This time, the fighting was even more savage. Driven onward by second-tier demon beasts, the hordes charged like creatures gone mad. The demon beasts had also changed their tactics: leading the charge were massive creatures with extraordinarily tough bodies, such as Golden-Eyed Unicorn Bulls, Iron-Armored Rhinoceroses, and Golden-Tusk Elephants.
The ordinary spells of Qi Refinement cultivators could do little against these demon beasts. Only particularly powerful spells could injure them.
Thus, Foundation Establishment cultivators like Liu Changxu had no choice but to turn their superior strength against these thick-skinned, first-tier demon beasts.
Seeing this, the second-tier demon beasts within the horde immediately rushed forward to engage the Azure Cloud Sect's Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Without the support of their Foundation Establishment cultivators, the Azure Cloud Sect's Qi Refinement cultivators managed to withstand the horde's assault, but their casualties soared.
Even the cultivators of the Liu Household Battle Team began to fall. Two members who had originally been rogue cultivators died under the demon beasts' attacks after the spiritual radiance of their second-tier lower-grade Golden Armor Talismans ran out. One of them did not even leave a body behind: a first-tier supreme-grade Blackflame Tiger swallowed him in a single gulp.
By then, the entire battlefield was a stretch of scorched earth, littered with the bodies of cultivators and demon beasts.
Confronted with this horrific sight, Fourth Brother Liu Chang'an could no longer contain the fear in his heart. He turned and fled.
But before he had taken more than a few steps, a black Water Arrow shot toward him, pierced straight through his talisman's already dimming defenses, and punched through his body. A first-tier supreme-grade Black Giant Python hurtled over and swallowed his corpse in one gulp.
Liu Changxu witnessed it with his own eyes, but he was too far away to