After they fought fiercely for a while longer, the group of Daluo Golden Immortals saw that they could withstand King Cangmu Wangniao's methods. They realized that, with the formation to rely on and Lu Xiaotian coordinating from the center, they had the strength to stand against him.
The powerful cultivators grew bolder as the battle went on. Golden Gu Monk and Kong Shan, the two strongest among them besides Lu Xiaotian, had initially been rather cautious. But as the fight progressed, they let loose completely, treating King Cangmu Wangniao as a whetstone to sharpen themselves against.
Under the surging, turbulent forces, the thin ice covering the entire lake had long since burst apart. Ice and water sprayed from the lake, flying through the air.
King Cangmu Wangniao used one technique after another, yet for a time he still couldn't do anything to Lu Xiaotian and the others. Realizing that his earlier divine ability had lost its intended deterrent effect, he gave a cold snort. A large, triangular banner of blue and violet appeared in his hand, and he flung it into the air.
The banner unfurled. The three-headed demonic nia depicted upon it spread its wings, conjuring wind and thunder. Its left wing embodied wind, and its right wing, thunder.
"Wind-Thunder Demonic Nia Banner, go!" At King Cangmu Wangniao's command, the banner flew into the middle of the formation formed by the powerful cultivators. In an instant, columns of thunder and raging tornadoes intertwined and spun outward in every direction.
Vortices appeared across the frozen lake below, while King Cangmu Wangniao's phantom completely vanished within the wind-and-thunder whirlwinds.
Kong Shan, Golden Gu Monk, Nine-Ren Mountain, and the other powerful cultivators present were immediately struck by the wind-and-thunder whirlwinds. The howling gales tore at their formation, as though they meant to