Although the cost was still fifty percent of their spiritual power, the actual amount was naturally worlds apart from that of those elite dragon soldiers.
So after General Lei led them through the Weak Water, some of the demon soldiers even had the leisure to exchange a few quiet words with their comrades, looking quite relaxed.
General Lei led these demon soldiers through the vanguard and continued forward, positioning their ranks at the very front.
Then he looked back toward Military Advisor Li and signaled his personal guards to wave their command flags, conveying that he could begin scouting.
Seeing the flags move, Military Advisor Li, who was already prepared, strode up onto a hastily erected platform.
He first casually fiddled with his eight ears, and pure demonic power slowly welled up from his bloodline, flowing toward his ears in an unending stream.
With each rise and fall of Military Advisor Li's breathing, his eight ears began swelling larger and larger, as though they were being inflated.
Although the platform he stood on had been hastily built, it was still about twenty feet high.
By the time his ears reached their maximum size, their drooping lobes had reached the ground below the platform.
From General Lei's distant position, Military Advisor Li looked rather like an enormous fleshy butterfly.
His slender, handsome figure became the butterfly's narrow body, while the enormous ears on either side became its outspread wings.
Everyone who had crossed the curtain of Weak Water held their breath, even slowing their breathing movements, afraid that the slightest unnecessary noise might interfere with Military Advisor Li's Sea-Listening Divine Ability and prevent him from hearing where an ambush lay.
Time ticked by. After roughly an incense stick's worth of time, Military Advisor Li suddenly straightened forcefully on the platform and