Immediately, Wu Tao seized the opportunity, took out the high-grade magical artifact "Golden Python Bow" from his storage bag, straightened his body, and knelt on the ground. Two golden arrows appeared out of thin air above the bow, pointing directly at the Yun brothers.
With the venom of python fangs and the sharpness of arrows, a cold glint flashed in Wu Tao's eyes. Two arrows shot out in succession, as fast as lightning and with the force to shatter stones and mountains.
"It's useless. With the Yin Yang Boundless Thunder Pearl in hand, no one in the Qi Refining stage can defeat us!" The Yun brothers' faces were solemn as they commanded the Yin Yang Boundless Thunder Pearl, which was suspended in mid-air, to push forward.
From within the Yin Yang Boundless Thunder Pearl, a lightning shield that blotted out the sky and sun appeared. It was like a massive reef in the ocean, standing firm against the strongest winds and waves, unmoving as a mountain.
The two golden arrows stopped outside this sky-obscuring lightning shield, and indeed, they caused no harm to the Yun brothers.
Wu Tao was not discouraged by this outcome; he knew that ordinary attacks like these could not hurt the Yun brothers.
He had merely tried it out of a slim hope.
Wu Tao calmly discarded the Golden Python Bow, slowly stood up, and began chanting incantations with his hands. His spiritual energy was almost depleted, and he had to end the fight quickly to defeat the Yun brothers.
A dragon's roar sounded again, clear and high-pitched, even more so than when Wu Tao had previously used "Quaking Force Captures Dragon."
"High-grade spell – Earth Dragon Breaks Heaven!"
A golden dragon of magnetic elemental energy, longer and more defiant than the one he had conjured before, roared out from Wu Tao's hands.
The magnetic elemental energy golden dragon traversed the void, its claws and teeth menacing and sharp. Its scales, like those of solid gold, covered its body, making it seem clad in impenetrable golden armor.
Instantly, the surrounding environment, filled with repulsive magnetic elemental energy, became distorted and altered.
The ground cracked, and the air vibrated…
The Yun brothers were not to be outdone. Centered around the Yin Yang Boundless Thunder Pearl, a mysterious blue halo suddenly burst forth from them.
This mysterious halo, about ten feet in radius, was filled with flickering lightning. The condensed lightning energy turned the ground beneath it a scorched black.
"Die!" The Yun brothers roared in unison, the fiery orbs of lightning at their fingertips becoming extremely solid, trembling slightly as if about to explode at any moment.
Simultaneously, a colossal lightning dragon, over twenty feet long, roared out and tore through the sky like heavenly might.
The Yun brothers watched Wu Tao with grim faces, channeling more spiritual energy. Their internal spiritual energy was also running low, and their faces paled slightly.
Furious lightning struck, and fierce lightning flashed. The twenty-foot lightning dragon intermittently appeared amidst the turbulent storm of lightning and void.
Condensed lightning-attribute spiritual energy enveloped the lightning dragon.
The twenty-foot lightning dragon and the magnetic elemental energy golden dragon, these two ethereal dragons, began a bloody battle.
Under Wu Tao's continuous control, the magnetic elemental energy golden dragon was like a giant divine sword, its roar soaring to the heavens, as if challenging the sky and intending to slay dragons against divine will.
A thick shield of repulsive force protected its ethereal body from harm.
The magnetic elemental energy golden dragon weaved through the air, attacking left and retreating right, agile and adaptable. Although it was clearly at a disadvantage against the lightning dragon, which was nearly twenty times its size, it wouldn't be easily destroyed.
The lightning dragon and the magnetic elemental energy golden dragon entangled and fought each other, their claws and teeth sharp, their massive heads colliding head-on.
The illusory bodies of the lightning dragon and the magnetic elemental energy golden dragon were shattered inch by inch by their collisions, scales scattering everywhere.
The sky and earth were filled with dispersed lightning and broken elemental energy, with countless sparks raining down on the ground…
Heavenly thunder and earthly elemental energy, out of control…
Wu Tao and the Yun brothers poured all their spiritual energy into the magnetic elemental energy golden dragon and the lightning dragon, dedicating all their focus to controlling them, daring not to slacken or neglect.
As a result, none of them had any spare mental energy or spiritual power to employ other means to defeat their opponents.
Although they all possessed other powerful magical artifacts.
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But the three of them knew clearly that in this stalemate, even the slightest carelessness from any side would lead to immediate destruction and irreparable loss.
Thus, with the continuous mutual combat of the lightning dragon and the magnetic elemental energy golden dragon, Wu Tao's battle with the Yun brothers devolved into a war of attrition, waiting to see who would run out of spiritual energy first.
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When the three of them realized that the amount of residual spiritual energy was the key to this struggle, both the Yun brothers and Wu Tao unreservedly adopted methods to increase their spiritual energy.
They each consumed several spirit-replenishing pills and simultaneously took out spirit stones, holding them in their hands to replenish their constantly depleting spiritual energy.
After a period of stalemate, Wu Tao began to falter. Seeing that he was about to lose, a fierce glint flashed in his eyes, he pinched his fingers, and uttered the word "Explode."
The body of the magnetic elemental energy golden dragon suddenly self-destructed. The barely visible golden-yellow light transformed into crimson-gold threads, spreading throughout the lightning dragon's body.
Within the lightning dragon's body, sparks ignited, and then, like a prairie fire, ignited everything in the surrounding vicinity. The air filled with the smell of sulfur, transforming into an explosion of fire.
After the sea of fire subsided, both the lightning dragon and the magnetic elemental energy golden dragon perished together.
Seeing this, the Yun brothers took a deep breath. The prolonged battle had also depleted their spiritual energy.
They exchanged a glance and directly returned the Yin Yang Boundless Thunder Pearl to their storage bags. Then, each took out a disposable magical artifact, "Thunder Thorn," from their storage bags and silently pushed their remaining spiritual energy, hurling them without hesitation at Wu Tao.
The two Thunder Thorns, emitting a deep blue glow and occasionally flashing with wild lightning, shot towards Wu Tao with extreme speed and penetrative power.
After passing through Wu Tao's protective magnetic elemental energy shield, the blue light dimmed slightly, but the two Thunder Thorns stubbornly continued forward, piercing Wu Tao's shoulder socket and chest with "swish" and "swish" sounds.
Wu Tao staggered back two or three steps, blood flowing from his nose and mouth. Deep bloody holes appeared on his shoulder socket and chest.
Under the immense impact, Wu Tao could no longer hold back a mouthful of fresh blood, which gushed out like a fountain.
Without time to check his injuries, Wu Tao managed to steady himself and shakily stood up.
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Looking back, Wu Tao reached into his storage bag and pulled out five talismans. Although the Ice Freezing, Fireball, Earth Spike, Wood Vine, and Golden Sword spells were all low-level, they should be enough to stall for a short time.
The Yun brothers' eyes widened at this sight, their expressions a mixture of astonishment, surprise, and anger. This was utterly unexpected.
This brat, seeing that he couldn't defeat them head-on, was now going to fight them with his wealth and spirit stones…
The Yun brothers' expressions darkened. They each took out two talismans from their storage bags: the Lightning Bird spell and the Electric Sword spell. Generally, lightning-attribute spells were superior to the five-element spells, and two against five could still result in a draw.
Wu Tao needed time the most, so he didn't care about throwing talismans or smashing spirit stones, as he only had one life.
Wu Tao moved closer to the Yun brothers while continuing to pull talismans from his storage bag. Fighting two opponents by himself was already strenuous, and it had devolved into a war of attrition, making the situation even worse for him.
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Long before the situation turned unfavorable, Wu Tao had made a rough plan and calculation in his mind regarding his current predicament and how to fight.
Therefore, with a clear plan in mind, Wu Tao was able to calmly and unhurriedly use talismans to engage in a head-on battle with the Yun brothers.
Boom, boom, boom…
Explosions echoed incessantly. This was no longer a spell battle; it was clearly a spirit stone-smashing contest. The more talismans the Yun brothers threw, the angrier they became, knowing that each talisman was worth a considerable amount of spirit stones in the cultivation world.
However, if they were to cast spells to defend themselves, exhausting the last bit of spiritual energy in their bodies, neither of them dared to do so…