The blue light in Jiu Baiyun’s eyes suddenly flared up.
He hurled the ball of Fox Fire in his hand upward.
The moment it left his hand, it silently exploded, turning into countless barely perceptible blue specks.
Then it gently spread out, instantly covering a fan-shaped area in front.
Jiu Baiyun squinted at that moment.
It wasn’t just the physical neurons that could transmit perception, but also Spiritual Energy at the energy level and Qi at the soul level.
Qi was very similar to Spiritual Energy in his previous life, but he had specifically experimented and found that Qi and Spiritual Energy were completely independent.
If all Qi was drained, as long as one could ignore the soul’s decay, the soul would receive no perception at all.
And the Yao Fox Demon Venerable’s ability could simultaneously block all three perception methods at once.
With the perception methods cut off, naturally all perception would be lost.
The next moment, time seemed to have been briefly paused.
The massive Mountain Sparrow Flock that had been surging forward, originally aimed directly at the Spiritual Barrier that protected the four of them, now part of them fell into a strange sluggishness.
And this sluggishness instantly threw the entire flock into chaos.
The hair-raising “chirps” seemed to have their throats squeezed, suddenly becoming chaotic, sharp, filled with panic and frenzy.
In countless crimson compound eyes, the previously uniform, icy locking light shattered instantly, leaving behind confusion, bewilderment, and even madness to attack each other.
The core area of the flock, which was closest, was in complete disarray.
Part of the Mountain Sparrows suddenly lost all sense of direction, spinning and colliding wildly on the spot like headless flies, emitting piercing screeches and collision sounds.
Another part seemed to be pulled by invisible threads, abruptly turning to attack their own kind, tearing at each other’s feathers and flesh with sharp beaks and claws, gray-black feathers falling like rain.
Yet another part was like they were drunk, their flight paths becoming crooked, bobbing up and down, even diving straight toward the ground.
This sudden scene among the Mountain Sparrows made Su Zhiyun freeze, and A Ran also looked puzzled.
The entire once-tight flock barrier visibly collapsed and disintegrated from within.
‘It worked!’
Jiu Baiyun was overjoyed in his heart but dared not pause at all.
Maintaining such a large-scale ability was a huge burden on his current state.
This chaos wouldn’t last long; he had to seize this opportunity.
“Hold on tight! We’re going to charge through!”
As he suddenly accelerated, Jiu Baiyun didn’t forget to remind the three behind him.
The moment he finished speaking, the Spiritual Barrier enveloping the four of them suddenly accelerated, like a meteor burning with blue and pale gold light, crashing into the chaotic Mountain Sparrow Flock.
Boom—screech—
Countless Mountain Sparrows that had lost their targets and fallen into madness were violently knocked aside by the high-speed moving barrier, producing tearing sounds.
Their vision was instantly filled with gray-black and crimson.
Dense, mindless Mountain Sparrows slammed into the barrier like a rainstorm.
Claws scratched unconsciously, beaks pecked, making teeth-grinding “creak” and “thud” sounds.
Gray-black feathers, shredded flesh, and stinking bodily fluids splattered and slid down the barrier’s surface, smearing the already thin barrier with filth.
Although this scene was nothing to Jiu Baiyun, it was Xiao Mu’s first time seeing such a sight.
“Ah—”
She kept her eyes tightly shut, burying her face completely in Jiu Baiyun’s heaving back, her scream drowned in the ear-splitting “chirp” screeches.
Su Zhiyun, on the other hand, shielded A Ran in her arms, staring intently at the surroundings.
When she saw the tangled ball of Mountain Sparrows on the left rolling toward them like a meat grinder, she immediately shouted at Jiu Baiyun.
“Left! Too many!”
Jiu Baiyun’s pupils sharply contracted.
His gaze quickly turned to the left.
A huge “meatball” formed by dozens or even hundreds of frenzied Mountain Sparrows was rolling and hurtling straight at them like an out-of-control meteor.
That clump of Mountain Sparrows exuded a nauseating aura of violence, and its impact force was incomparable to scattered ones.
If they were hit head-on, the already thin and fragile Spiritual Barrier would likely shatter instantly.
‘Tch!’
Jiu Baiyun clenched his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead.
He felt it was very likely that the controller of the Mountain Sparrows had discovered him through the flock’s abnormality, and this clump was the opponent’s makeshift method to eliminate him.
There was no way he could tough it out!
Without any further hesitation, Jiu Baiyun used more Demon Power.
At this moment, he couldn’t care about the potential Fox Demon Transformation.
If he didn’t use it now, they might really all die here.
But this extra Demon Power wasn’t used to reinforce the barrier; instead, it abruptly increased speed.
Jiu Baiyun understood very well that even if the opponent had discovered him, they couldn’t truly lock onto him.
Accurately controlling Mountain Sparrows from such a large flock to pursue him was no easy feat.
This was evident from that clump of Sparrows.
As long as he increased speed, he could completely avoid that clump.
Jiu Baiyun’s Demon Power surged out, and the originally thin golden barrier was instantly dyed with deep blue, transforming into a rapidly spinning deep blue orb.
In an instant, speed reached its maximum, nearly turning into a stream of light tearing through the air.
Whoosh—
The orb grazed past the rolling “Sparrow meatball” by a hair’s breadth.
The violent air currents and chaotic beaks and claws scraped against the barrier’s surface, producing piercing screeches and a metallic friction-like “zzzrrr” sound.
The barrier fluctuated violently, as if it would shatter at any moment, but in the end, due to insufficient force, it didn’t break.
“Whoa!”
The sharp turn and acceleration’s strong centrifugal force made Su Zhiyun and A Ran cry out simultaneously, their bodies pressed hard against the inner wall of the barrier.
“We’re almost out!”
Jiu Baiyun’s voice was hoarse, with dense sweat beading on his forehead.
He could clearly feel the uncontrollable fox tail at the base of his spine restlessly swishing under his robe.
Worse still, a tingling numbness and swelling sensation came from both sides of his head.
His ears were about to pop out too!
Taking a deep breath, Jiu Baiyun forcibly suppressed the strange sensation on his head and continued steering forward.
Carried by splashing feathers and blood, after a long distance, finally—
Boom!
Jiu Baiyun charged out of the outermost chaotic barrier of the Mountain Sparrow Flock with the three others!
Their field of vision suddenly opened up, and dazzling sunlight spilled down again.
Behind them was that gray darkness still crazily self-devouring and shrieking endlessly, while ahead was relatively open mountain fields, temporarily not completely covered by that terrifying Heavenly Palace Black Tide.
“We’re out!”
Su Zhiyun shouted, almost collapsing with exhaustion, her voice trembling with the relief of survival.
A Ran, in her arms, was also panting heavily, her face pale.