56: Art is an explosion, three realms of white shadows and demons.

The White Shadow Demon swarm moved extremely fast, reaching the outskirts of the deserted village within a dozen breaths, leaving withered vegetation in their wake.

Jiang Yan stepped out of the courtyard gate, his blood-red robe fluttering loudly, with a dozen Suppressing Talismans flying between his fingers.

The White Shadow Demon leading the charge seemed to let out a silent shriek, its form expanding and contracting suddenly as its withered claws lunged toward Jiang Yan.

"Suppress!"

The moment the Talisman left his hand, it actually spun itself into a golden wheel, with golden-red flames igniting along its edges.

The first Talisman instantly stuck to the White Shadow Demon's body, and the Talisman's light surged violently, its fiery red glow appearing ready to devour everything.

[White Shadow Ghost Demon suppressed. Gained Experience: 150, lifespan: 5 years]

[Current Experience: 27.89%]

[Suppress Evil LV1 (16/800)]

Seeing the notification pop up with only 150 experience and no dao intent plundered, he immediately knew he had only killed a small minion.

Jiang Yan retreated, launching dozens more Suppressing Talismans in succession. These Talismans didn't explode immediately; instead, they swum through the White Shadow Demon swarm like living creatures.

As Jiang Yan threw out another handful of Suppressing Talismans, a massive net of Talismans quickly manifested.

"Let's have some real art!"

As Jiang Yan's voice fell, one Talisman instantly ignited, followed by countless others catching fire one after another.

Boom!

Boom...

The continuous golden explosions were like a wildfire, illuminating the entire deserted village.

Those White Shadow Demons seemed to twist and twitch in mid-air, but in the next moment, they turned into gas. Once the White Shadow Demons completely vanished, only small white beans were left on the ground.

[White Shadow Ghost Demon suppressed. Gained Experience: 200, lifespan: 11 years]

[Current Experience: 28.59%]

[Plundered 0.1 dao intent from White Shadow Ghost Demon]

[Suppress Evil LV1 (97/800)]

[White Shadow Ghost Demon suppressed. Gained Experience: 150, lifespan: 4 years]

[Current Experience: 28.60%]

[Suppress Evil LV1 (103/800)]

...At this moment, countless windows popped up frantically, but only a few had plundered dao intent.

Seeing that he had finally plundered some dao intent, Jiang Yan felt quite happy, but he did not stop deploying his Talismans.

After launching another few dozen Suppressing Talismans, he flipped his left hand, and a black Talisman instantly appeared.

'Since I'm going down the path of art, I should sublimate the art a bit more.'

A smile played on the corner of Jiang Yan's mouth as the black Talisman flew out along with a dozen Suppressing Talismans.

"Art is Patrick Star!"

As Jiang Yan quickened his retreat, over a hundred White Shadow Demons ahead instantly began to gasify, followed by a massive golden light.

Boom!

An earth-shattering explosion occurred, like a missile plunging into the ground.

Meanwhile, in the mansion of a wealthy family on the west side of the deserted village.

The massive tremors and the sound of the explosion directly terrified the Qingyun Sect Disciples.

"Senior Brother Su, what happened outside?" Chen Tian asked.

"I don't know, but it must be a major battle," Su Litian guessed.

"Could it be caused by that Blood Cloud Sect Disciple?" Zhang Fenghua asked.

"Unlikely. This kind of explosive power is comparable to the Foundation Establishment Realm. That person only seemed to be around the eighth level of qi-blood; he definitely couldn't cause such explosive power," Su Litian said with certainty.

Judging by the sound of the explosion and the tremors in the ground, Su Litian would certainly not believe that such power could be achieved by a Blood Cloud Sect Disciple.

Furthermore, rumors said that Blood Cloud Sect Disciples excelled at sneak attacks and assassinations, but he had never heard of them having any Spells that exploded.

Even the rumored Blood Thunder Art only produced small explosions and focused on destroying the Divine Soul.

"Is it over?" Yang Yuhong asked in confusion.

"Don't be curious!" Su Litian said hurriedly.

Yang Yuhong nodded; he naturally understood what Senior Brother Su meant.

While everyone was waiting, Zhou Junxiao complained, "The Sect is also to blame; they just can't seem to train a few Talisman Masters."

Zhang Fenghua rolled her eyes at Zhou Junxiao and said in a disdainful tone, "You say that so easily. If you're so capable, why don't you draw them? I've practiced for three years, and my success rate isn't even twenty percent."

"Junior Sister Zhang, I wasn't talking about you. I was referring to those Senior Brothers and Sisters in the inner Sect," Zhou Junxiao explained hurriedly.

"Talisman Masters aren't that easy to train. In the entire Sect, there aren't even five Intermediate Talisman Masters," Su Litian said.

"That's not entirely true," Chen Tian seemed to remember something. "I heard my Revered Master mention Junior Martial Uncle Li Yi. His Talisman skills were top-tier back then; he supposedly suppressed a fifth-Realm evil spirit single-handedly."

"Really? Although he had his glory days, his cultivation now isn't even as high as my Revered Master's," Zhang Fenghua said.

"Junior Martial Uncle Li Yi was indeed powerful, but it wasn't as legendary as the rumors say," Yang Yuhong said.

Everyone nodded in agreement. In their view, Li Yi might have indeed been powerful once, but now he was just a Deacon of Spirit Beast Peak.

"Eh, it seems there's no more movement?" Zhou Junxiao said.

"Silence is only natural. The White Shadow Demons are vast in number; they can't be killed off completely," Chen Tian said.

"Let's wait for the Zi Hour. I heard that Second Realm Evil Spirits come out once it hits the Zi Hour, and those White Shadow Demons will gradually retreat," Su Litian reminded.

"Senior Brother, are you confident?" Zhang Fenghua asked.

Su Litian nodded in response, "It should be fine. After all, my Revered Master gave me ten Suppressing Talismans for protection."

Hearing that there were ten Suppressing Talismans, the eyes of Zhang Fenghua and the other three lit up.

In their eyes, that was a thousand Spirit Stones.

If given to them for Cultivation, it would be enough to break through a Realm.

East side of the deserted village.

At this moment, Jiang Yan was becoming a bit bored. He never expected that with one 'Patrick Star' dropped, these hundreds of White Shadow Demons would all be gone.

However, the pitifully small amount of experience made him somewhat speechless.

'I'll wait a bit longer. After all, Second Realm Evil Spirits will appear at the Zi Hour.'

Just as Jiang Yan was preparing to return to the farmhouse to rest for a while, a sudden cold wind blew, followed by a massive white shadow slowly moving toward him.

'Whoa, this big guy—could it be a BOSS?'

Although his words carried a hint of provocation, he didn't dare to be careless, because this White Shadow Demon was too large, comparable to a three-story small building.

The massive White Shadow Demon didn't move very fast, not at all the same speed as the smaller White Shadow Demons.

'What's the situation? Size increases, and movement speed decreases?'

Jiang Yan grumbled internally and simply went to meet the massive White Shadow Demon head-on.

When Jiang Yan was less than a hundred meters from the giant White Shadow Demon, its form suddenly elongated, pressing directly down toward Jiang Yan.

'Holy crap!'

Jiang Yan cursed inwardly, but the movements of his hands didn't stop.

With a sword-finger strike, four Suppressing Talismans instantly flew toward the giant White Shadow Demon.

The moment the Suppressing Talismans landed on the giant White Shadow Demon's body, four golden-red lights instantly exploded, bursting into a blinding golden glare.

Jiang Yan's figure retreated rapidly, and another four Suppressing Talismans were thrown out.

Each time a Suppressing Talisman exploded, the giant White Shadow Demon's form would shrink by a portion, which made Jiang Yan very curious.

Just as the explosion of the previous four Suppressing Talismans ended, the original White Shadow Demon had already returned to a normal size.

"Oh, trying to escape?!"

Jiang Yan noticed the White Shadow Demon was actually retreating, which made him feel like he had discovered a new world.

One must know that White Shadow Demons belong to the lowest tier of Evil Spirits, even on the same Rank as Vengeful Spirits; their instinctive way of survival is to devour life.

Such Evil Spirits were not supposed to develop intelligence at all, but now the thing in front of him had suddenly retreated—how could Jiang Yan not be curious?

Seeing the White Shadow Evil Spirit flee, Jiang Yan quickly rushed over, and with a flip of his right hand, a Talisman shimmering with green light suddenly fell into his hand.

"Swift!"

The green Talisman flew out, heading toward the White Shadow Evil Spirit.

The moment the green Talisman touched the White Shadow Evil Spirit, a blue barrier the size of a house directly enveloped it.

The White Shadow Evil Spirit frantically slammed against the barrier, but no matter how it struck, it couldn't break through the barrier before it.

"Interesting, it really did develop intelligence."

Jiang Yan felt that he should tell Li Yi about this, since it was Li Yi who told him that Evil Spirits below the Third Realm wouldn't have intelligence.

Watching the White Shadow Evil Spirit still slamming into the barrier, Jiang Yan felt a bit helpless because this thing couldn't be stored away; it could only serve as a Trapping Formation.

"Whatever, I'll clear it out. At any rate, I've got the evidence."

Jiang Yan took out a soul suppressing talisman and subsequently launched it into the barrier.

As the soul suppressing talisman exploded, the White Shadow Evil Spirit finally turned into gas.

[White Shadow Ghost Mara suppressed. Gained Experience: 11150, lifespan: 1718 years]

[Current Experience: 71.05%]

[Plundered White Shadow Ghost Mara Spell: Low-tier Siphon]

[Plundered 0.5 dao intent from White Shadow Ghost Mara]

[Suppress Evil LV2 (302/1000)]

'Whoa, this White Shadow Ghost Mara was a Third Realm evil spirit? It even dropped a Spell!'

'Wait, how did a Third Realm evil spirit come out? Could it be that something went wrong with the Formation Restrictions?'