The Tide-Spider Demonic Apes were not only astonishingly numerous and vicious, but unbelievably fast. In the blink of an eye, countless Tide-Spider Demonic Apes surged out of the distant mists.
Even Lu Xiaotian felt his scalp prickle at the sight of so many Demonic Beasts. He didn't hold back, immediately taking out the piece of dragon's-breath incense the Long-Browed Monk had given him. A thread of magical power seeped into it, and an unprecedentedly wild, overbearing aura poured out.
A wisp of smoke formed from the dragon's-breath incense and curled around Lu Xiaotian, refusing to disperse. The faint haze took the shape of a dragon's phantom, circling him as it let out a long, sonorous cry.
The dragon's cries shook heaven and earth. The Tide-Spider Demonic Apes surging forward like a tide seemed to have encountered some fearsome creature. Those farther back continued to swarm forward like floodwaters, but the ones in front had been so terrified that they stopped in their tracks.
"Damn it!" Lord Ji Yuan's face was livid. The dragon's-breath incense suppressed the Tide-Spider Demonic Apes far too strongly. Even he could force only a tiny fraction of them to overcome their fear and launch a fierce attack on Lu Xiaotian. But at Lu Xiaotian's level, their numbers were nowhere near enough. They weren't even enough to disappear into the sea of flame formed by the Formless Profound Fire, let alone threaten Lu Xiaotian himself.
Lord Ji Yuan realized that at least until the dragon's-breath incense ran out, there was nothing he could do to Lu Xiaotian.
Moreover, Lu Xiaotian had the situation firmly in hand. Staying to continue fighting him would only cost Lord Ji Yuan more. To be driven to this point by a junior at the Body Integration Realm, even after returning to the