Chapter 172: Bloody Battle in the Bat Cave
Although Ling Xiao had seen the power of this big bat, he didn't know that this was the famous Bat Demon, in fact, Ling Xiao knew the legend of the Bat Demon when he browsed the group books in the Li Empire.
Legend has it that the bat demon is a species mutated after the success of the spirit merger under a coincidental situation, and the specific expression xiàn is the increase in intelligence, the increase in size, and even some special attack abilities will appear after mutation, the most common is the long-range attack ability.
The most important thing is that the bat demon will pass on this mutation to the next generation after merging, until its bloodline gradually becomes more and more complicated, and this mutation will gradually disappear after more than ten generations.
Although the bat demon in front of him did not show any special attack ability, but in terms of its wisdom alone, it was indeed quite good, and it was under its command that this group of nearly two hundred bats took twice as long to kill it, which is a good evidence.
But now that he knows the reason why the bloodthirsty bat is difficult to eliminate, things are much easier, staring at the bat demon deadly, five plum blossom arrows with dazzling spiritual power light came out of the string, enveloping the bat demon's flight path.
Took out a wind feather arrow in his hand again, Ling Xiao quietly waited for the bat demon to fly into the preset place under the pressure of the five plum blossom arrows, sure enough, with the help of the subtle realm, Ling Xiao judged that the bat flight trajectory was exactly the same as expected, and at the sound of the bowstring, the wind feather arrow almost turned into a black light under the effect of the string twisting technique, and pierced into its body fiercely when the bat demon didn't have time to make any move.
The bat demon, who had been jumping around and quite active, seemed to have suddenly turned into stone, and it fell to the ground along the flight inertia just now, and everyone's exclamations sounded at the same time.
On the surface, Ling Xiao only used six arrows to kill a bat demon, but in fact, it took the help of the subtle realm, five plum blossom arrows, and string twisting techniques to achieve such amazing results.
It's just that outsiders are of course unaware of these facts, and in the eyes of others, Ling Xiao is just casually firing his bow six times in three breaths and shooting six arrows. This kind of ability makes everyone not only admire, but also more enthusiastic and heartbeat, you know, the legendary bat demon should be rewarded a little more!
Only Ling Xiao was slightly furrowed eyebrows, just a moment before the bat demon died, he clearly saw that the bat demon made a strange action in the air, at that moment, Ling Xiao clearly felt that a force was fluctuating, as if a ripple appeared in the air, gradually dispersed. Even in an instant, the ripples rippled into the bat gathering area in the passage.
In fact, it was precisely this moment of stasis in the air that would lead the bat demon to be killed by Ling Xiao so lightly. According to Ling Xiao's observation all along, such a mistake could not have been possible on a super bat with extremely high intelligence, so with its instinct to be so afraid of death, what was it for risking its life to send out that ripple?
However, in three breaths, Ling Xiao had a result, Scout, the dead big bat should be the Scout! Only in this way can all the anomalies be explained, first a large number of ordinary bloodthirsty bats rushed out to kill indiscriminately, and when it was found that not only did they fail to kill the humans outside, but they continued to lose troops. The bat demon rushed out of the bats with a reconnaissance mission.
Then when it was hidden in the bat colony just now, it should have been observing the human situation, and when it was finally exposed and locked, the ripples emitted before death may be sending intelligence.
That's it. The information on the human side must have been known by the bats behind the passage, and you only need to look at the next wave to know whether it is the truth or not.
Ling Xiao was also taken aback by what he had figured out, if it was really like what he thought, could this bat still be considered an animal. Its wisdom, its courage, its cunning. It's not much different from people.
The bat demon died, the other bats lost their command, and were quickly swept away by everyone, Wang Daniu, who was already quite proficient in the whole set of procedures, was about to withdraw the shield array and put down a wave of bats when he came in, but he felt that something was wrong, but fortunately he slowed down, and then remembered that something was wrong, that is, the leader Ling Xiao did not give the order to continue.
It is said that after a while of rest, people can still hold on, so why not continue to kill bats to get rewards? Wang Daniu looked at Ling Xiao with a confused gaze, but found that Ling Xiao was actually pale at this time, although it was obvious that he had always had perseverance and tenacity, it was not difficult to find extremely rare prudence and vigilance!
Ling Xiao knew that this time when he let go of the channel, it was very likely that he would no longer face a small fight of ordinary bloodthirsty bats, but a real army of bat demons, and the dead bat demon could sacrifice himself lightly, which also showed that the level of bat demons in the bat group at this time was not uncommon, what if after opening the passage, all the bat demons who came in were there, what if there were higher-level bats?
The extremely contradictory Ling Xiao hesitated and did not give an order, but an elder next to him became a little impatient, "I said, what are you doing standing stupidly?
On one side is Ling Xiao, who is new to the Sword Sect, and on the other side is a high-powered elder, smart people know how to choose, but unfortunately for Wang Daniu, who has already admired Ling Xiao, he doesn't care about what elders are not elders, and he doesn't move if Ling Xiao doesn't speak.
The elder, who was so angry with Wang Da Niu, shouted angrily, and was about to step forward and push away this group of disciples who were not long-eyed, but he was stopped by the thoughtful Liu Yuping, after all, with his understanding of Ling Xiao, there would be no problems such as cowardice on Ling Xiao.
And Ling Xiao stopped the rhythm of killing bats, which means that he must have made some new discoveries.
It's just a small thing that no one else thought about changed the course of things. Wang Daniu is right to be dead to Ling Xiao, but this does not mean that all the members of his assault team have reached the same level.
Li Xi is such a treacherous person, he was originally very dissatisfied with the dangerous position of the assault group, and was thinking about how to steal the laziness, when he saw that the released bats had been killed, Ling Xiao did not let the assault group retreat.
Originally, if it had been like this, Li Xi would not have had the courage to withdraw by himself, but the bad thing was that there was such an elder who spoke, and when an elder spoke, Li Xi naturally stopped being afraid of anything, "Brothers, withdraw!
The shield array is a kind of defensive quite strong formation, and the whole composed of shields connected by guò buckles can be regarded as impregnable under the support of these strong disciples, but as long as a shield is withdrawn, the entire shield array will also be affected, and there is no longer as great defensive ability as a whole.
And if one of them withdraws, the others will naturally follow, otherwise, no one can bear it if they are left alone to face a large group of bloodthirsty bats.
At the moment when Li Xi took the lead and the assault team withdrew, at the moment when Ling Xiao found out that the situation was wrong and shouted "don't move" in a hurry, and at the moment when the reckless elder and his body pounced and wanted to make a big move to kill a large number of bats, what stunned everyone was that what came out of this impact was no longer those extremely weak ordinary bloodthirsty bats, but all bat demons!
Moreover, these bat demons just rushed out, and they immediately formed a formation, and more than sixty of them released a long-range attack at the same time, and the moon blade! The clear moon blade flew like an elf under the cover of spiritual power, but what such a beautiful scene represented was killing.
First of all, the reckless elder almost seemed to rush up to commit suicide himself, his body was only ten meters out, and he was already trapped by the moon blade in the sky, but in less than a breath, more than a dozen blood streams rushed out of his body as if countless faucets had been opened!
A moon blade that hit the throat made the elder not even have time to say his last words, so he fell into the dust and died!
The drastic changes in the battlefield situation made everyone a little unacceptable, but fortunately, Ling Xiao still had a slight expectation of this situation, and raised his hand to shoot five waves of a total of twenty wind feather arrows with a vibrating string technique to temporarily block the attack route of the bat demons, while eagerly giving an order, "The assault group retreats, the stick group takes me as the center to form a shield formation, and the reconnaissance group retreats to find favorable terrain and form a second line of defense!"
The familiar voice and clear orders made the team members led by Ling Xiao react instantly, and they rushed away, each of them according to the order. The formation that was caught off guard and scattered by the bat demons changed to form a new shield array in ten breaths, but it was no longer possible to block the passage entrance, and a steady stream of bat demons rushed out among the ordinary bloodthirsty bats, but in the time of twenty breaths, it had already filled this space.
Ling Xiao reacted quickly, stabilized the formation slightly, and Sect Master Liu Yuping also reacted extremely quickly, leading the elders to retreat while killing, forming a second blocking line, and they had to ensure that not a single bat would run out of the cave through here.
The first group of targets in the attack line of the bat demons was Wang Da Niu's assault group, and Li Xi had already paid the price for his rashness, and was divided by the Moon Blade. But the rest of the assault team members couldn't withdraw at all, so they formed a small circle formation on the spot, barely protecting the vital points on their bodies.
And the situation on Ling Xiao's side is not too much, although there are a little more people, but it is also difficult to move an inch, and can only hold on under the protection of the shield array.
Faced with such a situation, Ling Xiao was furious, ignoring the consumption of spiritual power, and began to use the fast sword shadow that he had just comprehended!
Split shadow is the name that Ling Xiao gave to his new skill, in fact, it is the spiritual power split, this time I came in to find some blue gold, forge my own secret weapon, split arrow, but I didn't expect to be trapped here now.
Originally, Ling Xiao's shadow was not up to the actual combat Cheng dù, after all, he split the spiritual power arrow and would dissipate in the air if it didn't shoot a hundred meters, but the situation in front of him was not a hundred meters, even three meters away was already crowded with bats, so as long as the split attack didn't wait for the spiritual power to dissipate, he could hit the target, which was a good time to use......!