After these four metal poles appeared, Bi Qing snapped her finger and the cloaked figures spread out all around her.
They went out in four different directions and took up four different spots that put them equally apart from each other.
Once they had arrived there, Bi Qing raised her hands again just like last time.
As soon as Lin Fan saw this, he immediately knew what she was planning on doing.
He was against this, but he didn’t have the time to say anything. So all he could do was use the illusion spell again.
But as Bi Qing was about to hit the metal pole, he also remembered something else…
The only reason that this had worked before was because there had been the various groups that had distracted the spirit beasts. They had pulled the spirit beasts away and had attracted their attention, giving Bi Qing the space to hide and attack the metal pole.
However, this time, there wasn’t the same distraction since they had all scattered after what happened at the first area of concentrated spiritual energy.
Without those distractions, the spirit beasts would all gather right in the center of this area and surround them. Without those distractions, there would be no way to ensure that they could safely destroy the metal poles.
So just what was Bi Qing planning?
But it was already too late for Lin Fan to say anything.
Bi Qing’s fists were already flying out towards the metal pole in front of her.
As soon as they made contact, the same shockwave as before was released.
Then following that shockwave, there was a loud mix of roars that came from all around them.
This was the same as before and it was a sign that the spirit beasts were gathering in this area.
There were also the sounds of loud footsteps that were approaching.
Bi Qing wasn’t affected by any of this as she once again punched the metal pole in front of her. She didn’t show any signs of stopping as the sounds around us became louder.
That is until the first spirit beasts started coming out of the forest.
As soon as they appeared, their eyes immediately fell onto Bi Qing and they charged at her like a tidal wave. This wave of spirit beasts charging at a person might seem terrifying if one was experiencing it, but Bi Qing wasn’t even moved in the slightest by it.
She just calmly jumped over to where Lin Fan was and grabbed his hand.
As soon as she grabbed his hand, Lin Fan, Bi Qing, and Mu Bao Bao all disappeared on the spot.
All that was left visible were the two cloaked figures that had been standing on the side.
However, even though they just stood there, the spirit beasts didn’t attack them since they weren’t anywhere near the metal poles.
The spirit beasts gathered in the center and started looking around for Bi Qing.
Unlike before where they would have immediately scattered to deal with the groups that had been covered in the powder, they stayed right in the center without moving.
In this situation, once the illusion spell disappeared, Bi Qing would immediately be surrounded and torn to bits by these spirit beasts.
That is if the situation remained like this.
It didn’t as something happened that caught the attention of all the spirit beasts.
The four cloaked figures that had spread out suddenly attacked the spirit beasts from different directions. They were so strong that the spirit beasts that were caught off guard were even instantly killed by these attacks.
There was only a moment of silence before all of the spirit beasts turned their attention to different cloaked figures.
There were four of them in four different directions, so the spirit beasts turned their attention to the one that was closest to them. After they focused on these cloaked figures, they suddenly started…
Charging at them without hesitation.
Lin Fan finally understood why Bi Qing had those cloaked figures spread out like that.
She was planning on using them as distractions.
He had been too focused on the powder that he had forgotten a simple fact…
If something attacked the spirit beasts, they would at least fight back.
So that was why the four cloaked figures had spread out just now. They had been planning on acting as distractions for Bi Qing while she destroyed the metal poles.
That was why they had spread out so evenly so that they were equidistant from each other and Bi Qing. It was to make sure that as many of the spirit beasts were drawn to them as possible, giving Bi Qing as much space as they could give her for this.
It didn’t take long before the spirit beasts scattered and the area around the metal poles were left open.
As for the cloaked figures, they didn’t struggle at all as they faced these spirit beasts.
Like Lin Fan had guessed before, all of these cloaked figures were all Golden Core Realm Cultivators just like the one that had traveled with Bi Qing. They had no problem blocking the attacks of the Qi Condensation Realm Spirit Beasts, even if the spirit beasts didn’t run out of spiritual energy.
They could have even killed the spirit beasts with how easy it was, but they chose not to do so.
Once the spirit beasts were all scattered, Bi Qing went forth to slam her fist into the metal pole again.
There was the same shockwave, but it didn’t affect the cloaked figures at all.
They even continued attacking the spirit beasts as they went to deal with Bi Qing, causing less of them to approach Bi Qing. That gave Bi Qing a bit more time to land another blow on the metal pole before jumping back.
When she landed, she was once again beside Lin Fan who had moved while she attacked the pole.
When she disappeared again, the spirit beasts completely forgot about the cloaked figures and focused purely on finding her.
It seemed that without being provoked by the powder, the spirit beasts had certain things that ranked higher in terms of who they attacked.
Even though the cloaked figures had attacked them previously, it was as if they had already forgotten about them. They completely lost interest in fighting the cloaked figures and focused on trying to find the one who had attacked the metal pole.
So the cloaked figures had no choice but to attack them again to draw their attention.
Just like this, by drawing the spirit beasts back and forth, Bi Qing was able to take out two of the metal poles and the array stopped functioning.
Once the array stopped functioning, the same thing as before happened where the spirit beasts started rampaging.
But Bi Qing was currently hidden with the illusion spell along with Lin Fan.
So the ones that the spirit beasts targeted were the cloaked figures.
This didn’t end well for the spirit beasts.
They were already barely able to fight the cloaked figures when they had access to the unlimited spiritual energy of this Minor World, but now that they had to fight them alone, it was simply a slaughter.
The spirit beasts weren’t controlled, so they were able to understand that they were no match for these cloaked figures. Even the ones that had been in a rage understood this and quickly ran away.
In no time at all, all of the spirit beasts had been driven away from this area and there was only Bi Qing’s group left.
Once the spirit beasts were gone, Bi Qing revealed herself.
She took a few moments to catch her breath before suddenly heading out in a certain direction.
Anyone that had checked the spiritual energy fluctuations in the air had already noticed that this direction led to another area of concentrated spiritual energy.
It seemed that unless she destroyed all of them, Bi Qing just wouldn’t stop.
But before they could leave this place, there was another spirit beast that approached.
This one was completely different from the rest of the spirit beasts since it didn’t attack or ignore them at first sight. This was a flying spirit beast that released its aura to make sure that they knew it was there, but then it flew there in the air.
As Bi Qing’s group looked up at it, they immediately noticed something about this flying spirit beast.𝒪𝓋𝒍xt.𝔠𝗈𝑚
There was something that was on its back.
As the spirit beast came closer, they were surprised…by how small it was.
This was a sparrow spirit beast, so it was quite small, but they could sense a strong aura from it that showed that it was in the Qi Condensation Realm just like the rest.
But that wasn’t what they cared about the most.
What they cared about the most was the thing on its back, which was a small talisman.
This talisman was in the shape of a human and was standing there on the back of the sparrow spirit beast. With the way that it was standing, it was almost as if it was riding it and directing where it went.
The sparrow spirit beast came down just enough so that it was right over them before it started floating there.
As the sparrow spirit beast floated there, Bi Qing’s group watched it carefully.
A few of the cloaked figures wanted to pull out their weapons or gather their spiritual energy to attack, but Bi Qing raised a hand to stop them.
After a long period of silence, a voice suddenly said, “So it’s you that’s been destroying my arrays.”