Lu Yin looked Master Shan up and down in surprise. "Invincible defense?"
Master Shan replied, "It's not that exaggerated. I'm just a little more durable."
Lu Yin studied Master Shan. He didn't look the part, but having another Half-Ancestor on their side was good news.
Through Master Shan, he had caught a glimpse of how terrifying the Lu family had once been. A Half-Ancestor with nearly invincible defenses had served as his Dao Protector. How could someone like that have been willing to become a Dao Protector?
It sounded respectable to call him a Dao Protector, but put bluntly, he was a bodyguard.
"Old Shan, you don't need to protect this kid here. Anyone who comes to this part of the starry sky looking for trouble with him won't get off lightly. He's even beaten up Xia Shenji," Kui Luo said.
Master Shan's expression turned serious. "That person just now was Bai Wangyuan, and the other was Xia Shenji. Young Master, what agreement did you reach with them?"
Lu Yin had Kui Luo explain it to him, while he himself sought out the Demon Emperor and asked him to go to the Backside Battlefield and serve as its commander-in-chief.
The Demon Emperor was taken aback. "Me?"
Lu Yin nodded. "Is that a problem?"
Of course it was a problem. It was the Backside Battlefield, after all. That was what he thought, but he didn't dare say it aloud. Lu Yin had been fighting Ancestors lately—and not just any Ancestors, but those from the Nine Mountains Eight Seas. They were terrifying. The Demon Emperor had no grounds to object. "Understood."
Lu Yin was satisfied. He was appointing the Demon Emperor as commander-in-chief because he wanted the Giant Beast Army to form the main force at the formation base. Of course, it