The Mantis Stalks the Cicada

||Dozens of Phantom Fire Crows. If a late Core Formation cultivator encountered them, there would be no chance of survival at all.

Although the Phantom Fire Crows were only fifth-level demonic beasts, they were exceptionally fierce demonic birds, with both defense and attack power. Within the Sky Flame Mountain Range, Fire attribute energy was already unimaginably abundant. Being here was like a fish returning to water for the Phantom Fire Crows.

Within the Sky Flame Mountain Range, even if cultivators did not fight anyone, their magical power would still be constantly drained as they resisted the scorching energy of the place. With one side waning as the other waxed, the situation was highly disadvantageous for cultivators.

Even if a late Core Formation cultivator used a secret technique, they could kill a dozen or so demonic birds, but against several dozen, they could only retreat far away.

Although Core Formation cultivators could unleash secret techniques with ease, every use required an extremely vast foundation of magical power. They could endure using them several times, but if they used them dozens of times in succession, even a Peak Core Formation cultivator would struggle to bear it.

If they forced themselves to continue, there was even a strong possibility that they would suffer backlash from their own secret techniques.

That was why, when Old Man Lin and the other cultivator first saw the Phantom Fire Crows, they immediately turned around and fled. The two of them knew that, faced with dozens of such demonic birds, they would struggle to retreat unscathed.

But there were now eight late Core Formation cultivators present. No matter how formidable the Phantom Fire Crows were, they could not possibly contend with eight late Core Formation cultivators.

As the eight late Core Formation cultivators brought out their various life-bound