The Situation Is Critical; The Decision Is Made

Just as Li Mufeng was feeling somewhat puzzled, he suddenly sensed something amiss ahead when he had already drawn close to the Demon Emperor Molong. He hurriedly halted his attack and stopped himself.

"Hehe! Fellow Daoist Li truly has some insight. You actually detected my concealment technique in advance!"

At that moment, a somewhat sinister laugh rang out. Immediately afterward, a streak of black arrow-light tore through the air from behind the Demon Emperor Molong's massive body, shooting straight toward Li Mufeng.

Seeing the black arrow-light suddenly flying at him, Li Mufeng steadied himself and immediately formed hand seals at high speed. With a flash of spiritual light before him, a three-inch golden jade bottle appeared out of thin air.

The instant the golden jade bottle appeared, it spewed forth a massive torrent of flames, forming a blue wall of fire before Li Mufeng in the blink of an eye.

The black arrow-light had reached Li Mufeng at that very moment. It slammed headlong into the blue fire wall, and bursts of sizzling sounds immediately rang out.

Though the black arrow-light was quite formidable, it failed to pierce the blue fire wall. It merely left behind a patch of black marks upon it.

"So it really was you, Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor!"

After blocking that strike, Li Mufeng finally saw the opponent who had hidden behind the Demon Emperor Molong and ambushed him. It was the other Nascent Soul-level powerhouse of the Demon Race in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range—the Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor.

The Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor's territory, Crimson Cloud Mountain, lay closer to Zheng State in the east. The demonic beasts there seldom invaded Wei State or dealt with Carefree Sect cultivators in ordinary times.

However, whenever a Demonic Beast Turmoil erupted, the major sects of the