At that moment, the Thin Daoist shook the Xuan Yin Taotie Banner, and countless yin creatures flew from the taotie's mouth: wandering souls and walking corpses, humans and members of the Demon Race, all hideous-faced, baring their teeth and brandishing their claws as they lunged to bite Second Aunt Red.
Cheng Xinzhan studied those members of the Yin Clan closely. With his photographic memory, he still clearly remembered the previous two occasions when he had seen the Thin Daoist wield this banner.
The first had been at Poyang Lake. What emerged from the banner first were the souls of fierce beasts such as tigers, leopards, oxen, and snakes, followed by little humanoid ghosts. But those wandering souls had possessed extremely weak spiritual energy. They looked as though they had only just begun cultivating, and their soul bodies had been rather insubstantial.
The second had been at the Xiao Household's Autumn Hunt grounds in White Jade Capital. By then, the beast souls had become very solid and were heavy with demonic energy. They had made quite a splash chasing and fighting beasts in the hunting grounds.
Now that he saw it again, the Third Realm Thin Daoist's banner was as far above what he had seen on those two First Realm occasions as the clouds were above the mud.
Now, not only wandering souls but walking corpses emerged from the banner: human and demon, land creatures and sea creatures, over a hundred of every description. Every last one actually radiated a Golden Core aura!
Although most had undergone no washings, there was no shortage of Yin Clan members at the Third or Fourth Washing. Released all together like this, they presented a truly terrifying spectacle.
But Second Aunt Red, facing him, was a Great Demon who had reached the peak of