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Following that was a scream, but it was not from Jixin, it was emitted by the gigantic Black Mirror Scorpion. Just as Jixin's right fist slammed into the back of the Black Mirror Scorpion, its one scorpion tail and two iron pincers were suddenly blocked by three multicolored barriers that appeared out of thin air. These three barriers were Bi Hai's unique skill, Spatial Evasion.
At the same time, after Jixin's right fist smashed onto the Black Mirror Scorpion's back, it did not immediately pull away, but instead his left hand pressed onto the scorpion's back and he said, "Thousand-Weight Tower, overhead press!"
Before his words had even finished, an extremely powerful oppressive force burst forth from Jixin's left palm. Because it exploded suddenly, this palm actually pressed the Black Mirror Scorpion directly into the sand below.
Furthermore, at the place where the Black Mirror Scorpion had been, a large pit with a diameter of over twenty meters appeared, and now the Black Mirror Scorpion's entire carapace was cracked, with fresh blood flowing from the cracks, dyeing the entire bottom of the pit blood-red.
Jixin hovered in midair and shook off his hand, saying, "This Black Mirror Scorpion's defense is very strong; although my Armor-Breaking Strike cracked its shell, it was not able to inflict much damage on its main body. However, it isn't very troublesome.
Only a large-area attack can deliver a devastating blow on the whole." To this end, Jixin suddenly waved to Bi Hai and said, "Give me a full body shield. To get the Crystalline Body, I'm afraid I'll need to go inside this giant scorpion's body."
But as soon as Jixin finished speaking, he found that Bi Hai, who was not far within the barrier, was suddenly staring blankly into the distance. Jixin's heart sank, and then he turned to look towards the distance.
Suddenly, Jixin's pupils contracted, and without waiting for Bi Hai to shield him, he dove directly into the large hole in the Black Mirror Scorpion's back left by his Armor-Breaking Strike.
Because the moment he turned his head, he suddenly saw that far away, there were two super-sized Black Mirror Scorpions, each over fifty meters tall, running toward them. Their massive size and the imposing giant iron pincers made Jixin's heart tremble.
With such a large size, both the defensive power and attack power must surpass that of the current Black Mirror Scorpion by countless times; even Jixin did not have the confidence to break through their defense.
"Jixin, hurry, quickly!" Bi Hai, seeing Jixin had actually entered the body of the Black Mirror Scorpion, couldn't help but panic. This Black Mirror Scorpion, not even twenty meters tall, had already managed to pierce the first layer of her barrier when her attention was divided. Then these two might very well break through the second layer of defense.
This was not a joke; once the barrier was shattered, the two of them would undoubtedly die.
Just as Bi Hai's words fell, the two super-sized Black Mirror Scorpions had already charged to their location, while Jixin, his hands covered in blood, was clutching a fist-sized white Crystalline Body and frantically running towards Bi Hai. Bi Hai also exerted all her strength to spread her barrier while running towards Jixin.
Just as Jixin was less than ten meters from the barrier, suddenly three giant scorpion tails, like black dragons, lunged at Jixin from three different directions.
The poison gas from the scorpion tail needles, several meters long on the tails, seemed as if it could melt even space itself. Although it would take less than a second for Jixin to enter the barrier and the two of them to dodge this strike, this second now seemed so unbearably long.
Just as Jixin's hands reached the first layer of the barrier, the three long, spear-like scorpion tails fiercely struck Jixin's back.
At that moment, Bi Hai's eyes suddenly bulged, and two trails of blood tears streamed from her eyes. Jixin, who had already touched the barrier, was pierced by the three scorpion tails in such a way that his body immediately leaned forward and fell, his entire body entering the barrier.
After the three scorpion tails struck, they did not let up but gathered strength again to lunge with the force of thunder.
However, at this moment, Bi Hai, kneeling on the ground and holding a blood-drenched Jixin, suddenly looked up and bellowed, "You three beasts, get out!" Accompanying this angry shout, the originally oval barrier began to undulate, and then, on the surface of the barrier, suddenly three multicolored giant spikes grew out.
These three multicolored giant spikes appeared and instantly swelled at the speed of lightning, and in the blink of an eye, pierced through the two super-sized scorpions.
But after this strike, Bi Hai felt extremely exhausted spiritually and finally slowly fainted on the ground, and the three layers of the barrier slowly shattered as well.
As Bi Hai and Jixin faced an unprecedented crisis, Six-Eared Macaque, King of Qin, and Lin Xi from the Genesis Divine Nation had also arrived at the eastern part of the City of Ruins. Seeing the equally dilapidated city gate, with only a pile of earthen walls remaining, the three couldn't help but feel a sense of loss.
At this time, all three already knew that this Sand Realm was actually the former Dominion of Soil, only completely assimilated into an endless desert by the Primordial Earth Pearl.
The three stepped into the ruins together, and when they fully entered the City of Ruins, like Jixin and Bi Hai, they were instantly taken aback. Because after entering through the east gate, what met their eyes was a countless number of Tongtian Worms. Of course, if it were just this, the three would not have been so shocked since they had seen even more Tongtian Worms in the previous two nights.
However, the Tongtian Worms inside the City of Ruins were completely different from those outside. Although one could still recognize them as Tongtian Worms, their originally plump bodies had now transformed into something resembling black crystalline bodies. Unlike their original form, which had huge mouths full of fangs but no limbs, many of the Tongtian Worms now had grown limbs and sharp claws.
No matter how you looked at it, the Tongtian Worms here had already evolved! The three of them were only stunned for a moment before snapping back to reality. Those dull black Tongtian Worms seemed to have smelled something and each, over twenty meters in length, at first glance looked like black dragons, except that they were far less impressive than real dragons.
"King of Qin, Lin Xi, be careful. These worms are probably not simple!" Seeing the first Tongtian Worm, nearly forty meters in length, rushing over, the Six-Eared Macaque warned the two beside him. Then, the Six-Eared Macaque took out the Crimson Blood Roaming Dragon Staff, and as the staff was brandished, a blood dragon over a dozen meters long appeared beside the Six-Eared Macaque.
The approaching Tongtian Worm, upon sensing the blood dragon, seemed to be stimulated and lifted its head full of giant mouths, suddenly letting out a sound like a dragon's roar mixed with a tiger's howl, then its body suddenly swelled even larger.
The Six-Eared Macaque was not the least bit afraid, propping the Crimson Blood Roaming Dragon Staff behind him. With a thought, the blood dragon charged towards the Tongtian Worm, and the Six-Eared Macaque closely followed behind, ready for a surprise attack.
Seeing the Six-Eared Macaque take action, King of Qin and Lin Xi hesitated no longer, running to the left and right sides, respectively. They each chose a Tongtian Worm, nearly forty meters in length, to test the strength of these worms. Actually, upon seeing these worms, the three had already made a rough estimate of the mutated Tongtian Worms' strength, so they didn't plan to team up.
After running to the right for a while, King of Qin suddenly halted his pace. His body enveloped in Death Qi and his expressionless face sent chills down one's spine.
Slowly lifting his hands, his originally impassive face now bore a sinister smile like that of a malevolent ghost, and he somberly said, "Evil spirits devour, flesh and blood consumed, the heavens turned crimson!" As the words were spoken, the Ghostly Qi coiling around his hands turned into two ferocious ghost heads.
At the same time, the Imperial Ghost Seal and the Demon Suppressing Seal flew out from King of Qin's chest and entered into the two ferocious ghost heads, one on each side. Then, a blood-red light suddenly shone from the eyes of the ghost heads. Following this, King of Qin pushed his hands forward, and the two ghost heads with blazing eyes rushed towards the Tongtian Worm.
In the blink of an eye, the two ghost heads collided with the Tongtian Worm, their vast maws snapping open and biting down, tearing away large chunks of flesh. Miraculously, what were originally just heads formed from Ghostly Qi were now able to devour and digest the torn-away flesh, and as the two ghost heads continued to tear and gnaw, they slowly grew bodies where there had only been heads.
After being bitten by the two ghost heads, the Tongtian Worm began to thrash and roll on the ground in agony, seeming to be in great pain from the bite of the unproportionally small ghost heads compared to its own forty-meter body. Soon, the two ghost heads had grown upper bodies, which turned into black giants with four arms and bodies covered in scales, as dark and glossy as crystalline bodies.
Once the Tongtian Worm was completely devoured, the two ghost heads had turned into two fifteen-meter-tall black giants, rippling with scales. After forming, the two giants looked at each other and emitted a humanized cry of joy.
And then there was Lin Xi, who had already dealt with the forty-meter Tongtian Worm but stopped in front of a black snake-like creature only three meters in length, with a cautious expression.
Lin Xi, noticing from the corner of his eye that the Six-Eared Macaque and King of Qin had finished their battles and were walking towards him, suddenly shouted, "Don't come over, this black snake-like fellow is not like the other worms, don't come any closer, I can handle it myself."
Just as his attention was slightly diverted by his speech, the three-meter-long black snake-like creature, like a bolt of black lightning, swiftly slithered towards Lin Xi. Lin Xi, moving his body, retreated several steps back, and with his right hand formed a Sword Finger towards the creature, saying, "Dong Tian Chi, reach through the earth!"