Murong Yin's pupils shrank sharply, and his gaze quickly swept around the cave, but he couldn't see the golden-backed blood mantis attacking at all. It's as if they're one with the air, and there's not a trace of it.

The blood-red filament of light was already close at hand, and Murong Yin had to activate the jade talisman, otherwise he would turn into a corpse and remain in the Ethereal Ancient Tower forever.

He sighed, but unfortunately he still didn't see the true colors of those gatekeepers.

At this time, Situ Kong and Murong Zhen were both fighting fiercely with the Golden Back Blood Mantis, as the third and second existences on the Spirit List, the strength of the two was naturally undoubted, and their perception of danger was also extremely keen, so even if they couldn't see the Golden Back Blood Mantis, they could temporarily resist those weird attacks.

Situ Kong's hand wielded a big knife more than two meters long, smashing all the blood-red filaments that flew out, but more and more filaments of light flew from all directions, completely enveloping him, and he could only dance the knife curtain with all his strength, otherwise as long as the slightest flaw was exposed, his life would be in danger immediately.

A layer of fiery red spiritual light covered his whole body, and the spiritual power was completely infused into the long knife, and his keen perception did not let go of the slightest abnormality. He fended off the blood-colored rays of light as he searched for the attacker's location.

He'd already picked up some clues, and he just needed to hold on for a little longer, and soon he would be able to completely lock on to the trail of the attackers. But the attacks of those blood-colored filaments became faster and faster, more and more intensive, and the power of the attacks became more and more terrifying, and the spirit yuan in his dantian was actually consumed as much as eighty percent in this half an hour.

"Bastard, what the hell is guarding this level?" Situ Kong gritted his teeth and scolded angrily, and the surging spiritual power instantly surged out, and he slashed out hundreds of flame swords, each of which was as huge as hundreds of meters.

Rumble...... The flying blood-colored filaments disappeared under the sword, and the surrounding area was briefly emptied for a moment.

"Found it. Situ Kong's pupils condensed, and he slashed fiercely in a certain direction, and hundreds of meters of flame swords burst out, and the scorching heat made the entire cave unbearably hot.

A golden-backed blood mantis appeared in front of the flame blade, the blood-red scythe swung out against the flame blade, click, click, the sickle shattered, the flame blade directly split it in two, and the terrifying flame power instantly ignited its body, turning it into a pile of ashes.

After a brief glance, Situ Kong recognized the identity of the golden-backed blood mantis.

"Golden-backed blood mantis. His face changed drastically, and the next moment an extremely terrible sense of crisis exploded in his mind, as if some sharp sword had reached his throat, and the cold light of the blade pierced his skin.

Situ Kong instinctively flew forward, the speed was almost the highest in his life, snort, snort, the clothes behind him made a tearing sound, and then the sound of flesh being penetrated, blood splashed out, staining the clothes behind his back.

He quickly turned around, only to see a golden-backed blood mantis staring at him with blood-red eyes, extremely cold and without a trace of emotion.

Before he could strike back, another sense of crisis came, and this time he saw how they attacked. Two blood-red scythes swung in different directions, so fast that only a faint trace of blood-red light flickered.

He retreated more than ten meters away, leaned against the stone wall with a bang, the clothes on his chest were torn, two wounds crossed his chest, and large pieces of flesh and blood were directly hooked away by the spikes on the blood-colored sickle.

Situ Kong's face turned pale with pain, and cold sweat broke out, covering his forehead. The dizziness in his head was so intense that it seemed like he could be knocked out at any moment.

"No, in my current state, it's very difficult to kill a golden-backed blood mantis, not to mention that I can't be sure how many golden-backed blood mantis there are here. Situ Kong thought quickly, and finally came up with the answer that it was impossible for him to break through the seventh layer.

"Do you just give up? But what can you do if you don't give up? If you drag it on, you can only continue to get hurt. ”

He shook his head, put down his long knife, and without hesitation, activated the jade talisman, and disappeared into the seventh layer.

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On the other side, Murong Zhen formed a mysterious seal in his hand, and strange runes appeared and flew in the surrounding space, and a layer of golden light curtain appeared between the runes, resisting the attack of blood-red filaments from all directions.

Although he temporarily blocked the attack of the golden-backed blood mantis, Murong Zhen, like Situ Kong, could not lock the location of the golden-backed blood mantis, so he could only be beaten passively and could not fight back.

The spirit yuan in the dantian was rapidly consuming, and the defensive light curtain he had constructed was the strongest defense he could release at the moment. The attack of the golden-backed blood mantis was not trivial, and it was so dense, Murong really didn't dare to have the slightest carelessness, nor could he have the slightest carelessness.

The light curtain resisted those blood-red filaments, constantly vibrating, with a trace of ripples, and slowly those ripples became bigger and bigger, and the golden light curtain seemed to be a little unbearable.

At the top of the cave, the Golden-backed Blood Mantis King emerged, staring at Murong Zhen directly below with compound eyes. It jumped down, its body flipped, and the dozens of blood-red lines engraved on its body all lit up, and the blood-red scythe slashed down, so fast that only a hazy light and shadow could be seen.

A fatal sense of crisis instantly appeared in Murong Zhen's mind, and the pinprick made his nerves tingle. The golden curtain of light was broken through by the blood-red scythe, like a fragile layer of window paper.

The blade of the scythe slashed across Murong Zhen's forehead, and with a flash of white light, he disappeared. The Golden-backed Blood Mantis King's attack landed in the air, and he flapped his wings and flew up, and his figure disappeared into the air with a single breath.

On the square outside the Ethereal Pagoda, Situ Kong's figure emerged, and his miserable appearance made the onlookers exclaim.

"Oh my God, Situ Kong didn't even make it past the seventh layer. ”

"The point of light on the seventh layer disappeared again. A disciple shouted.

Situ Kong took out a healing elixir and stuffed it into his mouth, then turned to look at it. As soon as the disciple's voice fell, Murong Zhen's figure appeared beside Situ Kong.

On his forehead, a wound extended directly from the hairline to the center of his eyebrows, and it seemed that as long as he activated the jade talisman a little slowly, the whole person would be split in half. Just thinking about the thrill made the hearts of those onlookers shudder.

Murong Zhen is the closest to death among all the disciples who have entered the seventh layer at present.

"You've failed too. Situ Kong looked at Murong Zhen and said with a wry smile.

"Those golden-backed blood mantises, it's terrible. Murong said with a sincere palpitation, "If I have the slightest hesitation at the last moment, I will die in the Ethereal Tower." ”

"Yes, in the face of them, we think that the power is great, and there is no use at all, it is like all the strength of our body is hitting the sponge. ”

"Hmm. Murong Zhen nodded, and looked not far away, Yun Li, Murong Yin and other more than a dozen top twenty existences on the spirit list had already given up breaking into the tower, which showed that they, like himself, had encountered obstacles that could not be broken through. I just don't know how many layers they stayed at? After Yun Li and Murong were invisible, Yu Changli, Zhou Lingxu, Mu Lingyue and other disciples who were even lower in the rankings came out early, and they couldn't even deal with the thorn wood demon of the sixth layer.

"Ah Yin, how are you?" Murong Zhen saw the huge wound on Murong Yin's body, his face changed, and he appeared beside Murong Yin as soon as his body moved, and asked with concern in his eyes.

"Pavilion Master, don't worry, I'm fine, Elder Mu has already helped me connect the bones just now, and the skin injury will heal soon. Murong Yin said with a smile. His own cultivation is the spiritual trick of the wood attribute, and he is the best at healing. Although he was the most seriously injured of all the people who came out of the seventh layer, he was the one who healed the fastest, and now the wounds on his body had basically healed, only the huge wound on his shoulder was still slowly healing, after all, most of the flesh and blood were hooked by the spikes on the golden-backed blood mantis scythe.

"Oh my God, two people broke into the eighth floor at the same time. The disciple who had been paying attention to the movement of the red light spots on the light curtain let out an exclamation in disbelief.

Even Elder Mu was completely shaken, his eyes looked at the two extra red points of light on the eighth layer, and he didn't know whether it was surprise or horror in his eyes.

Besides Han Qianyou, who else had the strength to break into the eighth layer?

"Is it that girl Linglong, if he uses the power that Xiao Feng and Xiao Qing gave her, it will naturally be no problem to break into the eighth layer. Who's that other person?"

"Han Yi, it's unlikely, even if his strength is not weak, and his methods are quite complex and changeable, but the golden-backed blood mantis of the seventh layer is very good at concealment, and his attack power and attack speed are very terrifying, even veteran disciples like Murong Zhen and Situ Kong can't resist it, and Han Yi's words are unlikely to break through the seventh layer. ”

Elder Mu swept the bottom of the square at a glance, Situ Feng and Shangguan Le, the two disciples he also had high hopes for, had already given up before the seventh layer, and the remaining disciples who had not yet come out were basically trapped in the fifth and sixth layers, and only one person in the seventh layer was still holding on at the moment.

"The remaining disciples who haven't come out yet, the only ones whose strength is good are Ji Xuanyou and Tian'er, and that Zhuge Yun. Elder Mu frowned, comparing the strength of several people in his heart, "Zhuge Yun's strength should be stronger than Han Yi, Ji Xuanyou, and Tian'er, and she has the greatest possibility of breaking into the eighth layer." ”

"Moreover, the light attribute is very rare, and it is almost the only attribute that has no weaknesses. Elder Mu guessed and judged.

There was no doubt that Qiu Linglong had indeed stimulated the chilling power that Qiu Fengying had left in her body at the last moment, burst out with the strength of the Spirit King level, killed the remaining golden-backed blood mantises, and entered the eighth layer.

As for Han Yi, he relied on the evil qi of the Kui Long Jue and the strange methods of the Soul Suppression Prison, which might even be a little fearful of the Spirit King Stage cultivators. The evil spirit has devoured the evil qi and spirit body of so many living beings, and the enchantment of the soul suppression prison is already very powerful, and the restriction on spiritual perception and five senses and six senses is almost to the point of perversion. The spiritual attacks released by the evil spirits were also extremely terrifying, and those impure spiritual powers were enough to collapse any monk under the Spirit King period.

Therefore, even a fourth-level demon beast like the Goldenback Blood Mantis could not withstand the spiritual attack of the evil spirit.