"Your preparations are certainly thorough!" Lu Xiaotian sneered. His opponent had calculated everything, but unfortunately, some things could never be accounted for.
"Red-Eye, Che Da, Che Er, and you others, return to the Netherdark Demon Mound." Lu Xiaotian glanced at the Red-Eyed Goat Demon and the middle-aged man's family of three.
"Mr. Lu, is something the matter? You don't want me to accompany you?" the Red-Eyed Goat Demon asked, puzzled.
"Go lure out the Mound Spirit. We're preparing to fight someone," Lu Xiaotian ordered. Earlier, the black-robed man had been smashed to death by a hammer blow from his Six-Armed Golden Suan Puppet. It had not been flesh and blood, but had exploded into a pile of broken wood—clearly a puppet body. Lu Xiaotian had already grown suspicious then. It was just that he had been under tremendous suppression inside the Netherdark Demon Mound and could not sense a wide area. If the other party was determined to hide, dragging him out would be a thankless, arduous task—not something easily accomplished.
"Fight someone?" The Red-Eyed Goat Demon looked bewildered, but when he saw Lu Xiaotian's sweeping gaze, he did not dare ask further.
With a thought from Lu Xiaotian's divine sense, the Purple-Black Centipede Puppet, Azure Wolf Puppet, and Six-Armed Golden Suan Puppet all appeared amid white light, surrounding the Red-Eyed Goat Demon.
"Sir, you previously saved my life from the people of the Abyss Hall. I'm not an ungrateful wretch. Since I came here with Senior, naturally we should advance and retreat together," the Red-Eyed Goat Demon said, his expression somewhat unnatural.
"These puppets are here to protect you. Since I dared to use you, you naturally cannot escape my grasp. Taking your life is merely a thought away. Why would I need a few puppets?" It was the