The Purple Tansy Demon Emperor joined the battle as well. After a fierce fight, the entire Cloudwisp Demon Hall lay in ruins.
The Heartslaying Ancient Buddha had been dormant for many years. Even after rising again, he had not recovered his peak strength.
At first, he had held his own against the Emperorwisp Demon Peng. But as the fight wore on, the Heartslaying Ancient Buddha began to run out of steam and gradually fell behind.
The Heartslaying Ancient Buddha had only a limited number of skeleton monk soldiers under his command, while the various Devil Race armies serving the Emperorwisp Demon Peng poured in without end as reinforcements.
The skeleton monk soldiers gradually began to falter. Seeing that they could not stand against the Emperorwisp Demon Peng and his army, the Heartslaying Ancient Buddha remained calm and directed them to withdraw into the Heaven-and-Earth Swallowing Sea Diagram at an unhurried pace.
Although much of the Heartslaying Buddhist Domain had collapsed earlier, the Heaven-and-Earth Swallowing Sea Diagram could still lead to other places.
The Heartslaying Ancient Buddha and his skeleton monk soldiers withdrew one after another, but Immortal Lord Golden Radiance and Purple Garrison Shadow, two powerhouses of Immortal Lord rank, continued fighting within the bounds of Cloudwisp Demon Hall.
After seeing the Heartslaying Ancient Buddha retreat, Immortal Lord Golden Radiance and Purple Garrison Shadow sensed the Emperorwisp Demon Peng's hostility. They fought as they withdrew, gradually leaving the Cloudwisp Demon Hall behind.
Cloudwisp Demon Hall now looked as if it had been struck by disaster, with devastation everywhere. Yet those outsiders had gained almost nothing, aside from killing some skeleton monk soldiers who were of no consequence to them.
The Heartslaying Ancient Buddha, Immortal Lord Golden Radiance, and Purple Garrison Shadow were beyond his reach, but that was understandable—they were