Today's first update: Chapter 3017! 1/4! (Yesterday's update was still completed before midnight.)
Having drunk its fill of billions of drops of blood and souls, that bizarre heart had become grotesquely swollen. The knotted blood vessels on its surface writhed madly like countless scarlet centipedes, while its heavy pulses boomed like ancient war drums, each beat making the earth groan.
The soul fluctuations it released had even materialized into tides, crashing outward in wave after ever-higher wave!
Even with Lin Hun leading the entire Ninth Division in pouring their strength into the Soul Restriction Barrier, it now seemed on the verge of collapse. Like a small boat in a storm, it barely held on while groaning under an unbearable burden.
Lin Hun's face was as pale as paper, and blood even trickled from the corner of his mouth. Clearly, his soul power had been excessively depleted.
"Ninth Brother, can you still hold on?" Lin Mu and the others rushed back. Seeing this, they immediately poured their power into the barrier to aid him.
"No... Its power is growing too quickly, far beyond anything we imagined! We... can't hold on much longer!" Lin Hun's voice trembled painfully. Battles on the soul level were the most dangerous, and he was already at his limit.
"Run... run!" Lin Hun gave the most correct advice.
At that moment—
The hundreds and thousands of pinprick-like holes on that massive beating heart were thoroughly saturated with dense blood energy and forced open!
The next instant, a scene that made everyone's scalps tingle unfolded—within every hole, a cold, sinister, lifeless eye abruptly opened!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Hundreds and thousands of dim, deathly rays shot from those eyes like invisible blood spears!
"Urgh—!"
Lin Hun bore the brunt of the attack and let out a pained groan.