Of the four, Ye Ziyu was slightly weaker and stayed at the rear of the group. From time to time, she summoned her sword embryo to help Lu Xiaotian and the others fend off the frenzied attacks of the wooden-horned bull demons. But Lu Xiaotian noticed that every time they killed one, Ye Ziyu found a way to extract a crystal-clear, egg-sized green bead from its body.
These wooden-horned bull demons were not difficult to drive back, but they were extremely hard to kill. Lu Xiaotian, Mo Yuyan, and Shu Tiance were all formidable even among Spirit Transformation cultivators, yet after a long, fierce battle, they had only managed to kill four or five. Even the spirit fire controlled by Little Fire Crow, though it had scorched the wooden armor covering many of the demons black, had done little real damage. The bull demons seemed to care a great deal about their appearance. Having their armor burned black made them even more furious than being wounded. Once enraged, they charged with even greater force than before. Lu Xiaotian hurriedly recalled the disgruntled Little Fire Crow. It seemed its spirit fire was not invincible after all.
In the midst of the chaos, Lu Xiaotian had only managed to capture the Primordial Spirits of two wooden-horned bull demons. After all, the group was retreating as they fought, and the demon herd's charges were so powerful that they left him little time.
These wooden-horned bull demons also had astonishing powers of recovery. Not long after they were wounded, their injuries would slowly heal. Even Lu Xiaotian, a body cultivator at the Spirit Transformation stage, found it a sight to behold.
The group fought as they retreated, until they reached a dense forest of towering trees and took up a position on a slope.