After not being seen for a long time, Corpse Elephant had already undergone earth-shaking changes.
Her entire body was covered in wounds so deep that bone could be seen. Pus continuously spurted out, and one could even vaguely see internal organs riddled with holes by maggots. Flesh and blood collapsed one after another.
Corpse Elephant's spine had also disappeared, as if it had been forcibly extracted.
Thick elephant legs fell, and dozens of demonic beasts that failed to dodge in time were crushed into minced meat. The ground also formed spiderweb-like cracks.
The elephant trunk rolled the minced meat into its mouth, replenishing stamina that was being consumed too quickly.
Corpse Elephant's pale pupils slightly contracted. She stood stiffly in the center of the battlefield, then bent her limbs and squatted on the ground without moving.
She emitted dense demonic qi. Although already in ruins, she was clearly still able to serve as a container for storing demonic qi.
The demonic qi was almost tangible, and the surrounding demonic beasts became a field of severed limbs and shattered flesh.
Li Tiangang's expression was solemn. The violent wind struck the city wall with crackling sounds, causing the patterns that formed the artifact spirit to shine with faint light.
He shouted loudly, "Not good, quickly set fire outside the city..."
Unfortunately, the demonic qi spread too fast. In the blink of an eye it had already covered the entire battlefield. All demonic beasts seemed as if injected with chicken blood.
They rushed toward Wuwei City one after another. Quite a few directly crashed to death at the base of the city wall, and corpses gradually piled up like a mountain.
The cultivators defending the city wore puzzled expressions.
The more frenzied the demonic beasts were, shouldn't it be more beneficial to Wuwei City? Why would it...
Stimulated by demonic qi, several hundred corpses suddenly began to wriggle, entangling with one another. The scene appeared extremely grotesque.
White bones detached from corpses and fused, forming malformed multi-legged demonic beasts. Flesh gathered and fused, turning into twisted bizarre demonic beasts. Heads grew limbs and facial features, roaring as they ran wildly.
The characteristic of demonic qi assimilation was fully revealed.
In a certain sense, as long as the demonic qi contained in the air was sufficient, it was extremely easy for dead things to give birth to intelligence.
Even Heavenly Demon aura was not as terrifyingly bizarre as demonic qi in this regard.
"Damn it."
Li Tiangang's back was soaked with sweat as he continuously pondered methods to break the situation.
As long as demonic beasts rushed into the city, even if they could be dealt with afterward, the demonic qi would likely cause Wuwei City's blood refinement to lose its effect.
"Ahhhhh..."
A Daoist temple disciple's mind had already collapsed, wildly swinging the flying sword in his hand.
Every time he cut down a piece of flesh, a small demonic beast was born. His entire body was covered by a large number of demonic beasts, and the sound of gnawing was endless.
The Daoist temple disciple was rescued in time by Li Tiangang, but both body and soul showed varying degrees of aberration, and his strange object almost rioted because of it.
If not for Yang Spirit realm cultivators overseeing, facing this kind of endless enemy, even veteran Yin Difference realm cultivators would inevitably feel despair.
Han Li cooperated with the cultivator beside him to sever a Great Demon's arm.
Just as he wanted to catch his breath, he discovered the arm had grown facial features. Countless flesh tendrils grew from the severed end, crawling by means of them.
"Fuck."
Han Li spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva. The Wuying Ghost at his feet wrapped around the arm and relied on black insects to tear it directly into pieces.
If the arm were allowed to continue absorbing demonic qi, it would not take long before it turned into a miscellaneous demon, even reaching the level of Little Demon.
Such situations occurred every few breaths on the city wall.
A demonic beast that had just died not long ago, someone was about to step forward to deliver a finishing blow, yet its internal organs suddenly demonized, drilling out of the corpse and pouncing onto him.
Even cultivators appeared extremely fragile before demonic qi.
They watched helplessly as their missing limbs demonized. Their hearts were filled with fear, and their movements involuntarily became hesitant.
In just a short time, the casualties of Restraint Officers' Hall had already far exceeded the total of the previous few days.
The originally orderly defense of the city even showed signs of collapse.
Li Tiangang immediately responded, dividing the Restraint Officers who mastered fire-attribute spells into one group and having them be responsible for burning demonic beast corpses.
Rolling black smoke rose, staining the gray-white walls into black-gray.
Yin Difference realm cultivators successively joined the battle, and the situation was stabilized. At least the wounded could temporarily retreat to the base of the city wall.
Li Yaoyang's face was cold. With a wave of his hand, thousands of gu insects swarmed forth.
The gu insects gnawed at the flesh of demonic beasts. When the demonic qi they could contain almost reached its limit, Li Yaoyang proactively turned the gu insects into powder.
At the same time, his index finger still gripped a dead egg of a Heavenly Dao insect, clearly having further preparations.
Miss Bai's spell was more straightforward. The flying sword behind her floated in midair, mainly relying on aberrant fetus artifact sword sheaths to confront the enemy.
Ferocious facial features grew on the surface of the sword sheaths. Their mouths chewed demonic beast flesh indifferently, and the demonic qi was decomposed and expelled from within.
Chen Haoyu and Li Mo each displayed their divine abilities. However, because they were newly advanced Yin Difference realm cultivators, if their spells were not restrained, it would easily cause strange objects to lose control, so their methods were somewhat restrained.
The joining of Yin Difference realm stabilized the situation.
But it still treated the symptoms and not the root. As long as Corpse Elephant did not die, the source of demonic qi would continue to exist, making demonic beasts endless.
Song Zongwu forcibly endured the urge to make a move, seemingly secretly planning something with Great Dream True Person. His six eyes occasionally looked toward the distance.
On a cliff a hundred li away.
There were dozens of figures at the top, led by three Rabbit-Toad cultivators, seemingly appreciating the chaos of Wuwei City.
Mysterious Palace Moon raised his head with a smile, sensing a gaze sweep over him from within Wuwei City, yet he did not care much.
"When a soft-shelled turtle struggles it splashes water, so slaughter must be fast, accurate, and ruthless."
Demonic qi surged all over his body as he drew a bone whip from his waist.
The bone whip was refined from a spine, with remnants of flesh still on the surface. Fresh blood continuously dripped along the joints.
At the end of the bone whip were actually more than a dozen skulls strung together. Within their eye sockets burned flames transformed from remnant souls, filled with unwillingness.
If Ren Qing were present he would recognize that the raw material of the bone whip was clearly Corpse Elephant's spine, and included cultivators who had been attached to Corpse Elephant.
Mysterious Palace Moon gently stroked the bone whip, nourishing the magical artifact with demonic qi.
It was evident that even though Corpse Elephant had relied on an aberrant fetus artifact to escape the fate of becoming an aberrant being, facing Rabbit-Toad cultivators she still ended up having her bones extracted and refined into an artifact.
Wu Qingyue beside him had a greedy expression, her gaze fixed firmly on Wuwei City.
Wuwei City was not actually considered profound, but what greatly interested her was that it had been refined into one body from tens of thousands of brick magical artifacts.
Even if over a hundred people refined it simultaneously, to achieve unity of the magical artifact unless their consciousnesses were interconnected, it would be impossible...
Wu Qingyue peered at Wuwei City and muttered, "At most a dozen days, this magical artifact will rise another level."
"Still have to wait, starving to death, starving to death."
The one speaking was Tumu Yue. His body weighed at least three to four hundred jin. He squatted nearby without any regard for appearance, stuffing flesh into his mouth.
More than a dozen demonic beasts trembled as they brought him severed flesh.
But whenever Tumu Yue ate with enthusiasm, he would not care about others' lives, tossing demonic beasts into his mouth to chew as well.
Screams came from his mouth, then abruptly stopped after a few breaths.
Mysterious Palace Moon glanced at the two and warned in tone, "Where is the time to wait? If because of small profit you delay the matter of Taiyin Star Lord, do you two still want to live?"
"Understood..."
Wu Qingyue's face twisted, her heart full of resentment from unfulfilled desire.
A moment later she beamed with joy and said, "Then refine them into demon spirits."
"Do as you wish, pay attention to collecting the souls."
Mysterious Palace Moon flicked the bone whip, leaving a long narrow mark on the ground.
At this moment, Corpse Elephant in the center of the battlefield let out a skyward roar, then moved her rotten body and walked straight toward Wuwei City.
Seeing this, Li Yaoyang was both surprised and delighted. His body immediately transformed into densely packed gu insects, landing on Corpse Elephant's body and gnawing continuously.
Corpse Elephant was truly too far from Wuwei City. To approach would require eliminating thousands of demonic beasts and resisting the erosion of demonic qi.
They had originally planned to use spells to carve out a bloody path, but did not expect Corpse Elephant to proactively walk toward Wuwei City. It was somewhat strange.
To be safe, Li Tiangang formed a thin membrane from paper to wrap the city wall.
He could not help roaring, "At most five breaths for you. If you can't kill it, retreat immediately."
Miss Bai nodded, then rode her flying sword out of the city. More than a dozen sword sheaths turned into pillars of blood, standing around Corpse Elephant.
Countless blood-red sword qi drilled out from within the sword sheaths, constantly slicing across the stone elephant.
At first glance the sword qi looked like maggots. Their flight trajectories were unlike dead things, wantonly destroying Corpse Elephant's already ruined body.
Corpse Elephant showed no intention of dodging, continuously stepping closer to the southern city wall ahead.
Although her injuries became increasingly severe, the demonic qi she emitted instead grew denser, constantly enabling demonic beasts to reach the Great Demon realm.
Chen Haoyu mastered the Divine Foot Scripture Elephant-Foot Practitioner. Seeing this, he stood on one foot on the city wall, his right foot directly transforming into a more than ten-meter elephant foot and kicking forcefully.
Corpse Elephant immediately staggered.
Li Yaoyang immediately used gu insects to severely injure Corpse Elephant's four limbs that maintained balance. The latter fell heavily at a position thirty to forty meters from the city wall.
The veins on Mysterious Palace Moon's right hand gripping the bone whip bulged, and cracks spread across the surface of the magical artifact.
As the magical artifact was destroyed, more than a dozen remnant souls circled around Mysterious Palace Moon, wanting to take revenge on this demon immortal who had tortured them to death.
Mysterious Palace Moon opened his mouth, and invisible suction swallowed the remnant souls into his abdomen.
He let out a strange laugh while staring at distant Wuwei City. Corpse Elephant also showed signs of imminent collapse, and demonic qi formed into a tornado.
Boom boom boom!
A terrifying airwave exploded centered on Corpse Elephant.
Tens of thousands of demonic beasts were reduced to ashes, and a pit more than ten meters deep appeared on the spot.
Miss Bai avoided the explosion in time. Her natal magical artifact was not damaged, but half of the aberrant fetus artifact sword sheaths were lost because of it.
Chen Haoyu was not so fortunate.
He had only one leg remaining, clearly severely injured by the explosion. Even though severed limbs could regenerate, it would not heal in a short time.
Li Yaoyang reassembled into human form, but his tattered body required a period of consuming large amounts of flesh to recover.
Even the incomparably sturdy Wuwei City suffered damage. The southern city wall was almost pierced through, and a long narrow mark appeared on the surface.
Fortunately, as an aberrant fetus artifact, Wuwei City was itself close to a living being and could continuously self-repair, only somewhat slower in efficiency.
Moreover, stimulated by the massive demonic qi within Corpse Elephant's body, it turned misfortune into blessing. The consciousness of Wuwei City's artifact spirit actually grew somewhat.
Xiao San immediately began integrating the Half-Corpse realm aberrant fetus.
After Wuwei City completed its metamorphosis, a new wave of beast tide followed one after another, becoming even more frenzied, completely unlike leaving a retreat.