Crimson devil plants, resembling snakes and pythons, desperately tried to crush the region of thunder bolstered by the Great Five Elements Dragon-Deriving Divine Needles. At this moment, the Ancient Desolation Devil Emperor could be said to be dividing his focus into many tasks, utilizing the grand array to exert considerable pressure on Lu Xiaotian as well.
Lightning radiance quivered across the five needles, and Old Devil's expression turned joyful as the thunder power inside appeared to begin blurring under the heavy pressure.
He did not need to defeat Lu Xiaotian directly; he only needed to temporarily neutralize his methods, severing the tentacles Lu Xiaotian extended into the grand array so that the few troublesome devil-lord-grade juniors like Moon Sky Hall Master would be unable to fly away.
Killing intent burned fiercely in the heart of the Ancient Desolation Devil Emperor. Driven to such a pass, it was no exaggeration to call it being abandoned by his followers, and trapping and killing the elite of his subordinate tribes was truly a helpless move.
Even if he killed Lu Xiaotian in the final decisive battle, apart from the portion transferred to the Immortal-Demon Battlefield, the elites throughout the entire Devil Domain were decimated and killed, making it harder than ascending to heaven to maintain the boundless Devil Domain of the past.
Without the Ancient Desolation Devil Guards, the Moonshadow Wild Forest as a whole would face catastrophic trouble when impacted by the external Devil Domain, a thought that made even this old devil's scalp tingle involuntarily.
However, having suffered successive disastrous defeats and heavy blows, with the realm-suppressing objects inside his body vanishing and a massive loss of fortune, the old devil's current predicament was also extremely dire, and he would not have resorted to this desperate measure had he possessed even