The Demon Cultivator called Kui raised his head, gazed deeply at the sword light linking sky and sea, then turned to Shen Er.
"Sect Master Shen, why don't both our sides take a step back?"
"If you truly manage to open a passage inside, let the juniors from both sides enter together, with life and death depending on their own abilities. How does that sound?"
Shen Er watched the Demon Cultivator before him warily.
In all his years in the Eastern Sea, he had never heard of such a member of the Demon Race. Was this a newly ascended fifth-tier Great Yao?
If so, the Demon Race was even stronger than Penglai had anticipated.
Shen Er realized sorrowfully that he seemed to have no other choice.
After all, Penglai was weak now.
In the tens of thousands of years since Venerable Pillow Sea passed away, only the Third-Generation Sect Master had ever reached Void Refining.
Yet he, too, had passed away four thousand two hundred years ago.
Not long after the Fourth-Generation Sect Master succeeded him, Tao Wen's attack on the Dragon Maiden occurred, and Penglai subsequently came close to utter destruction.
The battle over the Immortal Continent shook heaven and earth in the Ruin Sea, and two of Penglai's Spirit Transformation cultivators died fighting.
Together with Deputy Sect Master Tao Wen, who had already had one foot in the Spirit Transformation Realm at the time and then vanished without a trace, Penglai lost three Spirit Transformation cultivators in an instant.
Had Senior Shi Zixing not intervened to protect them, Penglai's destruction would all but have been set in stone.
After retreating to Yingzhou, they had still not recovered their strength despite all these years. Even now, Shen Er was their sole Spirit Transformation Cultivator.
Two Great Yao stood before