"Awooo..."
Amid the endless mountains of Central Province, a pack of burly gray wolves raced through the dense woods, following the guidance of distant howls.
Before long, the view ahead abruptly opened up, revealing a withered woodland clearing nearly a hundred zhang across.
Everyone riding the wolves wore the attire of the Heavenly Dao Alliance. They were disciplinary officers serving the alliance, and although they came from different sects or aristocratic clans, at that moment they all displayed the qualities befitting capable elites. Almost instantly, they swung down from their wolves, drew swords and sabers, readied their treasures, and formed hand seals, bracing as though facing a formidable enemy.
The ground ahead suddenly shook violently, and strange hissing noises rose from underground.
As the woodland floor split open, blue-gray pythons as thick as thighs and several zhang long swarmed out, spewing ice, fire, and poisonous mist as they attacked head-on.
"Enemy attack! Kill them!"
A commander who appeared to be the team captain shouted.
He was an expert at the tenth turn of the human rank. As he spoke, golden light burst from his entire body, and thick patches of golden fur, as though dyed yellow, sprouted from his exposed skin. A faint giant silhouette enveloped him like a spirit garment.
This was not a spirit garment, but it rivaled one. It was a bloodline-based demon beast dharma lineage: by transplanting the organs and bloodlines of various demon beasts or spirit monsters, it transformed the human body into something demonic and granted a measure of control over Heaven and Earth Essence, thereby producing artificial earth rank strength.
This cultivation method inflicted tremendous damage on one's own origin, readily tainting the bloodline and even severing the roots of spiritual aptitude at the very source of the divine soul.
Yet by ingeniously