In the hollow, the night breeze was cool.
For these demons to serve as the mounts of immortals and gods, they naturally possessed not only exceptional bloodlines, but also profoundly powerful cultivation.
Even the weakest had reached Inkfall in the Painting Realm. Accustomed to roaming the Nine Provinces unchecked, when had they ever taken a Chessmaster Realm cultivator seriously?
To them, the girl before them was merely a spoiled brat coasting through life in the Heavenly Court under the shelter of her elders.
It had never occurred to them that she would dare strike first.
Thus, even after Jiang Yuechu took up her spear, they remained rooted to the spot, unsure what she intended to do.
Until black flames tore through the night.
"Aaargh!!!"
An agonized scream abruptly erupted from the scarlet-armored man's mouth.
Unable to maintain his half-human, half-demon form, he thunderously revealed his enormous Scarlet-Armored Giant Rhino body and writhed on the ground, as though suffering unimaginable pain.
The Purple-Gold Spear pierced straight through his thick right leg. Pitch-black flames burrowed madly into his flesh through the wound, burning the Painting-Realm Great Demon until he wished he were dead.
"She really dared attack?!"
The demons stared in disbelief, then flew into a rage!
Lord Ink-Horn's aged face turned utterly grim, and he slammed his withered wooden walking stick into the ground.
His Painting Realm aura erupted, snapping all the immortal grass around him.
"You have a death wish!"
The blue-faced, fanged demon let out an enraged roar, shattering his human form to reveal his true body-a blue Ferocious Hou.
With a beat of his wings, he whipped up a skyful of foul winds and lunged at Jiang Yuechu.
"Since you're begging to die, I'll make you my first morsel!"
Facing the furious, encircling assault of several Painting-Realm Great