When they heard that voice...
"Damn you! Lord Illusion Spirit! You bastard! The Five Great Sects won't let you get away with this!" True Lord Ziyang's fury boiled over, and he roared curses...
"Heh heh! I'm just a rogue cultivator. What do I have to fear?" Lord Illusion Spirit chuckled, sounding utterly unconcerned...
Suddenly!
With a humming rumble, astonishing gray light rippled through the formation. Then the bamboo-pole-like demon beasts surrounding the cultivators began to swell, their auras surging wildly. They launched frenzied attacks on the Cloud Nation cultivators and the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, utterly heedless of death...
These bamboo-pole-like ghost-demon beasts were no easy opponents. Spells and treasures could barely harm them, and even when injured, their powers of recovery were extraordinarily astonishing. Countless streams of gray light poured into their bodies, allowing them to recover at a shocking speed...
Now their magic power had surged to such astonishing heights... Each was already approaching the Golden Core Stage, and their numbers were staggering-a full thousand or more...
For a time...
Even the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators could not fully shield everyone from the demon beasts' encirclement. They could only do their utmost to resist...
Lord Illusion Spirit had once been a rogue cultivator who wandered from place to place, enjoying some renown in the neighboring nations. His chief strength lay in his astonishing mastery of the way of formation. He had helped many small and medium-sized sects, as well as major lineages that could afford his price, set up sect-defending grand arrays...
Yet no one had expected the three great sects of Lin Nation to buy his services this time and have him join this grand formation battle. The Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation was his handiwork. Without it, the sects of Lin Nation and Cloud Nation could