Tang San's objective was simple. Relying on the mushroom sausages granting the ability to fly swiftly, this allowed everyone to pass through the poison fog area. By killing and wounding the 'Pink Maidens' outside, the passive situation could then be solved.
In half an hour, Oscar had almost used up his entire spirit energy, and finished producing twelve flying mushroom sausages. After a short rest, everyone immediately launched the operation.
Eating the mushroom sausage, everyone first flew into the air. To prevent anyone entering the poison fog region due to their inconsistent flying speeds, Tang San released his blue silver grass, twining around everyone's waist respectively, using the length of blue silver grass to control the distance between everyone and him. Rapidly mobilising and establishing a direction, they swiftly flew towards it.
While it wasn't impossible to travel along the ground's surface as the speed of Pink Maidens wasn't considered too fast, but one would get obstructed by the trees when travelling just above the ground. After all, their vision wasn't clear. Even with Tang San's guidance, the eleven-man team couldn't achieve a consistent speed. Right now the poison fog was even stronger than just now, Tang San absolutely didn't wish for anyone to accidentally breathe in the poison fog and cause unnecessary trouble.
Even for him, it was extremely troublesome to get rid of this type of stimulating poison gas.
Following the increase in Oscar's strength, not only did the flying mushroom sausages' speed somewhat increase, the duration it lasted also increased by about ten seconds or so. Although compared to it before that it wasn't considered very long, this amount of time was sufficient to allow them to fly out of the poison fog region.
The pink poison fog got split apart by the Aromatic Silk Beauty Immortal Treasure's smell, heavily rolling past their two sides. When the mushroom sausages' flying effect is was roughly used up by half, everyone's vision suddenly cleared up. Having rushed out of the poison fog's encirclement, the surrounding scenery became clear instantly.
Liu Erlong let out a strong howl. Swaying her waist and breaking off the blue silver grass on it, her body descended towards the ground like a meteor. Before she landed, large flames had already rushed forth. A shrill scream suddenly came from below.
Everyone looked downwards, just in time to see the dense amount of spirit beasts below their feet. The true appearance of the Pink Maiden appeared in front of them.
Just like what Grandmaster had described, each of them looked like a crystal clear pink scorpion, as if it was formed by carving a pink crystal. Each of them was about two chi in body length, moving about on the ground, their bodies continuously emitting a faint pink gas that coagulated towards their front.
Due to last night's incident Liu Erlong's mood was already bad, again getting stranded by the poison fog for half a day, right now she couldn't tolerate any longer after getting out of the poison zone. Although she wasn't as reckless as last night when she used the Scarlet Dragon Avatar, but right now just like a flaming demon king rushed towards the group of poisonous scorpions. That was a one-sided massacre. With just the first wave of flames, at least ten Pink Maiden bodies got melted.
"Let us go down too."
Fearing that Liu Erlong may have some mishap, Flender nodded towards Tang San.
Tang San withdrew the blue silver grass, and everyone controlling their own flying ability, descended from the sky.
"Don't overkill."
Grandmaster shouted. He wasn't only speaking to the Shrek Seven Devils, but more importantly towards Liu Erlong.
Liu Erlong kicked a Pink Maiden beside her into the air, turned around and looked at Grandmaster. Coldly letting out a snort, her speed increased again. On the surface, although she didn't seem to agree with him, in reality she still highly respected Grandmaster's opinions. In the end, these pitiful scorpions that flew into the air were able to live to see another day.
Dai Mubai whispered in Flender's ear:
"Dean, didn't you say this time round we are to handle the spirit beasts ourselves? Look, teacher Erlong she…"
Flender helplessly replied: "Women with hormones that are out of tune cannot be judged using common sense. Xiao Gang, why not let us leave this area, since we aren't going to make these Pink Maidens suffer, and dealing with them is after all somewhat troublesome."
Contrary to Flender's expectations, Grandmaster shook his head and said:
"No hurry, let's wait a while more."
At this moment, a piercing animal cry came from the poison fog region. Immediately, a pink shadow leapt out from within the poison fog with a whooshing sound, opening its mouth and spraying a thick fog towards Liu Erlong.
Liu Erlong was momentarily surprised. Smacking both palms towards her front, her body instantly sprang backwards, however she cannot help but sniff a trace of the poison fog. Luckily, there was the miasma pill given by Tang San beforehand, giving her a certain resistance to the poison fog. With the addition of her solid cultivation, a small amount of poison fog was unable to cause her harm easily.
"Erlong, come back. Little San, all of you go, don't kill it. Leave it breathing."
Grandmaster calmly gave out the commands to attack.
Coming out from the forest was an enormous Pink Maiden. Its size wasn't too different from yesterday's Giant Earth King that was abused by Liu Erlong. Not only was the pink colour on its body much deeper, its entire body was covered by a fine layer of scales. On its head, six tiny eyes that are dark red in colour glinted a faint cold light.
Liu Erlong's sudden retreat avoided the poison fog it sprayed, making it angrier. Lashing its scorpion tail on the ground, it chased towards Liu Erlong.
That's right, this was a Pink Queen. From the outer appearance, Grandmaster could determine that this Pink Queen's cultivation was approximately between three thousand five hundred years and four thousand years.
"Third brother, assist me."
Ma Hongjun let out a shout, a phoenix cry ringing out from his body. This sound wasn't made by his mouth, but produced by the rising flames on his body themselves. Blazing hot flames that were gold-red in colour instantly spread over his entire body, the third spirit ring on his body scattering a purple light. In a moment, a pair of enormous flaming wings instantly spread out from Fatty's back.
Wings spanning over four meters, although that somewhat didn't fit with Fatty's chubby body, the blazing hot air current made the Shrek Seven Devils swiftly retreat a couple steps, increasing their distance.
Everybody had been cooperating for such a long time, of course Tang San understood Ma Hongjun's intentions. He wanted to try out the newly acquired spirit technique.
"Go."
Tang San only gave him a simple instruction. Lifting his right hand, a green ball of light was thrown out.
The flaming wings on Ma Hongjun's back suddenly flapped. Once again flying up with a gorgeous flaming tail, he chased after the green ball of light that was flying towards the Pink Queen, just like a raging meteor.
This was Ma Hongjun's third spirit technique, Phoenix Ascension.
Relying on this spirit technique, he was able to temporarily have the ability to fly. During the process of flying, spirit energy would be drained continuously. At the same time, this technique would ignite his second spirit technique, Bathing Fire Phoenix. Combining the two spirit techniques into one, the attack power of his flames was temporarily increased by one hundred percent, and the attack range was increased by fifty percent.
Starting from the third spirit technique, Ma Hongjun's powerful Phoenix battle spirit started to show the strength beyond ordinary battle spirits. With the help of Tang San in removing his variant spirit's evil fire restriction, this allowed him to release his spirit technique without second thoughts.
The six tiny eyes on Pink Queen's head immediately revealed a horrified expression.
Not even Liu Erlong's flames earlier gave this sort of feeling. At the same time, an intense anger was also contained within that fear. This was because she has already clearly sensed the presence belonging to the Giant Earth King from Ma Hongjun's body.
The reason why it felt horrified was naturally due to the flames on Ma Hongjun's body, poisonous insect-type spirit beasts just like it were all afraid of fire, but after all, the Pink Queen did have nearly four thousand years of cultivation, it wouldn't be bothered by ordinary flames.
However, the phoenix flames on Ma Hongjun's body was the nemesis of all poisonous insects. And the phoenix was the king of ten thousand birds, the suppression from its presence had already made the Pink Queen confused.
The green light spread out in a flash, the enormous spider web not even giving the Pink Queen the chance to dodge. That was how exquisite Tang San's technique was. The effect of Spider Web Restraint was instantly shown.
In a puff, Pink Queen's huge body was bound securely by the spider web. At this moment, it was already not fearful, but completely terrified. The spider web's presence belonged to its natural enemy, the Man Faced Demon Spider, causing its entire body to become limp. Powerful toxins entered it body, instantly causing its defensive power to greatly decrease, and at this moment, Ma Hongjun dove down, landing in front of it with a bang.
His flames suddenly dimmed. Everyone clearly saw the flaming wings on Ma Hongjun's back spread out towards the sky as he landed onto the ground, his right fist heavily smashing the ground. In that instant, the air became violently distorted. A cage of light that was five meters in diameter enveloped the bodies of Pink Queen and him.
The Pink Queen who was desperately struggling in the Spider Web Restraint became stiff in that distorted air, completely losing the ability to move. Following up, Fatty roared,
"Fourth spirit technique, Phoenix Cry Sky Strike."
Boom—, a powerful phoenix blaze exploded in an instant. A loud and clear phoenix cry pierced the heavens, containing a majestic strength.
A strong and heavy phoenix-shaped blaze spewed out from below the ground, soaring into the sky while bringing along Ma Hongjun.
The area that was enveloped in that distorted air just now was now completely covered in flames. The fiery phoenix directly rushed ten or so meters into the sky, spreading out its wings in mid-air, surprisingly it looked just like a phoenix descending on the world.
The Shrek Seven Devils who saw this beautiful sight couldn't help but be somewhat dumbfounded. Although they all knew the effect of the fourth spirit technique was considerably good, but they all didn't imagine Ma Hongjun's strength would be that powerful to such an extent.
Although Fatty's flames were strong before gaining the Giant Earth King's spirit ring, he didn't have any effective means to attack. While Phoenix Fire Wire's power wasn't bad under the empowerment of Bathing Fire Phoenix, but at best it was only able to contend against spirit masters of the same rank, moreover there was only one method of attack.