Fei Lian was no simple character either. Seeing Hou Yi secretly make a move against Nine Infants, a glint flashed through his eyes.
Not only did he not intervene to stop Hou Yi, but the instant Hou Yi attacked Nine Infants, he circled behind Hou Yi and struck!
His hands transformed directly into beast claws, their razor-sharp talons slashing toward Hou Yi's back!
Yet Hou Yi did not dodge!
Fei Lian's attack alone could not injure his body, which was as tough as an Innate Spiritual Treasure.
Hou Yi unleashed the full power of his Divine Arrow, blasting it toward Nine Infants. At the same time, Fei Lian's attack reached Hou Yi's back.
As Nine Infants watched Hou Yi's Divine Arrow draw ever closer, he knew he would likely be unable to evade it. He cursed furiously, "Fei Lian, you bastard! You set me up!"
Fei Lian had suddenly abandoned him, leaving him alone to face Hou Yi's attack. If that was not setting him up, then what was?
But Fei Lian did not care in the slightest. His attack on Hou Yi did not pause at all.
"Nine Infants, your sacrifice has value! I will report this to the Demon Emperor and avenge you!"
Nine Infants still wore that resentful expression, but before he could say anything, Hou Yi's arrow pierced through his body.
At the same time, Fei Lian's sharp claws finally struck Hou Yi's skin.
"Hou Yi, if you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being too overconfident!"
Fei Lian's tone was chilling.
His claws carried demonic energy he had accumulated over countless tens of thousands of years!
Even the Eastern Emperor of their Demon Clan had previously praised the power of his claws. Dealing with a mere Hou Yi should naturally have been effortless.
Hou Yi only felt as though his back had been pricked by a needle, but something soon flowed into his body through the puncture.
An unnatural excitement flickered in Fei Lian's eyes!
Hahaha, the mighty Hou Yi, one of the Witch Clan's foremost Great Witches, was about to die by his hand!
Given that, the Demon Emperor should forgive him for failing to conquer the Hou Tu Tribe.
"You!"
Hou Yi quickly sensed that something was wrong!
Why had his back gone numb?
Knowing something was amiss, Hou Yi suddenly burst into action. Fei Lian withdrew the moment he gained the advantage, fleeing hundreds of miles away.
His voice drifted over from afar.
"Hou Yi, consider this battle a loss for our Demon Clan, but you have not won either! We will fight again next time—though you might not have a next time! Hahahaha!"
Seeing Nine Infants slain by Hou Yi while the mysterious Daoist watched menacingly from the side, Fei Lian fled at once!
Hou Yi's face turned livid, not because Fei Lian had angered him, but because Fei Lian's demonic energy was wreaking havoc inside his body!
The bodies of their Ancestral Witches were indeed tough, but that did not mean their internal structures were invulnerable as well.
Hou Yi felt as if a venomous snake were constantly writhing through his body!
"Pfft!"
In the end, he could not hold it in any longer. He spat out a mouthful of black blood and collapsed to the ground.
In the instant before he completely lost consciousness, he heard the mysterious Daoist mutter to himself.
"Now that I have saved Hou Yi, the karma between me and the Witch Clan should be settled as well."
Karma? What karma?
Hou Yi precisely caught that key word, but before he could ask, he fainted outright.
When he woke again, the mysterious Daoist before him had already vanished.
"Great Witch Hou Yi, you're awake."
The one caring for him at his side was an Upper Witch of their Witch Clan.
Hou Yi frowned.
"How long was I asleep?"
He had just examined his body internally. The demonic energy Fei Lian had left inside him was already gone?
Could it have been the mysterious Daoist who helped him?
Just who was he?
The Upper Witch replied, "Not long. Only one night."
He had recovered in just one night? That Daoist truly had some skill.
"Where is that mysterious Daoist from before? Where did he go?"
The Upper Witch shook his head. "After treating you, Great Witch, that Daoist killed several of the Demon Clan's Taiyi Golden Immortals with a single palm strike and saved quite a few members of the Witch Clan. Later, our Witch Clan was busy killing the remaining demons. By the time we came back to our senses, the mysterious Daoist had already disappeared."
Hou Yi waved his hand, about to dismiss the Upper Witch, when he suddenly recalled something.
"Oh no! Pangu Temple!"
Hou Yi suddenly remembered that Nine Infants had said the Demon Clan had launched a full-scale assault on the Witch Clan!
Their Hou Tu Tribe had escaped danger with the mysterious Daoist's help.
But their Witch Clan still had eleven other tribes!
"Have everyone make preparations at once. We will go to the other tribes near Pangu Temple!"
"Yes!"
At Hou Yi's command, the Witch Clan below immediately sprang into action.
Although the Hou Tu Tribe had suffered a severe blow this time, it could still recover given enough time.
But if the entire Witch Clan was destroyed, then the Hou Tu Tribe would naturally perish as well!
Thus, not a single member of the Witch Clan shrank back. Every one of them stepped forward, ready to aid the other tribes.
The two tribes closest to the Hou Tu Tribe were also the two strongest tribes of the Witch Clan.
They were the Di Jiang Tribe and the Zhu Jiuyin Tribe.
These two tribes were also closest to Buzhou Mountain and Pangu Temple.
The various Witch Clan tribes had communication formations linking them, allowing them to travel from one tribe to another at the fastest possible speed.
Thus, when he arrived at the Di Jiang Tribe, only three Shi Chen had passed. In the Primordial Wilderness, where time was measured in years at the very least, this was exceptionally fast.
And the battle at the Di Jiang Tribe had not yet ended.
The one leading the attack on the Di Jiang Tribe was the Demon Clan's strongest expert, Eastern Emperor Taiyi!
He held the Eastern Emperor Bell in his hand and stood atop a blaze-red auspicious cloud, looking down upon the Witch Clan beings below.
The Clan Protecting Grand Formation had long since been shattered by his blows.
Countless members of the Witch Clan had even died beneath his attacks. Those who could barely remain standing were only several Great Witches of the Di Jiang Tribe.
When Hou Yi teleported over, he happened to see a Great Witch of the Di Jiang Tribe staring at the corpses of his brothers scattered all around him.
He gave a desolate smile before flying toward Eastern Emperor Taiyi in the sky.
Clearly, he still wanted to make one final struggle.
Eastern Emperor Taiyi sneered. "You overestimate yourself!"
A mere Great Luo Golden Immortal dared challenge him?
He did not even take out the Eastern Emperor Bell, intending to engage the charging Great Witch in close combat.
But to Eastern Emperor Taiyi's surprise, this Great Witch had never intended to fight him at all!
Instead, when he drew extremely close to Eastern Emperor Taiyi, he detonated himself!
Boom!!
A massive explosion thundered through the sky. Hou Yi watched with his own eyes as another Great Witch, who had been throwing an arm around his shoulders not long ago, self-destructed and turned to ashes. His hatred nearly split his eyes apart!
"No!"
Hou Yi charged forward without regard for anything else.
This naturally drew everyone's attention.
After the explosion dissipated, Eastern Emperor Taiyi's robes were only slightly disheveled.
"Damnable Witch Clan!"
Fortunately, Eastern Emperor Taiyi had reacted quickly. At the final instant, he used the Golden Crow Rainbow Transformation Technique to escape the heart of the explosion.
Even so, the residual force from a Great Luo Golden Immortal's self-destruction still left him shaken.
After all, the self-destruction of a Great Luo Golden Immortal could absolutely rival an ordinary Quasi-Sage's strike.
After taking a moment to compose himself, he noticed Hou Yi below.
"Fei Lian, what is going on? Didn't you say Hou Yi had already died by your hand?"
Only then did Hou Yi notice that Fei Lian was here as well.
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