When two foes meet on a narrow path, the braver one wins. This saying applied not only to mortals, but equally to the demon armies fighting before them.
Wuyuan personally led the Centipede-Armored Elephant-Lion Beasts, releasing all the dozen or so Cloud-Armored Giant Centipede Demons that remained, despite their existing injuries. Just as he managed to pull the situation back a little, Extreme Cloud Demon Venerable led his most elite subordinates—the Extreme Cloud Guards—into the fray. They were a group of demons standing twelve feet tall, their entire bodies seemingly wrapped in white clouds like cloud effigies. These Extreme Cloud Guards were Cloudrock Ice Demons, skilled in earth- and ice-element divine abilities. They possessed no low intelligence, and after years of training under Extreme Cloud Demon Venerable, they had become the formation experts among his forces.
The two forces collided like twin torrents. Extreme Cloud Demon Venerable fixed his sharp gaze on Wuyuan. With a gesture of both hands, a small sword, black from hilt to tip, appeared before him. It was like a sword drawn from an abyss, and the surrounding space darkened in that instant. It seemed that within this world, only this small sword existed.
Extreme Cloud Demon Venerable stood motionless in the void, his eyes cold and murderous, Killing Intent surging into the heavens. As Lu Xiaotian's projected clone, Extreme Cloud Demon Venerable naturally knew some of the cultivation arts Lu Xiaotian practiced. For a clone with no foundation that had been demonized, the only things Extreme Cloud Demon Venerable could rely on were the many cultivation arts he had obtained from Lu Xiaotian's true body.
For example, cultivating the Five-Thunder Soldier Art like Lu Xiaotian did required the power of the five elemental thunders. Buddhist cultivation arts such as Maha Formlessness, meanwhile, required Buddhist sacred