The elders were all surprised to see him stepping up like this, but they recognized the water that was floating around him.
This was the pure spiritual water that he had used before in the spar with Senior Brother Ying.
But back then, he didn’t have the same control as he did now.
After all, the water was just floating there in balls around him.
It seemed that he had become even stronger than before.
So the elders that had been in his way moved aside and the elders that were holding the barrier spread out a bit to give him space to work.
This would put the strain on them since they were stretching the barrier a bit thin, but they trusted Lin Fan. Or rather, they had no choice but to trust Lin Fan since there was nothing else that they could do now.
Lin Fan raised his hand after they spread and the balls of water around him suddenly started to change form.
They became thinner and thinner until they took the form of needles.
After taking the form of needles, they suddenly froze into ice.
There were countless ice needles that were now floating there around Lin Fan.
Seeing these ice needles, they could guess what he was planning to do.
When they realized what his plan was, all of them couldn’t help knitting their brows.
After all, they didn’t think that it would work.
It was already hard enough to hit that small point on the bodies of these sandworms and that was when they weren’t violently thrashing themselves against their barriers like this. With them smashing themselves against the barriers like this, it was hard to pinpoint where to hit them to not make them explode.
Throwing out ice needles like this was just too risky.
But before any of them could even say anything, Lin Fan had already waved his hand and the ice needles were flying not.
The elders could only watch with bitter smiles on their faces as these ice needles flew out.
The ones that were in charge of the barrier were prepared to inject more spiritual energy into the barrier at any time. They were prepared to make the barrier stronger just in case these sandworms suddenly exploded.
Not a single one of them seemed like they trusted Lin Fan on this matter.
They were all prepared to see the sandworms explode.
But the moment that these ice needles left the barrier, they didn’t fly straight at the sandworms like they had thought. Instead, these ice needles seemingly floated there in the air, as if they were being controlled by something.
They had all thought that it was over once the ice needles left the barrier, but now they couldn’t help feeling hope.
Lin Fan narrowed his eyes after the ice needles left the barrier.
Part of it was because he was focusing and part of it was because he was looking at the sandworms.
With the way that his eyes moved, it was as if he was following the movement of these sandworms.
Then all of sudden, he waved his hand again and the ice needles started to move.
It was just two ice needles at first, but they flew out straight and true at these sandworms.
But the two sandworms that had suddenly flicked their bodies and turned so that the ice needles would miss that point under their stomachs.
All of the elders revealed ugly expressions as the elders in charge of the barrier braced for impact.
Lin Fan on the other hand just revealed a faint smile when he saw this.
He had already expected this, so he had already come up with a solution for this.
With a simple flick of his hand, the ice needles suddenly changed directions and they went down to the ground.
These ice needles seemed to be moving in a manner that was completely different from normal ice needles. It was almost as if there was something controlling it to move like this.
But then they remembered what had happened when Lin Fan had sparred with Senior Brother Ying.
He had been controlling the water then.
So he must be controlling the ice needles now.
Even if the two sandworms wanted to dodge, it was already too late for them. The ice needles were already underneath them.
With another flick of his hand, the ice needles suddenly came up and pierced the sandworms right in their stomach. These ice needles pierced right into the sandworms, piercing them exactly where the mark was.
The sandworms didn’t even seem to know what was happening until it was too late.
By then, they had started to deflate just like the other sandworms that had been stabbed before.
When they saw this, all of the elders revealed looks of hope.
Lin Fan’s method was working, even if it was slow.
But that wasn’t the end of it.
After stabbing those two, the ice needles came out the other side and continued to fly at other sandworms nearby.
It didn’t take long before they stabbed through two more sandworms that were near these two sandworms and they were deflated as well.
When the second pair of sandworms was deflated, there was a screech that came from the first pair.
When this screech rang out, the other sandworms around the sandworm corpses on the ground suddenly turned in that direction. However, there wasn’t anything that was considered a threat to these sandworms standing there, so the sandworms just froze.
Lin Fan took advantage of this to send out another ice needle to support the two from before.
He used these three ice needles to quickly pierced through the stomachs of these sandworms.
In a matter of seconds, he had deflated over fifty of them.
A large patch was cleared out in this wave of sandworms.
But even then, it was just the beginning.
As more and more sandworms were deflated, there were more screeches that rang out and more sandworms that froze.
Lin Fan just kept using more and more of his ice needles to stab the sandworms around them.
With more and more ice needles being added in, he was able to take down masses of these sandworms around him.
It didn’t take long before the area around them was completely cleared out.
There were still the sounds of screeching ringing out which caused the sandworms further away to freeze as they didn’t know what to do.
Lin Fan continued to use his needles to take down these sandworms that had frozen in place.
As the elders watched this, they all revealed looks of shock as they couldn’t believe that Lin Fan was able to do all of this.
But at the same time, they couldn’t help revealing worried looks.
They weren’t worried about all of the sandworms that surrounded them, but rather they were worried about Lin Fan.
They could tell that whatever technique he was using was draining his spiritual energy, so it wouldn’t be long before he ran out. They were afraid that he would run out of energy before taking down all of these sandworms, leaving them stranded.
After all, Lin Fan was the only one that could deal with these sandworms.
If they lost him, it would be back to pushing back the sandworms with barriers.
So the elders couldn’t help asking, “Sect master, are you alright?”
Lin Fan waved his hand and said, “Don’t talk to me now and let me concentrate.”
The elders could hear the strain in his voice, so they said, “Sect master, if you need to rest, you should rest.”
But Lin Fan just said, “I’m fine.”
He continued stabbing the various sandworms that came charging at them, cutting them down one by one with these ice needles.
In the end, there weren’t any sandworms left for him to kill.
In the end, Lin Fan had cleared out all of the sandworms on his own.
It was only then that he let out a sigh of relief and let the water needles fall.
When the elders saw all of these sandworms that Lin Fan had cut down alone, they couldn’t help being shocked.
They never thought that Lin Fan would be able to take care of all of these sandworms on his own.
Before they knew it, Lin Fan had become so strong that they couldn’t believe it.
But they could also see that he was tired after all of that.
They couldn’t blame him since they could guess how draining it was to control ice needles like that.
So they wanted to suggest that they rest up before moving.
But Lin Fan wouldn’t take that as he started walking towards the next patch of blue that he had found in the distance.
The others…weren’t as keen as following him.
Lin Fan could see this, so he turned around to ask, “What’s wrong?”
“Sect master, should we try to find another path? It seems that every time we head towards the oasis, there is some kind of trap waiting for us. We might not be as lucky next time.” One of the elders said this.
But Lin Fan just shook his head and said, “We need to keep going or else. There’s nowhere else for us to go anyway.”
All of the elders revealed bitter looks when they heard this.
Lin Fan didn’t care about this and continued heading towards the patch of blue.
He trusted his instincts and his Appraisal Eyes.
Since it told him that this oasis was real, he would believe in it to the end.