Qian Duoduo stood firm, remaining motionless where he was.
A black tiger let out a roar and was the first to charge over.
It didn’t pounce directly, but instead circled behind Qian Duoduo, leaving the frontal attack position for the three Spiritual Pigs behind it.
The three Spiritual Pigs charged Qian Duoduo from the front, while the black tiger leaped up, opened its large mouth, and bit towards the back of Qian Duoduo’s neck.
In its view, its attack and the Spiritual Pigs’ attacks would arrive simultaneously.
However, Qian Duoduo wasn’t a stone; how could he stand still?
Qian Duoduo charged forward, stepped on the Soul Shield in front of him, turned around, and swung his Golden Rooster Sword with all his might.
The Golden Rooster Sword emitted a reddish-yellow sword light, striking the black tiger’s abdomen fiercely.
The sword was filled with Spiritual Qi, and its temperature reached its peak.
Besides its offensive power, the sword light was also specialized in breaking dark power.
The black tiger hadn’t expected Qian Duoduo to deal with it with full force; the sword light struck its belly squarely, instantly creating a large hole.
Behind him, the three Spiritual Pigs lifted the Soul Shield.
Qian Duoduo, using their momentum, did a somersault in the air, and as he landed, he plunged the Golden Rooster Sword into the head of one of the Spiritual Pigs.
Since opening his Middle Spirit Sea, Qian Duoduo felt that not only was his height increasing, but his brute strength was also growing every moment, always having an urge to unleash his raw power.
He understood why Dugu Yunshan, Lei Hong, and Zeng Ruohai always loved to fight so much.
For a Body Cultivator, making power move is happiness.
And now was a good opportunity to fight brute with brute, and control strength with strength.
Before this Spiritual Pig could fall, Qian Duoduo pulled out the Golden Rooster Sword, charged to the left, and chopped the neck of another Spiritual Pig with one strike.
Just as he was about to finish off the third Spiritual Pig, the sky above him darkened, and a huge rattle drum smashed down.
In front of the rattle drum, there were also several Soul Whips silently lashing out at Qian Duoduo.
This time, the size and speed of the rattle drum were significantly greater and faster than last time.
Qian Duoduo gathered all his spiritual power, gripped his sword with both hands, and swung it at the rattle drum.
Last time, when he took the rattle drum head-on, Qian Duoduo retreated three steps.
This time, he wanted to see how many steps he would retreat?
As for those Soul Whips, they all struck the Soul Shield, having no effect on Qian Duoduo whatsoever.
“Boom!”
The rattle drum and the Golden Rooster Sword collided solidly.
Qian Duoduo retreated one step, then stood firm.
—The rattle drum’s power was diminished after he took its golden pellet.
“Little running dog’s strength isn’t good either; don’t look at how much he’s grown, he’s very weak.”
Qian Duoduo shouted at the doll, Shikong Lin.
Shikong Lin’s face was as stiff as a stinky stone.
He furiously attacked with the rattle drum, and seeing that the Soul Whips were ineffective against Qian Duoduo, he used them to urge the surrounding Spiritual Pigs and Spiritual Elephants to attack.
While Qian Duoduo countered them with his spiritual power, he used his Spiritual Awareness to probe the golden drum nails of the rattle drum.
He wished he could pull them out, turn them into Tiandao Power, and fill the golden bottle.
As the battle progressed, Shikong Lin suddenly turned and ran down the mountain.
At this moment, Deng Feihong’s voice came into Qian Duoduo’s Spiritual Awareness.
“The Formation has fully charged, should we release it?”
It turned out that Shikong Lin had been calculating the Formation’s charging time.
As soon as the time was up, he immediately moved away from the mountaintop.
This big silly guy wasn’t silly at all!
“Can we release half and keep half?”
Qian Duoduo asked Deng Feihong.
“Yes. But why keep half?”
Deng Feihong countered.
“If we keep half, will the next charge time be halved?”
“Right. I understand. Brother Bu Huan wants to confuse the enemy.”
Deng Feihong chuckled twice, “Then half it is.”
The large Formation was activated, emitting white light that rushed towards the Sha Souls around the mountaintop.
This time, the impact range was only about thirty zhang.
The reduced power of the Formation was immediately noticed by everyone.
Zeng Ruohai and Zhao Haonan and others couldn’t help but ask Deng Feihong with their Spiritual Awareness if there was a problem with the Formation.
Deng Feihong chuckled twice, then told everyone through Spiritual Awareness.
“The Formation is fine. We just want to use it sparingly.”
The Disciples of the Three Sects could understand the reason for the reduced power of the Formation.
However, the little girl, Shikong Lin, and Yu Renjie didn’t know, they could only guess.
Qian Duoduo deliberately looked back at the mountaintop, then turned to Shikong Lin and said:
“Look, the Formation is heavily damaged, its power is not as good as before, your chance has come.”
Shikong Lin’s big eyeballs kept rolling.
He naturally couldn’t believe Qian Duoduo’s nonsense.
However, the reduced power of the Formation was true, and he needed to make a judgment: should he intensify the attack or proceed cautiously?
To make the act more convincing, Qian Duoduo discussed with Zeng Ruohai and Zhao Haonan through Spiritual Awareness, instructing ten Disciples of the Three Sects to step out of the Formation and stand at the front line to resist the Sha Souls.
It was clearly a case of the Formation not being enough, so manpower was used to compensate.
However, Shikong Lin did not fall for it.
He urged the Sha Soul tide to launch a new wave of attack, but he himself stayed far away from the mountaintop, remaining within the safe range.
As he gained safety, the pressure on Qian Duoduo and the others also decreased significantly.
The ten Disciples of the Three Sects and Qian Duoduo fought fiercely outside the Formation.
Zeng Ruohai, Zhao Haonan, Wang Longyu, and others cooperated at the Turtle Pit, Turtle Neck, and Turtle Back.
In a flash, it was time for the Formation to be fully charged again.
Only half an hour had passed since the last release of the Formation!
“Release it or not?”
Deng Feihong asked Qian Duoduo with her Spiritual Awareness.
Before he could answer, she said, “I feel like you guys can still manage. Not releasing it is fine too.”
Qian Duoduo couldn’t help but chuckle.
The first effect of this deliberate show of weakness was achieved—
With Shikong Lin, the running dog vanguard, not fighting desperately at the front, Qian Duoduo and the others were much more relaxed.
“Don’t release it. Let us fight for another half an hour.”
Qian Duoduo thought to himself, he still needed to make Shikong Lin believe that each time the Formation needed an hour to fully charge its spiritual power.
Half an hour later, Qian Duoduo told Deng Feihong through Spiritual Awareness.
“Let’s retreat a bit, wait for more Sha Souls to come up, then you release it, still half.”
Qian Duoduo called the ten Disciples of the Three Sects fighting outside the Formation to retreat back inside the Formation.
This was a good time to switch out a batch of people.
“Little running dog, hurry up and bring more Sha Souls up, our Formation is ready!”
Qian Duoduo shouted loudly at Shikong Lin.
All the Disciples of the Three Sects burst into laughter.
More than half of the tense atmosphere on the mountaintop disappeared.
But the little girl’s face down the mountain was so gloomy it looked like it was about to rain.
Shikong Lin not charging up was with her consent.
If Shikong Lin didn’t charge, the threat posed by those Secret Realm’s Sha Beasts and Sha Birds to Qian Duoduo and the others was not great.
To charge or not to charge, this made the little girl very conflicted.
Now the laughter on the mountaintop made her even more embarrassed.
Layers and groups of Sha Souls slowly charged up again.
“Buzz!”
The Formation activated, and white light rushed out about thirty zhang.
After the white light, Qian Duoduo and ten Disciples of the Three Sects jumped outside the Formation again.
Shikong Lin still did not charge to the front of the Formation, remaining hidden at the mountainside, directing the Sha Souls to attack upwards.
An hour passed, and Qian Duoduo and the Disciples of the Three Sects jumped back into the Formation.
He calculated, there were still nine hours left.
After nine hours, Qian Duoduo and the others would be able to go home.
When the Sha Souls charged to the mountaintop again, the Formation slowly activated, releasing half of its spiritual power.
This less intense battle continued for six more rounds.
Only three hours remained until the Secret Realm ended.
After the Formation activated, Qian Duoduo jumped down the mountaintop and looked towards the little girl.
“Could she really be willing to let them leave like this?”