(First update)
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."
Accompanied by the precise mechanical clicks within the Black Boxes, arm-thick crossbow bolts shot out from deep within the forest.
However, the scouting party sent by the Holy Dragon Sect this time was indeed formidable. They remained unflustered even in the face of danger.
"Roar!" "Roar!" "Roar!"...
Deep roars rose one after another. Shangguan Hong and the other two Spirit Emperor elders immediately activated Martial Soul Possession. Everyone's bodies swelled by a full size, the muscles on their thigh-thick arms knotting like dragons. White dragon scales covered their skin as though they wore chainmail, while slight protrusions rose from their foreheads like imposing dragon horns. Their eyes had the vertical pupils of cold-blooded creatures, gleaming with orange light.
Judging by appearances alone, the Holy Dragon Sect truly was extraordinary.
These elders, old and shrewd as they were, had no intention of stubbornly meeting an unknown enemy's methods head-on.
Who knew what tricks the enemy had up their sleeve?
The three Spirit Emperor elders cast aside all concern for their dignity and immediately rolled across the ground, getting covered in grass and mud. They looked exceedingly bedraggled, yet perfectly avoided the barrage of crossbow bolts.
The meter-long bolts embedded upside down in the ground had mostly sunk beneath the soil. Their exposed tails still hummed, making it easy to imagine the terrifying force contained within them.
Among the seventeen elite disciples of the Holy Dragon Sect, some followed the three elders and dodged.
But one kind of rice fed a hundred kinds of people. Some trusted in the formidable defenses of their White-Armored Earth Dragon Martial Souls and insisted on acting like iron-headed fools. Amid low roars, their century and Millennium Soul Rings burst with dazzling yellow and purple light as they activated defensive soul