"Don't get bogged down. Move through quickly, before anything else changes." The thoughts of the Demon Gods flashed like sparks, crackling and colliding until they reached a consensus in an instant.
The corpses at the bottom of the cliff and Kasyapa's Remains ahead seemed to have developed a faint, barely discernible intelligence, but they were still far from normal. There was no point in matching wits with them or insisting on a head-on confrontation. That would be using their own strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses. Even setting aside whether they could win, it would waste precious time. With Spirit Mountain undergoing an unexplained change, the longer they dragged things out, the more dangerous it became—and the more likely they were to fail.
So the five Demon Gods, Qingqiu included, made their decision with almost no argument: they would avoid getting entangled with Kasyapa's Remains and the corpses at the bottom of the cliff, relying mainly on diversion and misdirection to get through as quickly as possible and leave their not-so-intelligent enemies behind.
As for what Meng Qi thought, only Qingqiu and Tai Li glanced at him to confirm he had no objections. Hui Guang, Luojia, and Feixiang completely ignored the fact that they had a Heavenly Immortal helping them.
Once the decision was made, the five-colored radiance of red, blue, yellow, white, and black behind Tai Li unfurled like a peacock's tail and swept toward Kasyapa, who sat with his hands clasped and a smile on his lips.
Hui Guang sent the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda flying from above her head, directing it toward the blood-yellow river, as solid as a physical object and filled with corpses, to suppress it for a time. Luojia and Feixiang followed close behind to guard against further changes, while Qingqiu