Given the Blue-Armored Old Devil's vicious nature, he would naturally never let such a golden opportunity slip by. At this point, the Blue-Armored Old Devil also changed his strategy. Once he had obtained the Hidden Devil Sword Embryo, he gave Lu Xiaotian no time to react, directly slashing at the nearer Black Bear Puppet. With the Black Bear Puppet's strength, it naturally could not withstand a single strike from the Hidden Devil Sword Embryo.
Lu Xiaotian furrowed his brows. With a thought from his divine sense, he immediately withdrew the illusionary realm. Now that the Blue Devil Old Freak had deployed the Wood Bird Puppet, he had to use both his physical body and magic power to contend with it. Moreover, using the illusionary realm while circulating his magic power was not his strongest means of facing an enemy. The moment he withdrew his magic power, Lu Xiaotian swept out a hand, and the Misty Sword Embryo shot forth like lightning, directly intercepting the Old Devil's Hidden Devil Sword Embryo. Under the suppression of the Demon Mound, the Hidden Devil Sword Embryo was now locked in an evenly matched struggle with the Misty Sword Embryo, unable to gain the slightest advantage for the time being.
Yet the moment the illusionary realm was withdrawn, the restraint on the Wood Bird Puppet completely vanished. Shadow after shadow of wooden birds struck and pecked at the Black Bear Puppet. In merely a dozen breaths, the Black Bear Puppet had been pecked full of holes by those wooden-bird phantoms. Before long, it exploded with a boom, scattering into countless fragments. The Golden Roc, too, found itself hard-pressed against the many, struggling to hold out for a while before its golden feathers were pecked away one after another. Its body swayed precariously in the air,