"Brother Lu, you give me too much credit. With your strength, how would this old ox dare to toy with you? I didn't tell you beforehand only because I was worried you wouldn't enter this cave. So I resorted to a little trick. Though this old ox is a bit gluttonous, I'm not foolish enough to risk so much just for a meal of human flesh. With your meticulous mind, you must have guessed as much already. Since you were still willing to come in with me, you must have something else you're after, too."
The Eight-Legged Demon Ox Beast wasn't the least bit worried by Lu Xiaotian's displeasure. It was confident that even if Lu Xiaotian's companions came to Lingyun Cave, they would still be unable to do anything to it.
Of course, the Eight-Legged Demon Ox Beast hadn't been entirely honest with Lu Xiaotian. It ate human flesh partly to satisfy its appetite, but also to cultivate its Bull Demon Heavenly Corpse Art, an exceptionally unusual and domineering technique. It had to consume its victims immediately after killing them; once too much time passed, their flesh and blood lost their spiritual essence.
The Bull Demon Heavenly Corpse Art required the Eight-Legged Demon Ox Beast to absorb vast quantities of flesh and blood. Humans were only one source among many. But few humans passed through this place, especially powerful cultivators. In the past, the passage between this space and the outside world had been unstable, and it was rare to see anyone even once in several decades or a century. Now that several people had suddenly appeared, the Eight-Legged Demon Ox Beast naturally wasn't willing to let them go.
Even if it were only for the flesh and blood of Xiang Yihang and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators, the