Verdant Twin-Blade Demon

"They're only slight signs of evolution." Yue Shen shook his head. "Really, he's just a somewhat stronger Verdant Twin-Blade Demon."

"Then what should we do now?" Lin Jialu looked at Yue Shen.

"We can't outrun them, especially when one of the Verdant Twin-Blade Demons has a Skeleton Mammoth mount." Yue Shen shook his head. "We can only prepare to fight."

"Everyone, recover your spiritual power here and get ready for battle," Yue Shen said gravely. "Leave the peak Fifth Tier Verdant Twin-Blade Demon and his mount to me. But I probably won't be able to finish him off quickly, so you'll have to deal with the other Verdant Twin-Blade Demon yourselves."

When they heard that they would be responsible for dealing with the other Verdant Twin-Blade Demon, everyone except Long Haochen looked visibly shaken.

"Don't worry, everyone."

Long Haochen stepped forward to reassure them. "When we face the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon, I'll handle the defense. You just focus on attacking."

"I won't keep this from you any longer. I have a Holy Guidance Spirit Furnace, and its ability forces an opponent to target only me," Long Haochen said. "But I don't know how long I can hold him off, either, so you'll need to kill him as quickly as possible with your strongest attacks. Then we can go help Yue Shen..."

How to deal with that Verdant Twin-Blade Demon was Long Haochen's group's concern.

After assigning their tasks, Yue Shen sat down cross-legged nearby. Not only did he need to recover the spiritual power he had just spent, he also had to get himself into peak condition.

Before long, Long Haochen and the others finished discussing their battle plan.

Aside from the brothers Chen Si and Chen Chen, who had expended relatively little energy so far and were assigned to patrol, everyone sat around Yue Shen and began recovering their spiritual power.

Before long, thunderous footsteps reached their ears.

"They're here."

Yue Shen rose and looked at the high-ranking Demons steadily approaching them in the distance.

Two Verdant Twin-Blade Demons and a Skeleton Mammoth.

Yue Shen narrowed his eyes slightly. It was just as Lin Jialu had said.

The Verdant Twin-Blade Demon riding on the Skeleton Mammoth's back looked noticeably different from the one beside him.

His normally emerald-green carapace had begun to take on a faint yellow tinge, a clear sign that he was close to evolving again.

Still, he probably hadn't broken through to the sixth tier yet. Otherwise, Yue Shen would be in for a grueling battle.

But this Verdant Twin-Blade Demon's spiritual power was indeed higher than his own, which made things troublesome.

Not to mention that his opponent also had a Fifth Tier undead creature, a Skeleton Mammoth, as his mount.

"Yue Shen, we'll finish off our Verdant Twin-Blade Demon as quickly as possible," Long Haochen said solemnly. "You can focus on defense and wait for us to come help once we're done."

"Ah, all right." Yue Shen simply nodded without saying anything more.

Soon, the two Verdant Twin-Blade Demons reached the group.

"Attack!" Long Haochen shouted, then led the other members of the team toward one of the Verdant Twin-Blade Demons.

The two Verdant Twin-Blade Demons clearly hadn't expected these humans to attack them instead of fleeing.

"Foolish human warriors! You're courting death!" the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon said in human speech, then charged toward Long Haochen and the others.

Long Haochen was at the head of the team, and the instant the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon entered his Holy Guidance Spirit Furnace's targeting range-

White light flashed as the Holy Guidance Spirit Furnace inside Long Haochen activated, locking directly onto the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon before him.

The Verdant Twin-Blade Demon, who had intended to pick them off one by one, abruptly faltered in his charge,

Then lunged straight at Long Haochen. "Hmm?"

The Verdant Twin-Blade Demon riding the Skeleton Mammoth seemed to have noticed something amiss.

He slapped the bones of the mount beneath him, intending to help his fellow Demon kill these reckless Human Race warriors first.

Suddenly, a resounding dragon's cry reached his ears.

The Verdant Twin-Blade Demon froze for a moment, then swiftly raised his arms and crossed them over his head.

A dragon formed from light-attribute liquid spiritual power descended from above. Its imposing force filled even this Verdant Twin-Blade Demon, who was on the verge of reaching the sixth tier, with deep apprehension.

What puzzled him even more, however, was why his senses had been so sluggish that he had only noticed the enemy's attack just before it landed.

Boom!

As the golden dragon-shaped attack crashed down, dust exploded beneath the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon, engulfing both him and his mount.

Yue Shen, who was also within the flying dust, activated his Spirit Light Shield the instant the Rising Dragon Strike landed. Then he pushed lightly off the ground, putting distance between himself and the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon.

Rising Dragon Strike, the strongest offensive skill of a Fifth Tier Retribution Knight.

"You underhanded scoundrel!" the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon roared from within the dust. He slapped the Skeleton Mammoth beneath him, intending to charge at Yue Shen.

Just then, space beside Yue Shen tore open, and Sol joined the battle.

Seeing the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon charging toward them, Sol let out an indignant growl.

"Don't rush, Sol. Let's deal with his mount first."

With a sword in each hand, Yue Shen used Holy Sword, strengthening his attack power as much as possible.

Sol exhaled gently, and a blue glow quietly crept along Yue Shen's hands and onto his light swords.

But because of Holy Sword, the light shining from Holy Fire and Blazing Sun in Yue Shen's hands was so dazzling that the blue glow was barely noticeable.

Bzz, bzz...

The light swords in Yue Shen's hands seemed to be crying out, as though they were bearing tremendous pressure.

The sound gave Yue Shen a fright. These two light swords were his most precious possessions at the moment. He couldn't let them suffer even the slightest damage.

With that thought, Yue Shen increased his spiritual power output to strengthen the effects of Holy Sword.

After all, with only Fifth Tier cultivation, how could he possibly destroy two pieces of Spirit-Demon Grade Equipment simply by pouring spiritual power into them?

Clearly, they couldn't withstand the corrosive effects of the starry sky power Sol had imbued them with.

For now, Yue Shen had no good solution to this problem. He could only increase his spiritual power output to lessen the corrosive effects of Sol's starry sky power on his equipment.

As the swords in Yue Shen's hands grew brighter and brighter, the Verdant Twin-Blade Demon charging at him felt an ever-mounting sense of pressure.

Yue Shen crossed his swords and unleashed a cross slash through the air.

Holy Radiance Cross Slash.

But this attack was enhanced not only by Holy Sword and Fifth Tier liquid spiritual power, but also by Sol's starry sky power.

So it was actually a combination technique between Yue Shen and his mount companion.

Yue Shen had already thought of a name for it: Star Radiance Cross Slash.