It ultimately depended on how skilled the other party was in formations. Having finished all this, Lu Xiaotian continued forward. He discovered that the direction in which Hao Qingyao and the other Devil Race Heavenly Demons had fled was more or less the same as the position sensed by the fragment of the pill furnace in his hand.
This Immortal Army, numbering a little over two thousand, was certainly formidable, but it was not enough to drive Hao Qingyao and the others into a frantic flight. Especially after they had entered this formation and knew there were no pursuers behind them for the moment, Hao Qingyao's group had moved almost unhindered through the area. Lu Xiaotian couldn't help suspecting that Hao Qingyao had already been here before.
Could it be that, aside from the Heavenly Demon Zither, Hao Qingyao is also looking for the inheritance pill furnace of the Esoteric Buddhist Sect? A flicker of doubt crossed Lu Xiaotian's mind. He followed the trail at once. No matter how much he speculated, it was better to catch up and see for himself.
Events unfolded much as Lu Xiaotian had expected. The Immortal Army of a little over two thousand had been following the World Demon Pearl closely, but when they reached an area filled with damaged Buddhist statues, the pearl's trail suddenly vanished. The ground then shook violently, and stone Buddhas burst forth one after another. At a glance, there seemed to be tens of thousands of them.
The Immortal Army naturally refused to remain trapped. They charged left and right, trying to break out of the stone Buddha formation. Then a chant of Buddhist scripture rang out from among the stone Buddhas. White streaks of light formed from the sound waves, flowing like ripples and slowly pushing back the