King of the Mountain (2)

Beneath the dark crimson, violet-tinged Demonic Baleful Qi.

Fairy Peiyu casually seized the corpse of a fourth-order demon. Her cherry lips instantly split into a gaping maw of blood, stuffing the corpse, along with the demon's imprisoned Divine Soul, wholesale into her mouth.

The Evil-Eating Centipede beneath her continuously devoured the foul remnants left behind by the fallen demons.

"Crunch, crunch!"

"Crack!"

"Gulp!"

The sounds of tearing, chewing, and swallowing ceaselessly reached the ears of the three-woman snake demon and the other demons.

Covered in wounds, they knelt on the ground, not daring to make the slightest sound...

Nearly all the troublesome demons in Chaosrock Stronghold had been slain. Only those who had sensed the tide turning and promptly submitted had escaped Shen Mo's—Fairy Peiyu's—slaughter!

Eating demon corpses and Divine Souls mouthful by mouthful was far too slow. Growing somewhat impatient, Shen Mo immediately issued an order to hurry up.

Fairy Peiyu nodded and began stirring up the Demonic Baleful Qi.

In the blink of an eye, all the demon corpses shrouded in dark crimson Baleful Intent were stripped of their vital essence, energy, and spirit, becoming shriveled husks that turned into clouds of dusty powder and scattered on the wind at the slightest breeze.

The violet tint in Fairy Peiyu's Demonic Baleful Qi grew a little deeper as well!

Only after she had eaten every last morsel of demon blood food did Shen Mo's consciousness descend once more, and clarity and ethereal calm returned to her eyes.

"Not bad! I've taken another step toward the fifth order."

"After devouring several hundred more third- and fourth-order demons, I should be able to advance smoothly!" Shen Mo murmured softly through Fairy Peiyu, sensing the increasingly vast and powerful demonic origin within her.

A Demon Soul General that retained the traits of