Just as everyone had endured countless hardships and barely managed to hold on, a piercing, miserable shriek suddenly rang out from the sky, which had been calm as a mirror—a cry so shrill it seemed capable of piercing the clouds! Immediately afterward, people watched in terror as a vast swarm of blood-colored bats, dense as dark clouds and blotting out the heavens, charged toward them at astonishing speed! There were so many bats that it beggared imagination. From afar, it even created the illusion that they had completely covered the entire sky!
Even more horrifyingly, after those terrifying blood-colored bats gathered together, they miraculously fused into an enormous, grotesque monster reeking of pungent blood! This colossal creature was the legendary Blood Shadow Mad Bat Demon! Its twisted, savage face and eerie, sinister aura sent chills down everyone's spine. In particular, its eyes, glinting with scarlet cold light, resembled ghosts from the depths of hell, revealing endless venom and hatred! At that moment, the dreadful Blood Shadow Mad Bat Demon opened its blood-filled maw and launched a ferocious assault on the group!
Faced with such a savage enemy, the soundwave power released by the Hope Sacred Bell was severely hindered and could not display its proper might at all. Meanwhile, although the Eternal Sacred Sword possessed an incomparably sharp edge and unstoppable force, it was surrounded layer upon layer by countless blood bats and was temporarily unable to show its strength. Trapped within the encirclement, everyone could only watch helplessly as their companions were relentlessly bitten and attacked by the blood bats, their bodies covered in wounds of varying depths, blood streaming everywhere...
However, at this critical moment of life and death, someone unexpectedly discovered the Blood Shadow Mad Bat Demon's weakness—if they could destroy the crystalline Blood Crystal Heart in