What Exactly Happened?

If this had been a few breaths earlier,

had Lin Xuankong said this to Demon Son Gang Gu of the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect, Gang Gu—whose strength had already transformed, making him the supreme Demon Son of the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect—would certainly have dismissed it with contempt.

Yet after experiencing three attacks,

after having all three attacks miss completely,

after failing three times to discover how Lin Xuankong had dodged,

when Demon Son Gang Gu heard Lin Xuankong's words and saw his seemingly unstructured movements, its enormous vertical pupils narrowed into thin slits.

Moreover, before Lin Xuankong even formally made his move,

Demon Son Gang Gu of the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect had already begun frantically activating one defensive profound demonic art after another from the Xuan Yin Demonic Sect,

as well as nearly a thousand First and Second Grade demonic artifacts it had collected over this period!

For a time,

all manner of powerful demonic artifacts floated densely around Demon Son Gang Gu. Driven by the condensed demonic qi refined by Demon Son Gang Gu, every artifact expanded to a size of ten thousand zhang. A thousand artifacts encircled Demon Son Gang Gu so tightly that not even water could pass through. From afar, even Demon Son Gang Gu's body, over two hundred thousand zhang tall, was completely obscured. It looked as though a colossal mountain hundreds of thousands of zhang high, formed entirely of demonic artifacts, had been piled up where Demon Son Gang Gu stood!

Beyond that,

the Supreme Demonic Shield formed by the Supreme Demonic Body, the ten thousand demonic body phantoms formed by the Myriad Forms Demonic Art, the several thousand demonic banners tens of thousands of zhang tall formed by the Thousand Souls Demonic Art, and countless other defensive demonic arts accumulated by