One day later!
Star Luo City!
The Spirit Hall Empire's army of 500,000 stood at the city gates.
The Star Luo Empire had also played its final trump card, sending its last 500,000 troops to hold them off.
It was a brutal siege.
At Bibi Dong's command, the Spirit Hall Empire dispatched more than ten thousand troops, with thousands of Soul Masters mingled among the ordinary soldiers.
The army raised siege ladders and launched its assault on the walls.
Whenever the Soul Masters hidden among the troops spotted a gap in the defenders' lines, they immediately summoned their Martial Souls, stormed the walls, and began slaughtering.
But the Star Luo Empire's Soul Masters were no pushovers either.
Soul Rings of every color flashed atop the walls. The fighting was savage, with dozens, even hundreds of Soul Masters dying every moment.
Corpses piled up in the moat, layer upon layer.
They stained the entire moat red, damming its waters.
The blood energy, murderous energy, and resentment soaring into the sky seemed to answer some unseen pull, converging within Spirit Hall's army formation.
Bibi Dong absorbed that blood energy, murderous energy, and resentment. They were the perfect catalyst, allowing her to merge rapidly with the Rakshasa Divine Power.
"Ah..."
With her eyes closed and her head tilted back, Bibi Dong drew a deep breath of the blood-reeking air.
"Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. This scent is exquisite."
"Die. Keep dying. You are the finest offerings for my ascension to godhood."
In truth, had Bibi Dong attacked personally, taking Star Luo City would have been a matter of minutes.
But she refused!
She wanted to watch others tear each other apart, to watch blood spill and lives be sacrificed, to watch corpses pile up layer upon layer, until the corpse energy, blood energy, and resentment