Dark clouds weigh down on the city, threatening to crush it.
This was no mere figure of speech; it was the direct experience of everyone guarding Luling at this moment.
Four Mountain Gazing Realm Great Demons had linked their auras together.
"Hehehe... Lü Qinghou, we meet again..."
The Jade-Faced Demon Venerable stood in the Void Realm, lightly fanning himself with a folding fan.
By his side,
three Mountain Gazing Great Demons looked down with fierce, indifferent eyes.
Lü Qinghou did not reply, simply holding his blade horizontally before his chest.
Three people stood behind him, split to his left and right.
Four against four.
It seemed like an even match.
However,
a smile curled at the corner of the Jade-Faced Demon Venerable's mouth.
"Strike."
The formation of the four Great Demons, which had been approaching in a fan shape, suddenly changed.
"Roar!!!"
The Rhinoceros Great Demon roared to the sky, its body swelling against the wind, instantly transforming into its hundred-zhang-tall true form.
With thick hide and tough flesh, its Demonic Qi surged to the heavens.
Disregarding everything, it lowered its head like a maddened bull and charged violently toward Lü Qinghou's group of four!
At the same time,
the Green Wolf Demon Venerable also manifested his true form, turning into a green hurricane that followed closely behind.
The Jade-Faced Demon Venerable snapped his folding fan shut. Fox tails behind him blotted out the sun as a sky-filling pink mist erupted, enveloping everything within several miles.
"Not good!"
The purple-robed old man's expression changed drastically. Thunderous light flared from his fists as he tried to blast away the charging rhinoceros.
But the Rhinoceros Great Demon's hide was thick and its flesh tough; it endured the baptism of lightning.
Even as its flesh was blasted open, it didn't retreat a single step. Instead, fueled by the pain, its ferocity exploded as it stubbornly pinned down the people in front of it.
The Jade-Faced Demon Venerable and Green Wolf Demon Venerable also fought desperately, adopting a style that completely traded life for life.
Three Mountain Gazing Great Demons recklessly held the four Human Race experts in place.
Even if it meant trading injury for injury, even if their limbs were severed,
they did not hesitate!
Screech—!!!
An eagle's cry, sharp enough to pierce metal and crack stone, exploded from the Nine Heavens above.
The Golden Eagle Demon Venerable, circling at the highest point, flapped its wings and transformed into a streak of brilliant golden light.
Bypassing the defensive line, it dove straight toward that deep canyon!
"Stop it!!!"
Lü Qinghou's eyes nearly split from rage. He slashed through the pink mist before him, intending to turn back and intercept.
But how could the Jade-Faced Demon Venerable give him that chance?
"Leaving? Have you asked this Venerable first!"
Nine fox tails swept out like steel whips, forcibly forcing Lü Qinghou back to his original position.
"Damn it!"
Gu Wanlan's sword light surged as she prepared to pursue with her sword.
"Roar!"
The Green Wolf Demon Venerable lunged forward, disregarding his own safety.
Since the goal was to help the Demon Saint break the seal, as long as three demons blocked them, one could slip through the chaos.
Of course,
the risk of doing this was also great.
Setting aside the immense pressure the three demons in front had to bear,
the one going to interfere would have to face the Lamp-Lighting Martial Saint alone... even if the Great Saint could break the seal.
No one could guarantee that the interfered-with Martial Saint wouldn't lash out in rage and swat them to death in passing.
But as long as the Demon Saint broke the seal,
all of this... would be worth it for them.
In just the blink of an eye,
the Golden Eagle Demon Venerable had already passed over everyone's heads, plunging straight into the depths of the canyon.
In the next moment,
a dull, massive boom erupted!
The Golden Eagle Demon Venerable, who had been charging toward the valley floor with unstoppable momentum, was actually blasted back by a majestic force hitting it from the side.
Its massive body flew backward uncontrollably.
Rumble.
Boulders tumbled and dust rose everywhere.
This sudden turn of events left everyone present stunned.
The surging air currents quickly dissipated.
A slender figure slowly descended from the sky.
Her black hair was like ink, dancing wildly amidst the chaotic aura.
Her robes billowed, snapping in the wind.
The young girl was expressionless, her eyes coldly staring at the several massive beings before her.
"Roar!!!"
The Green Wolf Demon Venerable was the first to snap out of it. Looking at the Golden Eagle being blown away, then at this Human Race girl who had appeared out of nowhere, his heart was filled with a mix of shock and fury.
"Who are you—"
Thump—!!!
Before he could finish his sentence,
a dull, heavy sound erupted from within the girl's body.
Two crystal-clear dragon horns pierced through the skin at her temples, pointing menacingly toward the sky.
Layer upon layer of fine scales emerged on her fair neck and the backs of her hands, shimmering with a cold light.
"Don't talk... I'm in a hurry."
Jiang Yuechu had no intention of wasting words.
Four Mountain Gazing Realms?
That was over two hundred thousand years of Dao Cultivation!
If she let Lü Qinghou and the others interfere and take a share, wouldn't that be a waste of God's gifts?
"Four Perils Manifestation."
The girl's red lips parted slightly, her voice cold and clear.
It vibrated through the valley.
"Desolate God Body."
Rumble—!!!
Behind the girl, the Void Realm distorted and suddenly dimmed.
An incredibly massive ink-wash scroll stretched across the heavens and earth.
Within the scroll, crimson and black mountains towered majestically.
A fierce tiger roared on a mountain peak, a lone wolf howled at the moon on a solitary crag, a Black Bear sat in meditation in an ancient cave, and a wild boar wallowed in a mud pit.
Four Perils Manifestation · Desolate God Body didn't just bring her an overall enhancement;
it was also a Divine Ability that could be actively deployed.
In the next instant,
four terrifying demonic shadows stepped out from the scroll and crashed into a superposition with the girl in black.
Jiang Yuechu took a step forward.
The Green Wolf Demon Venerable felt his vision blur.
The black-clad figure was already in front of him.
He instinctively swung a claw to block.
But he saw the girl turn her punch into a palm strike, creating a sky full of afterimages in that split second.
In a daze,
it was as if a striped tiger, holding a great blade, was slashing down with the power to split heaven and earth!
"Vicious Demon Charges Three Formations!"
Bang—!!!
The massive wolf head was forcibly slammed into the soil.
Having succeeded in one strike, Jiang Yuechu did not stop.
Her figure flickered, using the extreme speed of the Cloud Journey of Ten Thousand Li to turn into a golden line.
Wherever she passed, a nauseating stench of blood blew against the face.
"Blood Wind Sweeps Four Wilds!"
Puff puff puff—!!!
The Rhinoceros Great Demon screamed as blood erupted, dyeing half its body red.
The Jade-Faced Demon Venerable was pale with shock, violently waving his folding fan.
But in the next second,
Jiang Yuechu's figure came to a sudden halt.
Right there in mid-air, with nothing to push off of, she fell like a towering mountain.
The phantom of the Black Bear behind her roared to the sky, its palms joining together as it smashed down with ten thousand jun of force!
"Demon Lord Battles Six Directions!"
Boom—!!!
The Jade-Faced Demon Venerable felt a massive force strike him.
His whole body was like a falling meteor, smashing deep into the ground.
The earth shook violently, and dust blotted out the sky.
In just a few breaths,
the three Mountain Gazing Great Demons were all wounded.
Jiang Yuechu stood in mid-air, the Evil Qi around her almost condensing into a solid form.
She slowly raised her right hand.
The great desolation star-shattering halberd had appeared in her palm at some point.
Red light flowed over the halberd's body, as if an endless sea of blood was surging within it.
The Wild Boar dharma image behind her spat out a sky-filling miasma of foul earth, completely sealing off this part of the world.
"Blood Rain..."
The girl's eyelids drooped slightly as she swung the Great Halberd in an arc.
In this instant,
it was as if a torrential rain of blood began to fall between heaven and earth.
"Bathes the Eight Desolations—!!!"
Boom—!!!
The Great Halberd swept across.
A thousand-zhang-long crescent-shaped blood-colored halberd beam, carrying the might of the Four Perils, pushed forward!