Feeling the abundant spiritual energy within his body, Jiu Baiyun couldn’t help but feel a bit excited.
He could finally splurge a little now.
Even if these sparrows were endless and impossible to eliminate completely, he could still pull off a big move, then charge out directly with Su Zhiyun.
With this in mind, Jiu Baiyun no longer held back.
He suddenly spread his arms wide, his ten fingers dancing rapidly as profound hand seals instantly took shape.
Vast spiritual energy surged out from around him, carrying a heart-stopping momentum.
But the surging spiritual energy made Jiu Baiyun pause slightly.
Within the dazzling golden light, wisps of deep blue coiled and leaped.
‘Sure enough, since I’m sharing a body with the Yao Fox Demon Venerable’s true soul, his demon power has already begun to blend with my spiritual energy…’
Jiu Baiyun didn’t think much about it and quickly refocused.
He straightened his fingers and slowly pointed them at the sky.
A golden stream of light shot into the air, transforming into countless golden sword energy projections.
Jiu Baiyun couldn’t help but curl his lips into a slight smile.
After all, he had once been something of a Sword Immortal!
A sharp glint flashed in Jiu Baiyun’s eyes.
The countless golden sword energies suspended in the sky hummed and trembled, their tips aimed directly at the tide of eerie sparrows surging forward.
“Go!”
With a sharp command, his fingers gently fell forward.
In an instant, thousands of condensed golden sword energies shot out violently.
The sword energies tore through the air, emitting piercing shrieks, trailing long golden tails, and precisely piercing into each gray-white sparrow that lunged at them.
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
A dense series of muffled sounds instantly filled the entire space.
The sparrows pierced by the sword energies let out a sizzling burning sound upon contact, instantly turning into wisps of gray-black smoke, rapidly dissipating in the cool evening air.
Where the golden sword rain passed, it forcibly plowed a brief vacuum zone in the dense flock of sparrows.
“Hiss…”
Behind him, Su Zhiyun gasped sharply, nearly dropping the incense stick in her arms.
‘This… is the true power of a cultivator? And it seems Jiu Baiyun is… quite strong? Even though this was enhanced by the talisman I provided, I’m certain that without the talisman, his own strength wouldn’t be too bad.’
Watching the sky cleared by the sword rain, an indescribable shock filled Su Zhiyun’s heart.
The silence lasted only a moment.
“Caw—”
Then an even more shrill screech suddenly exploded.
The shadows on both sides of the forest churned violently, and several times more gray-white sparrow shadows lunged out again than before.
The passage cleared by the sword energy was instantly filled.
Layer upon layer of beaks madly pecked at the pale green protective shield, producing a grating scraping sound.
The shield’s glow visibly dimmed.
“Tch, is there no end to this!”
Jiu Baiyun raised an eyebrow, annoyed.
He had thought it would end here, but it turned out his guess was right—these sparrows were not just this many…
“Then why don’t you hurry up and leave! You’ve shown off enough. If you’re going to leave, now’s the time. I have a bad feeling!”
The continuous effect of the talisman couldn’t be permanent.
Yao Fox Demon Venerable believed Jiu Baiyun knew that better than anyone.
And sensing the increasingly dense and eerie aura around them, the Yao Fox Demon Venerable’s tone also turned grave.
Jiu Baiyun didn’t respond immediately.
Instead, he quickly traced in the air with his finger.
A golden wave instantly spread from his fingertip.
After dispersing another wave of sparrows, watching the gray-white flock that was even more ferocious than before and almost blocked the last bit of sky, Jiu Baiyun’s eyes twitched violently.
He cursed under his breath, frantically driving the surging spiritual energy within him, boosted by the talisman, once again.
This time, he didn’t choose to make a dispersed attack.
Instead, he concentrated most of his spiritual energy into a single point.
A dull hum sounded.
A dazzling sword wheel formed by countless tiny golden sword energies spinning at high speed took shape in front of him in an instant.
As Jiu Baiyun fiercely pushed his palms forward, the massive golden sword wheel roared into the flock of sparrows like a meat grinder.
Instantly, a spine-tingling tearing sound exploded.
Where the sword wheel passed, those eerie sparrows didn’t even have time to screech before turning into large puffs of gray-black smoke.
And after that terrifying sword wheel rolled through, even the branches and leaves on both sides were shaved off a large swath by the escaping sword energy.
However, the screeching in the forest only paused briefly.
Then, even more gray-white shadows squirmed and gathered.
“Damn!!! Did I stumble into a lair of eerie creatures?”
Jiu Baiyun looked at the shadows beginning to churn again and couldn’t help but curse again, feeling a toothache.
He remembered that when he came, nothing like this had happened!
Why, when he was going back, did so many eerie sparrows appear?
This thing was even more annoying than a cockroach that couldn’t be killed!
And he clearly felt that the surging tide of spiritual energy within him had already started to recede after two powerful bursts.
“Tch, this talisman is good, but it burns too fast!”
He quickly muttered a complaint, but his hands didn’t dare to stop.
Taking advantage of the remaining power of the talisman, he immediately formed a hand seal and infused most of the remaining spiritual energy in his body into the pale green protective shield around him.
“Yao Fox, what’s the bad feeling…”
Jiu Baiyun paused for a moment and asked the Yao Fox Demon Venerable in his mind.
“Not sure, but I suggest we run now.”
“…”
After thinking for a moment, Jiu Baiyun nodded.
“Understood…”
Then he turned his head to look at Su Zhiyun, who was both shocked by his power and worried about the endless sparrows.
“Get ready. You might feel a bit dizzy later.”
Dizzy?
What did that mean?
Before Su Zhiyun could ask, Jiu Baiyun cleared another small patch of sparrows in front of him, then turned and directly hoisted Su Zhiyun up.
“Hey! Hey! Hey!”
Feeling her feet leave the ground, caught off guard, Su Zhiyun cried out in surprise.
“What are you doing?! Put me down! I can run by myself!”
Feeling Su Zhiyun’s struggles in his hands, Jiu Baiyun asked with amusement, “Are you sure you can walk on your own?”
“This…”
Hearing Jiu Baiyun’s words, Su Zhiyun was stunned for a moment.
Then she looked at the dense, rolling gray-white tide of sparrows relentlessly pursuing them and couldn’t help but shrink her head.
She instinctively clutched the bundle of incense sticks in her arms.
She opened her mouth, but the word “yes” got stuck in her throat and couldn’t come out.
‘Alright, I really can’t make it out on my own…’
She knew her own ordinary foot speed.
Forget about outrunning this overwhelming flock of eerie birds, even running a few steps quickly left her gasping for breath.
Even the two dazzling bursts of sword energy Jiu Baiyun had just unleashed to clear a path were instantly filled by even more and crazier sparrows.
This wasn’t something legs could outrun!
Feeling Su Zhiyun’s stiffness and silence, Jiu Baiyun couldn’t help but smile.
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