Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 731 - 312: Bee Demon Queen (Part 3)

The bee swarm wildly beat their wings, astonishingly assembling a horrifying divine wind array in mere moments, blowing it outwards.

Divine wind clashing with fire!

The Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect members clearly hadn't anticipated the bee demons possessing such alarming cunning. Even though they deployed the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire to suppress the foes, the enemies countered by summoning the divine wind, which neutralized the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire.

Right away, the divine fire pushing towards the bee swarm got pushed back completely.

From afar, it resembled a blazing furnace where wind rose from the core, fueling the blaze to send out endless waves of flames.

Though the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect folks could command fire, not every cultivator stayed safe amid the inferno.

The divine fire they had unleashed together bounced back with fury, and those with lower cultivation levels couldn't possibly hold out against it.

All of a sudden, certain Primordial Spirit Realm cultivators on the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect's outskirts couldn't endure, spewing blood and suffering grave wounds.

The Void Path Realm experts in their midst also flushed crimson, enduring tremendous strain.

The front-line Integration Realm cultivators, boasting the mightiest fire control, managed a bit better.

Yet the bee demon horde wasn't untouched either; the blistering flames, despite failing to get close, made the frailer demons in their ranks yield to the searing temperatures, with plenty dropping from the void to crash below and burst into flames.

Bees at the mid-level of cultivation endured heavy loss of bodily fluids from evaporation, some with their shells scorched brittle. Their delicate wings, prone to catching ablaze, frequently ignited, letting the fire spread rapidly.

The clash between the two forces had escalated to where neither could pull back or yield.

Right then, Ning Qi signaled with a wave, tweaking the original strategy a touch.

After all, their initial scheme hadn't factored in the bee demons' wind-manipulating prowess.

At once, a squad of fire specialists emerged from the Profound Truth Realm forces, the black dragon included among them.

They unleashed a dark-crimson celestial fire, streaking like a shooting star towards the heart of the bee swarm.

Spotting the celestial fire plummeting down, the bee demons figured it came from the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect.

This celestial fire slammed into their midst, and with them busy using divine wind to repel the surrounding flames, they couldn't block this sudden blaze erupting inside.

Straightaway, anguished buzzing cries rang out, claiming an untold number of bee demons right there.

Now, the harder they flapped their wings, the wilder the internal fire blazed, and they found it impossible to blow it out.

Finally, numerous Integration Void Path Realm bee demons pulled back fully to the hive.

They huddled close, determined to shield the bee demon queen within the hive at all costs.

The Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect outsiders were equally stunned by the spectacle.

At this point, they remained clueless about the fire's origin. Had reinforcements shown up?

As shock gripped everyone, the earth trembled, and innumerable earthen spikes thrust upward viciously from the soil.

The ring-shaped fire array they'd set on the ground shattered in an instant.

"Watch out, enemies are here—get airborne fast!"

A voice shouted the warning, prompting the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect to soar into the air.

No sooner had they lifted off than the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire Burning Heaven Formation they'd activated crumbled entirely.

Every bit of Vermilion Bird Divine Fire lost its fueling energy and vanished without a trace.

At that very moment, hordes of ice spikes, ice orbs, ice lances, ice bolts, and ice blocks, enveloped in a fierce blizzard, rained down on the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect members.

At the same time, frost blanketed the terrain, and the air turned bitterly cold, as if a harsh winter had arrived.

This abrupt swing from scorching heat to biting cold proved brutally tough for both the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect cultivators and the central bee demon swarm to handle.

Countless weaker or already hurt ones died on the spot.

"Show yourself—who's behind this?!"

From the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect ranks, the Extreme Venerables flared up with body flames once more, fending off the freezing assault and smashing the approaching ice assaults.

But next came raging torrents laced with ice and gales, slamming across the entire area.

In a flash, droves from the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect and the bee demon cluster got obliterated.

Amid the waters, shapes shifted into orb-like water cages or morphed into gripping water claws that captured, crushed, or seized, finishing off the leftover humans and demons.

A handful who burst through the massive surges just managed to surface briefly.

Assorted lightning streaks or rule divine chains, like sea-roaming divine dragons, flashed through the waters, igniting everywhere.

These bolts zapped the cultivators with sharp cracks.

Instantly, all went numb, even their primordial spirits tingling, before the water claws seized them anew, slaying them yet again.

Through this relentless chain of strikes, most forces from both sides got eradicated.

When the enormous waves finally receded, the aftermath came into view.

The land lay sodden and filthy with mud.

Scattered within were just a sparse few cultivators and bee demons still breathing.

From the Profound Truth Realm Army, additional cultivators unleashed a joint assault, targeting the remnants.

Following this barrage, merely a couple of Extreme Venerables lingered alive.

However, the Integration Realm powerhouses in the Profound Truth Realm Army struck as one, and even those Extreme Venerables fell one after another under the barrage.

In the end, nothing stood but the central hive.

The group withheld their strikes, sparing it for now.

By then, the hive lay shrouded in bee demon remains, with sporadic openings revealing scorch marks from fire and scars from water, leaving it full of breaches.

The vital energy within pulsed as strongly as an ocean, barely diminished.

Ning Qi motioned to the Sword Ancestor.

The Sword Ancestor swung his blade without delay, cleaving downward; the sword glow tore space, hitting the hive instantly.

The hive shimmered faintly but held only briefly before the sword light split it apart.

A dark silhouette darted from within, firing endless illusory divine needles at the closest targets, Ning Qi and the Sword Ancestor.

The Sword Ancestor obliterated them with one sword sweep.

Ning Qi summoned a Five Elements Divine Chain, shaping it into a massive palm. "Suppress!"

All the illusory divine needles aimed at him stopped dead, suspended mid-air like time itself had frozen.