Although the situation had changed abruptly, the Ten Directions Platform disciples had begun to gain the upper hand, and people rushed over from nearby to provide support.
Someone shouted, "Be careful! There are Emergence from Dust little demons here that were enlightened. They've come up to help too!"
Yan Yuxi was nearly caught off guard as well. Fortunately, her cultivation was high enough and she had enough treasures on her, so after scrambling to fend them off for a while, she finally stabilized her footing. She was greatly surprised. "Enlightened Emergence from Dust little demons?"
The others were frantically occupied and had no time to answer her. Ji Busheng, however, was relatively at ease. Knowing that she was still young and did not know much, he answered loudly, "A Nascent Soul great demon always needs attendants. Enlightening some Emergence from Dust little demons makes things more convenient."
Wood-element creatures that cultivated to the Emergence from Dust Stage found it difficult to develop intelligence unless they were exceptionally gifted. But if a Nascent Soul True Immortal enlightened them, it was another matter. This Redwood Essence had dominated Netherworld Island alone and might have been lonely, so it had enlightened some of its own kind.
However, the trees enlightened by the Redwood Essence could not possibly reach the Golden Core Stage—for it, Golden Core cultivators could become potential threats. Though the threat would not be great... why would it bother doing something that might cause it trouble?
Yan Yuxi understood that reasoning too. Others said she was young, but in the Blue Star Realm, a sixty-two-year-old grandmother could definitely be called worldly-wise. She simply did not understand one thing. "I wasn't asking that. I meant... why didn't they attack earlier?"
If those little demons had chosen to strike earlier, not only the