"Spirit Communion Art, summon the Heaven Thunder Lion!"
Shi Leiyin was a veteran master of the Unorthodox Path who had fought a hundred battles. Seeing that things were going badly, he flickered his fingers like phantoms, rapidly forming hand seals to summon his spirit creature.
"Roar!"
With a sky-shaking roar, a mighty golden lion over a hundred feet long appeared out of thin air.
Sound waves surged through its roar, seemingly carrying a strange vibrational force that shook even the solid arrows and projectiles, sending them swaying and wobbling until they instantly lost their power.
It was as though an invisible wall of gang qi surrounded its body, blocking every projectile.
"Stop! Change formation!"
Seeing this, the commander on the mountaintop swiftly gave the order.
But Shi Leiyin gave them no further chance to react. He immediately vaulted onto the Heaven Thunder Lion king's head and rode it as it leaped into the air.
Although he did not know why these warriors had appeared here and caught them red-handed, given his temperament, Shi Leiyin decided to kill them first and worry about the rest later.
If the Azure Cloud Sect had already laid a net stretching from heaven to earth here, carving out a bloody path as quickly as possible was also an act of self-preservation.
But just as he leaped up, he saw a net cast down from above.
It was a spell net woven from treasured materials similar to those used in the Dragon-Binding Rope, specifically designed to prevent enormous spirit creatures from flying into the sky, burrowing underground, or maneuvering freely.
Among the many warriors present, apart from two general-rank warriors who had entered the graded ranks and possessed Earth Rank strength, there were four peak Human Rank experts at the half-step Earth Rank, over ten at