The fox demon's long cry grew ever more piercing.

Amid the surging of muscle, a body vast enough to make one's scalp crawl unfurled among the clouds.

The sun-and-sky-blotting giant tail swayed slightly.

It thrust its forepaws out from the pitch-black clouds, eerie formation-glyphs hanging over its snow-white fur, glimmering with a faint jade light.

Before its head hung a luminous pearl, as though it held a full moon in its mouth.

White mist flowed out from within that pearl, wreathing and drifting about the fox demon's body, like a robe of sumptuous, gossamer silk.

"Tch, so it can do that too."

Perfected Master Qingfeng raised his head and stopped chewing his dried fruit.

Demons did in fact use treasures as well, but most were things plundered from cultivators; something like this, refined specifically for a demon body, was rare indeed.

The other side even had a portable formation lending it support — and if he wasn't mistaken, this should be the Xu family's signature skill.

Qingqiu had truly gone and mastered cultivation through and through.

"A formidable demon body, plus every manner of cultivator's means — isn't this just cheating?"

Tang Yuan was somewhat indignant.

He hailed from a small nation, and unlike Wutong Mountain's proud transcendence, he carried a natural dread of demons in his heart.

The Qingqiu old ancestor revealing its demon body made it impossible for Tang Yuan to go on treating it as a cultivator.

All the more so given its cultivation already overwhelmed Dao Brother Shen's.

Thinking of this, Tang Yuan silently looked back at the Great Qian crowd behind him, so anxious they could scarcely speak.

Why was it that Qingqiu's years of accumulation counted as "a fox's own skills," while Dao Brother Shen had so many colleagues willing to lend a hand and yet was pointedly not allowed to use them?

His teacher, a senior no less, and here he was taking one side in the fight.

"Stop your muttering at me in there."

Perfected Master Qingfeng shot his disciple a glance, then looked toward that figure standing with hands lowered in…