Slaying Black Feather, Cutting Off the Escape (Thanks to Reading Ten Thousand Volumes for the 2,666 Tip)

Inside the secret realm, Black Feather True Lord's expression had darkened to the extreme.

His anger had turned to surprise, then finally to fear.

His gaze remained fixed on the Earth Dragon Demon Emperor. Naturally, the demon emperor posed the greatest threat here. At his peak, he would have been confident of fighting a fifth-stage flood dragon, but now, less than thirty percent of his strength remained. Only by relying on the formation could he hold out at all.

Yet he also had to divide his attention, watching the other spirit beasts out of the corner of his eye and occasionally glancing at Ye Jingcheng. Most often, however, he looked toward the secret realm's entrance.

Ye Jingcheng's arrangement was particularly well considered. He stood right at the entrance, with the early fourth-stage Peachwood behind him. Before him stood the Golden-Eyed Zhu Yan, which feared no heavenly fire; the peak fourth-stage Cold Drake with its pure bloodline; the late fourth-stage Five-Tailed Red Fox; the late fourth-stage Golden-Scaled Beast, which resembled a qilin; and the middle fourth-stage White-Brow Green Wolf...

Getting past so many demon kings while evading the fifth-stage Earth Drake's attacks was scarcely any different from facing two or three Nascent Soul cultivators head-on.

Neither capturing their leader nor escaping through the entrance was realistic.

"Who really stands behind your Heavenly Sand Sect? The Heavenly Flood Dragon Sea, the Phoenix Saint Palace, or the Fox Saint Palace?" Black Feather True Lord demanded again, unwilling to accept his fate.

From what he could tell, every demon king before him was an exceptionally rare species in the Great Yu Realm. Any one of them could serve as the guardian spirit beast of a Nascent Soul sect.

Yet all of them had gathered under one man's command. He already suspected that the power