Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 897 - 382: Twisted Entity (2)

Ning Qi felt baffled inwardly, musing, "The Saint Ancestor turns out to be far mightier than I anticipated, delving into these mysterious twisted beings from beyond the Spirit Realm, mastering their control for his purposes, and even training them to spot enemies."

These ideas raced through his thoughts in a flash, and Ning Qi addressed Zhao Yujun once more, "Sect Leader Zhao, why don’t one of you team up with me against those twisted creatures?"

His words meant one of the pair should fight by his side, yet he directed the question solely at Zhao Yujun, making it obvious he wanted her companionship and had zero interest in partnering with Gong Tiandao.

Both grasped his intent clearly, and Gong Tiandao let out a cold snort without replying.

He kept clashing with Jiang Yingchu, sending booming blasts reverberating across the void.

After prolonged combat, Zhao Yujun shed her earlier composure, now radiating a savage killing aura like a ferocious lioness on the prowl.

Grasping the critical moment, she responded instantly, "Taoist Friend Ning, I’ll assist you!"

Ning Qi had faced the Saint Ancestor’s avatar solo, while others shied away. Though the avatar later called forth these twisted creatures using its power, Ning Qi stood firm and forced the avatar to retreat from the war realm unscathed.

His bold feat and success left a profound mark on Zhao Yujun.

Rather than confronting the Saint Ancestor’s avatar, she favored taking on these twisted creatures.

Zhao Yujun darted swiftly to Ning Qi’s position, facing off together against the swarm of hundreds of twisted creatures plummeting from above.

Poised boldly amid the void, their combined auras surged skyward, set to shield the Mountain and Sea Realm’s cultivators from the invading beastly throng.

Yet these beings truly appeared mindless. Their crimson, savage gazes fixed on the nearest targets—Ning Qi and Zhao Yujun—before they lunged ahead.

Among the frontrunners, three stood out as grotesque: one boasted a locust-like frame with wriggling parasitic worms hanging from its tail, topped by a centipede’s head.

A second fused human and lobster traits, its human half cackling wildly as the lobster portion flailed its pincers nonstop.

The third featured a woman’s head shrouded entirely by lank, lifeless hair hiding her face, while strange wails escaped her lips.

Its form mimicked a serpent, paired with a somewhat rotten skull head where empty sockets burned with scarlet flames, jaws snapping endlessly.

Crunch, crunch, crunch!

The trio barreled forth, unleashing lethal strikes that clashed in utter discord.

They wielded fused might from Power of Rules, Sea of Realms’ essence, odd energies of their amalgamated forms, plus an uncanny weirdness that even Ning Qi and Zhao Yujun found indescribable.

Zhao Yujun’s White Bone Sword expanded massively, as though the heavens became an ocean. It morphed into a colossal whale, barreling upward at the descending horrors.

Her strike landed true right away, engulfing the lead trio in the whale sword’s path!

But oddly, upon collision, their merged bodies split apart, latching precisely onto Zhao Yujun’s whale sword.

This sight caused Zhao Yujun’s azure eyes to narrow sharply. She swiftly shook her right hand, vibrating the sword at intense speed with a resonant whale-like hum.

Vast surges of Water Rule power burst forth, aiming to scour away every foul presence.

Witnessing that, Ning Qi’s brows furrowed.

Such freakish entities were completely new to him.

As Moon Sea Immortal Sect’s leader and a peak force in the Mountain and Sea Realm, Zhao Yujun wielded impressive strength that Ning Qi well knew—yet these oddities seemed to stump her.

Suddenly, Ning Qi lifted his arm in a palm strike toward the beasts and breathed out sharply.

Intense Dao Fire erupted, infused with exorcising rules of flame and lightning for purging demons, igniting the heavens in a sweeping blaze.

Sizzle!

His hybrid-rule Dao Fire proved potent, the pair hearing the relentless scorching hiss.

Zhao Yujun pulled back her whale bone sword and inspected it closely.

Merely a moment passed, and infection spots marred the blade where the creatures clung, repulsive meaty growths squirming vilely.

With contempt, Zhao Yujun eyed her sword.

Were it not her trusted magic treasure, she’d have tossed it aside.

"Taoist Friend Ning, lend me your Dao Fire!"

Ning Qi split off a thread of Dao Fire to wrap her sword, incinerating the fleshy blemishes.

They turned their sights skyward anew.

Dyed in an otherworldly glow, the Dao Fire illuminated the firmament.

Without those creatures bobbing up and down inside, it would look like a serene vista.

In the instant that followed, shockingly, the flaming creatures displayed no urge to dodge or suffer from the Dao Fire's blaze; they kept plummeting straight at them.

"Woohoo, hahaha, kill, shoo, chirp chirp....."

A torrent of deranged noises trailed their plunge, fusing into a mind-numbing barrage that hammered Ning Qi and Zhao Yujun.

Their awareness wavered for a brief instant; Ning Qi snapped back in under a second, Zhao Yujun in a mere thousandth.

"What exactly are these monsters, and why are they so resilient to death?"

Ning Qi summoned the Great Tao Sword, channeling his Divine Techniques. Innumerable Sword Pills materialized ahead, crafting an offensive mesh and a shielding barrier to block the creatures' advance.

Countless Divine Techniques morphed at once into Sword Qi, cleaving toward the creatures.

Ning Qi unleashed his mightiest offensive Sword Dao. Endless Sword Qi rent the space before them, splintering it into fragments harboring spatial black holes.

At last, Ning Qi’s Sword Qi mangled the creatures into scraps, then ground them to powder.

Relief seemed to wash over both of them.

Zhao Yujun slid her sword away, sweeping a lock of curly hair behind her ear, and voiced heartfelt admiration:

"Taoist Friend Ning, you truly live up to surviving the thirty-six layers of Celestial Tribulation. Jade Monarch is sincerely awed!"

Her mind lingered on Ning Qi’s triumph over the thirty-six layers of Celestial Tribulation, etched in her memory even now.

When a woman recalls a man’s achievement, trouble often brews from there.

Ning Qi shook his head, "Daoist Zhao, spare the praise; the danger persists."

"Hmm?" Zhao Yujun blinked in surprise.

They peered once more into the void.

The freshly severed space shards mended swiftly under the realms’ collective will.

With space restored, the hundred mangled creature parts began knitting back together.

Yet they didn't reform as hundreds, but as ten!

That is, the original hundred warped creatures fused into ten colossal, grotesque behemoths.

They materialized anew, each one's power and aura exploding over twenty times greater!

Horror gripped all onlooker cultivators, dread stirring in their cores.

Not outright fear for themselves, yet the ten reborn horrors sparked it vicariously.

Simply by existing, they menaced every living soul!

Suddenly, the ten horrors bellowed a earth-shaking cry infused with cosmic malice and soul-piercing vibes, charging at Ning Qi and Zhao Yujun along with the warriors clashing below.

Profound sounds evade the ear, true forms elude the eye.

Despite the audible clamor, Ning Qi perceived this from their shrieks, laced with infernal pitches beyond common cultivators’ hearing.

Zhao Yujun reflexively invoked Rule power to mute her senses, believing silence had fallen, only to grasp its pointlessness moments later in dismay.

Below, whether Gong Tiandao or Mountain and Sea Realm cultivators at Harmonization and lower, all quailed uniformly before this roar!

Conversely, Vast Realm cultivators had evidently cast a preemptive incantation to shield from the ten beasts’ sweeping sonic assault.