What did it feel like to have hundreds of millions of rats screaming beside one's ears?
Even with Zhai Que'er's strength of will, she no longer wished to consider that question.
The "giant python," nearly twenty li in diameter at its widest point, had long since become an incomparably bloated behemoth. Countless restless, chaotic currents of energy churned within it, gestating reactions almost like living creatures—equally beyond counting. It truly resembled hundreds of millions of rats crushed together, struggling and shrieking. Every twitch of those "rats" consumed the surrounding heaven-and-earth yuan qi. With hundreds of millions gathered in one place, where could this patch of heaven and earth find enough yuan qi to sustain them?
Zhai Que'er could only retreat. Under the present circumstances, even figures as powerful as Elder Long and Black Robe could only stay far away from this region, where yuan qi had been severely depleted. Yet the region was expanding at a terrifying pace, without the slightest sign of slowing.
"It seems we miscalculated..."
Zhai Que'er had never expected Ten Directions Great Venerable to lose control so thoroughly upon seeing that Black Lotus. Especially after the God Slaying Saber fell—its target had been hundreds of li away—yet the Black Lotus before their eyes had vanished in an instant. Then, through their respective channels of information, they learned one after another that the Black Lotus had bloomed anew from the Hell Being that had been killed... and Ten Directions Great Venerable had gone directly mad.
The key was that Hell Being!
Zhai Que'er confirmed that she, too, had misjudged it. Several bouts of displeasure piled together, leaving her faintly dissatisfied. "The intelligence Miaoxiang sent over wasn't like this!"
"What wasn't like this?"
A hoarse voice sounded behind her. Zhai Que'er looked back, a smile still blooming across