"Pengzu! Hand over the secret of longevity! We know you're immortal!"
More than seven thousand soldiers clad in enchanted bronze armor held sharp spears.
Baleful qi swirled behind them, enough to chill even ordinary immortals to the bone.
It formed an enormous black tiger's head, seemingly emerging from an entire bank of clouds and mist.
It roared wantonly at the mountain forest ahead.
This was what it meant for a tiger's roar to shake the mountain forest.
Even a Military Path tiger's head formed from the soldiers' concentrated baleful qi had the same effect.
Throughout the forest, birds of every kind swiftly took to the sky.
They flew overhead in alarm.
Some of those birds had already developed rudimentary intelligence.
Even deep within the mountains.
A blue eagle over a hundred meters tall, with a wingspan reaching a thousand meters, leaped down from an enormous, luxuriant pine tree!
The ancient pine, likewise possessing what appeared to be over ten thousand years of spiritual qi and clearly nurtured during the primordial age, shuddered.
It sprouted several branches and held back the minor Demon King at the Golden Immortal realm, who had been about to fly into a rage.
Then it conveyed a message through the wisdom of plants:
"Don't go over there. That's a human Military Path killing formation! Seven thousand soldiers in bronze armor, every last one an elite human warrior. Their kingdom might look second-rate, but don't forget that Fortune Golden Dragons exist!"
"This country has a Fortune Golden Dragon at least at the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm!"
"So we're just going to cower here? Watch someone run wild on our doorstep?"
This was clearly deep in the remote mountain forests.
They were practically near the middle of the Hundred Thousand Mountains. By all rights, at this point