The Golden Elephant Demon King had lived for forty thousand years. Over his lifetime, he had encountered dangers beyond counting.
Yet this was the first time he had faced such a bizarre and perilous ambush assassination—within his own lair, Divine Elephant Palace, at the Transformation Essence Pool where he was most relaxed.
The sudden sword strike was incomparably swift. Only when the Golden Elephant Demon King's powerful pure-yang divine consciousness detected something amiss had the sword already arrived.
Within the Golden Elephant Demon King's pure-yang divine consciousness, everything was reflected in full.
The sword wielder wore fluttering white robes and had a slight frame. He was unmistakably a human cultivator. This human was not even half the Golden Elephant Demon King's size, yet his eyes shone with divine light, gleaming with peerless sharpness, keener even than the sword in his hand.
A long trail of Keen Sword Light stretched behind him. He had drawn and struck from a hundred zhang away, but his sword-control speed was too fast; by the time the Golden Elephant Demon King reacted, the blade had already pierced before him.
"Gao Xian!"
The Golden Elephant Demon King had seen this man's appearance many times in water mirrors, and several friends had warned him to beware of him.
Though the Golden Elephant Demon King had not taken it too seriously, he had still paid Gao Xian a little more attention.
He had never expected Gao Xian to truly dare come to Divine Elephant Palace for him, silently breach the formation's defenses, and enter straight into this central forbidden ground.
Ambushed at his most relaxed moment, even the Golden Elephant Demon King could not help feeling alarmed. But he calmed himself in an instant and immediately activated the Divine Elephant Grand Array.
This formation, originating from the Dragon