But the instant the blood hit the ground, the gold-threaded Bagua robe he wore swallowed it.
Unlike the Human-Body Horse-Head Demon Ancestor, who panicked at the sight, Lady White Bone merely glanced at it. Once she understood the principle behind it, she paid it no further mind.
After all, the Tianyan Sect's Protective Robes offered such formidable defense that their wearers could not enjoy that protection without paying a price.
And with a powerful enemy before them, she had more pressing concerns than why the Protective Robe was Devouring her flesh and blood—namely, how to keep herself alive against the young man.
"White Bone, hold on! I'm coming to help you!"
Seeing Lady White Bone outmatched, the Giant Horned Dragon Python and the Titan Great Ape exchanged a glance, then unleashed their strongest attacks as they charged toward Luo Yi.
They were the two lowest-ranked Demon Ancestors in the Ten Thousand Demon Lair.
Both knew that once the young man was free to turn his attention elsewhere, they would be the next to die—the two weakest Demon Ancestors present.
But before their attacks could land,
Luo Yi whipped around and swept his long leg across their chests.
Caught completely off guard, the two demons flew back hundreds of yards, gouging two long, straight trenches through the Spiritual Energy-rich soil of the Spirit Plant Garden.
Their intervention had not been entirely fruitless, however.
Lady White Bone seized the chance to flash backward several times, barely putting enough distance between herself and the young man.
Only then did she fix her breathless gaze on Luo Yi. Suddenly, she laughed. "At long last, you've finally chosen to defend yourself!"
That seemingly fearsome sweeping kick had, in fact, betrayed the young man's true condition.
Earlier, even when six Demon Ancestors attacked him at once,