Yan Chihuo looked around, then suddenly flew into the air. A shaft of golden light an inch long shot from between his eyes. After scanning the area once more, he abruptly stretched out his right hand and made a grasping motion at empty space, drawing a bird into his hand.
Shui Lingyun and the demons were all puzzled, but before they could ask, Yan Chihuo examined the bird for a moment, placed a mark upon it, and released it. The bird immediately flew away.
Yan Chihuo said to Shui Lingyun, "Follow it." Shui Lingyun complied, flying into the air and following the bird alongside Yan Chihuo.
The five Dao Integration Stage demons also rose into the air one after another. At that instant, several threadlike streaks of sword light suddenly appeared in the sky and struck the five demons. The jade scorpion demon felt its entire body go numb; it could no longer control its magic power and crashed to the ground with a bang.
It fell so hard that its head swelled and its brain rattled. When it looked up, it saw that the crane demon's chest was bare, the feathers there somehow shaved clean away. The two lion demons' whiskers had likewise been sliced off completely.
The two Origin Core Stage lion demons were greatly alarmed. Both thought, Good thing we didn't slight those two human cultivators just now.
The jade scorpion demon immediately understood that Yan Chihuo had done this. Clearly, Yan Chihuo did not want the five of them to go along. Enduring the pain, the jade scorpion demon said, "Yan Chihuo is truly vicious. He obviously doesn't want us to get a share of the spoils—he wants to swallow this great merit all by himself."
Those words truly wronged Yan Chihuo. He had not intended