The Emperor Zhou's Preparations

On the city walls, people from every sect and school had already begun organizing their disciples into groups to leave the city, spreading across the battlefield in an orderly fashion to collect the spoils.

Some were responsible for clearing away the corpses of low-level Demonic Beasts, cutting off the useful parts and storing them by category.

Others focused on the remains of high-level Great Demons, carefully stripping off scales and armor, extracting sinews and bones, and collecting demon blood.

The sounds of slicing through flesh and blood and bones echoed through the air, along with the occasional cry of delighted surprise.

Li Xiao also joined the ranks cleaning up the battlefield.

Before Ao Xing was carried away, he had left behind a vast swath of spilled dragon blood. To cultivators below Sixth Turn, it was already an exceedingly precious material.

Li Xiao carefully searched through the ruins and gathered quite a bit of mud and broken stone stained with dragon blood. Though they could not compare to his two dragon kidneys, the Spiritual Qi contained in dragon blood still far surpassed the Essence Blood of ordinary Demonic Beasts.

He carefully put those things away, then headed farther out in search of overlooked Demonic Beast remains.

Li Xiao searched the battlefield for another half day, but he felt somewhat regretful.

He had never found the Essence Blood of a Sixth Turn Great Demon.

If he had that, he could complete another ritual for the Seven Orifice Insect.

But on second thought, he had accumulated quite a bit of merit now. He should be able to exchange Contribution Points for the Essence Blood of a Sixth Turn Great Demon, so there was no need to rush.

As the sky gradually darkened, the collection work on the battlefield also neared its end.

Li