Green fluid kept seeping from the Demon Beast's wounds, left by the frenzied attacks of thousands upon thousands of crossbow bugs.
As it looked at Zi Kun now, boundless terror filled its eyes.
The thousand-legged, centipede-like Demon Beast sensed the demonic aura emanating from Zi Kun. His aura actually left it feeling powerless to resist—the most terrifying bloodline suppression that existed between Demon Beasts.
Only through the mental connection with her bonded spirit beast did An Die realize that her opponents actually had a third-tier Demon Beast as well. He had simply been inside a spirit beast pouch earlier, with no time to be summoned.
The balance between the two sides instantly reversed.
Zi Kun seemed not to have heard An Die at all. Though he did not know what had happened, he could see that both Li Yan and Zhao Min were wounded.
Li Yan had told him to kill her. How could he wait for An Die to finish speaking? He abruptly brought his hands together in midair, and over a hundred small, purple-flamed swords, each just over a foot long, instantly appeared in dense ranks all around An Die.
Their tips trembled, and almost simultaneously, every small sword gave a hum! They swept toward An Die and the thousand-legged, centipede-like Demon Beast in a sky-blotting onslaught...
The man in the black cloak fled desperately forward. Even now, everything that had just happened still seemed utterly absurd to him.
There had been five of them surrounding their targets to kill them.
They definitely aren't Nascent Soul Cultivators. Otherwise, we'd all have died in the first exchange.
*But the moment that male cultivator attacked, the bull-nosed Daoist barely even had a chance to resist. I've never heard of a poison cultivator this powerful at our level. That damned Wusitu