"Ah!!!"
Dense blood-red mist shrouded heaven and earth. Countless people screamed as the internal strength within their bodies was rapidly devoured, their life force drained away along with it!
Cultivators after cultivator were swiftly sucked dry, utterly losing all vitality and turning into desiccated corpses,
like dehydrated mummies, like bodies weathered dry for thousands upon thousands of years, before helplessly falling from mid-air.
As they fell, the mouths of those shriveled corpses remained stretched wide, their withered faces full of terror.
At the same time,
the many mortals fleeing across the ground were swept up by the blood-red light and devoured as well, becoming nourishment for that bloody radiance!
In scarcely the time it took to burn an incense stick, more than half the population across Qingzhou had died in an instant, their vitality extracted by the blood-red light!
Those able to survive at this time either lived in vast rural villages and towns with sparse populations, or had a Great Power of the Myriad Transformations Realm stationed nearby, who had destroyed all the blood-red altars in the surrounding area across the void at the very first instant of the outbreak!
However,
the deaths of merely over half the population were already an incomparably grievous loss!
The land of Qingzhou was vast and boundless.
A single Shenjing held billions upon billions of people, yet that was not even one-tenth of a single region!
Looking across all three hundred and sixty regions of Qingzhou,
its population could be measured in trillions!
The number of people slaughtered by this upheaval was simply impossible to count!
In an instant,
a towering Blood Sea surged into the sky, and the heavens above all of Qingzhou were dyed blood red At This Moment!
Boundless blood and Baleful Intent!
At the same time,
under the echoes