Like a hot knife through butter!
The so-called First Demon Venerable, facing Lin Xuan and the other two joining forces, was simply like tofu before a blade. It could not be said that he had no power to resist whatsoever, but his appearance was wretched to the extreme.
The surrounding Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons stared with their tongues tied and eyes wide. They knew the Devil Rock City Lord's strength perfectly well—how could he suddenly have become useless to such a degree?
Had he grown weaker?
That was clearly impossible.
Then only one answer remained.
This intruder's strength was absurdly powerful!
Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons were all fond of battle, but what they valued was the strong bullying the weak. Now that they were fish and meat on the chopping block, with someone else holding the butcher's knife, they had no interest in throwing their lives away for nothing.
Eggs smashing against rocks—only fools would do that.
Thus, not only did no one come forward to help the Devil Rock City Lord, those Demon Venerables instead swept their gazes around, quietly searching for a path of escape.
When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter!
If Void Devil Lord learned that they had fled in the face of battle, he would merely punish them somewhat, while staying here meant a hundred percent chance of perishing. How to choose—how could these crafty Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons not know how to weigh the gains and losses?
So on the surface, Lin Xuan had plunged deep into the enemy's main headquarters, but in reality, the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons he faced were not many.
That said, his courage was indeed admirable.
And with Lin Xuan's abundant experience in magical combat, he naturally understood even more clearly what it meant when long nights bred many dreams.
Right now, his