Cave Refuge

At that moment, a hunched old Fishman, waving a banner twice his height, caused eerie green fog to burst forth from the banner with each wave.

Meanwhile, several Fishmen were climbing ashore from the lake. As the bodies of these smaller Fishmen emerging from the water came into contact with the eerie green fog, their skin tinted green, and they matured into adults as if ripened.

Observing the situation across the lake, Dong Tianyu immediately understood why the air was constantly thick with eerie fog.

Now that he had found the source, Dong Tianyu immediately waved the Hundred Ghosts Banner in his hand, releasing all the Fierce Ghosts stationed within it.

As the Fierce Ghosts emerged from the Banner, they immediately pounced on the Fishmen who had just climbed out of the lake. Although the Fishmen frantically waved their weapons trying to disperse the Fierce Ghosts around them,

the weapons in the Fishmen's hands passed directly through the bodies of the Fierce Ghosts, causing them no harm whatsoever.

While the Fierce Ghosts from the Hundred Ghosts Banner dealt with the ordinary Fishmen in the lake, Dong Tianyu's Flying Swords immediately flew toward the Fishman Priest on the altar at Lake Heart Island, piercing through his chest before the priest could react.

However, even after suffering a piercing blow to the heart, and with his heart shattered, the Fishman Priest did not immediately collapse dead.

The moment his heart ruptured, the eerie green fog produced by the swinging of his banner suddenly gathered at his chest, filling the wound made by the Flying Sword.

Seeing this scenario, Dong Tianyu wasn't surprised; after all, being a boss on the Giant Ghost Ship, it would have been strange if Dong Tianyu could have killed him instantly.

Even though that attack didn't immediately kill him, it made Dong Tianyu realize that his opponent was still of mortal flesh, and his bodily defenses were not as robust as those cultivators who specialized in body refinement.

Since one attack didn't kill him, then a few more should do the job.

This time, Dong Tianyu targeted the head, reasoning that while the chest wound could be healed, he doubted decapitation would allow for survival.

Whether it's the immortal zombies or the zombies that can cause human mutations, decapitating them always results in a clean death.

But just as the Flying Sword severed the Fishman Priest's head from his neck, before the head could even hit the ground, the previously feeble body of the Fishman became significantly more agile.

With a quick reach of his hand, he caught his head as it slipped from his neck, placed it right back on, and then waved his banner.

An endless stream of eerie green fog emerged from the banner, wrapping quickly around the priest's neck just like before, and as the fog fully integrated into the wound and vanished, all that remained was a thin green line on the priest's neck.

Seeing this, Dong Tianyu decisively controlled the Flying Sword to attack the Fishman Priest again, this time not aiming to kill him outright but to sever all his limbs.

Dong Tianyu was curious to see how the Fishman Priest would swing his banner and create more fog without his limbs.

With consecutive thuds, before the Fishman Priest could react, the swift assaults of the Flying Swords rendered him limbless.

What Dong Tianyu did not expect was that even as the aged Fishman Priest was dismembered by the Flying Swords, his face showed no fear, only mumbling an unintelligible incantation.

As the Fishman Priest continued to chant, even though the banner he had been waving had fallen to the ground, the banner still continuously emitted fog.

The fog oozing from the banner gathered and compressed into a deep green rope that tied itself around the broken limbs, connecting the severed parts.

As the deep green ropes tightened, the previously severed limbs of the Fishman Priest miraculously reattached themselves.

Then, the Fishman Priest, who had lost his limbs, got up unharmed as if his limbs had never been severed, picked up the banner from the ground, and started waving it again.

Seeing this, Dong Tianyu did not relent; the Flying Swords sliced through the Fishman Priest's body again. But this time, Dong Tianyu didn't allow for any recovery using the eerie fog, instead directly controlling the Flying Swords to carry the banner away.

As the Flying Swords drew the banner closer to Dong Tianyu, a slight unease surged within him.

As the Flying Swords drew nearer, Dong Tianyu directly opened the Cave's spatial transmission channel, sending the banner into the Cave.

The banner, initially motionless, began to shake violently upon entering the Cave, prompting Dong Tianyu to let the Flying Swords drop the banner and open the transmission gate, allowing the Flying Swords to return to his side.