"Humans, you've come just in time!"
The Zhuanshui Clan's army charged forward with overwhelming momentum, but the fiendgods in the distance were completely unafraid. Their fighting spirit soaring, they charged toward the Zhuanshui Clan's army as well.
Before the two sides could even meet, countless magical treasures and secret arts rained down on the fiendgods at the Primordial Spirit Realm.
Every fiendgod at the Primordial Spirit Realm had an undying body, and they fought with astonishing ferocity. They weathered the Zhuanshui Clan's attacks and pressed forward without slowing, closing in on the great formations one after another.
The commanders of the Zhuanshui Clan's formations were all Loose Immortals of the Qi Refinement Path. Naturally, they couldn't let the fiendgods get close. So, as soon as the horde of fiendgods entered their range, they halted their charge and began pulling away, fighting the fiendgods from a distance.
Ju Hua, Zhuanshui Pingqiu, and the two others also engaged the terrifying Void-Return Fiendgod.
This Void-Return Fiendgod wasn't especially high in realm, but his body was unbelievably terrifying. Just swinging his six enormous arms put immense pressure on the four of them.
His terrifying strength far exceeded what even a top Loose Immortal could withstand.
"Hahaha, humans, die! Die!"
The Void-Return Fiendgod roared with laughter as he relentlessly attacked the four of them, who darted around him like flies.
Occasionally, attacks burst from the four of them, but the Void-Return Fiendgod didn't care in the slightest. He didn't even bother to block, relying on his body to take the hits.
Of the four, the most fearsome attacker was undoubtedly Ju Hua, a Sword Immortal whose realm was also the highest. Though Ju Hua was using only the fourth stance of the Great Sorrow Sword Art, Hundred Kill Style, his strength still put him among the first-rate top Loose Immortals. With the Zhuanshui Clan's formation bolstering him, his attacks were even more terrifying.
Even so, each time Ju Hua struck, he only left a series of small cuts, each a few dozen feet long, on the Void-Return Fiendgod. For a fiendgod with such terrifying regenerative power, those wounds amounted to little more than superficial injuries.
If that was all Ju Hua could do, the other three fared even worse.
Zhuanshui Pingqiu was merely an ordinary top Loose Immortal. The last time he'd fought Ju Hua to a draw, it had been entirely thanks to the terrain. Fuyun was not much stronger than Zhuanshui Pingqiu, but Qing Muling's performance was quite impressive. She held a white feather fan, and each wave raised boundless gales. Though they couldn't hurt the Void-Return Fiendgod, they could disrupt his movements.
That was certainly a great advantage for Ju Hua and the others, who were trying to buy time!
The Void-Return Fiendgod quickly realized that Ju Hua and the others were trying to stall him. Without the slightest hesitation, he ramped up his already overwhelming attacks another notch. In addition to his six enormous arms, a huge eye appeared on his smooth, bald head.
As soon as the eye appeared, it suddenly glared at Immortal Fuyun, who was closest to the Void-Return Fiendgod.
In an instant, a ray of golden light shot toward Immortal Fuyun.
Boom!
Immortal Fuyun had no time to dodge. The golden light struck him head-on.
As the terrifying golden light faded, a small, azure shield fell limply away, while Immortal Fuyun himself flew backward at high speed, his face pale.
The small shield was called the Azure Cloud Shield, an immortal-rank treasure with exceptional defensive power. Immortal Fuyun had always regarded it as his most precious lifesaving treasure. While entangled with the Void-Return Fiendgod, he'd been struck several times by those terrifying arms, but thanks to the Azure Cloud Shield and the Zhuanshui Clan's formation, he'd managed to hold on, even if only with great difficulty.
Who could have expected that the once-mighty Azure Cloud Shield would be crippled by a single ray of golden light from the Void-Return Fiendgod?
"Be careful! That's the Cangjin Clan's signature divine ability, Cave Profound Golden Light!" Ju Hua warned them through a mental transmission, his expression grave. Then he continued:
"Immortal Fuyun, you've lost your protective treasure. Stay a little farther away from now on, and wait for us—"
Ju Hua had only gotten halfway through his sentence when he abruptly stopped. Through his divine sense, he sensed that Immortal Fuyun had retreated an extremely long distance, yet still showed no sign of stopping. His speed hadn't slackened in the slightest from beginning to end!
There was no doubt about it. The man had run away!
Just then, Zhuanshui Pingqiu sent a mental transmission. "Ju Hua, the Void-Return Fiendgod has the divine ability Cave Profound Golden Light, and Fuyun has run off too. The three of us probably can't hold him back. We should focus on saving our own lives first!"
"..."
Ju Hua said nothing. Sure enough, he sensed Zhuanshui Pingqiu had also abandoned them and fled on his own!
Ju Hua swept Qing Muling with his divine sense. Her face was pale, but thankfully, she hadn't abandoned everything and run like the other two.
Qing Muling is more dependable than those two after all! The thought crossed Ju Hua's mind. He then sent her a mental transmission. "Fairy Ling, move aside and use the gales to harass the Void-Return Fiendgod. And be careful of its Cave Profound Golden Light!"
"All right!"
At Ju Hua's message, Qing Muling looked as if a great burden had been lifted from her shoulders. She didn't concern herself with whatever Ju Hua planned to do next. With a quick movement, she sped away into the distance.
After Qing Muling withdrew, Ju Hua didn't hesitate. He pointed at his immortal swords, and the sword formation, which had been made up of nine swords, instantly scattered. Three Three Talents Sword Formations soon appeared in the air.
After a brief moment of thought, Ju Hua took a Litian Immortal Sword from his Storage Magic Treasure and kept it by his side.
The complete Litian Sword Formation was the finest of the finest, while even a single Litian Immortal Sword counted as a top-tier immortal-rank treasure, with formidable power in its own right.
Of course, Ju Hua had brought it out only as a precaution. After all, he would soon have to face the Void-Return Fiendgod alone!
From the moment the Void-Return Fiendgod unleashed Cave Profound Golden Light to the moment Ju Hua split his sword formation in three, only the blink of an eye had passed.
Seeing this, the Void-Return Fiendgod roared with laughter. "Human, your companions were all scared off by me. Why haven't you run?"
"Why should I run?" Ju Hua asked calmly.
"You won't run? Then die!" the Void-Return Fiendgod roared. His six terrifying arms instantly turned into six streaks of light, lashing toward Ju Hua from all directions.
When the four of them had been together, Ju Hua had faced at most two of the arms at once. But facing all six at the same time was an entirely different matter.
Still, though the Void-Return Fiendgod's attacks were overwhelming, Ju Hua remained utterly unafraid. As his magic power surged, the three Three Talents Sword Formations suddenly became three enormous beams of sword light, which swept toward the Void-Return Fiendgod's six arms.