At the entrance to the great hall,
facing Demon Son Gang Gu's question,
the once-mighty Thirty-Six Tribulation Demon Lord, who had lorded over the Western Region, revealed a trace of shame on his face.
After weighing his words, he clasped all thirty-six hands together and said,
"Reporting to Your Highness, Holy Son,
according to Your Highness's arrangements, the three Holy Lords Tianfa Disha Feng Huolin held back the three Holy Lords rushing to the Western Region—Daoist Qianyuan, Daoist Kunyuan, and Luoshui Immortal Lord. I led nearly twenty thousand holy soldiers and more than eighty Ninth Grade Sacred Artifact Demon Generals straight at the Crane Immortal Sect. This plan had been seamless; Mu Shiba should have been as easy to seize as reaching into a bag.
It was only... only that this subordinate had not expected Mu Shiba, who was merely at the Third Grade and had only recently risen in the Western Region of the Central Divine Dynasty, not only to possess astonishing artifact-refining methods, but also attainments in array formation nearly on par with Luoshui Immortal Lord.
During the battle, Mu Shiba used a total of 3600 First Grade Immortal Artifacts, 36 Third-Grade Immortal Artifacts, and 36 Fourth-Grade Immortal Artifacts to lay down layer upon layer of Nine-layered Thousand Crane Arrays. He summoned special array spirits that were exceedingly strange and far stronger than the array spirits of ordinary ninth-layer arrays!
Caught off guard, the nearly twenty thousand holy soldiers this subordinate brought were all annihilated. Of the more than eighty Ninth Grade Sacred Artifact Demon Generals, nearly sixty were lost as well! This subordinate had intended to fight to the death, but unfortunately, I was injured by the array spirit of a grand array Mu Shiba laid using Fourth-Grade Immortal Artifacts. I now have no choice but to