The female ninjas ignored me, continuing their attack on the fox demon, and soon, they formed a encirclement again.
I shouted again, "Reinforcements have arrived! Under your feet!"
The three female ninjas immediately looked down. The fox demon leaped lightly, jumping out of the encirclement again from between two ninjas.
"You shut up!" a ninja yelled at me.
I shut up.
The two sides fought again. This time, before the fox demon was surrounded, I shouted again, "Reinforcements are here, above your heads!"
The three female ninjas acted as if they didn't hear me. However, the fox demon, startled by my shout, paused. Inattentive for a moment, it was surrounded by the three ninjas again. This time, each of the ninjas held half a brick in their left hand, seemingly prepared to launch three feints and three main attacks simultaneously, overwhelming the fox demon.
Three bricks, in ordinary hands, might not be very effective, perhaps only capable of causing a head injury at most. But in the hands of the three female ninjas, the thrown bricks possessed a power comparable to Yao Yao's Blood Drop Dagger. The fox demon, realizing the imminent crisis, turned passive into active. It lunged recklessly towards the ninja directly in front of it, its nine tails stabbing out simultaneously. The ninja, caught off guard by the fox demon's sudden attack, hastily threw the bricks while retreating, drawing a complex shape in the air with her sword. In quick succession, she deflected all nine of the fox demon's daggers. The sparks that flew seemed to me like a grand firework display.
However, the ninja had overlooked one thing. She had only paid attention to the fox demon's nine tails but forgotten about its head in the center. While the ninja was busy deflecting the outer ring of the nine-tail attack, the fox demon's head had moved close to her abdomen. It opened its maw and bit down on the ninja's thigh!
*Snap!* I even heard the sound of bone breaking!
Both the ninja and the fox demon, currently in mid-air, were falling diagonally downwards. The ninja, enduring immense pain, had no time to change her move. She simply raised her samurai sword and jabbed the pommel towards the fox demon's eyes!
The fox demon's teeth were deeply embedded in the ninja's thigh, preventing it from disengaging instantly. It could only watch helplessly as the sword hilt moved closer and closer to its eyes!
At that critical moment, the ninja's sword suddenly stopped its descent and was pulled upwards.
Heh heh, my last shout wasn't a lie. The reinforcements had truly arrived, though only one!
It was the hawk demon. When I shouted the second time, I had already discovered through Qi sensing that it was rapidly approaching from the air. By the time I shouted the third time, the hawk demon had begun its dive-bombing attack, targeting the very ninja the fox demon had lunged at. In the moment of the fox demon's hesitation, it must have seen "Fifth Brother" coming to its aid and recognized the hawk demon's attack target. This is why it chose to take a risk, launching a "heaven and earth pincer" attack. It attacked from the ground, gambling on a fierce omen, leaving its defense entirely to the airborne reinforcements.
The two demons, having been imprisoned together for four hundred years, displayed remarkable coordination. Their timing was impeccable. The hawk demon, silent as a missile, plummeted from the night sky. Upon approaching the enemy, it spread its wings, seven to eight meters wide, to slow down. One claw seized the ninja's samurai sword and lifted it, while the other claw directly grasped the ninja's shoulder. After a violent tear, the fox demon took the opportunity to release its bite. The hawk demon flung its claw backward, sending the ninja flying over ten meters. She landed heavily on the roof of the chicken coop. The roof, made of a single layer of corrugated steel, could not bear the weight. It caved in under the ninja's impact, causing a flurry of clucking chickens!
As the hawk demon landed with the samurai sword in its grasp, it transformed into human form and used its nimble little feet to retrieve the sword, performing a flourish.
The fox demon landed, turned back, and stood shoulder to shoulder with the hawk demon, facing the remaining two ninjas.
At this point, the ninjas had no chance of winning. The two of them exchanged glances. One ninja pulled a pill from her pocket and threw it at the hawk demon. The hawk demon raised its sword to cleave it, and with a *boom*, the pill exploded, releasing the same yellow mist as before!
"Back away, it's poisonous!" I quickly shouted.
The two demons retreated. The hawk demon, with its keen eyesight, had clearly surveyed the ground from the air. It leaped into the air and then landed as a human, squatting on the car roof. Using its sword, it sliced the zip ties on my wrist. Then, it tossed me onto the fox demon's back. The fox demon, with me on its back, rapidly retreated out of the poison gas's range.