On the outskirts of Soul-Severing Valley, amid the ruined former camp of the Great Wall Prefecture Left Route Army, a feast of almost feverish gluttony was unfolding.
The wind and snow had stopped, but waves of heat rolled through the camp.
Over a hundred enormous iron cauldrons, hastily cast from azure astral rock and black iron, stood over fiercely burning spirit coal.
What boiled and churned within them was not ordinary spirit rice or grain, but mountains of demon beast flesh!
Aside from its most precious demon core, blood essence, hide, fur, and bones, which had been placed in the military stores, the immense body of the [Azure-Eyed Golden-Pupiled Ape]
had been generously ordered by Chu Bai to be butchered in its entirety. Its ordinary flesh, brimming with terrifying spiritual energy and violent blood vitality, was combined with Anping County's unique Bloodfang Rice and several aged medicinal herbs that neutralized demonic baleful energy, then simmered into cauldron after cauldron of crimson medicinal broth so rich it was almost too thick to stir!
Beyond that, the corpses of several thousand elite demon generals at the middle and late stages of qi refining had all become fuel for this feast.
"Drink! Open your bellies and drink your fill!"
Bare-chested, Pang Song patrolled between the cauldrons, carrying a long saber dripping with demon blood as he roared, "This is a Demon King's flesh! Normally, you qi refining mud-footed bastards could toil for three lifetimes and still never catch so much as a whiff of it!
"His Majesty has graciously bestowed this supreme medicine upon the entire army. If any of you can't even refine one bowl, get the hell out of this camp now!"
The eight hundred Black-Armored Guards from Anping County had removed their heavy Gold-Averting Mystic Armor and sat cross-legged, bare-chested