Boom! The seventh star pillar rose above the Demon Sea. With seven pillars now in place, the Eight-Trigram Star-Origin Mountain-Shaking Formation began to reveal its fearsome might. The pillars reached straight down to the seabed, and the waters of this part of the Demon Sea receded like a tide, exposing the entire ocean floor. Jagged rocks and silt shook violently under the formation's power, as if the earth itself were shuddering.
Seeing that his Wind-Shadow Demon Light still could not break through the Golden-Silver Buddha Domain, the four-winged mantis felt his heart sink to the bottom of a well. His opponent was a realm below him, yet could still hold back his Wind-Shadow Demon Light. The other's Buddhist supernatural ability was more than a level above his own; even with the gap in their cultivation, they were now evenly matched.
The human cultivator before him was far stronger than he had expected. At last, a trace of fear crept into the four-winged mantis's heart. He raised a hand, and a dark green command token appeared in his palm. Demonic script twisted across its surface. A streak of dark light spilled from within, coiling in the air as a shadow seemed to cross countless spans of space and arrive.
His bearing was unhurried, his features dignified. It was the Devil Lord, whom Lu Xiaotian had met once before.
The Devil Lord in the projection frowned at the chaos before him. "What's going on? You haven't even completed the task I assigned, yet you've started fighting like this. Have my words become so worthless?"
"Devil Lord, Lu was the one who struck first this time. He even ignored Fellow Daoist Shadow Scorpion's attempt to dissuade him." The four-winged mantis immediately lodged a complaint against Lu Xiaotian.
"Fellow Daoist Lu, is this true?"