Although Guo Xingyue stood on the battlefield with a relaxed expression on his face, in fact, he was also secretly uneasy in his heart. The combat effectiveness of these devil cultivators was indeed extremely strong. That Hao Chiping obviously did not exert his full strength, and he himself could not defeat him. It seemed that without relying on the power of the formation, his side did not even have half a chance of winning. If he wanted to lure all the devil cultivators into the formation, he must first withstand the siege of the opponents and find an opportunity to activate the formation. This seemed impossible: let alone all the devil cultivators attacking him. Even if Hao Chiping alone launched a full-scale attack, he would have a hard time dealing with it. If it were replaced by the leading devil cultivator, he would simply be unable to withstand his attack. After all, the gap in cultivation was too great! What should he do? Guo Xingyue was extremely anxious in his heart, but there was no trace of emotion on his face.
Hao Chiping summoned his magic treasure back and examined it carefully. He found that his demonic artifact had actually suffered serious damage. Although it was not completely destroyed, it would need a major repair. In the previous strike, Hao Chiping was slightly at a disadvantage. Due to the connection between the magic infant and the magic treasure, the magic infant was also shaken. Although he was not injured, it was not a pleasant experience. Fortunately, the connection between the magic infant of devil cultivators and the magic treasure is not as close as that between cultivators and magic treasures. Otherwise, that previous strike would have injured Hao Chiping. After Hao Chiping put away his magic treasure, because he was worried that his cultivation was lower than the opponent's, he stood on the battlefield hesitating and dared not launch an attack.
Devil cultivators are good at killing. Experts who can cultivate to above the combined body realm are all battle-tested people with extremely high experience and vision. Although Guo Xingyue's previous strike seemed to be effortless on the surface, the leading devil cultivator could roughly determine Guo Xingyue's cultivation level. In his opinion, Guo Xingyue's cultivation was at most between the initial stage and the middle stage of the combined body realm. It definitely did not reach the later stage of the combined body realm. On his side, there were three people with cultivation above the middle stage of the combined body realm. Without even mentioning a siege, even in a one-on-one battle, they could defeat Guo Xingyue. However, judging from the annihilation of the vanguard troops, Guo Xingyue was definitely an expert proficient in formations. What his side needed to worry about was whether the opponent had set up a formation ambush in advance. As for Guo Xingyue's own strength, even counting the small fries of the Yixin Sect, it was not a concern.
The leading devil cultivator ignored the confrontation between Guo and Hao on the battlefield and released his spiritual sense to carefully examine the surrounding situation, trying to find possible formation ambushes. Sure enough, not far behind Guo Xingyue, he found some maze formations. The maze formations were designed very cleverly and were in harmony with the surrounding scenery. Without careful searching, these maze formations could not be found at all. If one did not have cultivation above the combined body realm, even with careful searching, these maze formations could not be found. Inside the entire Yixin Sect, there was not a single cultivator. It could be determined that all the people of the Yixin Sect should be hiding in those maze formations.
The leading devil cultivator fell into deep thought: There was not much killing intent in these maze formations and they should not be offensive. Could it be that these cultivators planned to rely on these maze formations to avoid our search? Or were they planning to launch a surprise attack on us when we were unprepared by emerging from the maze formations? Logically speaking, it was unlikely. Although these maze formations were clever, they simply could not withstand a full-force attack by experts above the combined body realm. A sneak attack? Even more impossible! Just a group of small fries couldn't cause much trouble. With just a light strike, they could all be eliminated. But looking at the cultivator on the battlefield with a calm expression and a confident look, it seemed that there was another plan. But what could it be? There were obviously no other cultivation experts around. Judging from the surrounding situation, it didn't seem like there were other formation ambushes either. Could it be that this cultivator was bluffing and pretending to be calm? Thinking of this, the devil cultivator turned back and said to the other four devil cultivators with combined body realm cultivation standing behind him, "The four of you lead people to break those maze formations. I will deal with this kid."
Although Guo Xingyue was in confrontation with Hao Chiping, most of his thoughts were on the devil cultivator at the later stage of the combined body realm. It was only because Guo Xingyue's calm expression and relaxed posture confused Hao Chiping and made Hao Chiping dare not launch an attack. At this moment, as soon as he heard the leading devil cultivator order an attack, he knew that an opportunity had come. Although there was a certain risk, this was the only opportunity to trap all the devil cultivators in the formation.
The leading devil cultivator flashed to Hao Chiping's side and said, "Junior Brother Hao, step aside. I will deal with this kid." Hao Chiping was as if granted amnesty. He quickly bypassed Guo Xingyue and joined the other devil cultivators in attacking the maze formations. The devil cultivator looked at Guo Xingyue coldly and said, "Kid, your cultivation is not bad. I, Ke Yeluo, will meet you." As Ke Yeluo's imposing manner unfolded, Guo Xingyue felt a powerful pressure coming head-on. The spiral true essence in his body began to operate wildly to resist the opponent's oppression. But there was still a faint expression on his face. He smiled and said, "I am Guo Xingyue. I will learn from your skills."
Ke Yeluo said no more and did not release his magic treasure. He simply raised his hand and threw a punch. A powerful black qi surged towards Guo Xingyue with the force of the punch. As soon as the black qi was emitted, the powerful air wave made Guo Xingyue feel suffocated. The opponent's strength was far superior to Guo Xingyue's. Just a casual exploratory palm strike made Guo Xingyue have to resist with all his strength. Guo Xingyue summoned his flying sword into his hand and transformed it into a golden long sword. He used the unity of heaven and man and drew a sword arc to meet the black qi.
Guo Xingyue knew that his cultivation was far inferior to the opponent's. If he directly blocked the opponent's black qi, he would either die or be seriously injured. Moreover, the other devil cultivators were attacking the maze formations. Although those maze formations were quadruple-layered, under the attack of so many experts, they were on the verge of collapsing. At this moment, Guo Xingyue only wanted to borrow the force to retreat and lure Ke Yeluo into the formation as well. Then he would activate the formation and completely annihilate this group of devil cultivators.
The golden sword met the black qi. After a slight crackling sound, there was a loud bang. The powerful shock wave blasted another deep pit on the ground. The already broken and incomplete corpses of devil cultivators on the ground were completely torn into tiny pieces by this shock wave and flew everywhere mixed with sand and stones.
Guo Xingyue's sword did not directly collide with the opponent's. Instead, he first used the energy of lightning to disperse part of the opponent's black qi. (That crackling sound was exactly the sound produced by the impact of lightning energy on the black qi.) Then he used the wonderful effect of spiral true essence to 卸掉 eighty percent of the opponent's force. But when Guo Xingyue's sword touched the black qi, he felt that the black qi actually had the ability to devour true essence. Although Guo Xingyue's true essence had extremely high density, in a situation where he was caught off guard, his own true essence was also weakened a lot. Fortunately, Guo Xingyue had originally not planned to directly collide. As soon as the true essence densely covering the golden sword touched the black qi, he exerted force with his feet and the whole person borrowed the force to fly backward. But the opponent's strength was really much higher than Guo Xingyue's. Even with the remaining twenty percent of the force, Guo Xingyue was injured. Although the injury was not serious, Guo Xingyue's true cultivation was exposed.