The individual strength of Ancient Demons already far surpassed that of Demon Barbarians, and many Ancient Demons even exceeded the Dragon Race in certain respects. Rumor held that all Ancient Demons carried the bloodlines of ancient great menaces or even the Primordial Clans. Though weaker than the Dragon Race overall, they could not possibly lag behind in every respect.
Mountain Bearer, for instance, fell short of the Dragon Race in the essence of his sacred power, agility, and spellcasting ability, but slightly surpassed them in sheer physical strength and total sacred power.
Mountain Bearer had already spent years building up his strength. After receiving the benefits Fang Yun had brought him from the Burial Saint Valley, then carrying stars on his back and cultivating for years, his emergence shook heaven and earth.
Mountain Bearer tucked his entire body into his shell and kept charging forward. Shu Huan was far inferior to him in both strength and sacred power. His sole advantage was that the ancestral might of the Ancestral Suppression Mountain surpassed that of the newly born ancestral treasure, the Nine-Star Mountain.
Yet Mountain Bearer braved the ancestral might head-on and unleashed his charge!
Even someone as powerful as Great Sage Shu Huan was driven back again and again, like a lion or tiger rammed by an elephant.
As he neared Demon Barbarian City, Shu Huan roared. The muscles all over his body swelled until they nearly burst through his skin. Vast quantities of divine medicine flowed into his stomach, their medicinal power spreading and driving his aura ever higher.
Shu Huan rooted himself to the ground like a nail.
Behind him stood more than a billion elite Demon Barbarians!
The Dragon City Army had already been annihilated, and the Demon Barbarians had suffered countless losses in successive wars. Now,