Two Consecutive Slashes at the Witch Daughter

In the next instant, Ian Song pulled out two spirit beast bags and released two fifth-rank spirit beasts.

One was a Flame Panther and the other a Scarletflame Tiger—both powerful breeds among fifth-rank spirit beasts, with the potential to evolve up to peak sixth rank.

"Go, attack those two!"

Ian Song pointed at the two Witch God Church experts and gave the command to the fifth-rank spirit beasts.

With the Beast-Taming Seal's control, the two fifth-rank spirit beasts obeyed Ian Song without question. No sooner had he finished speaking than the beasts shot forward.

On Myriad Spirits Island, the biggest rule when subduing spirit beasts is that you can't injure them—otherwise, you'll enrage the island's ninth-rank guardian beasts.

So, while these two fifth-rank spirit beasts weren't as strong as the Witch God Church's Out-of-Body experts, they could still easily tie them down.

The Flame Panther was famed for its speed, so it reached its target ahead of the Scarletflame Tiger.

"Roar!"

With a deep, thunderous roar, the Flame Panther's massive body materialized right behind one Witch God Church expert, its razor-sharp claws already touching the man's back.

Buzz!

A flash of light erupted, sending the Flame Panther flying—it was the opponent's protective robe.

"Outrageous! Who dares to ambush me!" The ambushed Witch God Church expert spun around and struck at the Flame Panther with his palm.

But when he saw the attacker was actually a Flame Panther, he abruptly pulled back his palm—he knew that injuring a spirit beast on Myriad Spirits Island would mean he might never leave alive.

He withdrew his palm strike, but the Flame Panther had no intention of letting him go and roared again, charging forward.

At the same time, the Scarletflame Tiger arrived, roaring as it lunged at the other Witch God Church expert.

The other Witch God Church expert also knew the consequences of injuring a spirit beast, so he didn’t dare fight back—he could only dodge the Scarletflame Tiger’s attacks in humiliation.

Mira Xuan, still entangled with Lila Li, quickly noticed her two subordinates being attacked by the spirit beasts. Her cold, beautiful face showed confusion—spirit beasts rarely attack humans for no reason.

Seeing the Witch God Church experts forced to dodge in embarrassment, Ian Song grinned with satisfaction and began shifting around the ten-li area, burying top-grade spirit crystals at each spot.

His cultivation hadn’t even reached the Out-of-Body stage yet, so clashing head-to-head with Deity Transformation experts was unwise. The best solution was to set up a formation.

Earlier, he’d worried about being discovered by the Witch God Church experts, but now that they were tangled up with spirit beasts, it was much harder for them to notice him setting up the formation.

In the blink of an eye, a stick of incense’s worth of time had passed.

Watching her two subordinates still dodging, Mira Xuan felt something was wrong. She eased up her attack on Lila Li and sent out a sliver of spiritual thought to probe the surroundings.

Lila Li, her opponent, noticed Mira Xuan’s attacks suddenly slow down and couldn’t help but breathe a huge sigh of relief. She’d thought it would take Fletcher Toba’s group at least three to five days to find her, but Mira Xuan had caught up in just a few hours. Her injuries had only half healed, so she could muster at most sixty to seventy percent of her peak strength.

Luckily, Mira Xuan specialized not in direct combat, but in sinister witch-arts and gu techniques, so Lila could barely hold on.

Even so, she was nearly at her limit.

But now, the opponent’s slowed attacks made her feel strange. Instinctively, she glanced around and saw the two Witch God Church experts being attacked by spirit beasts.

"Why would spirit beasts attack Witch God Church people for no reason? Could someone be helping me from the shadows?"

With this thought, Lila Li, who had been in despair, suddenly felt a surge of hope.

Because the formation was complex and covered a large area, after half a stick of incense, Ian Song had only finished about two-thirds of it—his recent growth in formation mastery was the only reason he’d gotten that far.