White Bone Steps
Lu Xiaotian had put on a show of composure, but the Shadowy Scorpion King was still deeply surprised by how carefree he seemed. If their positions had been reversed, and he had nearly been driven to the brink by his opponent, the Shadowy Scorpion King would never have been so gracious.
Perhaps Lu Xiaotian was only pretending. If so, his schemes were truly extraordinary. At the thought, the Shadowy Scorpion King grew even more wary of him. For someone at the Integrated Body Middle Stage to be this formidable was frightening. In a real fight, if not for the formation Lu Xiaotian had nearly completed, the Shadowy Scorpion King still believed he would have held the advantage.
But the formation Lu Xiaotian had just laid down was simply too terrifying. As it neared completion, the aura it gave off was almost impossible to resist—nearly more formidable than the strongest generals under the Devil Lord. If the Devil Lord hadn't intervened, the Shadowy Scorpion King would most likely have perished in that grand formation.
Though Lu Xiaotian's expression had been hidden behind a ferocious, blue-faced ghost mask, the Shadowy Scorpion King could roughly judge from his eyes that laying down such a grand formation must have cost him dearly. Otherwise, he wouldn't have waited until the final moment to use it.
Lu Xiaotian and the Shadowy Scorpion King seemed fairly cordial on the surface, but the two surviving scorpion demons at the Integrated Body Realm and Ban Qianzhi were glaring at each other.
Ban Qianzhi's granddaughter, Ban Yao, had lost her physical body, while the two scorpion demons had lost two companions. One had been killed outright; the other had been gravely wounded, then caught up in the battle between Lu Xiaotian and the Shadowy Scorpion King and