The successive deaths of two Demon Generals were like two heavy meteors crashing into stagnant water.
Though they did not immediately stir up towering waves, beneath the foul and oppressive dark canopy of the Black Tortoise Continent, they silently tore open two faint yet real cracks.
An indescribably cold and sharp killing intent was circling and gathering above the remaining battlefields of the Northern Region and the Southwest Region in a manner ordinary people could scarcely detect.
In the end, it pointed toward the three remaining crimson marks on the map.
Lin Langtian did not pause for even a moment.
After hunting down the Cold Marrow Demon General, he did not return to the Valley of Slumber. Instead, using the routes the alliance had once mapped at tremendous cost, along with an Earthly Supreme's keen perception of the flow of heaven and earth energy, he locked onto his next target.
The Withered Heart Demon General, stationed in the Eastern Region.
The Withered Heart Demon General—its name revealed its nature.
Unlike the Cold Marrow Demon General, which controlled extreme cold, or the Bone-Corroding Demon General, which favored strength and corrosion, it was more adept at a strange withering power that directly affected the minds and souls of living beings.
The Withered Bone Demon Nest it occupied had originally been the ruins of an ancient battlefield. Beneath the ground lay countless bones of fallen warriors, along with lingering resentment and baleful qi.
Using this as its foundation, the Withered Heart Demon General had transformed the entire region into the Withered Demon Domain.
Any living being that entered it needed no direct contact; their life force and soul would rapidly wither away like weathered deadwood, until they became a pile of rotten bones and nourishment for the demon nest.
When Lin Langtian stepped