"Interesting."
Standing at the rear, Ruan Jiang watched Zhang Yuan resolve the crisis with ease and could not help silently shaking his head.
Just how many times had True Lords screwed him over for him to develop such an instinct for early warning?
Then again, as a Foundation Establishment Celestial, he had even lost his own Dao Domain. If that still failed to make him more vigilant, all his cultivation of the sha ingestion gang devoration path's celestial arts would have been wasted.
Tsk, tsk. How pitiful.
Sensing Ruan Jiang's gaze, Zhang Yuan raised his brows slightly.
Why look at me with such pity? Is there anything about me worth pitying?
Zhang Yuan did not dwell on it. After the Black-Robed Demon King appeared, he reassessed the lineups on both sides and their chances of victory.
His side had a Divine Ignition Realm Sword Saint and Shangxian True Person, an Ascension Realm Great Cultivator. The opposing side had three people: Ruan Jiang, whose available strength was unknown; the Black-Robed Demon King, a Demon King's true body at the Ninefold Negation Realm; and the Nether-Knocking Lord, also at the Ninefold Negation Realm, along with a nether void corpse and a nether annihilation vengeful ghost.
He, a minor Purple Mansion Realm cultivator, could handle the nether void corpse and nether annihilation vengeful ghost. What would truly decide this battle was whether Xie Jingxin and Shangxian True Person could defeat Ruan Jiang and the other two.
Two against three left them outnumbered. As for their opponents' true natures, one was a True Lord's incarnation and another a Demon King's true body. Xie Jingxin and Shangxian True Person seemed inferior in that respect as well. Under these circumstances, victory would probably be difficult unless he evened out the numbers.
Fortunately, Zhang Yuan had prepared