Ai Jian knew full well how terrifying that blood demon was.
Sima Lingzhen had mastered profound Dao Arts and had all but cultivated Dragon-Transformation True Fire, one of the ten great True Fires of heaven and earth.
Hou Wen had exhaustively studied Xiantian Divine Calculation, his accomplishments reaching into the mysteries of creation.
Both were outstanding disciples of the Jade Dawn School.
Both had fought their way up, step by step, from nearly ten thousand brilliant talents in the four great Lower Courts!
They had occupied the lofty positions of the "ten great disciples," formidable figures who had once taken first place!
Sima Lingzhen, in particular, came from the direct line of the main branch of the Hall of the Courtyard's Sima Clan. He cultivated the supreme Celestial Emperor Scenic Dragon Spirit-Riding True Scripture, a subtle, wondrous formula of the ancient Xuan Sect, and his cultivation even faintly surpassed Hou Wen's!
Yet after Chen Ying released the blood demon in his left eye...
After only a few dozen exchanges...
Both Hou Wen and Sima Lingzhen had fallen in defeat, utterly unable to withstand it.
Had Hou Wen not reacted quickly, seemingly having already divined through Xiantian Divine Calculation that disaster might strike today and made preparations beforehand...
He would probably have lost more than half his vital blood to the blood demon.
Instead, like Sima Lingzhen...
He would have become a corpse in the Mysterious Truth Sect...
Even two Golden Core True Persons from major sects could not prevail.
In the impoverished Southern Territory, probably only those Primordial Spirit old monsters whom weak sects and minor households regarded as their sects' foundations could firmly overpower the blood demon.
If such a savage demon slipped out of control and went berserk...
The inevitable result would be mountains and rivers trembling for