Sudden Backstab

Liu Jinhui and the other Dragon People higher-ups stood behind the top-floor windows, silently watching the horrific scene below.

The Demon Spirits charging out of the passage pounced directly on the Bounty Hunters gathered nearby to "collect their rewards."

The Bounty Hunters watched the approaching Demon Spirits with drool still hanging from their mouths.

In the blink of an eye, the Demon Spirits collided with the Bounty Hunters, who immediately cried out in alarm: the methods once used to trap Eerie Spirits were completely useless!

Those methods had two effects: trapping Eerie Spirits while protecting oneself. In truth, as long as an Eerie Spirit was trapped, it naturally could not attack, which achieved self-protection.

But now that those methods had failed, it meant they had no defenses at all before the Demon Spirits!

A Demon Spirit rushed into a bounty hunter's body and burst out through his back, its hands dragging along a "human silhouette."

The silhouette was still stuck to the flesh-and-blood body, connected by stretching strands like pulled adhesive tape.

That state had to be agonizing. In any case, the flesh-and-blood body screamed miserably, while the silhouette being dragged out twisted and struggled as well.

From the rooftop, every bounty hunter at the scene was in that state. Several Demon Spirits even fought over a single bounty hunter, tearing apart the "human silhouette" inside him.

"Is this a Demon Spirit?" Yan Xiaolong watched silently, a trace of wariness appearing deep in his eyes. His tone was no longer so calm. "It feels completely different from an Eerie Spirit. Eerie Spirits enter the human body and directly devour the soul, but these Demon Spirits can drag the soul out of the body. Isn't that just needlessly roundabout?"

Liu Jinhui smiled, looking faintly "helpless." "We don't know either. This is