"Boom!..."
The instant the enormous black Buddha statue brought its palms crashing down, twelve more fire dragons soared into the air, transforming into twelve Southern Bright Li Fire Spears that stabbed straight at the enormous black Buddha statue.
But as the twelve Southern Bright Li Fire Spears flew out, twelve figures clad in Golden Radiance Armor swept up from the ground. Each took hold of a Southern Bright Li Fire Spear, and together they charged at the black Buddha statue.
"Bang!"
Under the combined assault of the twelve, the enormous palms of the Buddha statue formed from the black lotus were knocked sharply backward.
Then the twelve wielders of the Southern Bright Li Fire Spear began circling the black Buddha statue like twelve fire dragons, thrusting their spears at it one after another.
These twelve were all direct disciples of the Old Martial God, the twelve Divine Generals of Great Chu's Heavenly Pivot Pavilion, and the only people capable of activating the Southern Bright Li Fire Formation and wielding the Southern Bright Li Fire Spears.
Elsewhere, the scarlet flames spat out by the Blood Demon Ancestor's true body, the blood fox, slammed into the air above the Imperial City.
Yet while they were still more than a hundred zhang from the Imperial City, eight enormous gates, each a hundred zhang tall, rose from the ground and blocked every last Bloodflame the blood fox had spat out.
At the same time, the eight Golden Men standing around the Imperial City, likewise a hundred zhang tall, suddenly came alive. Brilliant light shot from their eyes. Some drew the giant axes at their waists, while others bent their bows and nocked arrows, all attacking the Blood Demon Ancestor together.
These eight Golden Armor Divine Beings had been forged by the Founding Monarch of