In those years when I was a mortal and a demon

"That direction, doesn't it look like the city lord's mansion?" A demon pointed into the distance, his voice trembling slightly.

The demon surnamed Ban's expression changed, and he said in a deep voice, "The City Lord's Mansion is currently guarded by at least four senior demon lords. Who would be so bold as to do this!"

"Do you think it might be...?" one of the demons speculated.

"Then what are we waiting for!"

The demons naturally understood what this meant, and unable to contain themselves, they all flew towards the city lord's mansion.

At the same time, colorful streaks of light flew out from all over the city, and some demons even rode gusts of demonic wind towards the city lord's mansion.

However, the battle between powerful beings at the Venerable level was extremely intense. The aftershocks alone caused countless turbulent currents in the surrounding void, and many demons who were close by were shaken so badly that their blood and qi surged and their bodies became unstable.

The demons with the surname Ban also stopped more than ten miles away with solemn expressions, not daring to rush forward, and could only watch from a distance.

Suddenly, a shrill demonic howl emanated from within the gray-white aura of the battle.

Immediately afterwards, billowing demonic flames surged out from the grayish-white mist and instantly condensed into a gigantic demonic shadow over a hundred feet tall.

The demonic figure exuded a terrifying aura, as if endless demonic power was surging within it.

As soon as it appeared, it slashed its claws several times into the grayish-white mist. After forcing back the entity in the mist, an ancient and dilapidated coffin immediately flew out from the demonic shadow.

At the same time, a ball of blood-red light flew out from the demonic shadow, turning into a blood mist midway and enveloping the coffin.

The moment the dilapidated coffin was shrouded in blood mist, it turned a deep crimson, and at the same time, a strange, foul odor wafted in all directions.

Soon, the demons watching from the periphery also smelled the nauseating odor and involuntarily retreated several miles away again.

"The Demon-Suppressing Coffin! It's Senior Yin Sha!" a demon exclaimed in surprise at the enormous demonic shadow.

"Yin Sha Venerable! He was just one step away from advancing to the late stage of Venerable. With his Ghost-Slaying Demon Coffin, he has killed countless seniors of the same level. Even he has come!" The demon clansman with the surname Ban stared wide-eyed, his face full of shock.

At this moment, the ancient coffin trembled slightly, and a harsh friction sound rang out. The lid of the coffin slowly slid open halfway.

Accompanied by the wailing of ghosts and wolves, a hideous demon with a crimson face, green fur all over its body, and a row of foot-long bone spurs on its back sat up from the coffin.

"Fellow Daoist Yin Sha, hurry up and let the Ghost King out! We can't suppress this otherworldly cultivator anymore!" An urgent voice rang out from the green mist and demonic clouds on the other side.

"Good!" The tall, demonic figure shouted, and a blood-red ghost head token suddenly appeared in his hand.

But as soon as he tossed it into the air in front of him, a dark golden light suddenly emerged from the gray-white mist opposite him.

Immediately afterwards, a grayish-white aura surged up, and a mountain giant hundreds of feet tall stood up from it, holding a dark gold mace hundreds of feet long in his hand.

"The counterfeit treasure 'Zhenyuan Mace'!"

"No wonder the Six Extremes Master issued the decree to exterminate immortals!" The tall demonic figure roared angrily upon seeing the dark gold mace.

But the mountain giant was too lazy to waste words and swung the Zhenyuan Mace, smashing it hard against the dilapidated coffin.

Boom! With a loud crash, the coffin was smashed into several pieces, and the evil spirit that had just sat up was also shaken into a blood-red whirlwind.

"You dare destroy my Demon-Suppressing Coffin!" The towering demonic figure, Yin Sha Venerable, was enraged. His demonic energy surged wildly, sweeping towards the mountain giant like a raging black tide.

The mountain giant, however, was not afraid at all. It unleashed its massive fists one after another, each time colliding with the demonic energy and producing a deafening roar.

With his other arm, which held the Zhenyuan Mace, he smashed it repeatedly into the nearby void. Where the Zhenyuan Mace struck, ripples suddenly appeared in the void, and soon after, it shattered like a mirror.

"Oh no! The formation has been broken!"

"This beast is ferocious!"

"Retreat immediately!" Several angry and alarmed voices rang out from within the green mist and demonic clouds.

Immediately afterwards, three disheveled figures shot out from within.

"Can you leave?" Another unfamiliar and cold male voice rang out.

A giant azure phoenix spread its wings and emerged, its body surrounded by flying sword feathers.

A bright white magic disc shone brightly above their heads, and a huge array covering several miles in radius was instantly formed, trapping the three figures and the Yin Sha Venerable within it.

"Formation?"

"It's alright. The Azure Phoenix that's controlling the formation is only an early-stage Venerable. The four of us working together will definitely be able to break through this formation!" Although the four Demon Venerables were trapped, they were not flustered.

Before they could join forces, countless layers of restrictions surged forth from the formation, pressing down on them all at once.

Above that restriction, a large black seal, the size of a small mountain, followed closely behind.

At the same time, the mountain giant, wielding the Zhenyuan Mace, and aided by various techniques, charged towards the four beings.

Faced with this situation, the four masters all showed surprise, but immediately switched from offense to defense and barely managed to stabilize their position.

"Hold him back! I have already notified all the Holy Ancestors, and reinforcements will be here soon!" Venerable Yin Sha shouted, waving his token to summon countless celestial ghosts and evil spirits.

The other three also unleashed their supernatural powers, either conjuring up ghost soldiers or condensing into bone demons.

For a moment, the formation was filled with a fierce interplay of light and shadow.

"Arriving soon? Heh heh, I'm afraid even collecting your corpses is a pipe dream!"

The voice of the unfamiliar man outside the formation rang out again, and then the world suddenly changed, with a huge storm of spiritual energy, different from demonic energy, sweeping out like an angry dragon.

The surrounding天地元气 (heaven and earth energy) was thus stirred and gathered, and a phantom of a young man several hundred feet tall appeared, breaking through the rolling demonic energy that the three had previously used to suppress him.

"The Dharma Body of Heaven and Earth!" The low- to mid-level demons on the periphery exclaimed in surprise.

However, in a certain direction, the group of demons surnamed Ban, while shocked by the supernatural powers of this otherworldly cultivator, found their expressions becoming increasingly strange.

"Why does this illusory figure look somewhat familiar? It's like I've seen it somewhere before?"

"It's not just a resemblance, nor is it like before. Fellow Daoist Ban, if you add some magic markings to his face, wouldn't he look like that hothead who wanted to go to Skyfire City?"

Gurgle.

The demon with the surname Ban swallowed hard, his throat bobbing, and then muttered to himself, "Opportunity... it's so close to me..."

"You think you can do this?!" The other three beings in the Myriad Laws Formation roared in anger upon seeing this, and they also quickly drew upon the primordial energy of heaven and earth to draw upon themselves.

"ban!"

The youthful phantom snorted coldly, and a golden ripple emanated from its head, instantly slowing down the speed at which the three beings were drawing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

"Spatial supernatural power!" Venerable Yin Sha's expression changed drastically.

But soon, a feeling of palpitation in his primordial spirit turned his face to despair.

"Wait a minute, we are willing to let you use the teleportation array to leave!" The other three also sensed it.

That was something the Holy Ancestors had repeatedly warned them about. This cultivator from another world possessed a vicious magic weapon specifically designed to destroy primordial spirits, and over the years, more than ten Venerables had fallen victim to it.

The youthful phantom sneered, and then, seemingly out of nowhere, four golden lightning-filled blades of light slashed towards the four figures in the formation.

The four figures hastily cast spells to defend themselves, but the blade's edge slashed straight in as if it were nothing.

The demons watching from afar saw a flash of light from the blade, and the four figures in the formation almost simultaneously tumbled and fell to the ground.

Such a horrifying scene immediately caused them to flee for their lives in the distance.

However, after killing the four demons, the young phantom ignored the other demons, put away the magic weapon and the four corpses, and then transformed into a beam of light with the Azure Phoenix, the Mountain Giant and others and disappeared into the city lord's mansion.

Before long, a milky white beam of light shot into the sky, indicating that the teleportation array had been activated.