Almost at the same instant, aside from the thirty-odd Demon Race Dao Realm experts stationed around the outer perimeter of the encirclement, every other Dao Realm expert fixed their gaze on the point where the bloody beams from the Blood-Eyed Soul-Crying Beast's four eyes converged.
Even more critically, the point indicated by those four converging bloody beams was rapidly moving.
After the Blood-Eyed Soul-Crying Beast activated its Nether-Soul Seeking Secret Art, this directional effect could last for several breaths.
With a furious roar from Black Cloud Great Sage, both the Dao Realm experts hunting underground and the Great Sages and Dao Realm experts waiting above ground charged over at once.
Black Cloud Great Sage led more than ten trusted Dao Realm subordinates; Great Sage Juling led the ten Bear Clan Dao Realm experts he had brought; and Tu Che, the Fox Clan's Supreme Third Elder, also led six Fox Clan Dao Realm experts as they rushed forward.
Stone Monkey Great Sage and Blue-Eyed Great Sage were no exceptions either. Each brought out their utmost speed and charged ahead.
The Great Sages of the Bear Clan, Fox Clan, and Monkey Clan in particular spared no effort. Their eagerness to be first was no less than that of Black Cloud Great Sage and his men.
The reason was simple. Though they had reached a verbal agreement earlier—
Ye Zhen would go to Black Cloud Great Sage, Zhu Hong and Sun Ba to Stone Monkey Great Sage, and Hu Qingtong to the Fox Clan—the problem was that such a verbal agreement carried little binding force to begin with.
Great Sage Juling had especially been holding back his anger over the ownership of Hu Qingtong and Ye Zhen.
He could give Ye Zhen to Black Cloud Great Sage, but if he had a chance