In the void, clusters of blood suddenly exploded, dragging living beings into them one after another.
These blood clusters did not merely pull in living creatures; even the corpses were gathered into them.
Behind these blood clusters stretched transparent spirit threads, connected to the Demon Dragon Pillar at the very center of the void.
As the blood clusters pulled, living bodies melted away and became part of the blood clusters. Phantom souls emerged one after another, following the spirit threads toward the central pillar.
Among these trapped cultivators were naturally no shortage of fourth-order demon kings and Golden Core cultivators.
They were extremely fast and possessed countless life-preserving methods, allowing them to evade the blood clusters' devouring. Yet even if they escaped the blood clusters for a moment, they remained within the formation and could not break it.
The formation's strength was far greater even than that of a sixth-order Mountain Protection Array.
Clearly, Divine Lord Jiu Ying had long anticipated such a crisis. The formation he had laid down was meant to plunder the Dao of all Penglai.
With so many Daos tangled in disorder, containing every kind of divine soul and divine sense, muddled and chaotic, an ordinary cultivator attempting to devour and plunder Dao would find it difficult to succeed even as a Void Refinement Venerable.
They might even suffer a qi deviation and explode to death in the end.
But Divine Lord Jiu Ying was clearly no longer an ordinary person.
Two additional arms had grown from his body. They appeared to be human arms, yet they were covered in demonic patterns. Those patterns seemed to float upon the surface of his skin rather than being embedded within his body like those of a true Three-headed Ancient Demon.
At his brow, there was also an additional