"You won't have a chance to return today!" A loud shout echoed as a burly man wielding a golden blade suddenly appeared, slashing down with a dazzling blade light.

Fortunately, the golden ape beside him swung its staff, otherwise the Pig Demon Lord would have taken the brunt of that strike, barely escaping with his life.

"Indeed, it's fortunate that the Compassionate Heart Saint Monk foresaw this, or else you demons would have exploited the opening!"

A middle-aged scholar, holding a circular compass, gently adjusted it, causing streams of astral power to crash down from the sky.