In those years when I was a mortal and a demon

"With such a big commotion, the Demon Lord Elders in your clan should be able to sense it. Why haven't they shown up to stop it?" Lu Yuan looked at the stone demon and suddenly thought of something, so he asked back.

"Well... the Great Elder may be in seclusion and unable to come out in time?" When the Divine General Shi Mo heard Lu Yuan's question, he was stunned for a moment and gave such an obviously problematic answer.

"Retreat? You are kidding! The high-level beings in the clan are fighting, and your great elder still has the mind to retreat!" Niu Yin on the side scolded angrily.

"What about the other Demon Sect-level beings? Are they also in seclusion?" Lu Yuan asked again.

“The other Demon Sect masters do not live in the Holy City. Instead, they have built caves in the mountains near the Holy City—” When the Godly General Stone Demon said this, he suddenly seemed to react and spit out a five-colored crystal from his mouth.

A spell was cast, and the five-colored crystal made a humming sound, flew straight up to a height of thousands of feet, and suddenly exploded, dyeing half of the sky colorful.

But at this moment, Lu Yuan suddenly felt a chill.

Only then did he realize that Shi Man in the battle group in the distance was staring at him with an extremely cold gaze.

In addition, the situation between him and Shi Die and Shi Xiao was completely different at this time. Shi Man's big hands each imprisoned a Shi Lun totem, while Shi Die and Shi Xiao kept changing their spells, trying to get the Shi Lun totem away from Shi Man.

After glaring at Lu Yuan, Shi Man turned his gaze to Shi Xiao opposite him and opened his mouth wide.

"Shi Man, what are you doing!" Shi Die roared angrily.

"This is the power of Shi Lun! Stop it now!" Shi Xiao's panicked voice followed.

I saw that from the Shilun totem controlled by Shi Xiao, streams of mysterious energy were flying uncontrollably into Shi Man's open mouth.

"Shi Xiao, don't be so stingy. Lend me some of Shi Lun's power, maybe I can also comprehend the Shi Lun totem!" Shi Man grinned.

"Shi Man, to comprehend the Shi Lun Totem you rely on your own talent, and the higher the realm you reach, the harder it is to achieve. You are wasting your efforts by doing this, let go of Brother Xiao quickly!" As Shi Die spoke, he frantically infused magic power into his Shi Lun Totem.

With the blessing of magic power, Shi Die's Shilun totem suddenly shook, and she was about to break free from Shi Man's grip.

"Hmph, Shi Die, stop preaching here! What do you mean by relying on one's own talents for enlightenment? Do you think I don't know?

If the Third Elder hadn't instilled the power of Shilun into you, how could you have comprehended the Shilun Totem! And this guy Shi Xiao, I'm afraid it's because you gave him your power of Shilun that he is where he is today!"

Shi Man's voice echoed throughout the valley. Not only Lu Yuan, but also many Stone Demon people on the surrounding mountains could hear it clearly and couldn't help but discuss it in a low voice.

"I am giving face to the Third Elder by not taking away your Shilun power now. Don't be ungrateful!"

After Shi Man finished speaking, his right arm suddenly swelled up, expanding several times, and then he suppressed Shi Die and his Shi Lun Totem again. Then he sucked with his big mouth, and continued to forcibly absorb a large amount of Shi Lun power from Shi Xiao's Shi Lun Totem.

"Brother Man, please let me go. I have only been comprehending the power of Shilun for a few years. Even if I give you all the power of Shilun that I have cultivated, it will not be enough for you to comprehend the Shilun totem." Shi Xiao begged for mercy.

Even if he tried his best to fight back now, the gap between him and Shi Man was too big, so he could only watch helplessly as the Shi Lun power he had cultivated with great effort was taken away by Shi Man.

Moreover, he cannot abandon the Shilun Totem and leave now, otherwise it would be equivalent to giving away all the Shilun power within the Shilun Totem for nothing.

"Whether you can comprehend the Shilun totem or not, you won't know until you try." Shi Man had no intention of letting go.

Seeing his Shilun totem becoming increasingly dim due to Shilun's power being taken away, and Shi Man obviously wanting to take this opportunity to drain him completely, Shi Xiao turned around and looked at Lu Yuan behind him in a hurry.

"Brother Yuan, come and help me!"

This...Lu Yuan hesitated.

After all, he was facing Shi Man, who was only one step away from reaching the fusion stage of Demon Lord. Lu Yuan believed that even if he and Shi Xiao joined forces, they would have no chance of winning and would only offend a powerful enemy for nothing.

"Fellow Daoist Yuan, Fellow Daoist Niu. The patrol team has just sent out a warning signal. I believe that fellow Daoists from the Demon Sect in our clan will be here soon. Please help the two of us to resist for a while!" Shi Die also said to Lu Yuan and Niu Yin.

Shi Die was now unable to deal with Shi Xiao's situation. And if Shi Man had not been concerned about the identity of Shi Die's father, he might have absorbed Shi Die's Shi Lun power as well.

When Lu Yuan heard this from a distance, he immediately opened his spiritual sense to the maximum, extending it to a thousand miles away in an instant.

Sure enough, Lu Yuan soon sensed that there were several powerful auras rushing towards this place beyond the reach of his spiritual sense. Although he could not confirm the specific cultivation level of the person coming with his spiritual sense in a short period of time, judging from the fluctuations of the person's aura, he was at least at the level of a demon sect!

Lu Yuan glanced at Niu Yin and found that he was also sensing something with his spiritual sense. However, because his soul was far inferior to Lu Yuan's, he probably hadn't noticed the auras coming, so he had no intention of helping.

Lu Yuan thought about it for a moment and quickly decided to help Shi Xiao.

Because when they were sparring with each other in thunder magic, he was obviously inferior to Niu Yin in controlling thunder magic. If he turned a blind eye to Shi Xiao's situation now, then Shi Xiao and Niu Yin would definitely be the ones to choose in the future.

However, before Lu Yuan could make any move, Shi Man, who was standing in the group far away, had already noticed signs that Lu Yuan was about to intervene.

"Get out of the way!" Shi Man roared, temporarily stopping the absorption of Shi Lun's power. Then he opened his mouth and spit out a large amount of gray air towards Lu Yuan in the distance.

The gray-white gas covered the sky like dark clouds. When it was still halfway, countless gray-white rocks as big as houses flew out from it and rolled down towards where Lu Yuan and Niu Yin were.

"Mr. Niu, come together!" Lu Yuan called out, exerting his magic power to the extreme, and instantly a body with three heads and six arms dozens of feet tall appeared.

Then he swung all six arms together, blasting out balls of golden and black fist shadows at the rolling rocks.

"Holy Demon Body! You are truly a Saint!"

Although Niu Yin cried out in surprise, this guy had no intention of joining forces. While Lu Yuan was temporarily holding off the falling rocks, his whole body thundered and turned into a dark red lightning arc and disappeared.

As for the god general Shi Mo and several guards under Shi Die, they were so frightened that their souls flew away. They all ran towards the thousand-foot high peak behind them like headless flies.

However, the moment they came into contact with the mountain, the stone demons, each covered in gray-white stone energy, strangely merged into the mountain, as if they had never appeared.