"What man of his word? Senior, you give him far too much credit. The only reason that Demon Dragon let us go was probably... because Master Jiekong arrived!"
Su Shi'er curled his lip and spoke calmly.
Though his body was weak, it did not keep him from judging the situation.
"Master Jiekong? With the Demon Dragon's strength, killing us before Master Jiekong made his move wouldn't have been difficult, would it?" Mei Yingxue's delicate brows drew together.
She was only half-convinced by Su Shi'er's analysis.
Reason told her his guess was the most credible. But when she thought of the Demon Dragon's astonishing strength, she could not help having doubts.
"Perhaps... Master Jiekong has already made his move?"
Su Shi'er went on, a keen light gleaming in his eyes.
More precisely, he had dealt with Master Jiekong before, even if he had never seen the man's true face back then.
That was enough to give him considerable confidence in Master Jiekong's strength.
Besides, the Devil Race was cunning by nature. Expecting one of them to keep a promise was harder than climbing to heaven.
"Already made his move?"
Mei Yingxue blinked, still puzzled.
But just as she spoke, the ground behind them shook. An enormous swastika-shaped Buddha Seal descended from the sky, its brilliant radiance enveloping a hundred li in every direction.
Boom!
The Buddha Seal slammed into the ground, throwing up a thousand-zhang wall of dust from the land that had already become a desert.
The dust storm covered a full hundred li in every direction. Fierce winds raged within it, showing no sign of stopping.
The winds even drove rolling waves of sand farther outward.
Amid the dust, the lingering force of Su Shi'er's Eight Divisions Heavenly Dragon Force did not dissipate. Instead, this move made it stronger.