Nine Evolutions of the True Spirit
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Jiang Xuan-Xuan had been pampered by everyone on Tian Ling Mountain. Everyone liked her naivety and innocence, so they had been reluctant to show her the cruelness of the world in the hope that her innocence could be preserved.

Consequently, Jiang Xuan-Xuan's involvement in this operation felt out of place. Although Lu Ping sensed that the Great Ancestors were trying to expose her to the true nature of the cultivation world, Lu Ping was still quite reluctant to immediately show his little junior martial sister everything.

As a result, he assigned her to the western direction; he didn't anticipate any enemy to approach this area at all. His intention was to slowly expose her to the cultivation world, step by step.

However, who would've thought the monster race would see her as the weakest link and chose to target her instead!

Although this was Jiang Xuan-Xuan's first time in action, she wasn't afraid at all. To be honest, she had never actually felt fear before, as no one on Tian Ling Mountain would do that to the little princess.

Yet, the proud little princess was now being suppressed in combat by a monster cultivator who even had the time to help out his fellow monster cultivators. Naturally, Jiang Xuan-Xuan couldn't help but feel like she was being underestimated and taken lightly.

Lu Qin even had to step in to help her in the fight!

Jiang Xuan-Xuan's face turned red with anger and embarrassment. She grabbed a handful of charms and threw them out like beans.

The leading monster was shocked as he sensed the spirituality in the charms. They were clearly not crafted by the young girl as they could only be crafted by Late Core Forging Realm Enlightened Masters.

The leading monster quickly cast up a defensive mystic treasure and protected himself. Meanwhile, he recalled his mystic treasure from attacking Jiang Xuan-Xuan and used it to attack the charms instead.

Bang— Bang— Bang—Bang—

The mystic treasure crushed the charms into explosions before they could hit him. Even so, the explosions created loud rumbles and ravaged the surroundings.

He heaved a sigh of relief and thought, How powerful, luckily they were not talisman treasures… What the!

After seeing that the charms were ineffective against the monster Enlightened Master, Jiang Xuan-Xuan grew even more embarrassed and took out four more items that shone with golden lights. These were none other than four talisman treasures!

A water tornado, a curtain of needles, a green lightning, and a weird-looking giant blade were released from the four talisman treasures.

The monster Enlightened Master used all of his means to defend and evade, barely surviving the attacks and thought, It's fortunate that she isn't well versed in combat. If she followed up with more attacks, she'd be able to defeat me for sure.

Suddenly, a thought struck the monster Enlightened Master, as he exclaimed in shock, "[Water Tornado], [Needle Rain], [Wood Lightning], and [Liberal Blade], these… they are Great Ancestor Liu Tian-Ling and Great Ancestor Jiang Tian-Lin's famous skills, who… who are you!?"

When Ma Yu and Zhong Jian arrived at the scene, they were just in time to witness Jiang Xuan-Xuan unleashing the four talisman treasures and the monster Enlightened Master exclamation. Although they felt regretful that Jiang Xuan-Xuan didn't properly capitalize on the talisman treasures, they didn't hesitate to step in and battle the other two monster Enlightened Masters.

They deliberately left the leading monster for Jiang Xuan-Xuan and Lu Qin to fight, knowing that Jiang Xuan-Xuan's safety was not an issue anymore with the four talisman treasures in her hands.

Even though talisman treasures weren’t as useful against Enlightened Masters, that depended on who crafteded them. A talisman treasure crafted by Early Enlightened Masters was naturally useless, but a talisman treasure crafted by Late Enlightened Masters would be another case. Let alone four of them at once.

Jiang Xuan-Xuan's four talisman treasures weren't powerful enough to deal significant damage to the Mid Core Forging Realm Enlightened Master, but they were still enough to corner him and force him into a passive defensive position.

However, what the leading monster was afraid of was not the talisman treasures, but their creators, the two Great Ancestors, and the young girl's relationship to them.

Although the human race and monster race were enemies, it wasn’t to the point that the Enlightened Masters would lose respect for each other's Great Ancestors and take them lightly.

Rumor had it that the Great Ancestors also had a kind of craft that was different from talisman treasures and was known as talisman artifacts. Unlike talisman treasures, talisman artifacts wouldn't disappear after they were used up. They could be recharged with spiritual energy and used over and over again until they broke.

Considering the relationship between the young girl and the Great Ancestors, the leading monster couldn’t help but wonder if she had such things with her.

As of right now, four of the eight directions had already encountered enemies. In the other four directions that weren’t seeing any action, the members didn't leave their zones to aid their friends. This was not only because they all trusted their friends, but also because there were a large number of Blood Refining Realm and Blood Condensation Realm monsters gathering on the sea.

If they left their zones now, they would create an opening for the monsters to board the island. In that case, it would be difficult for them to purge the monsters off the island again.

The sky in the east suddenly turned dark like black ink followed by an incredibly strong divine revelation that froze Lu Ping's body and numbed his limbs for a moment.

Right after that, the sky in the west immediately turned fiery red like fire as an even stronger divine revelation pushed back, warming Lu Ping's body and heart.

This was Enlightened Master Mo Wei and Enlightened Master Qu Xuan-Cheng contesting against each other with their divine revelation.

However, without any helpers, Enlightened Master Mo Wei was definitely no match for Enlightened Master Qu Xuan-Cheng who was already in the Peak Core Forging Realm and just one step away from the Avatar Realm.

A few moments later, Ji Xuan-Xuan let out a whistle from the southeast, followed by a whistle from Chen Lian, who was in the north. This left only Du Feng and Shi Lingling regions yet to face any attacks.

Although Lu Ping could tell from their whistles that their situations were under control, it was hard to say if the monster wouldn't intensify their attacks.

As time passed, Lu Ping grew more worried. He attacked with increasing intensity, causing his opponent’s expression to grow gloomy.

This monster Enlightened Master knew that Lu Ping was the Water Sword Immortal, but he had always despised him since Lu Ping was only an Early Core Forging Realm Enlightened Master. Hence, when he heard that Lu Ping was here, he took the lead and came to test Lu Ping's strength.

However, he was shocked when Lu Ping started the fight with a great sword divine ability. In the following dozens of attacks, the monster Enlightened Master found himself unable to establish an advantage in the fight.

So, he revised his strategy and intended on suppressing Lu Ping with his higher cultivation base. But to his great shock once again, he found out that Lu Ping's true energy was actually as abundant as his own despite being two cultivation layers lower.

When the monster Enlightened Master heard the whistles one after another, he knew that the siege on Huang Li Island had begun. But after so long, waves of spiritual energy still rippled in the different directions, indicating that his fellow monster cultivators were also still tangled up in their fights.

According to the snake trio, there were six monster Enlightened Masters in the radius of a thousand miles that could come to reinforce Huang Li Island quickly. Three of these six monsters were Mid Core Forging Realm Enlightened Masters, and one of them was here, meaning the other two had to be in the other areas.

Although Lu Ping was confident his friends could hold their ground against a Mid Core Forging Realm Enlightened Master, they would only be able to do so for a limited amount of time before they ran out of true energy.

After all, not everyone was like Lu Ping who could defeat opponents that were in a cultivation stage higher.

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