Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

After an incense stick had burned, the team quietly left the camp and entered the darkness.

Cheng Jin led the way, holding the spirit-detecting disc. The pale blue light was only maintained at a minimum, barely illuminating an area of ​​several feet ahead.

Gao Yuan and Li Hao protected him from the front, while Lin Zhao and Chu Xin flanked him on the left and right, respectively, with the Qingfeng Sword and the Blue Ice Sword poised to strike.

Wu Laodao and Chen Yaoshi were at the rear, one holding the battle flag tightly, the other ready to provide support at any time.

Visibility in the poisonous swamp is extremely low at night; the darkness not only obstructs vision but also seems to interfere with spiritual consciousness.

The surroundings were eerily quiet, with only the faint sound of footsteps on the slippery mud.

The sweet, fishy smell in the air seemed to carry a weight, pressing down on everyone's hearts.

After walking for a quarter of an hour, the team came into view an area filled with jagged rocks. Moss, emitting a faint blue light, grew in the crevices of the rocks, providing some weak light sources.

"It's in that stone forest up ahead," Cheng Jin said in a low voice.

Gao Yuan made a hand gesture, and the team immediately used the shadows of the strange rocks to conceal themselves.

Wu Laodao silently took out seven small purple flags, made a hand seal, and the flags transformed into seven imperceptible streams of light, silently disappearing into a specific location around the stone forest. An invisible spiritual energy field began to quietly form.

Just then, a pink, psychedelic light, like ripples, suddenly spread out from the center of the stone forest!

As the light swept across, the scene before everyone's eyes instantly distorted and transformed; the jagged rocks turned into menacing demons.

Even the faces of his teammates next to him began to blur and distort, and he heard all sorts of eerie whispers and roars.

"Hold fast to your mind!" Gao Yuan's low shout, like a morning bell, resounded in everyone's minds.

The previously distributed Tranquilizing Talismans also burned and activated automatically.

Lin Zhao felt a blur before her eyes, as if she saw her relatives from her past life waving to her, and a nameless sadness and longing welled up in her heart.

However, his spiritual sense was far stronger than that of other cultivators, and he was also protected by the Tranquility Realm. In addition, the Tranquilizing Talisman he had activated emitted a cool aura in his arms, and he instantly regained his senses.

Chu Xin snorted coldly, and the ice sword magic weapon emitted a cold aura, freezing and shattering all the illusions within a foot or so around her. Her eyes remained cold, and she was obviously not greatly affected.

Old Wu was the most strained, as he had to be distracted to maintain the formation. His face turned pale, but fortunately, the formation was complete and did not collapse.

This illusion attack was not targeted at any one person, but rather had a wide-ranging, indiscriminate effect, thus dispersing its power.

The team members each used their own methods and managed to get through the ordeal without serious injury.

As the illusion dissipated, the figure of a demonic beast was clearly revealed in the center of the stone forest.

It is not large, only about the size of an ordinary fox, and its fur has a dreamy silvery-white color with a faint pink glow.

Her eyes were like the purest amethyst, so deep they seemed to draw one's soul into them.

Trailing behind her three fluffy long tails, it was none other than the Bewitching Fox!

It was tilting its head, its amethyst-like eyes filled with a hint of anthropomorphic curiosity, looking in the direction where the team was hiding, seemingly somewhat surprised that these people could break free of its illusion so quickly.

"What powerful illusion magic!" Cheng Jin exclaimed. "Luckily, we were prepared."

Gao Yuan knew that against a special demon beast like the Bewitching Fox, he needed to finish the battle quickly and not delay.

"Let's do it!"

"Seven Locks Trapping the Dragon, activate!" Old Wu activated the formation.

Around the stone forest, seven purple beams of light shot into the sky, instantly weaving into a huge spiritual net in the air before crashing down and enveloping the entire stone forest area.

Runes flowed across the spirit network, emanating a powerful binding force, making the space itself seem viscous.

The Bewitching Fox's elegant figure suddenly froze as it felt the air around it become heavy and the flow of spiritual energy become much more sluggish.

It let out a soft, annoyed cry, and its pink aura surged as it tried to break free of the array's constraints.

"Chu Xin! Lin Zhao! It's up to you two!" Gao Yuan shouted.

The Bewitching Fox is not easy to deal with; only the two people with the strongest resistance to illusions can ensure that nothing goes wrong.

Chu Xin's figure shot out like a ghost, unleashing the full power of her blue ice sword. The sword's blade surged with icy blue spiritual light, clearly activated using a special method.

The moisture in the air instantly condensed into countless ice crystals, transforming into a roaring frost storm that swept towards the trapped Bewitching Fox! Wherever the storm passed, a thick layer of ice formed on the ground, and the temperature plummeted.

At the same time, Lin Zhao's Water and Fire Pearls also transformed into two streams of light, arriving first after the last one.

Instead of launching a direct attack, he unleashed a burst of blue light from the Water Spirit Orb, merging it with the Frost Storm to drastically increase its speed and range.

The Fire Spirit Orb struck the ground beside it, and flames erupted instantly, compressing its space to dodge.

Faced with this overwhelming offensive, a look of seriousness appeared for the first time in the amethyst-like eyes of the Bewitching Fox.

Its three long tails danced rapidly, and pink aura condensed in front of it into a dazzling diamond-shaped shield.

"BOOM!!"

The frost storm slammed into the pink shield with a deafening roar.

Ice shards and pink fragments of aura flew everywhere, and the shield fluctuated violently, yet stubbornly remained unbroken.

The Bewitching Fox's figure swayed slightly behind the shield, clearly indicating that taking this attack was not easy.

However, the real killer move is not a brute force attack.

In the instant when the ice storm collided with the shield and the spiritual light was at its most chaotic and dazzling, an almost imperceptible cyan sword light, as if possessing a life of its own, silently bypassed the front under the cover of the explosion.

It hurtled towards them, skimming close to the ground. It was none other than Lin Zhao's Qingfeng Sword!

"call out!"

The cyan sword light precisely wrapped around one of the Bewitching Fox's hind legs!

The sword energy erupted, and blood instantly flowed from its leg. Unfortunately, Lin Zhao did not go all out to conceal the sword light, otherwise he could have seriously injured it.

"Woo!" The Bewitching Fox let out a sharp, painful cry, its movements instantly stiffening and slowing down.

The pink aura that was maintaining the shield also became disordered.

opportunity!

A glint flashed in Wu Laodao's eyes, and the Dragon-Trapping Formation, which had been poised to unleash its power, finally moved! Seven purple chains shot out from the formation, like nimble snakes...

Taking advantage of the moment when the bewitching fox's movements were restricted and its mind was slightly distracted, bind it tightly along with its injured hind leg!

"Close the net!" Gao Yuan immediately ordered upon seeing this.

Old Wu activated the formation with all his might, and the spiritual net in the air suddenly contracted, which, together with the purple chains, completely bound the struggling Bewitching Fox to the spot.

Its pink aura flickered violently, attempting to use illusion magic to lure Lin Zhao and Chu Xin into helping it escape.

However, under the suppression of the Dragon-Trapping Formation, Lin Zhao possessed a magic weapon of the Mind-Stabilizing Realm, and Chu Xin possessed an ice sword magic weapon, making them completely unaffected by the illusion, and ultimately they failed.

It worked!

The battle began in the blink of an eye and ended in a few breaths. In the stone forest, the spiritual light of the Spirit-Trapping Array had not yet completely dissipated, and the silver-white Bewitching Fox was firmly imprisoned on the ground.

Its amethyst-like eyes flickered with resentment and terror, its three fluffy long tails swayed weakly, and the dreamlike pink aura around its body flickered erratically under the suppression of the array, emitting a soft whimper.