At the same time, Lou Yiâs ears rang with an intimate voice: "Sweetheart, youâre really thinking of your brother, knowing that this Five-Layered Spirit Creature is useful to me. Youâre so good to me..."
The words âsweetheartâ and âbrotherâ made Lou Yiâs stomach churn violently.
The harm he felt was even worse than being struck by heavenly thunder; he truly wanted to have a life-and-death battle with this guy right now.
âLet it go, minor impatience spoils great plans.â Lou Yi calmed his mind, his spirits as still as an ancient well, treating Heâs words as meaningless babble.
"Be careful, this spirit creature is not easy to deal with," Lou Yi responded.
As for the term âbrother,â he simply couldnât bring himself to say it.
"Itâs just a brainless beast," He said dismissively without suspecting anything, clearly not valuing the spirit creature in his words.
"All of you, step back!" He commanded the others unceremoniously upon arriving at the scene.
He appeared extremely confident, ready to take on the difficult high-grade spirit creature alone.
The rocky serpent was startled by Heâs unconcealed arrogance, emerging from the ground.
It stood towering at a height of four hundred zhang, its body made up of segments of sturdy, crimson-silver limbs, with horns on its head and eyes like stars filled with a ferocious look.
"Roar!"
The rocky serpent opened its massive mouth, and a large wave of white whirlwinds flew toward He, each one spanning several dozen zhang in diameter, whirling with great momentum.
"Petty tricks." He showed a disdainful expression, extending his right hand forward.
A vast amount of spiritual essence surged, instantly forming a massive gray light curtain, seemingly splitting the heaven and earth into two separate regions.
The whirlwind waves crashed against the gray light curtain, only creating faint ripples on its surface, unable to advance any further.
After blocking the rocky serpentâs strike, He was unwilling to drag it out any longer, wanting to end the fight quickly.
âBoom!â
Raising his spiritual essence, a five-layered black city tower manifested above his head.
The towerâs construction seemed tangible, each layer measuring ninety-nine zhang high.
The wide and solid foundation was engraved with numerous Taoist patterns and ancient symbols, surrounded by black mist, as if a ghost city from a myth ready to capture souls had descended.
The Five-Layered Ghost City moved grandly, hovering over the rocky serpentâs head, before crashing down fiercely!
Sensing danger, the rocky serpentâs star-like eyes emitted a dazzling light.
Its body stood upright, glowing with a brilliant silver halo, transforming into something like a massive war machine forged from high-grade metal, smashing towards the ghost cityâs base without yielding!
âBang!â
A deafening sound erupted, clearing the area around the rocky serpent and the ghost city of gray fog, leaving only countless dense white sparks and electricity flickering crazily.
"Good creature, it does have some skill!" Seeing the rocky serpent withstand his spirit platform, He expressed some surprise.
However, as a Trench Patrol Guest of the Shisu District, he certainly had more than this bit of skill.
"Heaven and earth unbounded, by my decree... Construct the Spirit-Slaying Array, bind its form and soul, gradually erode its spirit..."
As the Trench Patrol Guest He chanted the magic spell.
His immense spiritual essence poured out like a flood, forming a vast sea of gray spiritual light.
The gray spiritual light extended outward from the spirit platform, finally forming a massive irregular three-dimensional gray cage, trapping the rocky serpent at the center, preventing its escape.
While imprisoning the rocky serpent, each face of the cage produced knives, spears, swords, and halberds formed by concentrated spiritual essence, shooting at the rocky serpentâs surface.
Cutting and gouging from all directions, causing the rocky serpent to roar continuously.
The rocky serpentâs body was incredibly strong, far surpassing even a top-grade spiritual artifact in toughness.
Therefore, these magical artifacts could only shave its surface, causing limited damage, just sending gray debris drifting from its body.
However, even small damage accumulates to cause a qualitative change over time.
Lou Yi watched Heâs methods, raising his estimation of the Trench Patrol Guestâs skills even further.
He likely had significant accomplishments in arrays, with his magic being an attack array in essence.
Using the spirit platform as an array base and his own spiritual essence as the framework, he trapped the rocky serpent while continuously wearing it down.
At this rate, after roughly half a day, he would be able to grind the rocky serpent to death.
Though not fast, it was stable.
However, maintaining such a large array was not easy.
From Heâs serious expression and slightly trembling body, he was clearly exerting nearly all his strength.
After all, the opponent was a spirit creature of a realm similar to his own, only lacking in intelligence.
The other onlookers couldnât perceive as much as Lou Yi could.
They simply saw the Trench Patrol Guest âeasilyâ suppress the rocky serpent, and compliment after compliment poured in.
"As expected of the Trench Patrol Guest, effortlessly subduing this beast with a single move!"
"The Trench Patrol Guestâs cultivation has improved even further since last time. He must be close to the sixth layer of the Spirit Platform by now, right?"
"Once he breaks through to the sixth layer, he might not stay in our Su District.
Heâd compete for the position of a Trench Patrol Guest in deeper districts, where the resources are far richer than those in our Shisu District..."
Hearing the surrounding flattery, He merely nodded aloofly, yet continued to send an impish transmission to Lou Yi: "Sweetheart, did you see how great I am?"