At that moment, the scorpion demon Nie Zhan felt his entire tail go numb. He couldn't suppress a pained groan. Aoo—! A long howl, neither beast nor demon, burst from the giant halberd's phantom image. It was a monster formed from the fused Primordial Spirits of three demon beasts: a scorpion tail, ape legs, and eagle wings. Its howl was neither ape nor eagle, neither scorpion nor anything else.
Yet it brimmed with an overwhelming, domineering aura that seemed to look down on all creation.
The three fused demon-beast spirits had all been at the Spirit Transformation stage, so Lu Xiaotian hadn't drawn on his reserves from the Void Refinement Realm. Stirred by the power of his blood-qi, the monster's two massive ape legs clamped viciously around the scorpion tail of the scorpion demon Nie Zhan. Nie Zhan had just clashed head-on with Lu Xiaotian and hadn't recovered yet. How could he withstand the monster's attack? As it seized his tail, he felt as though it was about to snap.
"Brother Nie Zhan, I'll help you!" Nie Zhan had just taken a great deal of pressure off Taishi, so Taishi couldn't simply watch him suffer a heavy loss. Realizing that fancy moves were useless, Taishi followed Lu Xiaotian's example and swung his mixed-gold lion-headed staff straight down at him.
"If you want to gang up on one, you'll have to get my permission first!" Ye Ziyu cried. Her body flickered in midair, merging with the Misty Sword Embryo. A nimble, ethereal aura rippled outward.
The Sword Embryo shuddered, then shot forward like lightning. In the blink of an eye, it had clashed several times with Taishi's mixed-gold lion-headed staff. The fierce impacts sent the surrounding magnetic field surging and shuddering.
Ye Ziyu gave it everything she had. Though she had