The four demons fully revealed their true forms. Vast, surging Dharma Manifestation Realm demonic energy shot into the sky, and four formidable pressures layered atop one another, locking firmly onto Su Fei in the center of the courtyard.
The four Dharma Manifestation Realm demons, together with Yuan Songting, who stood nearby with the same cultivation and a vicious expression, made a full five Dharma Manifestation Realm combatants. They all stood against Su Fei, their murderous intent towering into the sky, determined to slay this lone chiliarch of the Demon Suppression Bureau on the spot.
An ordinary Dharma Manifestation Realm martial artist facing such a lineup would already have been overwhelmed by the overlapping pressures, his blood and qi roiling and his mind shattered. He might even have trembled on weakened legs, collapsing without a fight.
Yet surrounded by five Dharma Manifestation Realm experts, Su Fei remained where he stood throughout, straight as a pine, his expression calm, without the slightest panic or fear in his eyes.
He even raised his eyes slightly, calmly surveying the four hideous demons and the savage-faced Yuan Songting.
He seemed not to take these five Dharma Manifestation Realm enemies to heart at all.
The four demons exchanged glances, then made some sort of decision.
They seemed to disdain joining forces with Yuan Songting. In their eyes, this human elder who had betrayed his master and slaughtered his sect was merely a pawn to be used at will, utterly unworthy of fighting alongside them.
Ferocity flared in the snake demon's scarlet slit pupils. Its enormous body swung sharply, its dozens-of-meters-long coils sweeping along a skyful of purple poisonous miasma. Foul-smelling poison surged and churned as it opened its bloody maw, corrosive venom dripping from its fangs, and bore down on Su Fei to crush and bite