Kuang's face turned dark, and he said in a low voice: "I hope Brother Zhao is not boasting. If not, this battle will likely be decided soon!"

  After saying this, the middle-aged man patted a deep yellow beast skin talisman on his body, activating a deep yellow protective light shield to protect himself. He said with some reluctance: "This is the Yellow Heaven Thick Earth Talisman, one of the strongest defensive talismans in the foundation-building period. The price is really not cheap, I'm only willing to use it because of the high-grade spirit stone."

  "Oh, this high-grade spiritual energy is so attractive to you?" Zhao Di also patted more than a dozen defensive talismans on his body, but they were all talismans of the Refining Qi stage. At the same time, he took out a semi-transparent blue high-grade water spirit stone and played with it casually.

  His move was intended to attract the other party's attention. Sure enough, after seeing the high-grade spirit stone, the other party could no longer pretend to be calm and revealed an extremely exaggerated greedy expression!

  With a "whoosh", Zhao Di's hand swept out, and a small silver-white sword broke through the air to stab at his opponent. The middle-aged cultivator reacted just as quickly, shaking both sleeves simultaneously, sending six red needle-like magical tools flying out to collide with the silver sword.

  "Fly Needle Technique!" Zhao Di was secretly shocked when he saw the opponent's ritual instrument, and at the same time manipulated the silver-white small sword, softly reciting: "Separate!"

  The silver sword was about to collide with the flying needle when it suddenly transformed into two small swords, one long and one short, dodging the flying needle and stabbing at the middle-aged cultivator from both sides.

  "Two Swords of Male and Female!" the middle-aged cultivator exclaimed in slight surprise, but his reaction was not slow. Each sect sent out two flying needles to attack each silver sword, while another two flying needles stabbed towards Zhao Di.

  Zhao Di was extremely wary of this swift and unstoppable flying needle technique, and he took out the Ice Fire Shield to defend himself.

  At this time, Gan Jiang and Mo Xie's twin swords had already collided with several flying needles, producing a clear "ding ding" metallic collision sound. These seemingly light flying needles actually knocked the two flying swords out of the way by more than ten feet!

  Zhao's eyes widened in shock, this flying needle was not only extremely fast, but its power was also not to be underestimated. If it were to hit him directly, his ordinary high-grade artifact and Qi Refining stage defense shield would not be able to withstand it.

  At this time, the middle-aged man's heart was also not calm. These few flying needles were his most treasured treasures and the most proud works of his life in refining countless instruments. This set of flying needles originally had thirteen, called Red Cloud Thirteen Needles, when used together, could form some arrays, exerting some powerful magical effects, with endless wonders. Unfortunately, his divine consciousness was limited, and he could only control six at most. If there were more, it would be chaotic and difficult to control freely. Even so, the power of these six red flying needles was extremely strong, and in top-grade magic instruments, they were very rare. Top-grade magic instruments with slightly inferior materials would be pierced by these flying needles a few times, heavily creating a large hole, lightly leaving some shallow marks. However, the opponent's two swords, which seemed to be made of blood-silver as the main material, did not fear the piercing attack of the flying needles at all, as if they had mixed in some precious materials.

  But when Zhao took out the Ice Fire Shield, the middle-aged man was even more shocked, his face changed greatly, and he couldn't help but shout: "Mid-grade spiritual artifact! It's actually a mid-grade spiritual artifact of the second rank!"

  So-called second-order medium-grade spiritual equipment refers to spiritual equipment that can inlay two medium-grade spiritual stones, consuming more spiritual stones, and its power is also stronger than ordinary medium-grade spiritual equipment.

  Although Zhao Di's changes were unpredictable, sometimes merging into one and sometimes separating to strike, he couldn't shake off the flying needle which had a faster speed and greater agility. Moreover, the material of this flying needle was extremely solid, and even when the silver sword chopped at it with full force, it still couldn't cut it off.

  His ice and fire shield, although not very agile, can emit a red and white, inner and outer two-layered circular light shield with a diameter of about ten feet, protecting his entire body, and the flying needle technique is temporarily unable to break through.

  After the first round of fighting, a stalemate was formed in which neither side could do anything about the other for a while.

  It's going to be a contest of spiritual power. Normally, the middle-aged man's cultivation should be higher than Zhao Di's, and his spiritual power should be more abundant. However, he is manipulating six flying needle artifacts, which consumes an enormous amount of spiritual power. On the other hand, Zhao Di only spends spiritual power on his male and female double swords, while the ice and fire shield only consumes the spiritual power of the spirit stone. Therefore, Zhao Di's consumption of spiritual power is less than his opponent's, and he also has high-grade spirit stones in hand, so no matter how you look at it, this situation is extremely unfavorable for the middle-aged cultivator.

  The middle-aged man apparently also saw this, and with a ruthless heart, he actually ignored the attacks of the male and female swords and stabbed six flying needles at the same time towards the protective light shield emitted by the Ice Fire Shield. He wanted to use the protection of the "Yellow Heaven Thick Earth Symbol" to turn defense into offense, break through the opponent's defense first, and kill the opponent.

  As expected, under the full-force attack of the six flying needle magic tools, the outer white defense light shield was violently shaking and on the verge of collapse at any moment. And the mid-grade ice spirit stone inlaid on the Ice Fire Shield was gradually consuming its spiritual power at a visible speed to the naked eye.

  Zhao Di was not in a hurry, but instead used his dual swords to attack the deep yellow light shield that Huang Tian Hou Tu had transformed into. Under the relentless chopping of the dual swords, the spiritual light of the light shield was also slowly dimming.

  Both sides were attacking with all their might, but the six flying needles seemed to have a slight advantage in terms of speed in breaking through the defense.

  The middle-aged cultivator was overjoyed at the sight, but just as he was about to make his move, Zhao Di suddenly stopped his dual sword attack and instead pulled out two precious items in succession.

  One was a silver mirror the size of several inches, emitting a faint blue light, and the other was a transparent bone bow that emitted a faint cold light all over its body. The bow holder also had an inlaid middle-grade ice attribute spirit stone!

  The other party actually has so many mid-grade ice attribute spirit stones! The middle-aged cultivator was so frustrated that he wanted to vomit blood! To think that the value of a mid-grade ice spirit stone is equivalent to twenty or thirty ordinary five-element attribute mid-grade spirit stones, and two mid-grade ice spirit stones are worth as much as the entire wealth of a cultivator who has been practicing for many years in the foundation-building period!

  What made him even more desperate was that the Bi Guang Silver Mirror in Zhao Di's hand was also an extremely rare auxiliary extreme treasure. At this moment, Zhao Di was manipulating the silver mirror, spewing out a beam of emerald green light as thick as a bowl. This beam swept across the three flying needles, and incredibly, it made the three flying needles lose control instantly, suspended in mid-air without moving!

  At this moment, Zhao Di was already holding a transparent bone bow. With one pull of the bowstring, a cold air instantly condensed on the bowstring, forming seven or eight ice cones that were over a foot long. Each ice cone had the power equivalent to an advanced cultivator in the Refining Qi stage who cultivated ice attribute techniques and released the "Ice Cone Technique" spell. With one pull and release from Zhao Di, seven or eight ice cones shot towards the middle-aged cultivator.

  If it were just seven or eight ice cones, the middle-aged cultivator's Yellow Heaven Thick Earth Talisman could naturally withstand them. However, Zhao Di was continuously drawing his bowstring, and over a foot long ice cones came wave after wave towards the middle-aged cultivator, instantly making his face turn pale with shock!

  Under the desperate urging of the middle-aged cultivator, the three flying needles that were locked by the green light column finally showed signs of loosening. However, at this time, the power of the Yellow Heaven Thick Earth Symbol was finally exhausted, and facing the surging ice cones, the middle-aged cultivator couldn't care about the flying needle artifact, and could only pour all his remaining spiritual energy into a wooden plaque-like artifact, forming a huge wooden shield to barely hold on. At this time, he had completely lost that calm expression of being in control of everything, and was instead filled with panic, loss, and extreme fear.

  "Zhao Shidi, I know I was wrong. I swear to my heart's demon that I will not speak of today's events. Please spare my life, Shidi! You have a natural talent for refining instruments, and I have spent many years studying it too. I can share all my unique techniques with you, just please let me go!" The middle-aged cultivator was about to run out of spiritual energy, but his opponent continued to attack relentlessly. At this point, he could no longer bear it and began to beg for mercy.

  Zhao Di didn't even bother to respond, and after continuously pulling the bowstring several times, he manipulated the Mo Ye double swords in mid-air to strike from the side, instantly cutting the unsuspecting middle-aged cultivator into several segments!

  "Only the dead can keep secrets!" Zhao Di put away all the magical instruments and said coldly.

  (Third update, thank you everyone! Fourth update will be released soon. Please collect this book!)