The airtight slaughter began soon after. Beneath the sharp rain of stars, countless progeny beasts and monsters parasitizing the Immortal Dragons were cleaved from the sky. They looked like a vast, dense black cloud, but once the radiance of the stars swept over them, a huge section was instantly cleared away. Even I felt a rush of dark satisfaction watching it.
Few of these black beasts possessed intelligence. They all parasitized the plane—either extracting crystal ore from its surface or, if they had the ability, burrowing into the earth veins to gorge themselves on their energy. Some were parasitic beasts clinging to enormous Immortal Dragons. In reality, they were nothing more than pests of the Ninth Heaven, so exterminating them was pest control. I felt little psychological burden over it.
As I slaughtered more and more black beasts, Master Ghost also slowed his escape and began occasionally stopping to circle around and attack. This allowed Sister-in-law, Beihu Yun, and Geng Xiu to climb onto the Primordial Immortal Dragon.
The Primordial Immortal Dragon was unimaginably huge. By the time the three women finally caught up from behind and climbed along its scales, the three of them combined were still smaller than a single scale. One could glimpse the whole leopard from a single spot, but none of them lost heart. Sister-in-law immediately moved along the dragon's body, closing in on its head with ghostlike speed.
Beihu Yun was even more action-oriented. She drew her sword and attacked the dragon's tail directly. Her task was to bury the seven formation cores I had given her into seven locations on the dragon's body, thereby activating the Grand Array and rendering the dragon immobile for a period of time.
The divine sword in her hand struck the dragon's body in an instant, but with