The golden light enveloped in emerald green drew out the item Sui Yi wanted from the body of Great Grandmaster Morton.

After extracting it, the back of her hand decisively and efficiently chopped at Morton’s chest~!

Bang!

Morton was sent flying, just like Liew Baiyi.

Ferocious to the point of being appalling!

Yet it couldn’t overshadow the terrifying scream emanating from the sacrificial tower!

This scream could lift the roof and blast through the ground...

Crack, crack, crack, a thick and long surface fissure split open.

But while everyone was dealing with Morton’s tribe and its army, they had no leisure to worry about the crack on the ground because they heard the wind-breaking sound that filled them with fear.

Looking up at the sky.

Those black shadows spiraled down from the sky... Qi Mechanism lock!

Those flying in the sky are surely birds, and currently, there’s only one kind of bird that can lock onto the Qi Mechanism of these Martial Arts World experts.

"It’s the Thornbird!!"

A Blade Guest exclaimed in fright, his voice almost breaking.

Because there weren’t just one or two, but a whole swarm... at least a hundred!!!

These Thornbirds didn’t circle a second time; following the snake-like twisting of Ritual Master Wu Gen’s body, his arm swung... pointing in a direction!

Swish, swish, swish!

The Thornbirds screamed, sending sound waves like songs before they swooped down, arrow-like streaks.

Boom!

Morton was already half-kneeling on the ground, blood trickling from the corners of his mouth, looking at Sui Yi ahead with fear and dread. Damn it, that Liew Baiyi deceived him! This person is not just terrifying, but exceedingly terrifying!

But that treasure...

"Give me back the treasure~!" Morton’s pupils were scarlet.

Meanwhile.

Ritual Master Wu Gen remained indifferent to the commotion here, continuing his ritual on his own, which meant slaughter only!

The seven types of Fourteen Bloods, but still missing one type of blood.

Human blood!

The blood of these Central Plains people present was the final battle trigger!

"Thornbirds, if you wish to change your fate, plunder their lives, use the warm blood of these Central Plains Dragon Vein people to irrigate the land of our Western Regions abandoned by the heavens... go!"

As Wu Gen spoke, those Thornbirds already landed on the ground transformed into ghastly forms neither human nor ghost, ferociously charged at Dugu Sheng and others,

"Attack!"

Shang Xiu Xun’s group was already prepared, and Dugu Mingyue and others had been previously attacked by Thornbirds, having an inkling suspicion, as for An Long and the others, born from the Great Sect, naturally aware of some Western Regions’ bizarreness, also had preparations in mind.

Only Cheng Yaojin and most others were greatly frightened, but they weren’t timid people, grabbed their weapons and jumped out.

"Yaojin, protect Mr. Shen!" Qin Shubao shouted loudly, gathered with others to surround the scholar in the center, swords and blades unsheathed, killing intent bright!

Yet the disparity in numbers so clear, and with fighting on foreign ground, their hearts were uncertain.

Until...

Hiss, hiss, hiss!

When the Thornbirds swooped in, the commotion seemed irrelevant to Sui Yi, the golden light grasped between her slender fingers, her eyes shimmering, glancing at the golden brilliance and emerald green, as if recalling something.

"Qi Lian...?"

This rather peculiar murmur seemed somewhat unlike the original Sui Yi, but rather a shared murmur from two people, thus there was an echo, reverberating across the vast grassland.

Liew Baiyi and Wu Xie’s expressions slightly changed.

Then, Sui Yi suddenly squinted her eyes.

That squint.

Demon Que rises!

The sky filled with sword rain...

Swish, swish, swish, a vast shower of swords cascaded down, endlessly!

Each sword pierced into these Thornbirds.

Sixty to seventy percent of each sword struck their throat areas.

Instant kill!

The Thornbirds, which were extremely terrifying and difficult for Dugu Sheng and others to deal with, were wiped out in one move, only such a fearsome sword flow resembling magic could achieve this kind of lethality...

"Their weak spot is on the left side of the throat, one-third of the way down," Mr. Shen, the scholar, suddenly said.

As if enlightened, many people’s eyes brightened, and they collectively aimed their attacks at the remaining Thornbirds’ throats...

"Gah!" Originally ferocious and fearless against most attacks, yet grew braver with resistance, the Thornbirds were particularly sensitive about their throats, if pierced, mostly gravely wounded losing combat power, or if not pierced, also restrained, far from as terrifying as before!

Effective! Dugu Mingyue and others rejoiced.

However, just at this moment... what’s that smell?

Typically gluttonous Cheng Yaojin suddenly looked down at the exposed cracks in the ground, those terrifying monstrous lines, with a very apparent foul stench seeping out, and moreover...

Something seemed about to emerge.

Fat Cheng Yaojin’s cleverness exceeded even Qin Shubao’s, he cried out in alarm, immediately grabbing the scholar and hurriedly jumping back, yet not everyone was as sharp as him, barely hearing the fat man’s scream, suddenly feeling sharp pain underfoot...

Furthermore, Cheng Yaojin suddenly saw someone ahead, who was still fighting Morton’s tribe, suddenly motionless, followed by the terrifying fading of blood color from skin, flesh drying up, and within moments, pow! A tentacle sprouted from his brain like a burgeoning bud breaking out of the shell, sleek, bloody, with several writhing holes at the tip absorbing milky white blocks.

Brain matter.

Holy crap!

Cheng Yaojin was nearly scared out of his wits.

Monster?

Looking closely.

A tentacle shot in through the sole, from the sole to the thigh, then to the upper body, running along the chest into the head.

Sucked dry everything!

"It’s Zhi!! Be cautious!" Shang Xiu Xun shouted delicately, yet many terrifying tentacles with powerful destructive force already crawled out from the cracks, robbing the lives of thirty to forty people in an instant, and without exception, sucking dry the body’s flesh and brain matter, leaving only those terrifying skeletal corpses... (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for it, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com).