The elephant demon's reaction could only be called fairly quick. But to Lu Xiaotian, whose movements were far less hindered by the magnetic field now, it was still several beats too slow. Lu Xiaotian's body swayed aside, dodging the sweep of that thick, long trunk. His Fangtian Halberd shot forward like a meteor. With a sharp clang, its tip struck the elephant demon squarely between the brows. The demon's armor was astonishingly tough; even the halberd's tremendous force failed to leave so much as a mark.
Not only that, the elephant demon's burly body merely rocked slightly from Lu Xiaotian's blow, suffering little impact. Lu Xiaotian's strike had been no small matter. Even if the armor had stopped the Fangtian Halberd, the shock of that tremendous force had still landed solidly.
"What heavy blood-qi force. Had it been anyone but me, another member of the Demon Race might not have been able to withstand it," the elephant demon rumbled.
"You haven't withstood it yet." A strange smile flickered across Lu Xiaotian's lips. Several tiny golden dots, concealed on the tip of the Fangtian Halberd as it was about to recoil, suddenly flashed. More than a dozen golden threads burst from them. Several looped around the elephant demon's neck, while others had already drilled in through its eyes.
By the time Tai Shi and the other demons came to their senses and saw Lu Xiaotian displaying such might, they were about to rush to his aid. But one of the golden threads burrowing into the elephant demon's eyes had already made its way inside.
No matter how powerful the elephant demon was, its body was not cast from bronze or iron. The golden thread bored into Tai Shi's eye socket and twisted. The contents of Tai Shi's skull instantly became a