"Good! You've come!" The Brocade-Robed Demon Lord laughed heartily. With a wave of his hand, dreamlike halos of Law power poured forth.
High above, a gigantic phantom face absorbed those halos of Law power. It suddenly became solid, taking shape from the head downward until a massive demon body stood revealed!
The giant demon stood a thousand zhang tall, its entire body pitch-black. It dragged a black greatsword hundreds of zhang long, and every moment, waves of fear rolled off it.
The Four Symbols beast phantoms had been charging fiercely, but within ten li of the giant demon, they grew timid and hesitant, unable to advance.
High in the sky, Gu Lingshuang had lost the protection of Lu Yang's saber intent. Now she, too, felt terror welling up from the depths of her heart.
Her whole body trembled, sweat soaked her clothes, and her legs turned weak. Her movements grew sluggish, and even the gestures she used to sustain her spell became distorted.
Fear was one of the most instinctive emotions of any living being with self-awareness.
Once stirred, this emotion could make even the mightiest beings timid as mice, shrinking back from a fight. Their combat strength would fall to less than a tenth, leaving them like fish on their opponent's chopping block.
"Roar! Roar!"
The giant demon—or rather, the Fear Demon—let out a roar, and within several hundred li, the earth shook and the mountains trembled.
Its several-hundred-zhang demonic blade swept through the air, unleashing three saber auras that stretched seven or eight hundred li into the heavens.
The defensive formation inside Five Serenity Palace was cleaved apart by a single strike from the Fear Demon. Halls collapsed, roads crumbled, and the entire East Mountain Island was sliced into four pieces!
On the frozen lake outside the island,