Chapter 1272: Giant Insect Attack

"Hehe, since Brother Han has said so, the old man won't try to persuade you anymore." Net

Han Li smiled slightly and looked around again, standing quietly on the giant turtle without saying a word.

Because the giant turtle under Han Li's feet was in the middle of the defensive circle, it stayed honestly in place, while the other turtle carriages at the front and back flew toward their location.

Not long after, more than thirty giant turtles surrounded them in several circles, forming a simple defense.

The knights riding giant wolves also gathered together, numbering fifty or sixty, standing outside the defensive circle, led by the scarred man, with the blue-robed girl actually mixed among them, but beside her lay the blood-red strange tiger.

The bird cries in the distance became more urgent and closer. When several red birds appeared in the distance and kept circling high in the sky, the scarred man shouted with murderous intent:

"Prepare for battle! All land turtles, lie down and defend."

Following this, all the people on the giant turtles used whips to lash the giant beasts' heads. The originally standing giant beasts lay down one after another, then retracted their heads and limbs into their giant shells, turning into blue giant stones, lying in front of them.

A rumbling sound came from the distance, and a large piece of yellow dust appeared at the end of the ground, rolling toward them, making it impossible to see what was inside.

The scarred man's face was as heavy as water. Without a word, he just waved his hand, and the knights beside him all raised their maces without a word, appearing well-trained.

Seeing this, Han Li's expression flashed with surprise, but before he could ponder this, another scene that stunned him appeared.

The scarred man suddenly raised one hand and threw a green pill into his mouth. Then, amidst a long whistle, yellow light swirled on his body, and fine yellow hair grew on his face and arms, and his pupils also turned emerald and gloomy.

Then he kicked the abdomen of the giant wolf under him, and the giant wolf roared low and shot out like an arrow.

The other knights behind didn't have such a shocking change as the scarred man, but after operating their techniques, various colored lights flashed on their bodies, and they followed the man and pounced out without any fear.

Dozens of knights actually rolled up a yellow mist and greeted the opposite side.

"What's going on? Could this person be transformed from the demon race? Impossible, demon race that can transform into human form are at least Spirit Transformation demon beasts. This person doesn't look like such a high-level demon cultivator at all. Moreover, seeing the man's transformation, the others aren't surprised at all. This situation should be a common occurrence in the Spirit World. It seems I really have to spend more time to understand everything about the Spirit World. Whether it's the man's strange transformation or those so-called 'spirit tools', none of them have ever been heard of in the mortal world."

Han Li was a bit surprised, his thoughts turning rapidly, feeling more and more that the Spirit World was indeed quite different from the mortal world.

At this moment, the group of knights led by the scarred man finally plunged into the vast yellow dust hundreds of feet away from the caravan, and then shouts of killing rose within it, and sounds of roaring came one after another, but the yellow dust only paused slightly in the middle and continued to roll toward the caravan without stopping.

In the blink of an eye, the dust reached near the caravan, and something was hidden within it.

"Kill!"

Someone shouted first, and the guards in the caravan holding bows and crossbows launched a wave of long-range attacks.

A flurry of arrows shot out from the caravan.

"Puff puff" muffled sounds rose, and the momentum of the yellow dust rolling over paused and slowed down, but then the dust mist rolled, and several black shadows pounced out from within, actually yellow giant insects the size of a foot.

Each was flat in shape, with a huge mouth on its head, and a row of flesh whiskers on both sides, waving non-stop, looking exceptionally ferocious.

This was the so-called "Sand Worm Beast".

Seeing this, Han Li's expression remained unchanged. Back in the Chaotic Star Sea, he had exterminated countless demon beasts, and he had seen things a hundred times more ferocious than this. These things wouldn't be in his eyes at all.

Seeing several insect beasts appear, the sound of breaking air rose, and more than a dozen arrows flashed with cold light, nailing them exactly into the bodies of these giant insects. But except for one that was directly pierced through its huge mouth and fell to the ground without a sound, the others became even more ferocious after being injured, ignoring the fresh blood flowing from their bodies, and pounced directly toward the nearest giant turtle.

The four guards on the giant turtle weren't panicked, their swords and sabers flashing with cold light, slashing down without ceremony.

Clearly, they had all cultivated some special technique. Although they couldn't cut the insect beasts in two, after a slash, deep wounds appeared on these insect beasts, and they were directly shaken off the turtle shell.

For a time, several giant insects twisted on the ground, looking heavily injured.

But more giant insects pounced out from the yellow dust, one after another, endlessly. In the blink of an eye, the entire caravan was wrapped within them.

Below, naturally, a great battle broke out!

Roaring sounds and weapon-waving sounds rose together, mixed together, with cold light and fresh blood appearing everywhere.

Han Li's turtle carriage was in the innermost position of the defensive circle, but besides the old man driving the turtle and him, there was no one else, and the other three girls didn't know where they had run off to, leaving no trace.

In this way, Han Li, who didn't need to consider safety for the time being, naturally watched the great battle around him with peace of mind.

As a result, after watching for a while, his brows frowned inadvertently.

Just as the coachman old man said, because these giant insects were too huge, their jumping was limited, and most of the insect beasts could only jump to the edge of the turtle shell before they had no strength to go up. They were just caught by the guards and knocked down one by one.

In this way, at the beginning, these guards indeed had the upper hand.

But the number of giant insects was truly too many. Although because the yellow dust hadn't dissipated yet, the true number couldn't be seen, but in such a short time, more than three hundred had already pounced out.

These giant insects, although their movements were a bit clumsy, were all thick-skinned, and even if they were hit by a dozen blades at the same time, as long as they didn't hit vital parts, they could still jump up and launch attacks.

In this way, as more and more giant insects emerged, unable to defend strictly, finally some insect beasts jumped onto the turtle back and bit the guards.

The caravan guards finally began to suffer damage.

Either someone was unable to dodge in time and had half an arm torn off by a giant insect, or they had their entire head bitten off by an insect beast that pounced quietly from behind. And once they jumped onto the giant turtle, the whiskers on both sides of these giant insects also became a sharp weapon.

The entire caravan's situation gradually deteriorated.

And the only quiet place in the defensive circle was the central area of several turtle carriages, and the giant turtle under Han Li's feet was one of them.

His eyes flickered as he watched for a while, then turned his head and looked at another nearby turtle carriage.

He had seen clearly just now that Nanchizi and other cultivators had stepped into it.

With the means of these Foundation Establishment cultivators, he thought that exterminating these mere insect beasts shouldn't be a difficult task, but until now, there was no movement from the opposite carriage, and the several cultivators didn't have any intention of making a move.

Han Li's brows twitched, and he turned back, continuing to watch without changing his expression.

At this moment, the guards who were heavily injured or died under the giant insects already numbered more than twenty, and the remaining people also began to show signs of fatigue because of the continuous waving of weapons.

In this way, the number of casualties became even greater.

It looked like if the scarred man and those knights didn't deal with that insect demon soon, the caravan wouldn't be able to hold on for too long.

Han Li didn't worry much about himself.

Although he couldn't display magic spells and the meridians in his body hadn't fully recovered, with the fourth layer of the Bright King Art, his body's toughness was such that even if he stood still and let the giant insects bite him, they wouldn't be able to hurt him at all.

Moreover, besides that, he had two Extinguishing Immortal Beads on him, which could heavily injure even Spirit Transformation demon cultivators if used by surprise.

With this reliance, Han Li was able to stand here calmly and watch the changes.

"Not good, Sister Xiang'er, the situation is a bit bad, let's do it quickly," a crisp girl's voice came from behind.

Han Li's expression moved, and he turned his body slowly to look.

Only to see that behind the giant turtle, Xiang'er and the other three girls appeared there at some point, each holding a small flag in their hands. The one who spoke was the youngest red-robed girl, her face full of anxiety.

"It doesn't matter, it's still in time. Let's quickly set up the Small Spring-Returning Array. Although we are missing Sister Liu'er, it's enough to hold on for a while longer," the green-robed girl said, and the three girls hurriedly stood in their positions, each taking out a basin-sized brocade patch from their bodies and putting them together on the ground, actually piecing together a several-foot-large array diagram.

Han Li looked from afar, a flash of surprise in his eyes.

At this moment, the three girls raised the small flags in their hands at the same time, and the bracelets on their wrists, which were also embedded with spirit stones, shone brightly.

The three girls chanted incantations, and the bracelets and the small flags in their hands emitted faint spiritual light. Then, with a shake of their wrists, the three small flags were actually "inserted" into the array diagram on the ground. Immediately, a weak spiritual energy fluctuation erupted, and a piece of white light scattered rapidly in all directions.

The white light swept over the guards nearby, all submerging into their bodies and disappearing.

These guards immediately became spirited, not only did the fatigue on their faces disappear, but a strange giant strength surged from their bodies, and the originally heavy weapons in their hands became exceptionally light, all being waved into groups of cold light, once again driving those giant insects off the turtle shell and occupying the upper hand.

Seeing this, Han Li touched his chin, the corners of his mouth moved slightly, and then he revealed a cold smile.

What "Small Spring-Returning Array", it was clearly a simplified version of the Demon Sect's "Essence Array" from the mortal world. This array looked like it allowed the friendly forces affected by the restriction to recover their strength and become exceptionally powerful, but in reality, it was stimulating the internal essence of the people, taking their future lifespan to consume now. Don't look at it as just this short period of recovery, but at the very least, it overdrawn these guards' two or three years of lifespan.

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