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Li Shizhou thought to himself with surprise, "I didn't expect this guy to be a body-refining cultivator who likes close-quarters combat."

He took out a bronze bottle, crushed it with a clench of his fist, and immediately a black mist filled a space seven or eight zhang wide around him. Now that his cultivation had increased, the range of the Hidden Dragon Miasma had also greatly increased.

The bald giant's attack was incredibly powerful; the entire array's light barrier resounded with the crackling sound of the giant axe rubbing against the air.

Although Li Shizhou could not fly due to the anti-air restriction, he had made some progress in body tempering. In addition, he could increase his movement speed in the Hidden Dragon Miasma. With a casual exertion of his feet, he could travel several feet away.

Even with its immense power, the axe blow was futile. It missed its mark, splitting the ground into a three-zhang-deep crack, and the residual force even shattered a boulder.

The bald, burly man was shrouded in black mist and could no longer see.

He unleashed his full divine sense, but after searching for a while, he still couldn't detect Li Shizhou's presence. Just as he was about to take off in a panic, a golden hammer the size of an adult's head appeared behind him with a whooshing sound.

After a muffled thud, the bald, burly man and his axe were sent flying like a meteor, crashing into the array's light barrier before finally coming to a stop.

He was also a seasoned fighter, and originally wanted to show his face, but after suffering a loss just now, he dared not engage in close combat. After stabilizing himself, he suddenly flew into the air and took out a yellow bag and opened it.

Countless demonic beasts emerged from the bag and landed on the ground, then surged towards the black mist. There were at least a hundred of them, and seven or eight of them even exuded the aura of second or third-level demonic beasts.

Li Shizhou couldn't help but wonder why this person was able to feed so many spirit beasts.

Upon closer inspection, these monsters appeared stiff and lifeless; they were actually a group of corpse puppets made from the corpses of monsters.

Although these corpse puppets couldn't locate him, their large numbers caused them to dart around in the black mist, and soon several appeared around him.

The sound of ping-pong balls came from the miasma of the Hidden Dragon. Li Shizhou swung his Golden Hammer, each strike taking down one of the balls.

The bald, burly man in mid-air was overjoyed. He had been unable to pinpoint his opponent's exact location, but the corpse puppets below were connected to his mind, allowing him to determine Li Shizhou's approximate location through them.

He swung his giant axe incessantly, and with each swing, a beam of axe light, about ten feet wide, cleaved down into the black mist below.

Within the miasma of the Hidden Dragon, Li Shizhou moved like a dragon, changing positions immediately after killing each corpse puppet. Occasionally, when axe light struck him, it was blocked by the Mother-Child Shield.

In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, there wasn't a single living corpse puppet left.

The Golden Hammer was originally a damaged magical artifact, and it has been completely destroyed in the battle just now.

He glanced at Gu Ci and Gu Linyuan, who were unable to escape by flying and were moving slowly.

They were already under attack from the array controlled by the one-eyed cultivator and had no chance to fight back. Not only had they consumed a lot of their magic power, but each of them had also destroyed one of their defensive magic artifacts.

Fortunately, this time they came to the alien sea, a place teeming with monsters, and the two members of the Gu family were well prepared with defensive measures, so their lives were not in danger for the time being.

Li Shizhou threw the broken golden hammer in his hand to the ground and began to cast the "Spirit-Slaying Sword" spell.

The one-eyed cultivator outside the light barrier appeared too calm, indicating that he must have a backup plan, so he did not rashly release the level-five Purple-Eyed Bi.

The bald, burly man felt a surge of frustration. Without the corpse puppet and unable to locate Li Shizhou, he could only keep swinging his giant axe, hoping to get lucky by attacking from afar with the axe beams.

After a while, his efforts yielded little result, and he shouted angrily, "You coward, what kind of skill is it to hide? Do you dare to show your face and fight me?"

His response was a sword's cry; a foot-long, blood-red scimitar pierced through the black mist, heading straight for the bald, burly man's body.

The blood-red sword was extremely fast. The bald, burly man reacted and dodged to the side, but before he could move even a fraction of an inch, his shoulder was pierced by the sword, and the thick magical shield around his body shattered.

The bald, burly man's previously fierce expression instantly turned to terror. He endured the excruciating pain and fled in panic, leaping out of the light barrier and hiding outside the formation.

The one-eyed cultivator glanced at his friend out of the corner of his eye and couldn't help but curse inwardly, "Utterly useless. Both of us are at the peak of Foundation Establishment, yet we were beaten into running away with our tails between our legs in just a few moves. Oh well, we have no choice but to use that move."

The bald, burly man had already fled in fear, so Li Shizhou continued to control the "Spirit-Slaying Sword," shifting his target to the array's core.

He had previously used the "Spirit-Seeking Technique" to investigate, so he naturally knew the location of the array's core.

With each slash of the blood-red sword, the array's light barrier thinned slightly, and the attacks on the Gu family members also weakened somewhat.

"Brother Jiang, what should we do? Fight or flee?" The bald, burly man asked anxiously after swallowing a healing pill.

The one-eyed cultivator replied without changing his expression, "No rush, I still have a trump card, but I need Brother Gu's help."

"How can we help?"

"I'd like to borrow Brother Gu's head for a purpose."

As soon as he finished speaking, a white bone cone several inches long suddenly appeared behind the bald man and stabbed fiercely into his back.

The bald, burly man was completely unprepared. His magical shield had just been broken, and he was instantly pierced by the bone spikes.

Blood mist gushed from the top of the bone cone, instantly enveloping the burly man's entire body, accompanied by a heart-wrenching scream.

A sinister smile appeared on the one-eyed monk's face.

The moment the array's light barrier completely dissipated, the bald, burly man had transformed into a monster over ten feet tall.

Its entire body was dark red, its skin was cracked, its facial features on its head were completely distorted and deformed, its fingers grew sharp claws several inches long, and its aura had barely reached the initial stage of Core Formation.

Gu Ci, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, changed his expression drastically and blurted out, "Blood Demon."

"Blood Demon" is a type of demon created by humans, requiring a large amount of cultivators' essence blood and souls. The creation process is extremely cruel and bloody.

Before each battle, it needs to devour the body of a cultivator as its physical form.

This is the level of cultivation before us; it's clear that this one-eyed cultivator has harmed countless human cultivators.

"Is this your trump card?" Li Shizhou said calmly upon seeing this.

Seeing his calm expression, the one-eyed cultivator looked suspicious and pondered for a moment before saying, "Pretending."

With that, he waved his hand, and the "Blood Demon" suddenly landed on the ground, causing the ground within a radius of more than ten feet to tremble.

Li Shizhou took out a spirit beast pouch from his waist, opened it, and said, "If you have no other means, you can die now."

A tiger-shaped demon beast with golden fur and long black hair on its tail emerged from the spirit beast pouch; it was none other than Li Shizhou's level-five Purple-Eyed Bi.

Instantly, the tiger's roar echoed throughout the entire island, and the low-level demonic beasts nearby hid in their respective caves, trembling with fear.

The one-eyed cultivator looked horrified and said in a trembling voice, "Impossible! How could a Foundation Establishment cultivator like you have a Level 5 demon beast as your spirit beast?"