Over a hundred enormous blood dragons streaked and fled across the vast sea of blood, violently shaking their massive bodies in an attempt to fling off the huge black-headed mechanical beetles clinging to them. Yet it was useless.
The scarlet flames' scorching corrosion had no effect on the beetles, while the terrifying dissolving energy coiling around their bodies could wantonly melt away the immense energy within the blood dragons.
The two sides had been locked in a stalemate for several days, but the beetles had always been at a disadvantage.
The nearly two million mechanical beetles from earlier had now dwindled to barely a million, suffering losses of almost half their number. This pained the Profound Ghost Saint Ancestor greatly. Yet none of the blood dragons in the void had been lost. Whenever a blood dragon was gnawed down until only its blood essence remained, it would immediately collapse, transforming into blood essence that fused into the sea of blood.
Then the sea of blood would surge, and an intact blood dragon would immediately emerge.
As long as the sea of blood did not perish, the Sea of Blood technique could continuously manifest powerful blood dragons. This left the Profound Ghost Saint Ancestor utterly speechless.
Yet what did he see now? The terrifying blood dragons, each comparable to a Mahayana cultivator, had actually weakened greatly. Under the mechanical beetles' gnawing, blood dragons that had previously required several hours of stalemate before suffering extensive damage now needed only half an hour to be gnawed through most of the way and collapse on the spot.
The Profound Ghost Saint Ancestor saw it clearly. Although the blood dragons' bodies seemed not to have shrunk, the blood essence solidifying their dragon bodies had greatly thinned, as though the immense energy fused within them had