Although the girls before me would sometimes disagree in the past, after watching their companion become a Blood Demon, not one of them dared act willfully anymore. Everyone knew that continuing onward meant only one thing: a dead end, and one with absolutely no room for retreat.
"Brother Tian..." Zhao Qian still tried to plead her case, but in the end, she knew I would not let her continue onward. I had no alternative path left for them to choose.
Zhao Qian quickly led the women's legion members into retreat. Meanwhile, as I charged forward, quite a few people from the Dao Alliance and the Star Realm had also returned in defeat. Every one of them wore a look of frustration, and they were even unwilling to mention who they had lost.
I did not go over to greet them. The terror this Blood Demon Dao Foundation had brought to Sky City far outweighed the surprise. No one wanted to mention the companions they had lost, because doing so would only plunge them into memories of their helplessness.
Fortunately, most people still knew to escape before their Blood Demon Tokens were exhausted; otherwise, they would not even have had the chance to leave. But those were merely the lucky ones. When they encountered more than seven or eight Immortal cultivators who had transformed into Blood Demons, they might not even get the chance to activate a second Blood Demon Token. The powerful Blood Demon laws would cause them to attain the Dao directly, entering the Blood Demon Dao Foundation and becoming part of it. That was why most Immortal cultivators had perished for no apparent reason.
This was an invisible meat grinder—a meat grinder that consumed Sky City's strongest in a single sweep.
As I continued deeper, the indicator gradually