and Wu Bing summoned a tall pagoda. A dense Earth Vein aura erupted, forming a unique gravitational field around them. Then, covering each other, they charged after Gan Qi.

Zi Luan, meanwhile, held the center of their formation, holding a bronze bell in one hand and manifesting various Talismans with the other. The space around Mengxin's body continuously collapsed and reformed as they waited for the right moment to strike.

All this happened in a flash. Wang Ping also summoned hundreds of Golden Armored Puppets to meet the opposing puppets, and the fires of war instantly ignited a vast swathe of the sky.

Dongcan and Yuan Zheng faced two Artifact Cultivators, while Wang Ping, Ruan Chunzi, and Yu Lian confronted Chengxi and Quecai!

ZING!

The sound of something tearing through the air suddenly rang in Wang Ping's ear.

A Golden Armored Puppet materialized to his left, the cold glint of its longspear thrusting straight for his head.

CLANG!

CLANG!

CLANG!

Two special Golden Armored Puppets beside Wang Ping immediately moved to intercept.

But the next moment, dozens more Golden Armored Puppets materialized, only to vanish the instant they appeared, as if they were making short spatial jumps.

'It's Transfer Talismans!'

Wang Ping immediately understood the key to this. Facing the distant Chengxi, he yelled, "Yu Lian!"

"Understood!"

Yu Lian's body abruptly swelled to a height of a hundred feet. As the Water Spirit Formation on the surface of her Scale Armor unfurled, a dense, watery mist filled the space.

SSSSSS!

One Golden Armored Puppet was instantly enveloped by the watery mist the moment it appeared, and the mist's acidity corroded most of it away in a flash.

Wang Ping stood in the air above Yu Lian's massive form. His hand seals shifted, and he unleashed layer after layer of the Seven-Star Killing Array, sending them sweeping across the void above the clouds toward Chengxi and Quecai's position.

'I'll have to ask you to tie up the other one, Fellow Daoist!'

Wang Ping sent the telepathic message to Ruan Chunzi, who had been waiting in reserve, upon seeing Quecai forming hand seals.

Without a word, Ruan Chunzi acted. The Fire Salamander on his shoulder instantly burst into flame, and the fire enveloped Ruan Chunzi's entire body. The next moment, he entered a state of 'Fire Transformation'. An unbearable heat soared into the sky, and tangible flames ignited more than half the void as he descended upon Quecai's position.

'Yu Lian!'

As Ruan Chunzi went to face Quecai, Wang Ping called out to Yu Lian in his Spirit Sea. She immediately shrank down and landed on his shoulder. Then, Wang Ping summoned the Pocket World Mirror and vanished on the spot.

Chengxi saw Wang Ping disappear and gave a grim glance toward the nearby Quecai, who was now tied up in a fight. He then pointed a finger in front of him, and countless Talismans instantly appeared. They struck the void, forming a dense web of Transfer Talisman patterns between the barriers of space. Under the influence of these formation patterns, his body began to turn illusory.

But in the next moment, his formation patterns were shattered to pieces by the sweeping Seven-Star Killing Array. He himself transformed into a streak of light and dodged to the side.

"The Seven-Star Killing Array truly lives up to its thousand-year reputation!"

As Chengxi stabilized himself, he looked at the faint figure of Wang Ping within the dense Sword Array. As he spoke, he transformed into his Wood Spirit Form. His Primordial Spirit sensed the clamorous spirituality of the world around him. He extended his left hand and summoned a metal disc. The moment the disc appeared, gray pillars of light shot through the world, shrouding the void like an aurora.

The sweeping Sword Array suddenly halted a thousand feet before it reached him!

Inside the Sword Array, Wang Ping suddenly felt dizzy and nauseous. He subconsciously assumed he had been poisoned, but there was nothing abnormal about his Spirit Veins.

"Something unknown is spying on your Primordial Spirit!"

Yu Lian shouted the reminder, then rose up on a cloud, transformed into her massive true form, and whipped her tail. Two golden Longswords instantly howled forth, striking toward Chengxi's location. At the same time, she cast 'Summon Ocean'.

Instantly, a great wave surged through the void, swallowing her and Wang Ping, but they remained completely unharmed in the water.

As the wave crashed toward Chengxi, it also shattered the aurora that had appeared in the void above Wang Ping's head.

The moment Wang Ping was enveloped by the seawater, a gentle Water Spirit Qi began to constantly nourish his Primordial Spirit, slightly alleviating his dizziness and nausea. At that moment, he looked up at Chengxi.

Chengxi's condition was even worse than his own. He was completely hunched over, the Spirit Veins beneath his skin were throbbing, and gray energy fluctuated back and forth on the surface of the metal disc in his hand.

As the two golden Longswords descended upon him, a black shadow shot out from his chest.

CLANG!

CLANG!

It was a natural-born black serpent! After appearing, its body expanded rapidly, and it swallowed the surging seawater in a single gulp!

"What a big black earthworm!"

After her exclamation, Yu Lian said to Wang Ping in his Spirit Sea, 'Those auroras contain visible Spiritual Material! That's what's affecting you! Quick, use the Divine Technique Formation!'

Wang Ping came to his senses. Forcing himself to endure the dizziness, he sacrificed ten Celestial Swords. His body was then enveloped by dense golden particles, and the dizzy, nauseous feeling vanished instantly.

Just then, a wave of heat washed over them.

It was Ruan Chunzi!

He had sensed that something was wrong with Wang Ping and rushed over at once. At the same time, Quecai appeared in front of Chengxi, snatched the metal disc from his hand, and stored it away in a special Sealing Crystal.

Yu Lian called out to Fire Swift, "Come on, let's go deal with that big fella!"

The 'big fella' she was referring to was the black serpent.

Hearing this, the flames that had just died down on Fire Swift's body reignited, and it looked eager for a fight. Just then, however, Chengxi took out a Heaven-Reaching Talisman. Wang Ping thought he was about to make a desperate last stand, but the next moment, he, Quecai, and the black serpent vanished into thin air. Not only them, but also the two Artifact Cultivators and four Water Cultivators he had brought with him!

"They ran?"

Yu Lian asked, uncertain.

Wang Ping's Primordial Spirit formed a hand seal, and the Divine Technique Formation at his feet rapidly contracted. His consciousness then leaped across a range of hundreds of miles in an instant, but he found no trace of Chengxi and the others.

'That was "Jia Shang Twelve," the Destiny Disc. It can use a massive amount of spirituality to lock onto a person's Primordial Spirit to calculate their fate. If the price is high enough, it can even change a person's destiny!'

Ruan Chunzi relayed this to Wang Ping via telepathy as he watched Zi Luan and the others fly over from the distance.

A flicker of understanding appeared in Wang Ping's eyes. He had, of course, read materials on the Destiny Disc. It was said to change a person's destiny, but in reality, it just changed their fortune, turning someone with heavenly luck into a magnet for misfortune. The price, however, was enormous, so almost no one ever used it. Furthermore, it required specific conditions to be met.