The standoff between the vampires and the Blood Creatures continued.
Yu Yuan, however, had already left the Command Vehicle and entered the shadow dimension, heading toward the battlefield.
By the time he arrived, both sides had launched another round of attacks and defenses.
The Blood Creatures charged fearlessly, fighting to break through.
The vampires stood atop the city wall, desperately holding them back.
Blood stained the wall red, and the corpses piled ever higher beneath it.
In an inconspicuous patch of shadow that no one would notice.
A fissure appeared in the air.
An arm reached out of it.
A vine resembling a giant anaconda appeared in the shadows.
The instant it touched the ground, the vine slipped into the earth as easily as water and vanished.
This vine was the Oddity [Parasitic Bloodvine].
Among all his Oddities, it was second only to [Yu Yuan's Boundary-Breaking Key] in the number of enhancements it had received.
The [Parasitic Bloodvine] had long since become something far greater than before.
With abilities that included binding, blood draining, energy absorption, burrowing, and parasitism.
It was a true all-rounder.
Control, damage, infiltration, concealment, and magic disruption—it had them all.
It also possessed a particularly rare trait: devouring the flesh of living creatures or corpses to accelerate its growth and evolution.
For various reasons, this ability had never been fully exploited in previous battles.
But now, the moment the [Parasitic Bloodvine] touched down, this graveyard of flesh.
Became a vital source of nourishment for its growth.
The Underground World.
The [Parasitic Bloodvine] twisted its body.
As it writhed, it moved beneath the city wall with effortless ease, like a fish returning to the sea.
The mountain of corpses lay directly above it.
Thick blood seeped through the ground into the soil below, and the [Parasitic Bloodvine]