"The immortal army is despicable, resorting to trickery after losing. Let's go support the Eastern Pill Saint!" At You Zhan's furious roar, the densely packed Devil Race army surged forward.
Lu Xiaotian's victory in the pill battle, along with the immortal army's breaking of its word, had greatly boosted the Devil Race army's morale and fury. Hundreds of thousands of Devil Race soldiers at the forefront charged at the enemy like a mighty hammer.
Where the hammer passed, the enemy was sent tumbling, or the charge broke against a stronger foe.
"Eastern Pill Saint, withdraw for now. Since the immortal army resorted to trickery, I'll make them pay for this insult to you."
"It's fine. I'll cover you for a while. These immortal soldiers can't do anything to me. If a truly formidable enemy shows up, I'll retreat when the moment is right."
Lu Xiaotian replied to You Zhan. He had just defeated Zeng Quanming, a fifth-grade Pill Saint, but had absorbed pitifully little of the world's fortune. He still hadn't figured out how the fortune of tribulation worked, and fighting at this level posed no great threat to him. Naturally, he wasn't going to withdraw so easily.
"Very well. Then I'll have to trouble you, Eastern Pill Saint." You Zhan knew Lu Xiaotian's strength, yet even with the Swallowing Night Starcloud Banner in hand, he still didn't dare underestimate him.
As long as he wasn't surrounded by several opponents of comparable strength, escaping the battlefield wouldn't be too difficult.
Before You Zhan had finished speaking, a golden scroll shot over from the rear of the immortal realm's forces and unfurled on its own in midair.
"The Haoxian Golden Decree! It's the Haoxian Golden Decree!"
"Eastern Pill Saint has betrayed the Celestial Court and become an accomplice of the Devil