A roar rolled on and on, like rushing water battering against a reef. The blue-scaled hammers seemed tireless, pounding one after another at the six-armed golden lion puppet blocking the way.
The black panther puppet controlled by Lu Xiaotian's secondary Primordial Spirit retreated at an unhurried pace. The one gold and five silver puppets each used their own methods, with no intention of fighting the carp-headed monster to the death. They simply fought as they retreated. Six-pointed stars drifted out from the puppets one after another. No matter how fierce the monster's attacks were, they only managed to blast apart the stars as they appeared. They never posed any real threat to the black panther puppet possessed by the secondary Primordial Spirit, or to Mo Yuyan and the others.
Blue Xuan, Mo Yuyan, and Yan Xiaoyu watched the one-gold, five-silver formation's art of battle—turning complexity into simplicity—with open admiration. Judging by the carp-headed monster's ferocious, utterly savage demonic power alone, even all six puppets combined probably couldn't match it. After all, the three of them had already fought the monster themselves.
Yet despite being blocked by the six puppets, the carp-headed monster had been unable to break through. Whenever the blue-scaled hammers came crashing down, just as the puppets seemed unable to withstand them, they would shift their formation with an inspired stroke, deflecting the monster's attacks.
"Senior is still the same as ever," Yan Xiaoyu murmured, watching in awe. The shifting formations seemed simple, but refining such intricate and ever-changing formations to this degree required a deep understanding of formations. It was far beyond what any of them could currently grasp.
In truth, even several Divine Void Realm cultivators working together would never withstand a single bout of this carp-headed monster's frenzied assault. Its savage demonic power was the