Chapter 1369: Green Shadow

Since the Spiritual Beacon has already sounded the alarm, if we don't investigate, we will also face severe punishment upon our return.

"Most alien scouts aren't very strong in combat. As long as everyone is cautious, we should be able to deal with this scout smoothly," the elder in green armor commanded with a furrowed brow.

Hearing the elder, who was at the Flower God level, speak, the other Black Armored Guards, no matter how unwilling they were, could only remain silent.

Following a series of commands from the elder, the group immediately split into several teams and moved towards the direction where the Spiritual Beacon was alarming.

After changing direction and flying only a few tens of miles, the cultivators suddenly appeared above a pile of scattered rocks.

This rock pile seemed ordinary, but it was surrounded by a swampy area emitting purple bubbles.

"It seems this is the place. Don't let him escape," the elder affirmed with a nod, after glancing at the Spiritual Beacon in his hand, and then waved his hand to give further orders.

Immediately, more than ten Black Iron Guards behind him, without a word, deployed their protective treasures to shield their entire bodies, then released their divine sense to scan the area below.

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the expressions of all the cultivators, including the elder, subtly changed.

"At such close range, even divine sense can’t detect anything! It seems we’ll have to go down and search personally. Fellow Daoist Qin!" The elder took a deep breath, then suddenly turned to call out to a middle-aged man with narrow eyes. "Captain, don’t worry, I know what to do," the shrewd middle-aged man replied. He then tapped the storage bracelet on his wrist with one hand, and a pile of strange, seemingly dark, round beads suddenly appeared in his grasp.

He raised his hand, and the round beads scattered downwards, while he simultaneously chanted incantations.

With a loud crackling sound, and after a flash of blue electric light on their surfaces, the beads suddenly swelled in size, transforming into iron bees enveloped in electric arcs.

Each one was fist-sized, dark, with fluttering wings, emitting an eerie buzzing sound as they moved.

The others remained suspended in the air, unmoving. Only the narrow-eyed middle-aged man slowly sat cross-legged, forming a hand seal. As soon as the hundred-plus iron bees dropped to a height of only about ten zhang above the ground, they scattered in all directions, shooting outwards rapidly.

It seemed this patrol team had long since learned from their predecessors: "Never easily land on the ground, and avoid entangling with alien scouts in complex terrain."

Otherwise, with the aliens' myriad of inexplicable and bizarre methods, even if they succeeded in eliminating the enemy, they would undoubtedly suffer casualties themselves.

In that case, it was naturally better to send down some puppets to investigate.

However, shortly after the iron bees scattered, the Spiritual Beacons in everyone's hands suddenly trembled, simultaneously emitting extraordinarily high-pitched screeches. Some Spiritual Beacons even erupted with dazzling spiritual light, appearing utterly astonishing.

"Not good! This alien is approaching us, already within a hundred zhang, and is still closing in!" the fierce-looking big man immediately shouted upon seeing the anomaly in his magical compass.

Not only him, but the others also stirred upon seeing the unusual behavior of their magical compasses, all widening their eyes and quickly scanning their surroundings.

However, within a hundred-zhang radius, above and below, everywhere was empty. There was no sign of anything present.

"Cast your spells, quickly break its concealment technique! If it gets close, we’ll be in trouble!" the elder roared, making the ears of his subordinates buzz. Immediately, he was the first to flip his hand, and a bronze mirror suddenly appeared in his grasp.

The elder tossed the bronze mirror above his head, and it instantly transformed into a dazzling full moon. With a flash of spiritual light on its surface, a bowl-sized pillar of green light erupted from it. As the moon spun rapidly, the light pillar simultaneously swept in all directions. However, the green light found no abnormalities whatsoever in its path.

The other cultivators also successively brought out their banners, flags, and other treasures specifically designed to break concealment, but their spiritual light likewise revealed nothing.

However, the buzzing from the Spiritual Beacons in their hands became increasingly sharp and abnormal, indicating that the alien was almost within arm’s reach. At this, everyone’s faces turned panicked, and the elder’s face also paled. A thunderous roar boomed, all electric arcs exploded, and the grey shadow let out a whimpering sound. Its body surface, under the bombardment of an electric net, began to disintegrate and atomize layer by layer.

Seeing this, the elder was overjoyed. It seemed the lightning talismans he had specially prepared at great expense last time were indeed effective.

He immediately flipped his hand, and another stack of lightning talismans appeared. With an activation, another dozen-plus blue electric arcs violently struck out.

Just as these electric arcs were about to strike the nearby grey shadow, a cold snort suddenly echoed from all directions simultaneously.

Almost simultaneously, a large green hand suddenly appeared in front of the grey shadow. With just a slight flick of its five fingers, it somehow caught all the lightning bolts in its grasp.

After a muffled explosion, the lightning bolts vanished without a trace within that hand.

"Green Shadow!"

Upon seeing this large hand, the elder’s pupils contracted, and he cried out as if groaning.

"You will all die!"

A cold, emotionless voice emanated from the large green hand. Immediately, the hand quivered and, under twisting deformation, transformed into a shimmering green light-figure.

At first glance, this light-figure also had a humanoid form, but its head was unusually large, almost two to three times the size of a normal person's. On its green-glowing face, a pair of eyes were a vivid, dripping red, making it appear incredibly sinister.

Seeing that it was indeed the high-tier Shadow Race member he had anticipated, the green-armored elder’s mouth twitched, and his face truly turned pale.

Although lightning power could restrain most of the Shadow Race, a Green Shadow, an entity of similar rank to a human Soul Transformation cultivator, possessed a certain resistance to lightning itself. Past one-on-one encounters between Soul Transformation cultivators and Green Shadows almost always ended with the human cultivators being soundly defeated or perishing.

Furthermore, seeing that this Green Shadow could command so many shadow puppets by itself, it was likely an extremely high-tier existence even among Green Shadows.

How could this not make the elder's heart sink?

At this moment, bursts of explosions also echoed from the distant horizon, clearly indicating that the other Black Iron Guards had also been caught by the shadow puppets, throwing those human cultivators into bitter battles.

The Green Shadow, however, completely disregarded the elder’s terror. Without a word, it abruptly stepped forward, its body strangely appearing a few zhang in front of the elder. Then, with a single raised hand, it aggressively lunged directly at the thick electric arc protecting the elder.

It actually intended to forcefully rip apart the elder's protective magic treasure! The elder was greatly startled, but the opponent’s movement was too fast; he had no time to react even slightly.

He could only let out a low cry and infuse all his magical power into his protective treasure.

The silver electric arc in front of him hummed, then instantly thickened by a third.

Upon seeing this, a flicker of disdain appeared in the Green Shadow’s blood-red eyes. Its grasping hand did not pause at all, truly seizing the thick electric arc.

With a rumble, the thick electric arc, after a furious burst of flashes within the large green hand, finally transformed into a small sword covered in electric arcs.

The small sword’s light flickered erratically, and its entire body quivered violently, yet it could only struggle within the large green hand, completely unable to break free.

The green-armored elder’s face instantly drained of color.

Meanwhile, the Green Shadow let out a strange chuckle. Its figure shifted again, seemingly about to strike once more.

But just then, another thunderous roar suddenly sounded above the elder. Then, a blue-white electric arc flashed, and a winged figure with a pair of wings on its back appeared out of thin air.

As soon as this figure appeared, it immediately, without a word, raised both hands and pointed them downwards.