Chapter 1185: Turning the Tables
Chapter 1185: Turning the Tables
The Aurric Mirror shone with a blinding radiance.
Endless golden light cascaded downward like a roaring waterfall, suppressing the fire chain!
The fire chain refused to yield and fought back frantically. For a moment, heaven and earth seemed to change color.
High in the void, water and fire intertwined. With two astras working together, the fire chain received a steady stream of support. It surged violently against the golden radiance and, against the current, began forcing the golden light’s momentum back.
Si Di pushed the Aurric Mirror with all his strength, yet he still could not withstand the combined assault of the two astras. Seeing the mirror gradually fall into a disadvantage, he grew anxious and hurriedly slapped his waist, preparing to deploy another treasure.
Suddenly, a figure silently appeared. It was Chanling, who had been hiding for a long time!
Having waited for the perfect opportunity, Chanling revealed himself from beneath the Lightless Gauze while the battle between the two sides reached its fiercest point. He appeared directly behind Si Di.
His posture looked strange. Rather than standing, he sat cross-legged in the void. One hand held a jade bottle, while the other spread its five fingers and reached toward the completely unsuspecting Si Di.
The jade bottle had already been opened. Inside was a black liquid poison. It had no smell or visible phenomenon, yet it carried an incomparably sinister aura.
The other hand looked even more bizarre. On the back of his hand was a spider tattoo. The spider appeared vivid and lifelike, as if a real spider were crouching on his hand.
Chanling put away the Lightless Gauze. Black light lit up from the spider tattoo on his hand, transforming into a black spider. His fingers moved like dancing spider legs. The spider looked extremely ferocious and clearly not a friendly creature.
Any ordinary person who saw such a wicked spider would feel a chill rise from the depths of their heart.
At the moment the spider appeared, Chanling’s other hand shook lightly. The poison in the jade bottle shot into the spider like arrows.
After devouring every drop of the poison, the wicked spider became even more sinister. It emitted a spine-chilling shriek, like a low devilish sound that seemed capable of pouring directly into the mind.
Two rows of wicked eyes shone with malice and greed as they stared straight at Si Di’s back.
At the very moment Chanling appeared, Old Devil Tan shouted sharply, "Do it!"
The three Nether Crystal Towers suddenly trembled together. Old Devil Pei, who had been watching the battle closely, immediately followed the previously agreed plan and activated the towers to provide support.
The crystal balls turned pitch black and shot out three enormous beams of light. With a flash, they plunged into the Cold Bell Array.
The beams were not aimed at Si Di. Instead, they converged in mid-air and formed a dome of black light that appeared above the battlefield where Si Di and the others fought, crashing down to envelop the area!
The icy wind and snow were completely blocked outside the dome. The purpose of this move was to resist the power of the Cold Bell Array, preventing whoever controlled the array from rescuing Si Di and disrupting the assassination plan.
As long as the power of the Nether Crystal Towers isolated the array, Si Di would become completely alone.
But that was not the only function of the towers. Old Devil Pei directed the Nether Crystal Towers fully toward Si Di. The light dome carried a suppressive and binding force that pressed down upon him.
Three Spiritual Infant cultivators had conspired together, coordinating flawlessly. At the moment Chanling appeared and the dome descended, Old Devil Tan suddenly flipped his palm toward the triangular banner.
Immediately afterward, the two astras reversed their roles. The fire chain suddenly dimmed, while the triangular banner’s aura surged dramatically.
All this time, Old Devil Tan’s two astras had been used with the fire chain as the main attack and the triangular banner as support.
Now the roles had been reversed. The triangular banner became the main offensive weapon. This was the true harmony of water and fire!
When an opponent concentrated on defending against the fire chain, this unexpected shift could easily catch them off guard. This was exactly the case with Si Di.
Waves of water gathered into a great river that surged upward against the current, rushing toward Si Di’s legs from below with uncanny precision.
Caught completely off guard, Si Di had no time to control the Aurric Mirror to protect himself. Just as he prepared to leap away, the dome above had already smashed down.
Crack! Crack! The river instantly froze into an iceberg. The surrounding space around Si Di became sealed, and the power of black water, sharp as sabers and swords, surged wildly toward him to participate in the encirclement.
Two forces pressed in on him from both sides, but neither of these was the true killing blow. If Si Di reacted quickly enough and received reinforcement from the Cold Bell Array, he might still have had a chance to escape.
The real killing blow was dealt by Chanling!
"Go!" Chanling softly uttered a single word.
The wicked spider transformed into a streak of black light and appeared behind Si Di the next moment.
The iceberg formed by the triangular banner failed to stop it. The spider drilled directly into Si Di’s protective divine aura without encountering the slightest resistance.
A sinister smile appeared on Chanling’s lips. Other supernatural abilities suffered delays, but this sinister art, which he had only recently cultivated to advanced mastery, worked perfectly with the Lightless Gauze.
The wicked spider, formed through transformation and fed with lethal poison, specialized in breaking through the protective divine aura of immortal cultivators. Even a Spiritual Infant cultivator, if bitten while unprepared, would likely meet a grim fate.
Si Di had nowhere left to flee. The three Spiritual Infant cultivators all wore confident expressions.
However, they intended to capture Si Di’s Spiritual Infant as well, so Old Devil Pei and Old Devil Tan remained fully vigilant against the Cold Bell Array to prevent any reinforcements.
The next moment, the wicked spider bit into Si Di. What happened next caused all three Spiritual Infant cultivators to freeze.
The spider’s bite produced the clang of metal striking metal. At the same time came the spider’s painful shriek. Si Di’s figure flickered and vanished from sight. In his place appeared the Aurric Mirror!
On the surface of the mirror, Si Di’s phantom emerged. His true body had somehow escaped the trap and appeared exactly where the Aurric Mirror had been moments before. At the critical moment, he had switched positions with his own astra!
Chanling and the other two stared blankly. They had watched with their own eyes as Si Di disappeared within their carefully prepared encirclement, yet none of them could see how he had done it.
Si Di’s face was flushed, and his breathing came rapidly, but his expression was full of mockery. He was completely unharmed. The Aurric Mirror had taken the punishment in his place.
Chanling and Old Devil Tan were both seasoned veterans. The failure of the ambush did not shake their resolve in the slightest. They immediately prepared to activate their astras again and continue the hunt.
Judging from Si Di’s condition, the escape technique has clearly consumed a great deal of energy. There's still a chance! They thought.
But just as that thought flashed through their minds, a thunderous explosion suddenly erupted outside the array, accompanied by Old Devil Pei’s piercing scream.
The two of them instantly changed expressions!
Outside the array, near the edge of the Nether Crystal Towers, two Spiritual Infant experts had appeared without anyone noticing.
"You..." Old Devil Tan saw the mocking expression on Si Di’s face and suddenly understood.
No wonder the ambush had succeeded so easily. When they launched their attack on Si Di, the Cold Bell Array had not produced the expected counterattack. Because the one controlling the array was not a Spiritual Infant cultivator at all!
They believed their plan was flawless. Yet they had been the ones lured into the trap!
Chanling’s face darkened to the extreme. Countless thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant.
It was still unclear whether the enemy had set this trap from the beginning to lure Old Devil Pei and Old Devil Tan into an ambush and he had simply stumbled into it. Or whether he had already been exposed and the enemy had merely turned his own scheme against him.
If he had truly been discovered long ago, then what Chanling had to consider was no longer just the outcome of this battle.
As long as he did not face Daoist Master Zhenyi and a few others, Chanling could act almost freely on the battlefield, all because of the Lightless Gauze. Yet the three people who had appeared were none of those individuals.
Has the Two-Domain Alliance already discovered a way to counter the Lightless Gauze? Chanling thought.
"Save him!" Chanling shouted coldly.