"Another teleportation art." The Ice Demon Bat Queen cursed inwardly. The demonic blades she had just sent slashing at Lu Xiaotian suddenly changed course. The Shadow Demon hurriedly moved his divine sense, controlling the blades to wheel around. A terrifying edge came at his back; he hardly needed to turn to know Lu Xiaotian had teleported behind him.
Several demonic blades swept back toward him as the Shadow Demon surged forward, trying to open up some distance from Lu Xiaotian. At the same time, he flicked a finger behind him, releasing a cloud of yellow-green poison mist. Even the five crystalline blood-colored bats and the eagle-bodied beast changed color the instant they touched it. The blood bats in particular had been painstakingly raised by the Ice Demon Bat Queen. She had fed them the essence and blood of countless young bats for over a thousand years to bring them to their current power. They were still far from their peak, but Lu Xiaotian had proved too formidable a foe, so she had sent them into battle from the very beginning.
"Shadow Demon, give me the antidote!" Seeing the poison seep into the bodies of the blood bats she had so painstakingly raised, the Ice Demon Bat Queen cried out. First, her purple silk sash had been severed; then the Little Fire Crow had taken her demonic ice-and-thunder flames. Now the Shadow Demon had injured her blood bats by mistake. How could she bear any more losses? Even though her true body remained uninjured, losing a magical treasure and her demonic flames had already dealt a major blow to her strength.
"Bat Queen, don't worry. This poison won't kill those blood bats anytime soon. Let's deal with Lu first." Faced with the Ice Demon Bat Queen's fury, the Shadow Demon was