Within a towering sea of fire spanning nearly a hundred mu.
Yin Jiumu, Hua Wuji, and the cultivator surnamed Surname Li each wielded their treasures, desperately resisting the waves of fire surging toward them.
Their eyes were filled with shock and disbelief.
From the intelligence Old Devil Wu had brought back and their subsequent investigations, they knew Li Ping possessed a third-tier middle-grade spirit bird whose strength rivaled a core formation late stage cultivator.
That was why they had gathered no fewer than three core formation late stage cultivators and ten core formation middle stage cultivators to deal with Li Ping. This amounted to roughly half the surviving core formation cultivators of the Four Demonic Sects.
It was not that they did not want to mobilize more people. The altar needed guards as well, and three core formation late stage cultivators and ten core formation middle stage cultivators were already the limit of what they could deploy.
Of course, whether it was the three core formation late stage cultivators or the core formation middle stage cultivators like Old Devil Wu-
None of them believed such a force could fail to handle a mere core formation middle stage cultivator like Li Ping.
He was only at the core formation middle stage. However strong he was, how strong could he possibly be?
But now, they realized they had been wrong-outrageously wrong.
Li Ping's spirit bird was not at the third-tier middle stage, but the third-tier late stage!
Whether it had concealed its strength before or only recently broken through, it was a third-tier late stage heaven-and-earth spirit bird!
What horrified them even more was that this heaven-and-earth spirit bird was holding all three core formation late stage cultivators at bay by itself!
In truth, with the divine ability granted by its Vermilion