Liang Zhaohuang, together with his spirit beasts and Dharma Aspects, faced the Black Banyan King of the late Demon King stage alone and struck first without hesitation.
Above, the Five Virtues Fire burned down from the Phoenix Dharma Aspect, while the Kunpeng and Kunpeng Dharma Aspect unleashed tornado storms that crashed down with the force to crush all in their path.
Below, the sea of fire raised by the Red Flame Lion King collided with, burned against, and eroded the sea of black water stirred up by the Alligator Snake.
Moreover, Liang Zhaohuang sacrificed three precious pearls, driving the power of the laws of various elements to strike and erupt, destroying swath after swath of black banyan forest.
The Black Banyan King's killing move had always been its rapidly proliferating branches and aerial roots—one tree becoming a forest, transforming into a black banyan grove that trapped its enemies within before sealing them away and devouring them.
Once an enemy lacked the strength to break free after being trapped in the black banyan forest, they could only perish within it and become nourishment for the growth of the forest and the Black Banyan King.
Yet now, under the all-out assault of Liang Zhaohuang, his three spirit beasts, and two Dharma Aspects, they temporarily suppressed the growth of the Black Banyan King's branches and aerial roots. This prevented the Black Banyan King from ever fully deploying its "one tree becoming a forest" technique, its Heaven's Mandate Dao art.
For a time, the two sides were deadlocked.
However, Liang Zhaohuang knew clearly that this stalemate could not last long.
To say nothing else, maintaining both the Phoenix and Kunpeng Dharma Aspects at once placed no small drain on his mana, Spiritual Sense, and Dharma Aspect power.
And that was before counting his own