Black clouds bore down on the city, threatening to crush it.
This was no mere description, but what everyone defending Luling was experiencing firsthand.
The auras of four Great Demons of the Mountain-Viewing Realm joined into one.
"Hehehe... Lü Qinghou, we meet again..."
The Jade-Faced Demon Venerable stood in midair, gently waving his folding fan.
At his side.
Three Great Demons of the Mountain-Viewing Realm gazed down coldly, their eyes savage.
Lü Qinghou did not answer. He merely held his saber across his chest.
The three behind him took their positions on either side.
Four against four.
They seemed evenly matched.
Yet.
A smile curled at the corners of the Jade-Faced Demon Venerable's mouth.
"Attack."
The four Great Demons, who had been approaching in a fan formation, abruptly changed positions.
"Roar—!!!"
The Rhino Great Demon threw back his head and roared, his body swelling in the wind until he instantly assumed his hundred-zhang true form.
His hide was thick, his flesh tough, and his demonic aura surged into the sky.
He charged heedlessly, head lowered like a maddened bull, hurtling straight at Lü Qinghou and the other three!
At the same time.
The Azure Wolf Demon Venerable also revealed his true form, becoming a blue-green hurricane that followed close behind.
The Jade-Faced Demon Venerable snapped his folding fan shut. Fox tails blotted out the sky behind him, and pink mist gushed forth, shrouding several li in every direction.
"This is bad!"
The purple-robed elder's expression changed sharply. Lightning blazed around his fists as he tried to blast the charging rhino away.
But the Rhino Great Demon endured the barrage of lightning with his thick hide and tough flesh.
Even as his skin split and flesh tore, he refused to retreat half a step. Instead, the pain inflamed his ferocity, and