Chapter 138

Chapter 138: The Companion Spirit Beast’s Weakness
Splash.

With the sound of dripping water, a huge creature slowly rose from the swamp.

Its whole body was covered in black mud, hiding its color and patterns. They could only see its rough shape.

It had a long neck and small head, thick short limbs, and a half-round shell on its back like a turtle shell, bulging high up.

What shocked everyone even more was that the World-Cleansing Azure Lotus was actually growing on its shell. As it rose from the swamp, the World-Cleansing Azure Lotus also lifted into the air.

Someone cried out: “A Companion Spirit Beast?”

Yu Zhao was startled.

Before this, she only knew that Companion Spirit Beasts lived near spirit herbs and mainly acted as guardians. She had never heard of a spirit herb growing on a Companion Spirit Beast itself.

Ji Han Zhou, Mo Ci, and the others were all sect disciples, so of course they also knew about Companion Spirit Beasts, and they immediately tensed up.

Companion Spirit Beasts and spirit herbs grew together. The higher the grade of the spirit herb, the stronger the Companion Spirit Beast.

Just from the fact that this Companion Spirit Beast could live in a swamp that corroded all things, its strength had to be at least at the Early Nascent Soul Stage.

The beast let out a roar: “Roar!”

No one knew if the Companion Spirit Beast was angered by the cultivators disturbing it or because it sensed other demonic beasts coveting the World-Cleansing Azure Lotus, but it became extremely violent.

It buried its huge head into the swamp and sucked in a deep breath, then jerked its head up again: “Puff, puff, puff!”

Countless clods of black mud rained down from the sky.

Many avian beasts in the air had their bodies pierced by the mud and fell from the sky with miserable cries.

Yu Zhao’s pupils shrank. She scattered a large number of talisman papers with her right hand, channeled spirit power into her body, and pushed herself back at high speed.

Ji Han Zhou, Mo Ci, and the others stood behind her and were also pushed back along with her.

Bang, bang, bang, bang. Several layers of the defensive barrier formed by the talismans shattered in an instant.

Some cultivators could not dodge in time and were hit by the mud. Their bodies were instantly riddled with bloody holes, bleeding nonstop as they screamed: “Ahhh!”

“Damn it!” Yao Wu Jicursed under her breath and lightly patted the Scarlet Spider under her.

The Scarlet Spider’s eight long legs bent and sprang up, dodging the splashing mud.

Right behind the Scarlet Spider were Fang Cheng Lang and Cui Jue, wrapped in spider silk.

Fang Cheng Lang stayed calm. Before the spider silk reached him, he took out a defensive magical artifact and held it in front of him, and a golden light screen suddenly spread out.

Mud droplets kept striking the light screen. It shook violently and its glow dimmed fast, but it managed to last until the mud attack ended.

After that wave of attacks, a whole group of cultivators fell. Only a little more than ten people were left.

The birds and beasts that had gone mad earlier also seemed to sense how terrifying the Companion Spirit Beast was. Screeching, they scattered and fled, leaving the ground covered with the corpses of their own kind.

A female cultivator asked: “Fellow Daoist Yu, should we retreat?”

After going through several crises just now, the female cultivator from Hundred Flowers Valley had completely taken Yu Zhao as the backbone of the team, and she took the initiative to ask for her opinion.

Yu Zhao glanced at the few cultivators still standing and said softly: “Wait a little longer.”

They would never be willing to leave empty-handed. There was sure to be a final battle coming.

Yu Zhao guessed right.

The cultivators who could still stand here alive were the champions selected out of nearly a thousand people. Each of them had their own unique skills.

Even Fang Cheng Lang, who had almost lost his combat strength, had relied on his stunning sword arts to keep himself and Cui Jue alive.

They had already held on to the end. Asking them to quit on their own was harder than climbing to the heavens.

Yao Wu Jilooked around the circle and suddenly said: “Let us join forces.”

With individual strength alone, it was absolutely impossible to kill this Companion Spirit Beast. The only chance was for everyone present to work together.

The other cultivators almost did not hesitate. They nodded one after another: “All right.” “I agree.” “Mm.”

It was clear they had the same idea in mind.

Then, they all turned to look at Yu Zhao and her five companions.

Yu Zhao did not answer right away. She looked behind her.

Mo Ci and Ji Han Zhou both nodded hard.

Now that things had reached this point, no one wanted to back down.

Yu Zhao said: “Fine.”

Besides Fang Cheng Lang and Cui Jue, there were still seventeen people left who could fight. After a brief discussion, they decided to split into three groups and attack the Companion Spirit Beast from three directions.

As for how to divide the World-Cleansing Azure Lotus, no one brought it up at all.

Because everyone knew very well that their alliance was fragile and could not stand a single blow. The moment the Companion Spirit Beast fell would be the moment their alliance broke apart.

Someone shouted: “Attack!”

Countless streaks of spiritual light exploded at once and struck the Companion Spirit Beast accurately.

But to everyone’s despair, the beast’s body was like iron walls. Their attacks could not harm it at all.

Instead, they enraged the Companion Spirit Beast. It moved its thick limbs and charged toward them.

Its body was huge, yet its movements were not slow at all. In just a blink, its front legs stepped onto the shore and left a five-foot-deep footprint in the ground.

It was not hard to imagine that if someone was stepped on, they would be crushed into meat paste.

High defense, fast speed. This Companion Spirit Beast had almost no weaknesses. Just as the other cultivators showed despair and started thinking of retreat, the same sharp light flashed in Yu Zhao’s and Yao Wuji’s eyes.

[So that was the Companion Spirit Beast’s weakness.]

The two of them simultaneously shot a beam of spiritual light at the World-Cleansing Azure Lotus on the beast’s back, then leaped forward.

Their gazes met in midair, and both pairs of eyes were full of determination to win.

The Companion Spirit Beast’s skin and flesh were thick and tough, but the World-Cleansing Azure Lotus growing on its back was extremely delicate.

There was a dull snapping sound. The beast stretched out its long neck and blocked Yao Wuji’s spiritual light, but the ray Yu Zhao sent circled around and struck the lotus stem from behind.

The World-Cleansing Azure Lotus, now left with only half of its stem, instantly broke away from the shell on the beast’s back and flew forward.

The Companion Spirit Beast let out an unwilling low roar: “Roar.”

Unwilling, it gave a low growl. The light in its eyes quickly faded, and its huge body crashed to the ground.

But no one cared about the beast’s death at this moment. Everyone’s attention was on the World-Cleansing Azure Lotus in the air.

Yao Wu Jigave a cold laugh and ordered the Scarlet Spider under her: “Grab the World-Cleansing Azure Lotus for me.”

If someone wanted to fight her for it, they needed to see if they had that ability first.

The Scarlet Spider paused, then opened its mouth and spat out a strand of spider silk.

The silk shot out extremely fast and instantly left Yu Zhao far behind.

Fang Cheng Lang, Ji Han Zhou, Mo Ci, and the others clenched their fists nervously, secretly praying in their hearts that the lotus would not fall into Yao Wuji’s hands.

As the spider silk drew closer and closer to the lotus, Yao Wuji’s face showed more and more pride, but then the situation suddenly changed.

The spider silk whooshed past the side of the lotus instead, wrapped around a corpse on the ground, and quickly pulled it back.

Yao Wu Jiwas shocked and shouted: “Wrong. Wrong. That is not it!”

At that moment, Yu Zhao, who had rushed forward, hooked the lotus into her hand with her spirit power-covered palm.

In the next instant, she smoothly stuffed the World-Cleansing Azure Lotus into her storage space.

She spread both hands, gave everyone a small smile, and said: “Sorry, everyone. The World-Cleansing Azure Lotus is mine now.”