Cries of slaughter and roars of beasts rose and fell across the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Blood covered the ground, staining the earth red.
Dark clouds screamed across the heavens, slashed by lightning, while the bloody stench spread over ruins that fell silent for a moment before erupting into noise again. The wails and flashing blades that had just faded bloomed anew in the wind. Heaps of mangled remains lay hideous and terrifying, their heavy reek almost suffocating.
By now, both the soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest and the undead army Yang Ming had summoned with Undead Scourge had suffered severe losses. Both sides in the tug-of-war on the forest's outskirts were exhausted yet resolute. Their savage battle had brought a calamity of blood flowing in rivers.
A Datura Snake with ninety thousand years of cultivation coiled its long tail around an Abomination pieced together from countless chunks of flesh. Opening its bloody maw, it swallowed the Abomination's head in a single bite. Cool blood flowed down its throat, only for its face to scrunch up bitterly. It turned and spat the blood out in disgust. Evidently, the Abomination's venomous, foul-smelling pus and blood had left a faint psychological scar on this Datura Snake, which already had one foot in the ranks of ferocious beasts.
The commander of the Undead Cavalry Regiment, whose strength rivaled a Spirit King, blazed with spectral souls in its hollow eye sockets. Countless death knights crowded around its silhouette and charged behind it. Corpses littered their path. Vast numbers of ten-year and hundred-year soul beasts died beneath their lances, while even many millennium soul beasts avoided their sharp edge.
Soon, the Datura Snake spotted the Undead Cavalry Regiment charging toward it. Almost simultaneously, both sides brought out their trump