Chapter 66: Capturing Bats!

  With her right hand grasping the musical note, Xiao Yun opened the stone gate without hesitation. The war song took hold of her body, and with all her might, she operated the colorful cloud to chase the moon, running towards the direction of the mountain cave entrance.

  "Puff puff......"

  Xiao Yun suddenly appeared in the passageway, and the vampires inside immediately went into a frenzy, smelling the scent of blood food. One by one, they pounced on Xiao Yun, opening their sharp claws and revealing their sharp teeth. Some of the vampires that had just finished eating still had fresh blood and flesh on them, and they chased after Xiao Yun with ferocious faces, as if they wanted to tear him into pieces.

  "Bang! Bang! Bang!"

  A bat crashed into the Golden Bell's shadow, making a series of dense and crisp sounds, the Golden Bell's shadow shook violently, but still managed to protect Xiao Yun's body.

  The golden bell's radiance illuminated the passageway, startling almost all of the bats inside. They charged towards Xiao Yun with reckless abandon, their beady eyes fixed on him. The air was thick with the creatures, and although they were blocked by the golden bell, their grotesque faces still filled Xiao Yun with dread.

  The power of a single bat may not be worth mentioning, but hundreds and thousands of them launching an attack together is absolutely terrifying. Having just run less than five meters, Xiao Yun was unable to move any further, blocked by the massive force, the Golden Bell of Defense was shaking violently, as if it would collapse at any moment.

  "Get out of my sight!"

  With a determined look, Xiao Yun let out a loud shout and urged the five-stage music symbol in his hand to fly directly into the air. The music symbol hovered at the top of the cave, bursting forth with brilliant light, and the notes condensed into physical form flew out from within the music symbol, forming a circle that rotated ceaselessly in mid-air, as if playing a beautiful melody.

  "Rumble!"

  One by one, flames flew out of the circle and turned into a sky full of fire rain, falling down, landing on those bats' bodies, immediately bursting into fierce flames.

  The sudden change made the cave chaotic, a group of fire-carrying bats flew around and crashed everywhere, the cave instantly became a sea of flames, and there were painful screams and panicked cries all over.

  Xiao Yun suddenly felt his body, once again, enveloped in a fierce aura. Seizing the opportunity, he accelerated his movements to their limits and, under the cover of the golden bell, rapidly ran towards the entrance of the cave.

  ——

  A cave, a blaze of light filled the sky, a large group of bats followed Xiao Yun out of the cave entrance, some even with fire on their bodies. From afar, it looked like a cluster of fireballs floating in mid-air. Xiao Yun didn't dare to linger for a moment, holding a Haoqi Dan in his mouth, he escaped from the valley at top speed.

  A group of bats chased after him relentlessly, the sound of flapping wings behind him, he turned his head to look, and behind him was a sea of blackness, like a dark cloud following him, Xiao Yun panicked and ran without thinking, with only one thought in his mind, that was to run, using all his strength to run.

  They had been running for over twenty minutes, and apart from a few bats that had been burned to death by the fire, a large group was still chasing after them relentlessly. These bats had basically reached the level of first-class demon beasts, with some spiritual intelligence. Xiao Yun had set fire to their nest, completely infuriating them. They were no longer thinking about finding food, but about taking revenge and killing the enemy who had destroyed their home.

  Xiao Yun also realized this, earlier when he was running away, those bats didn't chase him for long before stopping, but now this group of bats seemed determined to pursue him relentlessly.

  "This won't do!"

  Xiao Yun secretly cursed in her heart, this group of bats had more than a hundred, relying on her own three-legged cat's strength to fight with them was simply looking for death. The Golden Bell Defense Array was getting dimmer and dimmer, obviously it couldn't last much longer.

  Forcing the 'Rainbow Cloud Chasing Moon' technique has also consumed a huge amount of his Haqi, and he had already taken one Haqi Dan pill, but now his Haqi pool was almost depleted. This rate of consumption wasn't sustainable.

  Judging from the current situation, this group of bats will not let themselves go easily. The lethal range of the musical notes is limited. If it were in that cave, it would be possible to take a gamble and use a large number of musical notes to annihilate them all. However, now that the terrain is open, relying on musical notes to kill them seems unrealistic.

  Is this going to be an escape? As he fled, Xiao Yun's brain was racing with thoughts. If he could keep escaping until dawn, perhaps these bats would disperse. But could he hold on until dawn in his current state? Moreover, this was a sacred site, full of dangers everywhere. What if he accidentally stumbled into some place and ended up dead without knowing how?

  An idea flashed through his mind!

  Maybe give it a try!

  He used another four-stage music note "Golden Bell Shield", the dim and almost disappearing Golden Bell shield suddenly burst out with a brilliant light, Xiao Yun took out a bag, it was the spiritual beast bag obtained in the mountain cave, with a heroic spirit, he tore open the bag mouth and threw it towards a bat that was isolated outside the Golden Bell.

  "Whoosh!"

  A small suction force appeared at the mouth of the bag and directly sucked the bat into the Ling Beast Bag.

  "Ah, it can be done!"

  Xiao Yun was overjoyed at the sight, originally just wanting to try it out, but didn't think it would actually work.

  This spirit beast pouch was originally used to store living creatures, these bats are fierce but only a first-class demon beast, as a single unit, can be said to be very weak, want to collect them, naturally is very easy.

  Trying to make the most of it, Xiao Yun ran while pulling the bag to collect the bats. One by one, the bats were collected into the spiritual beast bag. The bats chasing Xiao Yun became fewer and fewer, and his escape pace also slowed down. In the end, he even stopped in his tracks, relying on Jin Zhong's protection, those bats flew up and were caught one by one.

  It lasted for about twenty minutes, and the remaining bats were sparse, because of the decrease in number, they didn't seem as fierce as before. A few bats fluttered around Xiao Yun's body, flapping their wings, seemingly no longer daring to fly over.

  "Haha, come on!"

  Xiao Yun held the Ling Beast bag in his hand and burst out laughing. This battle ultimately ended with his successful counterattack.

  No matter how loudly Xiao Yun laughed, the few bats just flew around him in disorder, neither daring to charge forward nor willing to leave. These guys seemed to have already known that if they charged forward, they would definitely not return.

  "Humph, can't you see I'm at my wit's end with you people?"

  Only a few were left, with Jin Zhong protecting them. Xiao Yun was no longer afraid of anything, and he tied the Ling Shou bag to his waist and directly took out the Nine Heavens.

  He swallowed a Haoqi Dan, sat cross-legged on the ground, and recovered some of his Haoqi. He looked up at the bats that still refused to leave, and a hint of cruelty appeared in Xiao Yun's mouth.

  "Clang... Clang... Clang..."

  One note after another was drawn on the ninth heaven, and the surrounding space seemed to be trembling slightly. After much difficulty, the twelfth note was finally reached, and Xiao Yun poured all his strength into a stroke on the strings.

  "Ahhhroo!"

  A mighty dragon roar echoed through the night sky, its heroic energy condensed into a long, ethereal dragon that seemed to exist and yet not exist. Following the direction of the sound wave, it charged furiously towards those few dark shadows with an angry bellow.

  Those bats instinctively felt the threat, flapping their wings to avoid it, but the speed of that dragon-shaped shadow was too fast, and in almost an instant, it had pierced through their bodies.

  Space stagnation, a few bats instantly turned into powder, dragon-shaped virtual shadow rose with the sound wave and quickly disappeared in the night sky.

  Having smoothly settled a group of thugs, Xiao Yun took a few deep breaths and looked around. The surroundings were quiet and still. Just now, they had fled in a panic, not knowing where they had run to.

  Afraid to run around again, fearing another encounter with danger, there was a small grove by the road, Xiao Yun walked in and found a big tree, jumped onto the treetop, without confirming safety, she leaned against the trunk, exhausted, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

  ——

  Early in the morning, a cicada was loudly chirping on the tree, calling its mate. A yellow sparrow flew by like an arrow, and the cicada's sound suddenly stopped.

  "Huh?"

  When I woke up, the sky was already bright. After taking a look around, Xiao Yun couldn't help but feel a little scared in her heart. Last night was really too exhausting, she didn't even understand what was happening around her and fell asleep directly. Fortunately, this forest is not big, there are no ferocious beasts, it's still safe. Otherwise, maybe after falling asleep, she wouldn't have woken up again, and who knows how she would have died.