396 Full of Doubts

He Ping knew that he had reaped enormous gains this time. On one hand, he had Shi Wanhai's body, possessed by demonic will, issue orders; on the other, he set about suppressing the nine Dragon-Slaying Heavenly Soldiers and digesting the fruits of this battle.

"These nine Dragon-Slaying Heavenly Soldiers are truly fierce! Even trapped within the formation inside my mirror, they're still struggling!"

In an instant, light trembled without end. Within the minor thousand world spanning a thousand li, it was as though earthquakes and tsunamis had erupted.

The nine Dragon-Slaying Heavenly Soldiers each revealed their forms, every one different. Among them were an enormous four-armed ape, a semi-humanoid demon wrapped head to toe in white bony armor, a monster with a wolf's body and a human head, and a demon shaped like a toad, its belly covered in countless short legs like some spider-scorpion hybrid.

Beyond these were a strange beast neither dragon nor dragonlike, with a neck more than ten zhang long, a deer's head, and a turtle's back; a gigantic black horse whose four hooves burned with dark crimson flames; and a lion-headed giant eagle seemingly from the age of myth, wreathed in lightning, whose beating wings could whip up storms.

Every one of these monsters was enveloped in a pale golden sphere of light. The power released by the grand array suppressed them all over, yet they still struggled violently.

Crackle! Crackle!

These demonic Dao soldiers thrashed without pause. Even with time twisted and space suppressed, the grand array could not fully seal them. The nine Dragon-Slaying Heavenly Soldiers neither froze nor became completely trapped.

Buzzz, buzzzz...

The formation suffered powerful impacts and could not suppress these nine Dao soldiers at all. It could only let them roar and erupt continuously, their power hammering outward and