Because they were so close.
Everyone could even clearly see the scraps of flesh stuck between their fangs and the black fog roiling inside their chests.
And hear their beastlike growls.
Yet this was merely the scene at the sacred land's entrance.
"Whoosh! Whoosh, whoosh!"
As the owner of this moonlight stone and his companions swiftly dodged the surrounding Blightbone's attacks, they finally entered the sacred land's first level.
For the moment, however, everyone remained relatively calm.
They had already seen these Blightbone devouring people in Kaiyang Heaven.
"Tap, tap..."
But as two sets of footsteps sounded, everyone held their breath.
Amid those footsteps, they saw-
Two skeletal boys in tattered Daoist robes slowly walking out of a pool of blood.
The two skeletal boys held bronze lamps in their hands. The flames flickered, and with every step they took, sparks bursting from the wicks condensed into blood-red runes in the air.
"Crack, crack-crack-crack..."
When their necks twisted at grotesque angles to look toward the image, the hairs on everyone's napes stood on end, and a chill shot up their spines to the crowns of their heads.
"Boom!"
Almost the instant the two boys holding bronze lamps turned their heads, two clouds of blood mist suddenly burst within the image.
The cultivator holding the moonlight stone turned to look.
He saw that the two Blightbone boys, who had appeared as though by Instantaneous Movement, had torn apart the bodies of his fellow cultivators beside him.
They had not even had time to unleash their spells and divine abilities.
"Boom...!"
While everyone stared in a daze, another explosive report rang out, and the cultivator holding the moonlight stone, through whom they had witnessed all this, suddenly burst into a mass of flesh and blood as well.
Then, their faces filled with