The scene was a sorry mess, the ground littered with Demon Cores and the dead and wounded.
No more Demonic Beasts emerged from the blood pool. They could safely say they had slaughtered them all.
Yet the cultivators felt little joy, for their losses had been just as devastating.
Some had lost friends, others family, and the barrier remained perfectly intact. All of it plunged them into profound despair.
Su Jiu's words brought them to their senses at the right moment, but also made their anguish worse.
They had not harmed one another, yet so many had still died. Of course, this was already the best outcome possible under the circumstances, at least far better than listening to that Demonic Beast's beguiling words.
Had they truly listened to it and slaughtered one another, everything might have descended into chaos from the outset. By the time the Blood Demon and the Demonic Beasts appeared, they would have had no strength left to resist. They would have been wiped out and become food for those creatures.
Thinking about it that way, these Demonic Beasts really must have minds of their own!
At that thought, a fine sheen of sweat crept over some people's backs.
After staring at Su Jiu for a long while with its three pairs of scarlet eyes, the Demonic Beast suddenly let out a grating cackle. "How did you know?"
Su Jiu silently averted her gaze from its face. The creature was truly an assault on the eyes. She suddenly thought of the alluring, seductive Phantom Blood Demon. That was what a demon looked like in her mind...
"If you can beguile people with your voices, doesn't that prove you have minds of your own? You were human before you became like this, weren't you?"
The Blood Demon stopped