397: Chapter 391 Heavenly Demon Blood Transformation Technique

However, these weak attacks struck the hard, dark-red scales of the Blood-Slaying Evil Hounds, leaving only shallow white marks and a few sparks, completely failing to cause any substantial damage.

Instead, the light from those Spells acted like the most conspicuous beacons in the darkness, drawing even more blood hounds over.

Severed limbs flew everywhere as blood converged into a river. The despondent wails, the crunching sound of bones being chewed, and the roar of exploding Spells intertwined into a symphony of Hell.

Commander Chen Jiao stood on a towering reef behind the buffer zone, his entire body still enveloped in dazzling, ghostly blue lightning, but his face, full of coarse flesh, was now filled with solemnity and a hint of undisguised panic.

Although he was an Early Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator, if he rashly charged into a beast tide of this scale, he would likely be worn to death by those suicidal monsters.

The electric whip in his hand lashed out wildly, flaying several blood hounds that tried to approach, but he didn't dare take a single step away from the relatively safe reef beneath his feet.

"Hold your ground! Everyone hold your damn ground!" Commander Chen Jiao roared at the top of his lungs, his voice tinged with exasperation.

"Law Enforcement Team! Law Enforcement Team, form a formation! Drive those retreating Loose Cultivators back for me! Anyone who dares to take a step back will be executed without mercy!"

Although the Disciples of the Chen Family Law Enforcement Team were equally pale, under the pressure of military orders, they could only brace themselves and form a spear formation. With their cold, glinting spears, they ruthlessly impaled the Loose Cultivators trying to flee back to the inner city.

They then tossed the corpses back into the beast tide ahead like tattered bags, attempting to use the bodies of their own kind to stall the monsters' advance.

It was at this critical moment, with the defensive line on the verge of collapse and thousands of Loose Cultivators about to be slaughtered.

An extremely cold, suffocatingly oppressive gale suddenly whistled down from high atop the inner city walls!

This gale not only dispersed the surrounding toxic mist but also instantly dropped the ambient temperature to below freezing.

The Blood-Slaying Evil Hounds, which had been gnashing and biting frantically in the mud, seemed to sense the arrival of some natural enemy and stopped their movements one after another. They crouched low, letting out uneasy low growls from their throats, their crimson eyes looking toward the air with suspicion and uncertainty.

A slender figure, like a black ghost, landed lightly in front of the huge reef where Commander Chen Jiao was located.

She wore tight black clothes, her skin as pale as a corpse that had been in a mortuary for a thousand years, without a trace of color. Her purple-black lips, illuminated by the lightning, possessed a strange, demonic allure.

But what was most terrifying were her pupils, which were completely occupied by pure blackness, as if a bottomless Soul vortex was hidden within, greedily watching the battlefield where flesh and blood flew.

It was Li Shuang, who had just emerged from seclusion.

"Senior Sister... Senior Sister Li! You've finally come!" The moment Commander Chen Jiao saw Li Shuang, it was as if a drowning man had caught a life-saving straw. He hurriedly dispersed the lightning on his body and scrambled down from the reef, his attitude as humble as a dog wagging its tail for pity.

"Quickly, look! This group of Loose Cultivator trash can't stop those monsters at all; the defensive line is about to be torn apart! Before the Devil Cultivators' Black Robe Camp has even charged in, we've already lost half our numbers!"

Li Shuang slowly turned her head, her pure black eyes coldly sweeping over Commander Chen Jiao. That single glance alone...

...made Commander Chen Jiao, an Early Foundation Establishment Stage Body Cultivator, feel his hair stand on end, as if he were being stared down by an ancient, primordial Vicious Beast. He subconsciously took half a step back, not even daring to breathe heavily.

"Senior Brother Chen, you seem very afraid?" Li Shuang's voice was raspy and cold, carrying an undisguised mockery.

"I... how could I be afraid!" Commander Chen Jiao forced himself to be brave, stammering his defense, "I... I'm thinking of the Sect's overall situation! If this buffer zone is lost, the Devil Cultivators can directly attack the foundation of the City Defense Array!"

"The overall situation?" Li Shuang suddenly let out an extremely piercing low laugh, slowly raising her hands, which were as pale as bone.

She took a greedy, deep breath. The thick scent of blood in the air surged into her body through her nostrils, causing a morbid intoxication and fanaticism to appear on her expressionless face.

"What do you know of the overall situation? The Grand Elder sent me down here not to protect these pieces of trash."

Li Shuang walked step by step toward the battlefield ahead, her voice echoing in the gale, every word dripping with despairing cruelty. "They were always meant to be cannon fodder to bleed. The more blood that flows, the deeper the fear, and the heavier the resentment, the more powerful my Cultivation Technique... will become!"

"This is just an appetizer. Senior Brother Chen, keep your eyes wide open and learn well what true slaughter is."

Before her voice had even faded, Li Shuang's figure suddenly vanished from the spot!

"Swoosh—!"

An extremely blurred black afterimage flashed through the rainy night, moving so fast that even Commander Chen Jiao's Divine Sense couldn't fully capture it.

In the next second, Li Shuang had appeared at the very front of the battlefield, standing directly before a Blood-Slaying Evil Hound leader as large as an adult elephant.

The blood hound leader was feasting on a pile of Loose Cultivator corpses when it suddenly saw a weak human appear before it. A cruel light flashed in its crimson eyes as it roared and opened its bloody maw, bringing a foul-smelling gale as it bit down hard toward Li Shuang's head.

"Senior Sister Li, be careful!" Commander Chen Jiao couldn't help but cry out from behind.

However, Li Shuang didn't even make a move to dodge. She only slightly tilted her pale face up, her lips curling into an extremely disdainful sneer.

"Beast, you dare bark before me?"

Li Shuang parted her purple-black lips and slowly extended her right hand, her five fingers suddenly clenching in the Void Realm!

"Netherworld Devil Hand!"

"Boom—!"

Accompanied by an extremely muffled explosion, a mass of pitch-black Devilish Qi, so dense it was nearly solid, erupted from Li Shuang's palm!

This Devilish Qi instantly transformed in mid-air into a black ghost claw several zhang in size.

Carrying a terrifying power that seemed capable of crushing space itself, it firmly gripped the massive body of the blood hound leader!

"Awoo—!"

The once-invincible blood hound leader actually let out a shrill wail like a stray dog under the restraint of the black ghost claw. Its hard, dark-red scales shattered bit by bit under the claw's pressure, and its tough bones made a tooth-aching "crack-crack" sound.

"Shatter," Li Shuang uttered flatly, her right hand clenching tight.

"Bang!"

A rain of blood mixed with shredded meat and internal organs exploded in mid-air! That blood hound leader, which possessed strength comparable to the Early Foundation Establishment Stage,

was actually crushed into a cloud of blood mist by Li Shuang's bare hand!

Dead silence fell over the entire area.

Whether it was the Blood-Slaying Evil Hounds that had been biting frantically, the Loose Cultivators waiting for death in despair, or even the Chen Family Law Enforcement Team supervising from the rear, everyone was awestruck by this extremely shocking and bloody scene.

But this was not the end.

Li Shuang tilted her head back slightly, her hands quickly forming one complex and eerie hand seal after another in front of her chest. As her technique was invoked, her long black hair flew wildly in the gale, like dancing venomous snakes.

"Heavenly Demon Blood Transformation Great Method! Absorb!"

Along with her sharp cry, an enormous suction force erupted from within her. The cloud of blood mist from the exploded blood hound leader in the air,

as well as the blood flowing from the hundreds of Loose Cultivator corpses nearby, seemed to receive some irresistible summons, turning into countless crimson threads that surged toward Li Shuang from all directions!

Those blood threads continuously bored into Li Shuang's seven orifices and pores. With the frantic injection of blood, a strange flush gradually appeared on her pale face, and her aura began to climb at an extremely terrifying speed.

The pressure of the Late Foundation Establishment Stage Peak was released without reservation, forcing the rain within a radius of dozens of zhang to surge back toward the sky!

"Such pure blood Qi... such intense resentment..."

Li Shuang let out a spine-chilling moan of pleasure. She slowly opened her eyes, and her black pupils were now shrouded in a bloodthirsty red light.

Her gaze, like that of a death god, swept over the hundreds of Blood-Slaying Evil Hounds in front of her that had begun to tremble,

then she turned her head extremely slowly and looked at the surviving Loose Cultivators still lying in the mud.

"Not enough... the blood of these beasts is too coarse. I need more... more human blood filled with fear!"

The Loose Cultivators swept by her gaze, including Wang Er and Uncle Li who were lying in the pile of corpses, all felt a chill run from the soles of their feet straight to the crowns of their heads.

They suddenly realized that this "savior" under the banner of the Heavenly Sword Sect was no Fairy from a prestigious orthodox Sect at all; she was a Devil Head thousands of times more terrifying than the Devil Cultivators outside!

"Run! Run! She's going to suck our blood!"

Someone in the crowd screamed shrilly, and the Loose Cultivators, who had been stunned, fell into extreme chaos once again. But this time, they weren't avoiding monsters; they were avoiding Li Shuang.

"Run? In my hunting ground, where can you run to?"

Li Shuang let out an extremely arrogant laugh. With a movement of her body, she charged directly into a pack of Blood-Slaying Evil Hounds like a tiger into a flock of sheep. She didn't use any Magical Artifact, fighting purely with her Physical Body and Netherworld Devilish Qi.

Her hands became the sharpest blades; with every swing, she could tear a blood hound to pieces. With every breath, she could inhale vast clouds of blood mist into her body.

Not only that, but during the slaughter, if any Loose Cultivators stood in her way, she wouldn't even spare them a glance. With a casual grab, she would suck that Loose Cultivator dry, along with their blood Qi and Soul, leaving behind only a shriveled mummy!

"Senior Brother Chen Jiao! Is... is this Senior Sister Li human or a ghost! Why is she even killing her own people!" a Disciple of the Law Enforcement Team asked Commander Chen Jiao with a trembling voice, so scared he could barely hold his weapon.