The violent explosion kicked up a cloud of smoke. It was Aoko's first time encountering someone blowing apart one of her ninth-circle spells through brute force alone, and it truly caught her off guard.
However, a little thought made it understandable. Ye Nuo Hu was, after all, a demon lord and the god of gnolls. As a quasi-divine being, his divine rank, once converted, had already reached the level of a lesser deity. Naturally, he was stronger than the Frost Maiden Aoko had once faced, whose divine power had been depleted. Yun Feiyang had been fine when he heard nothing, but Zhou Chen's praise for Xu Zhi now felt like the greatest insult to him. Unwilling to accept defeat but hindered by his injured right hand, he could only laboriously pick up the Nine-Dragon Whip with his left hand and lash out fiercely at Xu Zhi again.
"The Alliance gave me a major piece of intelligence: they found Akatsuki's headquarters." Jiraiya said excitedly.
At this moment, Lü Jiansheng and the four Heavenly Eagle Guards were all drenched in sweat. None of the five held anything back; they were fighting with everything they had. In a battle to the death, how could they allow even the slightest mistake? One moment of carelessness, and they would be sent to the afterlife.
Zhang Hua had long guessed that Noble Consort Lu would refuse to die. He gave a signal, and two burly eunuchs immediately seized her from the front and back. Another took the white silk and slowly stepped forward.
They worshipped the Shinto auspicious deity Somin Shōrai, and during the five festivals and eight rites, pasted slips reading "Descendants of Somin Shōrai" on their doors to prevent evil gods from entering.
Before him was Jiang An's face, still wearing that eerie smile.