Without the protection of their two ninth-tier Crab Emperors, the hundreds of millions of Crab Demons of the Pine Needle Crab clan could offer no effective resistance.
The army of human cultivators swept forward like a force crushing rotten wood, sword light and magical seals weaving into a net that slaughtered swaths of Crab Demons surging toward them like a tide.
Yet there were simply too many Crab Demons. Densely packed hordes kept pouring out of the undersea caverns, dragging the extermination battle out for three full days and nights. Layers upon layers of Pine Needle Crab remains floated on the surface, the seawater stained dark red. The air reeked of blood and the scorched stench left by burning spirit energy.
When the fighting ended, apart from a small number of Crab Demons that had escaped in the chaos through sheer luck, the vast majority had become spoils for the human cultivators.
To the human cultivators who fought, every part of a Pine Needle Crab was a treasure. Their hard shells could be refined into magical treasures, while their tender meat could not only be cooked into delicious spirit cuisine but also used to refine pills. Thus, the cultivators were extremely eager to join the battle.
Under the leadership of Duan Yuwei, Xiao Zier, and the others, the Liu household cultivators achieved particularly rich results. Their spoils filled the Storage Bracelet of every participating cultivator, and the abundance of their harvest left every clan member beaming with joy.
After this battle, the Crab Demon menace in the waters around Pine Needle Island was largely eradicated. Although the Human Alliance Army also suffered considerable losses, it ultimately secured a complete victory, bringing a long-absent peace to these waters.
What surprised Liu Changxu, however, was that Jin Haonan and Zhang Wenping, who