The six Grand Academicians prepared for battle at once, without a thought for anything else. As the Hanlin Academician under their protection, Fang Yun first observed the enemy.
Facing them were nine Demon Kings, all wounded, and Fang Yun had seen every one of them before.
These nine Demon Kings were the group from the Violent Peak Tribe, whose camp lay fifty li from the Cloud Family's. There should originally have been seventeen of them.
The tribal chief, Xiong Sha, still led the group, but compared with their previous encounter, the blood-red color in his eyes had thickened like glue, and his fury had doubled.
Demon Kings possessed tremendous regenerative powers, yet Fang Yun saw wounds on five of them that refused to heal and were still bleeding. They had clearly been inflicted by the power of Lip Spear and Tongue Sword or War Poetry, rather than the claws and fangs of Demon Barbarians.
They had encountered a powerful team of Grand Academicians.
Few powers could keep a Demon King's wounds from healing. Of those available at the Grand Academician level, Star Position power was the likeliest, followed by Literary Treasures imbued with vast righteous qi.
"They must have encountered a team of Grand Academicians from the Six Second Saint Families," Fang Yun said.
The other six Grand Academicians nodded. Only the four highest-ranked tribes could contend with teams from the Six Second Saint Families. The Violent Peak Tribe ranked ninth among the ten great tribes, so a crushing defeat and flight were only to be expected.
At the same time, all seven felt a flicker of alarm, because these nine Demon Kings still possessed remarkably abundant blood-qi. That meant the battle had been extremely brief, ending before they could expend much of it. The Grand Academician team must have