The old woman with the phoenix-headed staff shook her head, trying to fling that trace of fear from her mind. Yet her dread of Lu Xiaotian had already begun taking root in her heart like a seed. No matter how hard she tried, she could not dispel the shadow that had appeared out of nowhere.
However, after glancing at the companions around her and at the Fire Wolf Demon Jie Du and his group in the lead, the old woman with the phoenix-headed staff felt somewhat reassured. That wild boar demon was merely an ordinary Demon Race member of the Divine Void Realm and was nothing to worry about. As for this unfathomably mysterious human cultivator—even if he was powerful, how could he stand against the combined forces of their two groups, totaling twenty-one Divine Void Realm experts?
Lu Xiaotian was calculating how to lure this human and Fire Wolf Race contingent deeper into the Ghostsack Forest, use the forest's attacks, then launch a sneak attack from the side and wipe out both groups. Unexpectedly, a strange disturbance suddenly arose within the Ghostsack Forest. A bizarre roar rang out from the woods, neither human nor beast, yet ferocious to the extreme. Even Lu Xiaotian felt his heart tremble.
Amid the stretches of Ghostsack Forest floating in the dark void, ghostly aura began to roil. The aura had congealed almost solidly, making it impossible to see through with the naked eye and determine what was inside. At that moment, however, the multicolored luminous crystals within the Ghostsack Forest shot toward the churning ghostly aura.
The ghostly aura writhed like a python. The luminous strange stones clung one after another to its surface, and in the blink of an eye, they formed a gigantic ghost python. Its body alone was more than