Volume Four: Buddha Saves No One, Only I, the Demon, Deliver Them - Opportunity (Part One)

"That easily?" Cao Lei raised a delicate finger to his red lips, looking incredulous. Luo Qian cursed, "You idiot! Can't you see that was a cicada shedding its golden shell?" Sure enough, a shadowy figure was already three hundred zhang away. Judging by his build, it was clearly the scholar.

Luo Qian urged the Golden-Veined Cloud Demon Roar beneath him onward. The scholar was astonishingly fast. Cao Lei rode only an ordinary immortal horse, and before long he began to fall behind. Panicking, he called out, "Boss, stop chasing him! It could be a trap!" His voice was so coy it made Luo Qian's scalp prickle. If I don't leave you behind, why would that fellow ever stop?

Who knew what the scholar had eaten growing up? His speed was extraordinary. Even Luo Qian's Golden-Veined Cloud Demon Roar could only keep him at roughly the same distance, though the scholar could not shake him. Cao Lei soon vanished behind them. After flying wildly for a while longer, the scholar suddenly stopped, turned, and gave Luo Qian a string of cold chuckles.

Luo Qian ignored him and rushed forward. He spread his hands, and six streaks of golden light shot out. Six Golden-Veined Cloud Demon Roars surrounded the scholar. The scholar was stunned. He had assumed that, after releasing two Golden-Armored Automatons, Luo Qian could have no other powerful Magic Treasures on him. He had never expected six such formidable Immortal Beasts to spring out at once. With the scholar trapped, Luo Qian breathed a sigh of relief. "Now you're not getting away. Sons, come entertain our guest!" The scholar was baffled. Then three streaks of golden light flew from Luo Qian's left arm, and his face changed. Three Divine Dragons! Even juvenile Divine Dragons were beyond his ability to handle,