Cloud Crane True Lord asked in bewilderment:
"Brother Zhang, you didn't know?"
The deathly pale Zhang Yu first murmured, realization filling his eyes:
"No wonder, no wonder..."
Seeing this, the Pearl Relic House Master beside him urged somewhat anxiously:
"Brother Zhang, what exactly happened?"
Snapping out of his daze, Zhang Yu shook his head hard and said:
"Earlier, Elder Brother Qu Shuang, who was guarding the Formation Nodes of the First Layer Barrier, sent us word that many Profound Demon Crows had appeared around that demonic beast, along with several Neither-Human-Nor-Beast Demonic Beasts."
"So he summoned Elder Brother Zhuo Buming of the Formless Sword Sect to help him kill those Profound Demon Crows and Neither-Human-Nor-Beast Demonic Beasts, to keep them from waking the demonic beast.
"At the same time, he told me to send Zhao Mou out of the grotto-heaven to find you. He said the situation was critical, and if you still... still didn't come to help, once they failed to kill that flock of Profound Demon Crows and those Neither-Human-Nor-Beast Demonic Beasts..."
"That sleeping demonic beast would surely awaken."
"But Zhao Mou never returned, and demonic beasts began appearing one after another in the Third-Level Barrier where I was stationed and the Second-Level Barrier where Elder Brother Zhuo Buming was stationed."
"I had no choice but to travel back and forth between those two barriers, killing the demonic beasts that came to harass us."
"But just now, after Elder Brother Qu Shuang and Elder Brother Zhuo Buming had slain almost all the demonic beasts with their flying swords, that one Neither-Human-Nor-Beast Demonic Beast actually gravely wounded them one after the other."
"The two of them had no choice but to fall back to defend the First-Level Barrier."
"But no sooner had they retreated than the Neither-Human-Nor-Beast Demonic Beast