Gladiators' Square, countless maggot-men rose from the mountain of corpses.
Some were not much different from ordinary people, merely blood-red or jet-black all over. Yet others differed enormously in shape. Not only were they more than ten times taller and larger than humans, they also sported all manner of fanged maw-parts, horns and feelers, compound eyes and long trunks, spiked arms and elephantine legs. Some even looked entirely like monsters, with no human form at all—both nauseating and terrifying to behold.
Tens of millions of maggot-men had parasitized the corpse mountain, evolved to maturity, then obeyed the orders of Poison Maggot, leader of the Five Great Villains.
They surged out in a flood, racing toward every part of the Sky-Hanging Mothership.
Searching for survivors who might have hidden away.
Very soon, escapees hiding in sealed chambers were discovered by their keen noses. They were surrounded and attacked, or the maggot-men gathered their strength to smash through the doors, tearing the pitiful survivors apart and devouring them...
Flower Duck and Guoguo were fleeing madly, charging wildly ahead without any sense of direction, with a huge swarm of maggot-men close on their heels.
They were among the survivors who had been found while hiding in the cabin.
Yue Yang, who had been capable of protecting them, had already left the cabin with Raven and the blood-soaked giant Pelican, both grievously wounded but having regained the use of their forbidden power through fragments of ancient relics. He had gone to meet the three pirate bosses: Winged Tiger, Wind Eagle, and Flamingo. Although he had easily defeated Hungry Ghost and forcibly sealed him inside the Demon-Sealing Tower, that did not mean Yue Yang would let down his guard. Hungry Ghost was merely one of the weaker Five Great Villains. His strength was inferior to