On the centermost screen was a district already reduced to ruins. The corpse of the Qiongqi Demon King, slain by Jiang Chuan, lay quietly atop the rubble.
Crimson blood continuously gushed from the Qiongqi Demon King's body, split in two, staining the collapsed houses and streets red.
"Isn't this perfectly normal? What's so strange abou—"
Before Duan Hong could finish, he suddenly froze. Then he realized, "No! Where did the Qiongqi Demon King's blood go?!"
As a Ten Realms Demon King, Qiongqi was over seven thousand meters long, like an unbroken mountain range.
How much blood would such an enormous body contain?
At the very least, it would be like an entire lake overturning at once. When the Qiongqi Demon King's mountain-like body had crashed down, it had not merely damaged the buildings—the underground drainage and sewage systems had surely been destroyed as well.
Normally, a lake of blood should have formed in Nandu City. Yet now, all that blood had vanished.
"Among all sects, the Blood Sea Divine Cult is the best at cultivating with blood. I suspect a Blood Sea Divine Cult expert secretly infiltrated Nandu—"
Before Zhang Minghui could finish, Duan Hong interrupted him.
"It can't be the Blood Sea Divine Cult. Leaving aside the fact that it is the evil cult Great Xia has hit the hardest, with two consecutive cult leaders dying in battle and the cult nearly wiped out entirely. The whole of Nandu City is covered by a grand formation. The current Blood Sea Divine Cult cultivators simply cannot infiltrate Nandu City without damaging the formation."
"If it wasn't an outsider—"
Boom!
Before Zhang Minghui could finish, another deafening blast cut him off.
It was as though a sea of light had burst through its banks. Tens of thousands of divine rays erupted