"Why are you shaking your head? It's not like they'll eat you! You useless lump." Li Yichen gave his head a disgruntled smack.
Then he lowered his head and whispered, "Don't you have plenty of underlings? Just let them fight." As he spoke, Li Yichen winked at him.
"Oh, right!" Dazhuang's eyes lit up. The estate might not have much else, but it had plenty of stones. Weren't those ready-made underlings?
"He agreed." Li Yichen immediately grinned, then told Jiang Ruoyi and the others, "Go all out. This guy is really strong."
"Uh..." Dazhuang was dumbfounded. He stared blankly at Li Yichen, thinking, Master, doesn't your conscience hurt when you set your little follower up like this?
But things had already come this far, so he could only steel himself and go along with it.
He raised his right foot and stamped hard on the ground.
With a thud, the ground trembled slightly. Dazhuang shot into the air like a cannonball.
The three women looked up, all expecting him to come crashing down. Yet when Dazhuang reached the highest point, he hovered steadily in place.
"A stone... can fly?" The three women were stunned once again, their understanding of the world overturned yet another time.
Before they could react, Dazhuang shouted, "Underlings, get up and grab them!"
Dazhuang's order was simple and blunt.
Countless red points of light immediately lit up across the estate. Then the previously unremarkable stones sprouted arms and legs, bobbing their oversized heads as they charged at Jiang Ruoyi and the others without hesitation.
Little Stone Demons poured in from every direction like a tide. Their shapes were utterly haphazard: some were round, some flat, and others jagged and angular.
The ones mobilized this time were relatively large, though. The biggest were the size of millstones,