"..."

The Nine-Striped Gold-Winged Tiger stared at the bronze mirror, at a loss for words.

She had never once heard of a demon this brazen existing within the Thousand Demon Den.

But in the next instant, her vertical pupils dilated slightly.

Through that mirror—

the three figures charging toward the cave estate suddenly froze in midair.

"Hkk—"

Yu Chao'an's breath came ragged as he stared at that savage face suddenly pressed close before him, their eyes meeting, his own body reflected in that pair of brilliant golden orbs.

What overwhelming pressure!

He abruptly loosed a roar: "Gather the mountains as Ding, immortal stone as Jia — manifest!"

As a Wutong Mountain disciple, what he cultivated was naturally a Spirit-Transformation Rare technique.

At the very first exchange, he'd instinctively unleashed his bottom-of-the-chest trump card — testament enough to how immense the psychological pressure on him was.

Dust and earth swirled up in an instant all around.

In the blink of an eye it had gathered into the imposing forms of the Six Ding and Six Jia, every one of them awe-inspiring; before them, the eight-zhang Lion Emperor reached only to their knees.

A dozen-odd great hands, blotting out sky and earth, seized down at the Gold-Eyed Lion Emperor.

"..."

Faced with this horrifying sight, Shen Yi abruptly swung the long spear.

Amid the sweep of that dense shadowy light, the Ding-Jia's hard, giant hands were smashed to pieces in an instant, and the thick spear shaft — like a vast tree reaching to heaven — swept across with its force still unspent!

Yu Chao'an's eyes went wide.

He worked seal after seal, a layer of brilliant golden armor covering his body — and was then batted away by the spear's shaft with crushing force.

Beneath that mighty force pouring down over him, he felt as though even his five viscera and spiritual roots had been knocked out of place.

The golden armor over his body burst apart in an instant.

His whole body crashed thunderously down, splitting the earth open, and tumbled a dozen-odd zhang across the ground like a burst…