The assassin didn’t hesitate at all. As soon as the attack was launched, he immediately turned and fled, his spirit wings bursting out from his back. With all his strength, he flapped them, fleeing at lightning speed into the distance.

But how could Xing Xuan let him go? A deep and rapid chanting sound exploded like ice water on hot oil. He pointed his staff forward, and a tangerine-colored giant hand appeared out of nowhere, grabbing the assassin. This was the Star Demon Grip, the powerful control magic of the Star Demon race.

In Xing Xuan’s eyes, the assassin was already a dead man. As the strongest magic race among the demons, the Star Demons were born with a powerful sense of perception. It was this powerful perception that had saved his life, as he had sensed the assassin’s presence at the most critical moment. Even as an eighth-level powerhouse, he was still vulnerable to an assassin. After all, the Star Demons were purely a magical race. A Star Demon releasing magic was extremely powerful, but being attacked unprepared was a different story.

From the assassin’s previous attack, he could tell that this was a seventh-level human assassin, and a very powerful one at that, at least a seventh-level, fifth-grade expert. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to get so close without being noticed and break through his defensive equipment. But even so, what could he do? The Star Demon Grip was a Star Demon’s innate magic. Although it required chanting, it was extremely fast to cast and was also a powerful seventh-level control magic. It would take more than a moment for an assassin to break free, and that time would be enough for his companions to tear him to pieces.

However, just as the chilling murderous intent spread through Xing Xuan’s eyes, the assassin controlled by the Star Demon Grip gave him a great shock.

An intense murderous aura erupted from the assassin, followed by a layer of dark gold light that suddenly shone, raging like a storm. Countless dark gold blades burst out in an instant like lit firecrackers. With a deafening roar, they actually shattered the Star Demon Grip. At the same time, on a building a hundred meters away, a white light flashed instantly, landing on the assassin. The powerful pull instantly changed the assassin’s direction, sending him flying away as if he were running for his life.

“Chase! Kill them!” Xing Xuan roared. A tangerine-colored light flashed behind him, and his spirit wings burst out. The other demons also displayed their skills. Except for the Bear Demon, who couldn’t fly, the other demons quickly rushed towards the location where the white light had appeared.

At this time, among this Demon Hunt Squad, the Bear Demon was running far behind, just reaching the assassin’s previous position. The other demons took flight and chased towards the direction where the white light had appeared. Xing Xuan, as the leader of the group, was in the rear.

Suddenly, Xing Xuan, who was accelerating forward, felt a chill all over his body. An inexplicable sense of fear suddenly appeared in his heart. He didn’t sense the presence of any enemies or danger. But instinct told him that an almost devastating crisis was right in front of him.

As an eighth-level powerhouse, Xing Xuan didn’t even have a moment to think. A fierce look flashed in his eyes, and an intense tangerine-colored light suddenly spread from his body in all directions, striking the air.

Nothing?

Because he felt his life was threatened, Xing Xuan used all his strength in this attack. The elemental impact of an eighth-level powerhouse was terrifying, blasting out a radius of over a hundred meters. Fortunately, he was flying in the air, not on the ground, otherwise, Great Yak City would have suffered.

However, to his surprise, his all-around attack had no effect at all. And the instinctive sense of crisis didn’t weaken at all, but instead became stronger.

Wrong, not around. Xing Xuan suddenly realized that his defense was missing a direction: the sky!

At this moment, a bleak gray light quietly appeared, without any sound of breaking through the air and without any spiritual energy fluctuations, but it gave people a beautiful and moving feeling. There wasn’t even a figure visible. There was only that gray light and shadow that seemed to condense reincarnation.

Xing Xuan’s reaction was too late after all. All he could do now was burn, burn his own spiritual energy. With a roar, he curled his spirit wings upward and raised his staff.

However, his previous full-strength attack in all directions had consumed a large amount of his own spiritual energy. Even an eighth-level powerhouse needed at least a short time to recover the spiritual energy he had just consumed after releasing a full-strength attack. However, that beautiful gray light descended at this instant. The timing was so perfect that it could be said to be impeccable.

At this moment, all the other Demon Hunters paused for a moment, subconsciously looking up at the sky, because the same sense of crisis also appeared in their instincts. And the sky darkened at this moment.

The sky turned gray, as if covered by dark clouds in an instant, and the cold killing intent was like a natural barrier.

“Puff—”

Spirit wings, staff, skull, and the rapidly burning spiritual energy—none of them could stop the integration of that beautiful gray color.

Xing Xuan’s eyes were filled with disbelief, his body frozen in mid-air.

At this moment, in mid-air, a pair of pitch-black spirit wings unfolded, revealing a graceful figure.

At this moment, a golden figure arrived in an instant like a lightning bolt, coming behind those black wings. A golden light suddenly burst out from his chest. The next moment, the figure with black wings, who hadn’t even been seen clearly by the Demon Hunters, disappeared out of thin air in the golden light.

Only at this point did the stagnant Xing Xuan’s body slowly fall from the sky, still burning with the Star Demon race’s unique tangerine-colored spiritual energy. However, his soul had already been destroyed, entering reincarnation.

The golden light flashed again, and the golden figure swept past. The corpse of the eighth-level Star Demon Xing Xuan disappeared just like that, and the golden figure drew a beautiful arc in the low air, soaring up to a cloud in the high sky.

The Demon Hunters were all stunned. They couldn’t imagine what had happened before.

How could it be? Xing Xuan had fallen just like that? An unbelievable fall? More importantly, in their perception, the appearing enemy didn’t seem very powerful. But they had done it. Xing Xuan, an eighth-level Star Demon! He had fallen under their ambush. How could this be possible?

The Bear Demon roared, “What are you waiting for? Chase!” In the roar, he stomped his right foot heavily on the ground, unleashing a deafening roar. Large swaths of the surrounding buildings collapsed with it, turning into ruins.

The other Demon Hunters reacted at this moment. Eight seventh-level demon powerhouses rapidly chased after the golden figure in the air that was rapidly shrinking.

The Bear Demon couldn’t fly and could only stand in place and look up at the sky. He suddenly realized in surprise that the golden figure’s spirit wings were actually four, and that its flying speed seemed to far surpass that of their Demon Hunters. In an instant, it had disappeared into the clouds.

Suddenly, the Bear Demon shuddered. Clouds, could it be… “Don’t go! Come back!” He roared to the sky.

However, he was in the city, and the other Demon Hunters were already several hundred meters in the air. The wind noise, the sound of air flowing, and the sound of spiritual energy fluctuations had long covered his roar, allowing him to only watch as the eight Demon Hunters disappeared into the clouds.

The Bear Demon’s huge body suddenly felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave. They had been tricked, definitely tricked.

From the appearance of the first assassin, being repelled, and then being rescued, they seemed to have fallen into a meticulously set trap. Xing Xuan had fallen. The Star Squad Demon Hunters had lost their leader. In anger and panic, they had completely fallen into the enemy’s calculations. However, now everything was irreversible.

The Bear Demon was well-developed in limbs, but his brain wasn’t simple. On the contrary, as a high-level demon, his wisdom was not much less than Xing Xuan’s. After a brief period of stagnation, he immediately raised his hand and threw a good black metal ball. The metal ball pierced through the air and exploded in mid-air, turning into a huge purple-black halo that spread out.

This was the Demon Hunter’s SOS signal. Now, all he could do was hope that the other squad Demon Hunters could arrive in time and that his companions could withstand the Demon Hunt Squad’s ambush.

Judging from the strength of the humans before, they should have encountered the Temple Alliance’s King-Grade Demon Hunt Squad. After all, eight seventh-level powerhouses had ascended. Even if they encountered a King-Grade Demon Hunt Squad, they should be able to resist for a while, right?

Unfortunately, the Bear Demon was wrong. They had indeed encountered a King-Grade Demon Hunt Squad, but there was also another Elite-Grade Demon Hunt Squad whose danger level was not weaker than a King-Grade Squad.

Hidden in the clouds was the true main force of this ambush: five King-Grade Demon Hunt Squad members and five Elite-Grade Demon Hunt Squad members.

With a plan against the unprepared, in an instant, the clouds in the sky had become colorful.

The battle lasted a very short time. Accompanied by a series of muffled roars, the leaderless Star Squad Demon Hunters quickly perished.

Although these Demon Hunters were all seventh-level, without the leadership of Xing Xuan and the Bear Demon, the two strongest, how could they contend against the Temple Alliance’s elite King-Grade and Elite-Grade Demon Hunt Squads? Ten against eight, there was no suspense.

When the last corpse was collected, Long Haochen and Tian Qing exchanged glances. Everyone flapped their spirit wings and quickly fled in the planned escape route.

After lurking for more than ten days, they had finally waited for their chance. They had been targeted as early as when Xing Xuan and the others had not yet entered Great Yak City.

The strategy was very simple. The assassins from the two Demon Hunt Squads would ambush the Star Demon Squad Leader. Long Haochen would use Ya Ting’s Saint Guidance Furnace to provide assistance from the side and lead the enemy into the air.

However, in the original plan, Cai’er and another assassin’s responsibility was only to cripple the Star Demon as much as possible so that he couldn’t join the battle. But who would have thought that the Star Demon would have fallen under Cai’er’s Reincarnation Sword?

(To be continued)