When that abnormally enormous infant heart flew out, Lin Qi and everyone around him instinctively looked up at it. The infant heart continued to beat as it flew, radiating a suffocatingly evil aura. Even Long Yan, powerful as he was, felt his body stiffen in waves, as though he had been soaked in freezing, bone-piercing ice water and could barely move.
Amid everyone's horror, that heart, gleaming with a dazzling bloody light and exuding a sinister evil aura, crashed into the rock wall Lin Qi had summoned.
With a thunderous boom, bloodlight sprayed in every direction. Lin Qi's body jolted; the hands pressed firmly to the ground were suddenly blasted up into the air. The immense recoil surged up his arms and slammed into his body, making his internal organs tremble. Dull cracks of bones and tendons snapping came from within him, and the searing pain made him let out a muffled groan.
That enormous invading force also carried a sinister evil aura. Thick, blood-colored evil energy entered Lin Qi's body through his arms and coiled between his internal organs, corroding him like concentrated sulfuric acid. Even his body, repeatedly strengthened by the Osmanthus Tree and the Hall of the Doomsday Apocalypse, could not withstand the assault of that blood energy. Lin Qi's internal organs writhed and spasmed violently at once, and the indescribable agony nearly made him scream.
Within the bloodlight, the massive rock wall collapsed with a crash. Countless shattered chunks of stone shot toward Lin Qi's side. Saturated with earth elemental energy, the rocks were extraordinarily heavy; even a fist-sized piece weighed several thousand jin. Such weight was nothing to those elite evil ghost warriors clad in heavy armor, and with casual blows, they smashed the incoming rocks to powder.
But the servant soldiers operating the catapults