Boom!
Before Xu Taiping could draw near, a swarm of Shark Demons with fleshy wings had already surrounded him and Bai Yu, spitting bubbles, Ice Spikes, and venom all at once.
Bang!
But as the Azure Luan Ring's Wind Wall appeared, all of them were deflected.
Bai Yu shook both wings and plunged nimbly downward, evading the Demonic Beasts' encirclement outright.
Meanwhile, upon seeing this, Thousand-Household Commander Zhang Liang atop the city tower immediately ordered the Crossbowmen on the walls to loose their arrows in support.
Boom!
In an instant, arrows flew in unison.
Hundreds of arrows wreathed in Sea Incineration flames shot the Demonic Beasts full of holes.
Almost every Demonic Beast that dared enter the archers' range met this fate. This was also why the Old General would not redeploy the Crossbowmen on the walls even if every soldier below the city tower died.
Clang!
But with the sudden ring of a piercing sword cry, Xu Taiping and Bai Yu, who had only just escaped the encirclement of those dozen or so flying Shark Demons, were blocked again by an Ice Wall formed from Sword Qi.
That sword strike naturally came from Devil Master Jiao Ling.
Bang!
But the Ice Wall formed from Sword Qi had barely appeared before it shattered with a crash beneath the combined strike of Xu Taiping's fist and Bai Yu's claws.
Both possessed Red Armor Cavalry waist tokens and could draw upon the Sea Incineration Formation's power. Such a hasty sword strike from Devil Master Ling was not enough to stop them.
Of course, though it had not stopped them, it had at least delayed them for a breath or two.
And in those brief one or two breaths, the green-haired, flood-dragon-headed Devil Master had appeared before Xu Taiping and Bai Yu in