The Old Monster Tangtou was neither a Star Controller nor a Star Beast, much less the Child Spirit.
Then he had to be a puppet—or the Child Spirit's puppet!
The enormous blood sphere might be the legendary Child Spirit. In Mingchu's memories, the Child Spirit's remains were not bones or anything of the sort, and its soul was not something resembling a ghost.
It could be any kind of non-concrete existence, yet it could borrow a shell and become anything concrete.
When dozens of Star Artifacts suddenly launched their attacks, I immediately began charging and signaled Yun Heng and the others to withdraw quickly, because the main force in the battle to come would be the Soul-Eating Beasts.
Sure enough, even Old Monster Tangtou began counterattacking the pouncing Soul-Eating Beasts. These Soul-Eating Beasts feared neither death nor injury. They threw themselves at the blood sphere, only to be pierced through by enormous thorns condensed from the sphere, or to be cut apart on the spot by blood arrows.
The blood sphere spiraled up from the ruins, continuously attacking the Soul-Eating Beasts rushing toward it. Of course, its true target was actually me.
Boom!
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!
Blood-red chains shot toward me one after another. After a series of muffled impacts, they plunged into the Soul-Eating Altar formed from the piled-up Soul-Eating Beasts, while I used the Star Dipper Divine Gale to evade and block every attack!
After unfurling the Star God Seat, I immediately activated my Star-Slaying Art. Besides sealing Old Monster Tangtou's Star God Seat, it also severed his connection with the Star Artifacts. Thus, although the attacks looked ferocious, most of them were dismantled by me.
Moreover, because I had deliberately left the Soul-Eating Beasts' attack routes open, the enormous blood sphere beneath Old Monster Tangtou had also