Red Snake obediently shut her mouth and indignantly jabbed the corpse several times with her blade limbs.
Her voice echoed in Wang Jixuan's heart:
"I'm furious! I wanted so badly to become human, yet I became a monster. They're humans, yet they turned themselves into monsters!"
Wang Jixuan merely smiled without speaking.
The souls of those six people were all hidden inside their crystal cores. He only needed to bring the bodies back for later study. Given the properties of crystal cores, those souls could not escape on their own.
Still, to be safe, he produced six Demon Sealing Talismans.
Crystal cores implanted into human bodies, Brain-Eating Worms controlling human brains, forcibly raising Psionicists' strength.
The Blade Beasts have some tricks up their sleeves too.
Wang Jixuan's thoughts stirred slightly. He looked up at the windblown sand filling the area, and a sense of unease rose within him.
It was as though vertical pupils everywhere were watching coldly.
All this time, he had been considering how to deal with Spiritual Practitioners, but he had never forgotten that they were losers—losers defeated by the Blade Beast Civilization.
The true formidable enemies were still these vile beasts.
"Everyone, head back. Leave these soldiers' bodies for the troops arriving afterward to collect."
Wang Jixuan instructed:
"Peony, cut off those six heads and burn the Brain-Eating Worms inside. Take the bodies back for research."
"Yes, Commander!"
The transport aircraft slowly descended from above.
Just as Wang Jixuan was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something. He hurried to the wreckage of the aircraft Red Snake had rescued earlier and dragged out Uncle Tai and several surviving researchers.
When they returned to Fortress No. 76, the transport aircraft swept slowly through the low skies while Red Snake, the Sub-King-Class Human-Soul Blade Beast, raced across the