While fighting, Li Yan was looking for an opportunity. Since poison was ineffective, Li Yan wanted to find a chance to attack the opponent's soul. He believed that every cultivator had a weakness. His purpose in charging forward with Zhao Min and then suddenly summoning Zi Kun was to catch the opponent off guard, forcing him to reveal more flaws and provide him with a good opportunity. But seeing that Zi Kun's one strike had failed and hearing him say such a thing, Li Yan quickly pressed for more information.
He knew that Zi Kun had inherited the memories of the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant. Although he had been trapped in the "Northern Abyss Demon-Suppressing Pagoda" for many years, he was only ignorant of events that had happened since then. Just like how Zi Kun had been able to tell at a glance that Zhao Min possessed the "Ice Soul Blue Jade Body."
"This person should be a clone refined by someone. His main body is a relatively rare 'Water-Cloud Beast.' The body of this beast is as soft as water, and its abdomen is as empty as a valley. Apart from its head, all its internal organs are hidden in small, cloud-like spaces within its body. These clouds are connected by one to several thick meridians to facilitate the circulation of blood and magical power. Of course, this kind of small space does not have spatial laws and cannot store other things. But it can separately store the internal organs, which constantly move around inside the body. The range of movement is from the neck cavity to the lower abdomen. And if a certain part of the body is injured, he can even move the organs to other cloud spaces and directly discard the damaged small cloud space. This makes it very difficult to find his vital points, apart from his head, so he is particularly difficult to kill!"
"How do you know he is a refined clone?" Li Yan was somewhat dumbfounded. This was the first time he had heard of such a demonic beast. He quickly pressed for more information. At the moment, the most important thing was to clarify some key information and then make the most appropriate decision.
"In my memory, the 'Water-Cloud Beast' is gentle by nature and not bloodthirsty. That's because its soul is very pure. It's precisely for this reason that it is often captured by some powerful experts to be used as material for a clone. This person before us has a strong killing intent, which is completely different from the nature of the 'Water-Cloud Beast' in the legends!" Zi Kun also quickly transmitted his voice.
"What is his weakness? I mean the weakness of his main body, not the flaws in his cultivation method that you can see!" Li Yan's voice revealed a trace of calmness. Now that he knew why the other party was so strange and powerful, he had a direction to target.
"'Water-Cloud Beast' is a water-system demonic beast, but it likes to live in warm and humid places and is naturally afraid of the cold. The main reason is that severe cold will make its body uncomfortable. The cloud-like spaces inside its body might freeze and thus be unable to move. And they will become more and more fragile, like ice, and easily shattered!" Zi Kun quickly recalled the memories about the "Water-Cloud Beast."
"The physical body of this demonic beast is really special. It seems my first strike hit an empty cloud space. And these clouds can contain everything else. No wonder my deadly poison was useless against him, and he could freely discard a piece of flesh from his body." Listening to Zi Kun's words, Li Yan also finally understood the reason why his attack was ineffective.
"So that's how it is. When I first attacked, it contained some ice-attribute attacks. It was in that strike that he made a mistake. He only blocked my overt force, but after being penetrated by the hidden force with the ice element, the power in his body was immediately dispersed. I think it was to resist the cold qi in his internal organs," Zhao Min's beautiful eyes lit up.
"Senior Sister and I will immediately use ice-system magical arts to attack. Zi Kun, you tie up the opponent and prevent him from diverting too much power to affect our spellcasting!" Li Yan immediately decided.
"This person's cultivation is very strong. Ordinary ice-system magical arts may not be able to affect him!" Zi Kun immediately added. He cultivated a cultivation method of the utmost hardness and yang. Since the opponent's strength was already greater than his, at this time, he could only tie up the opponent as Li Yan had said. But as long as the black-robed man was completely frozen, Zi Kun could use his formidable power to instantly shatter the opponent's ice-crystal-like body.
"Attack first and ask questions later!"
The communication via Divine Sense was extremely fast; everything happened in the blink of an eye. After Li Yan finished his last sentence, the golden light outside his body quickly turned into a stagnant, ghostly light, and the coldness outside his body greatly increased. Zhao Min, as if a layer of blue-crystal-like qi mist had appeared outside her body, at the same time glanced at Li Yan. 'Father once said he had a miscellaneous spirit root. Why are both Junior Brother's gold-system and water-system cultivation methods as pure as a Saint Spirit Root? It's truly incomprehensible!' This thought only flashed through Zhao Min's mind. She had long guessed that Li Yan cultivated an extremely special cultivation method. It was just that every time she saw Li Yan attack, she would feel extremely amazed. Whether it was the purity or the vigor of Li Yan's magical power, even she could not match it. This showed that the grade of the cultivation method Li Yan cultivated was not inferior to the top-tier magical arts of the "Sacred Demon Palace."
In an instant, streams of white and blue ice spikes shot toward the black-robed middle-aged man, covering the sky and earth. The area within a four-hundred-zhang radius was instantly filled with a piercing cold and flashing crystal light.
'They've guessed my main body?' In this exchange, which had only lasted a little over two breaths, even with the addition of a purple-robed Golden Core cultivator, the black-robed cultivator had still gained the upper hand in a very short time. His long braids had already confined the three of them to a five-hundred-zhang radius. One must know that these were all Golden Core cultivators; dozens or hundreds of li was their fighting range. The black-robed middle-aged man, knowing that all three of them might be body cultivators, still dared to trap them closer and closer. Of course, he had absolute confidence that he could capture all three in one fell swoop. And in his prediction, he could do it in no more than twenty breaths at most.
Unexpectedly, after only a few breaths, the opponent suddenly abandoned their sharpest attack method, and two of them suddenly switched to ice-system magical arts, and it was not a simulated ice-system divine ability. Feeling the blazing sun around him instantly turn into bone-chilling cold, the black-robed middle-aged man's expression changed slightly. He also waved his hands, and the water qi within a several-hundred-zhang radius greatly increased. This water qi immediately wrapped around the hundreds and thousands of flying ice spikes.
The moment the ice spikes entered the water qi, a series of hissing sounds erupted. Clouds of white and blue smoke rose, and the ice spikes rapidly shrank and disappeared.
"With your level of cultivation, do you really think you can cause me any harm?" the black-robed middle-aged man said with a grim face. He had once again misjudged the male cultivator's cunning. This person was not only brave and unparalleled in body cultivation techniques for his rank, but the poison skills he cultivated were also strange and unpredictable. He could still accept these two points. What he couldn't understand the most was that this person was not a gold-system Saint Spirit Root at all.
'Damn it, what kind of immortal sect is he from? The Saint Spirit Root I sensed definitely wasn't wrong. How did it turn into such a pure ice-system magical art? Is there such a cultivation path?' For a moment, seeing Li Yan suddenly use an extremely pure ice-system magical art again, the veins on the black-robed middle-aged man's forehead throbbed, and his mind went blank. Even with his main body's thousand years of experience, he could not understand how such a cultivation method could suddenly appear in the same person. Everything before him had subverted his understanding!
A cold light flashed in Li Yan's eyes. He formed a hand seal with one hand and pointed forward. At the same time, a fierce wind generated from behind him. It blew toward the water qi, and the area originally covered by water qi immediately turned into a frosty world, covering the area where the black-robed middle-aged man stood. And at this time, countless long braids had already rolled toward him and Zhao Min.
In the distance, two white lights flew from Zi Kun's hands, heading straight for the black-robed middle-aged man's head from the left and right. That was the opponent's immovable vital point. The black-robed middle-aged man's teeth itched with hatred. He had no choice but to pause his hand seal and grab at both sides of his head. With his attention thus divided, the attack of the braids rolling toward Li Yan and Zhao Min faltered, and Zhao Min easily dodged.
A large number of ice crystals had already surged up outside Li Yan's body. "You attack his main body, I'll deal with these 'straws'!" As he spoke, sheets of thin, blade-like ice crystals from outside Li Yan's body cut toward the sky full of long braids. At the same time, he quickly chanted a spell. Dark clouds quickly formed above their heads, and gusts of cold wind, carrying goose-feather-sized snowflakes, floated down densely. The long braids, which had been shuttling back and forth like nimble snakes, were immediately covered with a layer of white snow and frost. At once, the attack speed of the long braids suddenly dropped, as if a layer of salt frost had been cast on the withered grass of winter.
Zhao Min, on the other hand, instantly moved away. From the periphery, she conjured streams of deep blue ice spikes with her hands and shot them at the black-robed middle-aged man's body. Looking at the formation, even if the black-robed middle-aged man's organs could move in his abdominal cavity, if he were hit, his body would also become a messy nest of ice.
As the black-robed middle-aged man grabbed, an extreme cold had already penetrated his body. He couldn't help but shiver. Zi Kun controlled the two snow-white tusks to instantly move away. The black-robed middle-aged man had failed to grab the snow-white long tusks, and the flow of magical power in his body was no longer as smooth as before.
He snorted heavily. Facing the sky full of blue ice spikes sweeping over from the distance, he drew a circle in front of him with one hand. At the same time, his other hand punched heavily into the sky. Instantly, the sharp ice spikes that came whistling over were blocked by a gentle force. And above his head, the dark cloud was hit by a powerful force from below and instantly dispersed. The wind and snow immediately subsided a lot.
Under the combined attack of three Golden Core experts who were no weaker than him, and with the opponent deliberately using extremely pure ice-system magical arts, the circulation of magical power in the black-robed middle-aged man's body had already been affected. He had failed to break the encirclement in one blow!
The series of lightning-fast combined attacks also shocked Li Yan and the other two. This black-robed middle-aged man, even after his weakness had been discovered, was still incomparably formidable. It was only because their strengths were evenly matched, and they had the advantage of a group attack, that the current situation could be created. Otherwise, any one of the three of them alone would not have been able to affect him.
Before the black-robed middle-aged man could continue to exert force with his hands, he was suddenly struck by a heart palpitation. He quickly turned his head, and a white light shot past his ear. It was as fast as lightning. Then, another white light rapidly enlarged in his pupils. Then, another white light stabbed toward the space between his eyebrows…
Having no other choice, he quickly withdrew his force to defend, and his body turned into a blur. He dodged the rain of arrows and ice spikes that had already arrived before him one by one. The accompanying bone-chilling cold made the black-robed middle-aged man even more uncomfortable. In just this moment of delay, the dark clouds above his head, which had just been dispersed, gathered again under Li Yan's control, emitting gusts of cold wind and heavy snow. Snowflakes had already accumulated on the black-robed middle-aged man's flying long braids.
"You all deserve to die!" The black-robed middle-aged man's heart burned with anger. These three had clearly figured out his main body, and every strike was aimed at his weakness, causing his magical arts to be interrupted several times. The magical power in his body was gradually being affected. In his anger, the spiritual power shield outside his body became a few notches thicker, and his hands swiftly formed a series of seals in front of his abdomen.
"Interrupt his magical art!" Zi Kun's anxious voice entered the ears of Li Yan and Zhao Min.
Although they didn't know why Zi Kun was so anxious, it was clear that the other party was using some kind of secret magical ability of the "Water-Cloud Beast." The Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant must have known that it was invincible.
There was no time to ask. An illusory longbow appeared in Zhao Min's hand, and at the same time, an ice arrow shot toward the opponent's lower abdomen as fast as a thunderbolt. Although they had found a way to restrain the black-robed middle-aged man, at the same time, their own magical arts were also greatly restricted, and they could not use their most skilled magical arts to attack as they pleased. If it had been any other Pseudo-Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, under the unreasonable and violent attacks of the three's body cultivation, they would have long since become a shower of blood.
Seeing the ice arrow about to arrive, the black-robed middle-aged man's hand seals became denser and faster. Although Zhao Min's attack speed was fast, in his Divine Sense, it was still traceable. Therefore, the black-robed middle-aged man only had to turn slightly to the side, and the ice arrow grazed a starlight on his spiritual power shield, and in a flash, it flew into the distance. And at this time, he had already finished the seals in his hands!
Both sides' magical arts had been pushed to the extreme, and the exchange was unbelievably fast! The black-robed middle-aged man's ten fingers finally crossed to form a strange hand seal. The raised index finger of his right hand fiercely pointed down at his own lower abdomen!