The changes in Heavenly Moon Grotto had naturally been noticed by more than Li Su alone.
Far away at Eight-Thousand-Foot Mountain, Di Gongrui and Black Calamity had also noticed something amiss with the moonlight. When the two women looked up at the moon rapidly approaching fullness in the sky, their brows immediately furrowed tightly.
It was not just them. Xia Fei and the others from the Five Greats and Ten Great Houses on the righteous path's side, as well as those from the Three Mountains and One Hall on the demonic path's side, had likewise sensed the anomaly.
Though the demonic path's prodigies from the Three Mountains and One Hall were entering Heavenly Moon Grotto for the first time, they had gathered a great deal of intelligence beforehand and obtained detailed information about Heavenly Moon Grotto from Supreme Yin Palace.
Clearly, this change in the moonlight was not among the known intelligence.
At once, everyone's hearts sank, their expressions turning grave.
Xia Fei and the others in particular—though Di Gongrui and Black Calamity had slain the Golden Core beast king atop Eight-Thousand-Foot Mountain, leaving the beast horde leaderless—
—they still did not have an easy time dealing with them.
The main reason was simply that there were far too many: over a million. Even if the beasts stood still and let them kill them, they would likely have to slaughter until their hands went numb.
What was more, these beasts were not weak to begin with. The prodigies still had some strength to spare when dealing with them, but the remaining disciples were having an extremely hard time.
Even against a single beast at the peak of Foundation Establishment, it often took two or three people joining forces to kill it.
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