One Shadow Demon after another appeared, their auras as deep as an abyss, surrounding Ye Jingzhe.
A closer look revealed eight Grotto-Heaven Realm Shadow Demons.
Yet Ye Jingzhe paid them no heed. Although these Shadow Demons had all come in their true bodies, so had he.
Moreover, he had cultivated to the pinnacle of Nine Grotto-Heavens. Just one more step would let him break through the Cave Heaven Realm and attain the Universe Realm.
Even taking a step back, without reaching the Universe Realm, his Nine Grotto-Heavens cultivation allowed him to match ordinary Universe Realm cultivators. Within the Grotto-Heaven Realm, he could call himself invincible.
Although these Shadow Demons had entered the Grotto-Heaven Realm, most were ordinary cultivators who had formed only two or three grotto-heavens, or perhaps four or five. Not one had even formed six.
If they truly came to blows, Ye Jingzhe could suppress every Shadow Demon here with one hand.
"Since you knew I was coming, why did you still dare show yourselves?" Ye Jingzhe clasped his hands behind his back and surveyed them. "Did you think the few of you could take me down?"
His words were outrageously arrogant, showing no regard whatsoever for these Grotto-Heaven Realm demons.
One Grotto-Heaven Realm Shadow Demon sneered. "Never mind you, Spirit Void Cave's First True Disciple-even if its Second True Disciple joined you, you would have no right to boast like that!"
Another Grotto-Heaven Realm Shadow Demon spoke coldly. "We are all in the Grotto-Heaven Realm. If we join forces to surround and kill you, even the strongest among us could only have opened Seven Grotto-Heavens. How many of us could you possibly fight?"
The Grotto-Heaven Realm's limit was Nine Grotto-Heavens, but not every cultivator knew this secret. Even the Qingwei Sword Sect's sage, Ancestor Linyuan, had only