The black-robed man reacted quickly too. He slapped a small dark-green pouch at his waist, and black light blazed from within. Amid the black demonic radiance, five or six blue-armored corpse monsters came snarling out and clashed with the centipede puppet charging toward them.
The blue wolf puppet and several red-eyed sheep demons charged in right behind them. As the black-robed man tried to retreat farther, a six-armed golden suanni puppet descended from the sky, swinging a huge hammer straight at his head.
The black-robed man was quite skilled at controlling the blue-armored corpse monsters, but his own fighting strength was nothing special. After barely parrying a few attacks from the six-armed golden suanni puppet, he was struck in the chest by its hammer. With a thud, his body turned into a heap of scattered wooden blocks. The blue-armored corpse monsters lost their coordination without the black-robed man controlling them. Their combat strength had not diminished, but their attacks and defenses suddenly became a chaotic mess, and their threat fell accordingly.
"Haha, Brother Lu, if you'd arrived a moment later, this old pig might never have seen you again." The wild boar demon Pig Seven was overjoyed to see Lu Xiaotian. After finishing his sentence, he spat out several mouthfuls of clotted blood. Having just been fighting the blue-armored corpse monsters, Pig Seven suddenly sagged, utterly exhausted. Clearly, he had only been barely holding on in the fight against those monsters.
Though his injuries looked severe, Pig Seven was in excellent spirits. After struggling to hold out for so many years, he had finally lived to see reinforcements arrive.
"Sir!" The fire corpses Che Da and Che Er looked just as battered. Several wounds on their bodies were deep enough to expose bone, and wisps of fire-corpse energy seeped from