Chapter 526: An Endless Stream of Backup Plans

The golden arrow arrived in an instant. The blinding golden radiance made the group of powerhouses from the Outer Realm Evil Clan involuntarily knit their brows. When they realized the arrow's target, the Zitong Demon Emperor felt a great shock in his heart and struck out with a palm in a fierce rage. The unfamiliar Demon Emperor who had been following closely behind was sent flying sideways on the spot, his figure narrowly brushing past the shrieking arrow.

"Heh! You want to dodge?"

Xiao Han's gaze was cold and stern. Taking advantage of the time spent bickering just now, the Sect Protecting Array had successfully accumulated this killing blow.

Unlike the simplified version of the attack he was forced to use before due to energy constraints, the Vault Covering Sun Array in its prime state was enough to strangle a Mysterious Demon Emperor. As for dodging? The arrow was named Sun Chaser; the arrow's destination was the target's life.

The Outer Realm Evil Clan also quickly realized this point. Watching the golden light in hot pursuit of the unfamiliar Demon Emperor, the Zitong Demon Emperor spoke in a hurried tone,

"Quick, intercept it!"

Before the words had even faded, the Zitong Demon Emperor pressed his palms into the void, and a massive Zitong Demon Statue appeared out of thin air. The purple demon eyes shot out two thousand-foot-long beams of light, swearing to shatter the arrow.

"Boom!"

The moment the light beams drew near, a giant ice hand blocked the front. It then clenched fiercely, and the chill of a harsh winter erupted—freezing, then shattering!

"Zitong, to act right in front of me, isn't that a bit too presumptuous?"

Xiao Han, whose aura as an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign was revealed without reservation, looked on with indifference. The Zitong Demon Emperor's pupils shrank violently, his tone filled with shock and fear,

"You... you have broken through to the Immortal Grade?"

Back then, relying on his cultivation as a Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign and his attainments as an Immortal Grade Grandmaster in Spirit Arrays, Xiao Han had fought the three of them—the Mysterious Demon Emperors—to a standstill with the help of several Immortal Grade Spirit Arrays in the Langya Heavenly Palace. Now that his cultivation had advanced further, how could this be!

"Thanks to you, after so many years of fighting, I have gained quite a few insights."

Xiao Han's smile was hateful to the Zitong Demon Emperor, who was in a foul mood.

"Xuyou, let's attack together."

Zitong's thoughts raced as he quickly issued the order,

"Yamo, you two take the others and finish off this array and the others in the Langya Heavenly Palace."

In fact, Yamo and the others had already taken action after Zitong's attack was intercepted by Xiao Han. At the same time, after paying the price of three Ghost Demon Emperors being heavily injured and one of Yamo's palms being destroyed, the golden arrow was blocked.

Hearing the order from the Zitong Demon Emperor, the Xuyou Mysterious Demon Emperor, seeing the power of the Langya Heavenly Palace's Sect Protecting Array for the first time, could not afford to be shocked and immediately chose to insert himself into the battlefield.

"Tsk, you all hold me in quite high regard."

The unfamiliar Xuyou Mysterious Demon Emperor made Xiao Han's brows lock tightly. Compared to the two acquaintances like Yamo, the former, whose intelligence was completely unknown, was not his ideal opponent.

Moreover, Xuyou's aura indicated that he was a peak Mysterious Demon Emperor just like the Zitong Demon Emperor, far more troublesome than those two early-to-mid-stage ones like Yamo.

"The Langya Palace Master's reputation precedes him; how could we dare not to hold you in high regard?"

The Zitong Demon Emperor responded with a smile. Although Xiao Han's strength exceeded his expectations, fortunately, their own side had also been reinforced.

Even with three Ghost Demon Emperors heavily injured, they still had five Ghost Demon Emperors, plus two extra combatants at the Mysterious Demon Emperor level, and they had already dismantled seven or eight out of ten of the Spirit Arrays around the Langya Heavenly Palace.

With only those four Heavenly Sovereigns and Spirit Array Grandmasters who had recently ascended remaining in the Langya Heavenly Palace, plus a Sect Protecting Array with depleted energy, what could they use to fight them?

Just as the Zitong Demon Emperor sneered in his heart, a golden arrow currently condensing attracted his gaze,

"This... this, this, this..."

This is not metaphysical!

The Zitong Demon Emperor was stunned. The previous strike had almost reached the limit of an Immortal Grade Array; could it really "bloom for a second spring" in such a short time?

Does this Sect Protecting Array not have a cooldown?

"You didn't think the Sect Protecting Array could only shoot that one arrow, did you?"

As if guessing what the Zitong Demon Emperor was thinking, Xiao Han said sarcastically:

"Are you looking down on me too much?"

In the decades of fighting, he had always used other Immortal Grade Spirit Arrays. The Vault Covering Sun Array, as his trump card, only maintained daily operations. Having saved up energy for so many years, if it could barely shoot one arrow, wouldn't that energy have been saved in vain?

The Zitong Demon Emperor silently crossed out two Mysterious Demon Emperors in his heart. No problem, they still had five Ghost Demon Emperors left.

Five against four, the advantage is with me!

Perhaps Heaven could not bear to see the appearance of those four words. After the four Heavenly Sovereign-level combatants—Ye Jianxin, Yang Ling, Liu Qingyang, and the Langya Guard Deputy Commander Qian Sha—engaged in battle, as if unwilling to see any fish slip through the net of the Outer Realm Evil Clan, an earth-yellow fire dragon of shocking momentum suddenly lunged out from the Langya Heavenly Palace, soaring upward and fiercely slamming into the remaining Demon Emperors.

Upon seeing the beautiful figure walking out from the array, the Zitong Demon Emperor felt no ripples in his heart.

He should have known; the wife of the Langya Palace Master was no mediocre person.

He was truly foolish, truly, to have forgotten such a large variable, and to have merely regarded her as a head of logistics with decent alchemy skills.

"Are you okay?"

Xiao Han sent a voice transmission to Yi Huang. Although he had figured out her strength during their daily sparring and knew that dealing with one Ghost Demon Emperor was not an issue, he still felt an instinctive worry.

"Don't you believe in me?"

"How could I dare, how could I dare."

Having said this, Xiao Han dared not continue speaking.

"Brother Zitong, we haven't lost this battle yet."

On this side, Xuyou comforted the Zitong Demon Emperor, who had fallen into an emo state due to the endless stream of backup plans from the Langya Heavenly Palace. To be honest, having to face an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign who cultivated both arrays and martial arts alone made him truly apprehensive.

"Xuyou, bring out all your trump cards."

The Zitong Demon Emperor quickly emerged from his depressed mood and said calmly, the purple light in the eyes of the giant demon statue flaring brightly.

Once the bow is drawn, there is no turning back. They had finally managed to launch a surprise attack to the front of the Langya Heavenly Palace with minimal cost while the Langya Heavenly Palace had lowered its guard.

If they left with their tails between their legs, now that the Langya Heavenly Palace was on guard, it would certainly not be as easy for the Outer Realm Evil Clan to make a comeback as it was today.

"Understood."

The Xuyou Mysterious Demon Emperor nodded with a solemn expression, and the demon statue manifested behind him. Unlike the Zitong Demon Emperor's, the demon statue behind Xuyou was ever-changing; staring at it for a long time would even cause a sense of dizziness.

Seeing this, Xiao Han did not hesitate either. He unfolded his Ice Emperor Body, holding a massive Ice Spear, looking like an ice-armored warrior charging through the battlefield. With one thrust of the spear,

"Boom!"

A pitch-black giant shield blocked the cold spear tip. An ape phantom, like a mountain-sized beast, gripped the spear shaft and let out a roar filled with malice.

The monkey was baring its teeth, and the humanoid creature did not delay either. A purple beam of light shot out from behind the ape, slamming into the shoulder armor of the ice-armored warrior.

After a deafening roar that shook the earth, the armor on the shoulder shattered, but the warrior stepped forward as if he hadn't felt it, exerting force fiercely.

"Roar!"

Amidst the ape's bewildered and terrified gaze, the spear shaft, along with the ten-thousand-foot giant statue, was raised high, forming a magnificent scene on the battlefield.

With considerable brute force, he threw the skewered pair out, and the spear and the ape slammed heavily into another giant shadow in the distance.

Xiao Han stepped forward slowly; though it appeared slow, he covered a thousand miles in an instant. Looking at the two figures lying motionless on the ground, his eyes were full of doubt. Almost subconsciously, a spherical protective barrier emerged around his body, the dense spiritual energy making one feel awe-struck.

Immediately, the spiritual energy barrier rippled violently, a fist and a sword revealed their figures, and the fierce demon statue exerted its strength.

"Bang!"

Bang, bang, bang!

After a series of explosions ended, the brief battle came to a temporary halt with Xiao Han being knocked away. The moment he was knocked away, two Spirit Arrays simultaneously appeared beneath the feet of Xuyou and the Purple-Eyed Mysterious Demon Emperor, and sturdy frost chains held back their pursuit.

"Bang, bang!"

With a few crisp sounds, the two demons shattered the chains beneath their feet and looked at Xiao Han, who was waiting in battle formation ahead, their eyes full of gravity.

The speed at which the latter deployed Spirit Arrays was astonishing, and they were also concealed; if one were not careful and got trapped, what would follow would likely be a storm of follow-up attacks.

Xiao Han was also vigilant. He had adapted to the old acquaintance, the Purple-Eyed Mysterious Demon Emperor, but for the moment, he had not figured out the methods of the Xuyou Mysterious Demon Emperor. The giant statue that had just appeared before him was practically real; had he not noticed the movements of the two, he might have truly fallen for it.

For a time, both sides kept a close watch on each other's lapses and flaws, and the battlefield fell into an eerie calm.

Until that shout,

"Not good!"