"General!" "Senior Brother!"
Watching closely as the claw swipe of the demonic rat descended down towards the two weaker Domain Lords, Xuan Hao suddenly heard both of them screaming loudly followed by their expressions of confidence being replaced with one of fear, as they scrambled to get out of the way before the attack of the demonic rat reached them.
However, this was too late, as the attack of the demonic rat soon arrived!
Swish~
Bang!
As the claws of the demonic rat descended down towards the two weaker Domain Lords, Xuan Hao watched as both of them barely managed to put up a last-minute defence before both of them were send flying into the barrier located just behind them.
In the end, both of them had been grievously injured by the demonic rat and didn't really cause any damage to the barrier like Xuan Hao had first expected.
Watching all of this take place from behind the barrier, Xuan Hao could not help but feel confused over the scene taking place only a few hundred meters away from him.
No matter what, it did not look like the two weaker Domain Lords had planned to get hit by the claw attack of the demonic rat and looking at how they had begun throwing all kinds of desperate attacks towards the demonic rat while trying to escape, Xuan Hao became even more certain that things did not go like they had planned.
But just what had they expected to happen from standing in front of the barrier without doing anything when the demonic rat came charging over to attack them?
Thinking about this, Xuan Hao suddenly glanced over towards the place where General Guan and Zi Hui had made their way towards after the two weaker Domain Lords had become the target of the demonic rat.
At first, he had thought that they hid away for a short moment to prepare for the next step of some elaborate plan, but from the looks of it, that was not the case…
Instead, what Xuan Hao saw was the figure of both Zi Hui and General Guan disappearing in the distance. Soon disappearing completely after passing over a nearby mountain range…
They had run away and abandoned the two weaker Domain Lords!
One being an elderly man who had already exhausted most of his strength after having to defend against the claw swipe of the demonic rat, while the other was a heroic looking middle-aged man covered in noble looking plate armour that had been ruined by the demonic rat's earlier claw swipe.
"Not good!"
Seeing that the General Guan and Zi Hui had actually been ruthless enough to abandon their companions, Xuan Hao instantly realized how dangerous his current situation was.
After all, without General Guan and Zi Hui to hold back the demonic rat, the two weaker Domain Lords would soon be devoured and be used by the demonic rat to recover its strength faster and at that point, he would be forced to deal with the demonic rat that might have recovered back to the Soul Ascension Realm by himself!
Whoosh!
Not daring to allow such a thing to happen, Xuan Hao knew he could no longer stand around watching as he jumped down from the wall and passed through the barrier before charging over towards the demonic rat about to devour the two.
Boom!
Using his ice domain together with his sword domain to manifest a giant ice sword, Xuan Hao barely managed to throw it out to block the demonic rat before it devoured them.
Even if they were his enemies currently, Xuan hao did not intend to allow the demonic rat to devour them in an attempt to recover the strength it had lost over the period that it had been sealed underground.
"Wha-!?"
"Who…?!"
The subordinate of General Guan and the elderly junior brother of Zi Hui both had a shocked expression as they suddenly realized that the demonic rat bearing down on them had been blocked by a giant ice sword that had suddenly smashed into the head of the demonic rat. Preventing it from devouring both of them for the moment.
"You-!"
Turning their heads to look in the direction that the giant ice sword had come from, the elderly Domain Lord was the first to react, as he had already fought against Xuan Hao once in the past and knew that he was on the side of Yi Min.
Other than that, the elderly Domain Lord also remembered that Xuan Hao had been the one to destroy the gate leading into the place where the demonic rat had been sealed! From this alone, the elderly Domain Lord had already blamed Xuan Hao for the demonic rat escaping its seal!
However, at this point, he did not intend bringing this matter up. After all, the other party had just saved him and angering him did not seem like the wisest decision given his current circumstances.
I just have to get out of here when I get a chance, with senior brother's help we will-
"I can't believe the general and that Zi Hui ran away…"
As the elderly Domain Lord was thinking about how to best get away from the demonic rat, he suddenly heard the words of the domain lord finding himself in a similar situation as him.
Wait… Senior brother ran away? Is that why he didn't act like planned…?
It was only at this point that the elderly man seemed to realize the fact that his senior brother had already escaped. Leaving him behind to fend off against the demonic rat by himself.
If senior brother ran away, then…
Feeling a wave of depression role over him, the elderly Domain Lord suddenly looked extremely dispirited as he realized what had happened.
His senior brother had abandoned him!
…
Roar!
At the same time that the two of them lost control of their emotions and stared blankly into space while muttering some incomprehensible words, Xuan Hao had already begun fighting against the demonic rat to make sure it didn't devour the two of them while they had frozen in place.
Damnit! I thought that I would at least be able to get those two to help out, but from the looks of it, I can only rely on myself!
Losing control over one's emotions to the degree that the two of them had, was not something that normally happened and when it happened, it might cause a mental demon that could permanently affect their cultivation!
Xuan Hao had only heard about mental demons before and had never seen anyone with a mental demon before.
The reason for this was very simple, as only people at the Domain Lord Realm would be able to form a mental demon.
The reason why only Domain Lords could form a mental demon, was because a mental demon was a unique lifeform that would directly be born through a cultivator's domain.𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
After its birth, the mental demon would begin to slowly devour the cultivator and his domain until the Domain Lord died! After the birth of a mental demon, the cultivator would have to deal with it immediately or end up having his entire cultivation base devoured before dying!
Boom!
Blocking another attack from the demonic rat as he was flung backwards, Xuan Hao frowned upon realizing that he was not able to fully block the terrifying energy contained inside the simple attack of the demonic rat. Resulting in a few injuries appearing on his body.
"Damn oversized rat!"
Not paying any more attention to the two Domain Lords currently looking like they were about to develop a mental demon, Xuan Hao focused his full attention on the demonic rat charging over towards him once again.
It was only at this point that Xuan Hao had truly realized how scary someone at the Half- Step Soul Ascension Realm was, that was not mentioning the fact that the demonic rat had yet to use its domain…
But given that it had not even used it fighting against Zi Hui and General Guan, Xuan Hao thought that it might not be that it did not want to use its domain, but because it couldn't use it.
Even with such a large disadvantage, Xuan Hao could only barely keep himself alive against the demonic rat only using its physical body!
"I hope Yi Min finishes up that demonic cultivator and returns soon…"
Muttering this to himself as he prepared to clash with the demonic rat knowing very well that he would be send flying once again, Xuan Hao clenched his teeth as a determined expression appeared on his face.
At the very least, through getting beaten up by the demonic rat, he managed to get a better understanding of his current strength.
The demonic rat could be considered to be at the peak of the Domain Lord Realm currently and even without a domain, it could still beat him up…
Thinking about how he would end up if the demonic rat could use its domain, Xuan Hao realized that his current strength was still far away from reaching the Peak of the Domain Lord Realm…