Somewhere in the Black Abyss Mystery Cavern, the sounds of battle shook the heavens.
Countless Yin Beasts swarmed together, forming an encirclement a hundred zhang across. Like a surging tide, they relentlessly attacked Elder Mo Wang and the others at its center.
Elder Mo Wang controlled his Puppet Armor, struggling to fend off two Earthly Fiend Corpse Kings. He had no attention to spare for the harassing Yin Beasts. One after another, the Heavenly Mechanism City disciples beside him were ambushed and dragged into the horde, where they were torn to pieces before they could even scream.
"Elder, save me..."
A disciple covered in blood struggled free of the horde and reached toward Mo Wang with a mangled arm. Despair and hope mingled in his eyes as he let out a plaintive cry, unwilling to die.
Unable to bear the sight, Elder Mo Wang turned and was about to reach out to save him. But the disciple's expression suddenly twisted into a vicious grin-the Corpse King had already seized control of his mind.
"This is bad!"
Elder Mo Wang knew something was wrong, but by the time he tried to turn back, it was already too late.
One Earthly Fiend Corpse King punched straight through his Puppet Armor. In the instant when its destruction inflicted a backlash on him, the other broke through to his side and thrust its beast-claw-like hand diagonally upward, straight toward his heart.
My life ends here... Elder Mo Wang lamented inwardly.
At that moment, when his life hung by a thread, a streak of dark light descended from above. Just as the Earthly Fiend Corpse King's hand touched the robes over Elder Mo Wang's chest, the light pierced its skull with a sharp hiss.
The dark light landed and became a black longsword covered in