This time, accompanying Dongfang Yi was a lean, middle-aged man dressed in gold robes and a jade crown, holding a Green Phoenix Facing the Sun Fan. His aura was no weaker than Dongfang Yi's.
Besides him, there was a man wearing a golden mask, accompanied by six tall, thin armored warriors. They had no aura fluctuations of cultivators; they were merely six puppets.
Lu Xiaotian followed far behind the group. Following his earlier directions, Dongfang Yi and the others went straight to the place where the Scarlet Demon Tansy had bloomed.
"They've already slipped inside." When Ban Qianchi and Lu Xiaotian saw that the guards here hadn't moved at all, still standing like rocks, they could easily guess what Dongfang Yi and the others intended.
"They'll probably end up fighting sooner or later. Even if it's only a demonic shade of the Heaven-reaching Devil Lord, it won't be easy to deal with—especially now, when we're in its lair." Lu Xiaotian shook his head, though he wasn't too worried about Dongfang Yi.
The last time he and Dongfang Yi had joined forces, they had both been at the Integrated Body Middle Stage. They had managed to kill the Tu Su Twin Emperors not only because both emperors had been among the strongest at that stage, but also because Lu Xiaotian had launched a sudden ambush and Dongfang Yi had possessed methods left behind by the Wind-Snow Sacred Sect. It had taken all these factors combined to achieve their goal.
Dongfang Yi's standing in the Wind-Snow Sacred Sect was now at least as high as before, if not higher. Knowing they were going to seek out the demonic shade, he would naturally have made preparations. The people accompanying him this time were certainly no ordinary cultivators either. Dongfang Yi probably didn't want