Yellow Springs Belt. Half an hour earlier.
Blackscale Queen held the Black Merman King Pearl in her hands, parting the Yellow Springs Water. The currents on both sides rose like walls of waves, restrained by an invisible force controlling the water.
Dongbo Cheng Zhi's swordsmanship was formless and ethereal, elegant beyond compare. Like a dragonfly skimming the water, he struck the vital points of one demon after another, killing them instantly.
Bei Ming Ji Hu's greatsword swept wide and powerfully. Every slash carried solemn, unyielding principles, like an incomparably heavy mountain! No demon could withstand even a single exchange with him. Even if one barely managed to parry and block, its guard would be shattered the next moment, sending it flying away while coughing blood.
Yellow Springs Belt was the habitat of the Yellow Springs Demon Frogs. The demon general guarding this place—White Marsh of the Demon Frogs—had long since been severely wounded. He had hidden within the Yellow Springs Pillar Core and sealed himself away.
When the first wave of demon reinforcements—Shadow Scythe and Netherflame—arrived with their forces, they could only barely hold their own against Dongbo Cheng Zhi and Bei Ming Ji Hu.
That was putting it nicely.
Put bluntly, they were being chased down and slaughtered like dogs.
Dongbo Cheng Zhi and Bei Ming Ji Hu were simply among the top three experts of the Guardian Faction. Each of them could fight two or three demon generals alone without falling behind.
Dongbo Cheng Zhi had originally been slightly inferior, but after obtaining White Dragon Tooth, his realm improved drastically. He had already touched the threshold of Myriad Phenomena and could nearly stand shoulder to shoulder with Bei Ming Ji Hu.
If there was anything he still lacked, it was probably the body Bei Ming Ji Hu had