If they hadn't fought Ling Tian and the others in person, the Tu Family Brothers never would have imagined that their opponents were so powerful—powerful enough to threaten experts at their own level, the Twenty-fourth Heaven of Near-Saint. The five or six of their people who had already lost their ability to fight were proof enough. And that was despite their thorough preparations: they had specially refined great shields that could partially neutralize the power of the World-Ending Lightning Tribulation. With those shields, they could withstand not only the tribulation's power but also Ling Tian and the others' strongest arrow attacks.
Even so, several of their people had been put out of action. This naturally left the Tu Family Brothers and all the cultivators in the battle utterly shocked. Once again, they realized that Ling Tian and the others' combat strength couldn't be judged by their cultivation levels.
After seeing how powerful Ling Tian and the others were, the Tu Family Brothers were glad they'd taken Tu Gui's advice and brought several dozen, nearly a hundred, cultivators into the fight. If only the brothers had come, then even if they ultimately captured Ling Tian and the others, they would have faced tremendous trouble—and might even have suffered casualties. That wasn't a situation the brothers wanted to see.
"Hmph. So what if Ling Tian and the others are strong? So what if they can hurt us? They only managed to injure some of our people because we were careless. Now we've made further preparations. Their arrows won't do us any good." Tu Mo spoke coldly, but there wasn't much conviction in his voice. After all, Ling Tian and the others' attacks had stirred a deep-seated wariness in him.
"Ling Tian and the others can't cause us too much trouble now, but