Not only Jingyi Marquis, but Luo Fan also instantly recognized the identity of this Demon Race squad.
After learning that he would be heading to the Shattered Star Domain, he immediately used his authority to gather information on the experts active there.
Among that information was data on this Demon Race squad.
This Demon Race squad had a total of nine members.
Only two of them were Marquis-level Immortals.
They were Snow Dusk Marquis and Hunting Claw Marquis.
Both were only at the initial Marquis level.
The rest were all ordinary Immortals.
This squad was extremely suitable prey for the Demon-Hunting Squad.
After all, Snow Dusk Marquis and Hunting Claw Marquis were both veterans who had roamed the extraterritorial battlefield for many years.
Their accumulated wealth was substantial.
Moreover, both of them were warriors and were not particularly adept in soul-related techniques.
The moment they recognized their opponents, Enchanting Fox Marquis and the three-eyed clan twin brothers did not hesitate in the slightest and directly cast illusion techniques on the two of them.
Within this Demon Race squad, the only real threats to everyone were Snow Dusk Marquis and Hunting Claw Marquis.
Jingyi Marquis also moved in with perfect coordination, directly blasting apart portions of their divine bodies.
Although Luo Fan reacted slightly slower since he had just joined the squad, his own strength was far greater, so his attack was not much slower.
With a single Whale Fin Slash, he directly heavily injured Snow Dusk Marquis and Hunting Claw Marquis, whose divine bodies had already been partially shattered.
Luo Fan's slash annihilated a significant portion of their divine bodies.
After all, neither of them had expected their opponents to attack so decisively.
Before falling into the illusion, they had no time to burn divine power.
More than thirty percent of their divine power was directly annihilated.
That was only because both of them had relatively large divine bodies.
The remaining seven ordinary Demon Race Immortals wanted to provide support.
However, they were intercepted by Jingyi Marquis and Wind Sword Marquis.
At the same time, Poison Medicine Marquis began scattering special toxins around the battlefield.
He had already given Luo Fan and the others antidotes beforehand.
"Damn it, it's the Demon-Hunting Squad!"
After being attacked, Snow Dusk Marquis finally broke free from the illusion.
He had not recognized the Demon-Hunting Squad earlier.
However, once he saw their methods of attack, he immediately recalled the intelligence about them.
As one of the peak races, the Demon Race's intelligence network was relatively poor, but it was still far better than that of subordinate races.
After recognizing his opponents, a trace of despair surged in Snow Dusk Marquis's heart.
It was precisely because he knew the Demon-Hunting Squad's combat style that perfectly countered his squad, as well as their terrifying all-Marquis lineup, that he felt such despair.
The Demon-Hunting Squad was quite famous in the Shattered Star Domain.
After all, in a place dominated by ordinary Immortals and Marquis-level Immortals, a squad where every member was Marquis-level, with two at the peak Marquis level, could not possibly remain unknown.
Moreover, the name Demon-Hunting Squad was simply too arrogant.
In the past, many Demon Race experts had attempted to hunt down members of the Demon-Hunting Squad.
Unfortunately, they all failed.
With the Demon-Hunting Squad's strength, even if they encountered initial King-level Immortals, escaping was not much of a problem.
Back then, two initial King-level Immortals and three Marquis-level Demon Race Immortals had once besieged the Demon-Hunting Squad.
In the end, relying on the terrifying lineup of three illusion specialists within the squad, Jingyi Marquis and the others successfully held out until Human Race reinforcements arrived.
After that battle, the Demon-Hunting Squad rose to fame in a single engagement.
That was why Snow Dusk Marquis felt such despair at this moment.
His eyes were bloodshot as he gritted his teeth and transmitted a message to his teammates.
"You all know the Demon-Hunting Squad's strength."
"Our chances of escaping are extremely slim."
"In that case, even if we die, we have to bite off a piece of their flesh!"
The other members of the Demon Race squad immediately responded.
"Boss, worst case, we'll just self-destruct!"
"That's right. We'll destroy everything in our World Rings too and reduce their spoils!"
"I refuse to believe that my self-destruction won't cost them some divine power!"
At this moment, the other members of the Demon Race squad were filled with resentment.
Once they realized that escape was unlikely, they steeled themselves to self-destruct.
For Immortals, whose lives were extraordinarily long, dignity sometimes mattered even more than life itself.
They did not want to die so miserably.
If they had to die, they would make the enemy pay a price.
Snow Dusk Marquis still retained a trace of rationality.
"Do not self-destruct yet."
"Do not self-destruct until the very last moment."
"I have noticed that the Demon-Hunting Squad seems to have a new member."
"This time, they should be in the Shattered Star Domain outer region to temper that new member."
"We can try to break through from the new member's position."
"Although his attack just now was powerful, this newcomer may have burned divine power."
"Wait for my command. When the time comes, we will all break through in that direction."
"If we fail, we will all self-destruct together and blow up their new member."
"Understood, boss!"
"Heh, even if I die, I will take one of them with me!"
At this moment, the other members of the Demon Race squad shifted part of their attention to Luo Fan.
The members of the Demon-Hunting Squad were steadily wearing down the Demon Race's divine power.
Their combat style was also relatively cautious.
Slowly grinding down the opponent's divine power was the best outcome.
If the enemy burned divine power, their own side would not fare well either.
Therefore, the Demon-Hunting Squad members were mainly using long-range attacks.
In addition to wearing down divine power, they were also waiting for Poison Medicine Marquis's toxins to take effect.
The three-eyed clan twins and Enchanting Fox Marquis occasionally cast illusions, after which the others would coordinate to attack a single target.
Before long, the Demon Race squad's divine power had mostly dropped below eighty percent.
At this moment, Snow Dusk Marquis knew he could not drag things out any longer.
Using Jingyi Marquis's attack, he deliberately flew backward and positioned himself directly in front of Luo Fan.
"Kill!"
In the next instant, all members of the Demon Race squad rushed toward Luo Fan.
"Not good!"
"Support Ice Blade. Be careful, these Demon brats might self-destruct!"
Jingyi Marquis instantly understood Snow Dusk Marquis's intent.
Everyone immediately rushed toward Luo Fan.
At this moment, Snow Dusk Marquis was extremely calm.
Without the slightest hesitation, upon reaching Luo Fan's front, he directly self-destructed a portion of his divine body.
"Boom!"
A terrifying energy wave surged toward Luo Fan.
Luo Fan's expression remained calm.
Faced with such a terrifying self-destruction, he seemed completely unfazed.
He immediately used spatial teleportation to retreat backward.
However, the spread of a divine body self-destruction was far too fast.
In an instant, it reached him.
The next moment, several vines spread out from Luo Fan's body.
The vines were covered in specks of starlight.
They completely occupied the space around Luo Fan.
In just an instant, the location where Luo Fan stood was replaced by a sphere formed entirely of vines.
At that moment, the terrifying energy of the divine body self-destruction poured into the sphere without restraint.
The starlight-covered sphere rapidly disintegrated.
However, every time a portion of the vines was annihilated, new vines immediately grew out to fill the missing areas.
Very quickly, after the aftermath subsided, the surface of the sphere showed no signs of damage at all.
In the next instant, the starlight-covered sphere dispersed, revealing Luo Fan inside, completely unscathed.
"How is this… possible!"
Snow Dusk Marquis stared at Luo Fan in a daze.
With his initial Marquis-level cultivation, the power of self-destructing part of his divine body was comparable to an attack from a King-level expert.
Moreover, at the moment of self-destruction, he had immediately begun burning his divine body.
Even if Jingyi Marquis had been standing in front of him, he would have been injured.
Yet Luo Fan was completely unharmed.
What Snow Dusk Marquis did not know was how terrifying the Ten Thousand Star Flower truly was.
This was a plant lifeform that Luo Fan had obtained long ago.
Although he had rarely used it.
And although he had spent enormous resources to raise the Ten Thousand Star Flower to peak World Master level.
That was only because Luo Fan himself was too strong.
One had to know that the Ten Thousand Star Flower was a special lifeform.
Its innate genetic level reached a full hundred times.
Although evolving the Ten Thousand Star Flower to the Immortal level required resources measured in trillions of Hunyuan Units of universe currency.
Luo Fan had not hesitated in the slightest.
Even now, his avatars were still collecting resources for the Ten Thousand Star Flower.
Because just a single innate secret art of the Ten Thousand Star Flower made it worth doing so.
The Ten Thousand Star Flower possessed an innate secret art called Resilience.
At the Planetary level, after activating Resilience, it could reduce incoming damage by ten times.
At the Universe level, it could reduce incoming damage by a hundred times.
At the Domain Lord Level, it could reduce incoming damage by couple hundred times.
At the World Master level, it could directly reduce incoming damage by a thousand times.
Therefore, although those attacks had annihilated part of the Ten Thousand Star Flower's vines, in reality, the consumption was negligible.
It could recover almost instantly.
If the Ten Thousand Star Flower were to break through to the Venerable level, it could reduce incoming damage by ten thousand times.
It could be said that once the Ten Thousand Star Flower reached the Venerable level or above, it would naturally possess a supreme treasure armor.
Moreover, this effect could be stacked with armor-type supreme treasures.
This was why, even though Luo Fan rarely used the Ten Thousand Star Flower, he had always continued to invest resources into it.
Looking at Snow Dusk Marquis in front of him, Luo Fan did not hesitate and directly unleashed Whale Fin Slash.
In the next moment, a terrifying giant whale appeared before everyone's eyes.
Enchanting Fox Marquis and the three-eyed clan twins seized the opportunity and directly cast illusions on Snow Dusk Marquis.
Snow Dusk Marquis was already shaken by the Ten Thousand Star Flower's terrifying defense.
Now, with three layers of illusion arriving in succession, he instantly fell into the illusion and could not break free.
"Boom!"
The terrifying Whale Fin Slash directly shattered the completely unguarded Snow Dusk Marquis.
Snow Dusk Marquis had already lost a significant amount of divine power earlier, and his strength had declined.
He had just self-destructed part of his divine body.
This left him with less than ten percent of his original strength.
Luo Fan's slash completely annihilated Snow Dusk Marquis.
Watching their captain die before their eyes, the remaining members of the Demon Race squad went completely mad.
They frantically rushed toward Luo Fan.
However, the others naturally would not let them succeed.
A barrage of attacks blocked their path forward.
Luo Fan also did not stand there foolishly waiting for them to approach and self-destruct.
He unleashed several Whale Fin Slashes, directly stopping the remaining members of the Demon Race squad.
In the end, these Demon Race squad members could only die in unwillingness.
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