Yang Che’s Black Feather Cape on his back flashed with a faint light, and he rapidly dodged the strange black banner’s shroud.

He glanced at mid-air.

The red and black torrents collided, and the buzzing, ear-piercing sound permeated the sky, making his scalp tingle.

Yang Che’s Divine Sense swept out, discovering that the black torrent consisted of over three thousand Black Armor Python Scale Insects.

These insects were entirely black, without a trace of Noise, and had a slender horn on top of their heads.

Their backs were covered with hard shells resembling python scales; the darker the shell, the harder it was, which was astonishing.

These insects ranked thirty-third on the “Strange Birds, Strange Beasts, Strange Insects” list precisely because of the hardness of their shells.

Through his mental connection with the Winged Fire Dragonfly, Yang Che soon discovered that the hard shells of these Black Armor Python Scale Insects were comparable to Nascent Soul-grade Magic Treasures.

The Winged Fire Dragonfly, after further evolution, already possessed cutting and gnawing abilities that could threaten Nascent Soul cultivators, but facing these Black Armor Python Scale Insects, it encountered a formidable opponent and was stuck in a stalemate.

This scene also caused the Sixteenth Mistress’s face to show surprise and disbelief.

It seemed she only then realized that the flying insects Yang Che released were not ordinary Winged Fire Dragonflies.

The Sixteenth Mistress’s expression grew even more somber.

She snorted coldly and formed a hand seal.

A strange black light instantly struck the peculiar large banner shrouded in black Qi.

The black banner flapped noisily, growing larger and larger.

Soon, like a massive curtain, it instantly enveloped the area in ‘darkness’.

Immediately after, countless hideous ghost heads surged from within the black banner, pouring down like rain, directly submerging Yang Che.

Yang Che had already activated ‘Dark Domain’.

Within a dozen zhang radius around him, any ghost heads that entered the Dark Domain immediately became sluggish.

Yang Che continuously cast Thundercloud Art.

Before long, dozens of massive thunderclouds directly enveloped these ghost heads.

As thunder boomed and exploded, these ghost heads dissipated one after another, turning into black smoke and then scattering completely.

At the same time, Yang Che controlled Sword Four, rapidly thrusting it towards the Sixteenth Mistress’s glabella.

The Sixteenth Mistress waved her hand, and hundreds of Black Armor Python Scale Insects immediately flew to her front, forming a black ‘insect shield’.

Sword Four struck this black insect shield with loud clangs and hisses, scattering countless sparks.

Sword Four returned without success.

At this moment, the Sixteenth Mistress’s eyes showed shock, and she thought to herself, “This person is indeed a Dark Thunder Mutated Dual Immortal Root, truly unbelievable. It’s a pity I’m in this ruin and can’t send a message to the Family.”

Yang Che naturally did not know the Sixteenth Mistress’s thoughts; seeing that Sword Four could not break through the black armored insects’ defense, he simply waved his hand and recalled Sword Four.

At the same time, based on the Spells and Magic Treasures the Sixteenth Mistress used, and associating them with the Su Family of Dark Abyss City, he immediately deduced that the Wan Family of Wanxing City was most likely also one of the Ancient Demon Descendants.

And the Sha Family of Sand Sea City, which was Sha Rou’s Family, was an Ancient God Descendant.

With both Ancient Cultivator Descendants and Ancient Demon Descendants present, Yang Che wondered if this Ancient Remnant Sand Sea might also have Ancient God Descendants?

Or even Ancient Demon Cultivator clans, descendants of the Ancient Demon clan?

However, at this moment, it was clearly not the time for deep contemplation.

These conjectures merely flashed through his mind, and Yang Che quickly conjured ‘Flying Stealth’ to shoot towards the Sixteenth Mistress again.

The Sixteenth Mistress was also not idle; she controlled the black banner to spew out countless black mists, which transformed into countless arrows shooting towards Yang Che.

Seeing these black mists, Yang Che’s eyes immediately narrowed, and he thought of the rather peculiar wooden fish Magic Treasure.

Thus, he manipulated ‘Flying Stealth’ to intentionally appear as if it was hit by the black mist, directly scattering to the ground and quietly burrowing underground.

Then, after conjuring a large number of Lightning Chain Thunder Spears and throwing them towards these black mist arrows, Yang Che’s mind stirred, and he quickly recalled all the Winged Fire Dragonflies into the Void Illusion Magic Stone Space.

This strange action of his made the Sixteenth Mistress highly vigilant.

Although she had previously shown contempt, seemingly not putting Yang Che, a mere Golden Core Stage Cultivator, in her eyes, after Yang Che repeatedly surprised her, she quickly shed her disdain and became extremely vigilant and cautious.

After Yang Che recalled the Winged Fire Dragonfly, he immediately took out the wooden fish Magic Treasure and threw it into the swarm of Black Armor Python Scale Insects.

Then, the wooden fish’s mouth continuously spewed out a large amount of alien poison, which quickly permeated the black insect cloud formed by the Black Armor Python Scale Insects.

This was the ingenious move Yang Che suddenly thought of after seeing the black banner spew out countless black mists.

Since the Winged Fire Dragonfly was in a stalemate with them, he would try using the alien poison from the Five Emotions Hall to see if it would be effective.

At this moment, the black mist spewed by the Sixteenth Mistress’s black banner had also been completely annihilated by Yang Che’s Lightning Chain Thunder Spears.

The Sixteenth Mistress increasingly realized that she had underestimated the young man before her.

She gradually even became a little irritated.

As a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator, if she were outside this ruin, without the suppression of this Formation Restriction, it would be incredibly easy for her to eliminate this young man.

But precisely because of the strange suppression Formation here, she could only exert the cultivation strength of the Golden Core Great Perfection.

Moreover, the Sixteenth Mistress was eager to enter the Contemplation Palace and had no intention of spending much time and effort here.

That’s why she immediately released the incredibly precious Black Armor Python Scale Insects, wanting to crush the opponent with overwhelming force.

As a result, she had been unable to defeat a mere Golden Core Cultivator for a long time, and the Sixteenth Mistress inevitably became a bit impatient.

Realizing this, the Sixteenth Mistress gradually calmed herself down again.

Then, she lightly patted her Storage Pouch and took out a black ‘Advanced High-grade’ spirit talisman.

However, before she could activate the spirit talisman, her pupils suddenly constricted, and she looked towards mid-air in disbelief.

Large swathes of Black Armor Python Scale Insects actually began to fall to the ground.

Soon, a thick layer of black armored insect corpses piled up on the ground.

“How is this possible?”

The Sixteenth Mistress was stunned.

But Yang Che was overjoyed.

He hadn’t expected that he would accidentally hit the mark, using this strange alien poison, which happened to strike the Black Armor Python Scale Insects’ vital point, achieving success in one fell swoop.

Seeing that things were going wrong, the Sixteenth Mistress, with a pained expression, quickly recalled these black armored insects, her heart filled with resentment and hatred towards Yang Che.

She decided to hold nothing back and immediately activated the Wan Family’s secret Spell.

Her hands immediately formed a strange hand seal, and as black light flashed, an incredibly massive ‘Skeleton Demonic Human’ appeared behind the Sixteenth Mistress.

This Skeleton Demonic Human was truly enormous, fifty zhang tall.

And it had eight arms, each holding a black long spear.

The Skeleton Demonic Human’s eyes were indifferent, exuding an extremely powerful aura of death.

As soon as it appeared, it swung its eight arms.

One of the long spears suddenly transformed into a pitch-black stream of light, shooting directly towards Yang Che’s glabella.

Its speed was so fast that Yang Che felt a chill in his heart.

If not for the ancient treasure black feather cape on his back and the pseudo-Ancient Treasure Flash Cloud Boots on his feet, Yang Che might not have been able to dodge it.

The situation suddenly became extremely passive.

A ruthless look flashed in Yang Che’s eyes.

He recalled the wooden fish Magic Treasure and directly took out the purple gold gourd to drink a mouthful of heaven soul wine.

Then he took out the green gourd containing hundreds of Sky Thunder Pearls.

After his internal magical power instantly became abundant, Yang Che immediately controlled Flying Stealth to form the Tai Xuan Hidden Light Formation, sealing off the Sixteenth Mistress.

After sensing it for a moment, the Sixteenth Mistress showed no fear on her face; she formed a hand seal, and the ‘Skeleton Demonic Human’ behind her swung its arm again.

The black spear immediately stabbed towards the Tai Xuan Hidden Light Formation.

Yang Che, at this moment, already held the green gourd in his hand, and his figure flickered; the black Ancient Treasure cape flashed with light, and he appeared before the Sixteenth Mistress.

The Sixteenth Mistress was once again astonished by Yang Che’s speed and continued to control the Skeleton Demonic Human to fiercely swing its arm and stab at Yang Che.

However, at this moment, Flying Stealth had already shrunk drastically, and countless intertwined transparent threads firmly bound the Skeleton Demonic Human’s arm.

As the Sixteenth Mistress was surprised and puzzled, she was about to activate the Advanced High-grade spirit talisman in her hand, when she suddenly saw Yang Che raise the green gourd in his hand, continuously spewing out black beads; within a few breaths, nearly a hundred black beads floated around her.

“Sky Thunder Pearls?”

The Sixteenth Mistress was so shocked she nearly bit her tongue.

Because she sensed the terrifying power contained within these Sky Thunder Pearls, she immediately had a bad premonition; her Nascent Soul immediately escaped, wanting to cast instant movement and powerful Spells that could only be used when the Nascent Soul left the body.

However, at this moment, Yang Che suddenly stabbed fiercely with the ‘Qian Yuan Thorn’ that had appeared in his hand at some unknown point.

The strange tearing force made it impossible for the Sixteenth Mistress to teleport.

Immediately after, with earth-shattering roars, hundreds of extremely powerful Sky Thunder Pearls immediately exploded.

The Sixteenth Mistress’s astonished and bewildered eyes had just appeared when her entire being, along with her Nascent Soul, was blasted into ashes.

Her Storage Pouch fell to the ground.

Then, dense swarms of Black Armor Python Scale Insects flew out from the shattered spirit beast bag, some bewildered, and rapidly flew away into the distance.