On the east coast of Centipede Island, Li Si stood atop a towering sea cliff, watching the sacrificial ceremony on the beach below with a thoughtful expression.
The ground had been dug into a channel more than a hundred zhang long, allowing seawater to flow inland into a low-lying depression.
The cultivators of the Demonic Path had built a simple ritual altar there. Its eight sides were neatly arranged, and cloudlike spirit essence circulated around it like ghostly souls, occasionally taking on strange gray-black silhouettes in the air.
Just then, several giant zombies dragged a hundred-zhang sea beast resembling a sea lion along the current and into the ritual altar.
Amid eerie, spine-chilling hisses, enormous centipedes with gleaming shells crawled out and clustered around the sea beast, tearing into it with ravenous hunger.
The horrifying sounds of feeding echoed in every direction.
"The Corpse Immortal Sect's Demon-Raising Method really is marvelous!"
"Anyone could think of feeding demons with the flesh of giant monsters, but making full use of the precise origin energy within it is no easy matter."
Rogue cultivators watching the scene alongside Li Si clicked their tongues in wonder.
Feeding could strengthen the physique to a certain extent, producing more powerful spirit monsters.
But how to feed them, and how to ensure complete digestion and absorption, involved a great deal of knowledge.
The knowledge and experience the Corpse Immortal Sect had accumulated over many years, along with its various secret medicines and resources, were treasures these grassroots rogue cultivators could hardly obtain.
Were it not for this war, they would never have had the slightest opportunity.
These giant centipedes were called centipede heavenly dragons. Their combat strength rivaled that of core formation cultivators, and they were a specialty of the Heavenly Dragon Gate, a subordinate force of the