Yet when life reached its end, no matter how unwilling he was, the Scarred Face Cultivator only had time to make a single sound. His eyes flew wide open, and with a thud, he toppled to the ground and died on the spot.
The sudden turn of events, the sudden death, left the Pockmarked Face Cultivator and Wu Dexing stunned where they stood.
Their bodies shook violently, cold sweat streaming down them.
They had never imagined that the man before them would be so powerful.
Had they not seen it with their own eyes, they would never have believed that they had lost so quickly, so utterly.
The three of them were Foundation Establishment cultivators, and they had borrowed formation flags to activate Sunset City's grand formation. On top of that, the steward had secretly aided them. No matter how one looked at it... there should have been no reason for them to lose.
Before the two could calm themselves from their terror, the Scarred Face Cultivator's cultivation was devoured clean by the Essence Devouring Bloodworm before it could even disperse.
The bloodworm appeared in the air once more, and surging Demonic Essence swept toward them.
The two men's legs trembled, their souls scattering and their courage shattering.
At the critical moment between life and death, the Pockmarked Face Cultivator forcibly suppressed the terror in his heart. He hurriedly bit through his tongue, forced out a drop of blood essence, and sprayed it from his mouth onto the formation flag on the ground.
Empowered by the blood essence, the formation flag began to shine again.
Before the Essence Devouring Bloodworm could rush before them, fluctuations from the formation reappeared around the three, setting the surrounding space rippling.
"Hmm?"
Su Shi'er raised an eyebrow slightly at the sight.
The Essence Devouring