"Clang, clang, clang-rrr-"
Just as Xiahou You and the others stared in horror, a strange sound mingling metallic scraping with an uncanny vibrating hum suddenly rang out across this stretch of heaven and earth.
Following the sound, they discovered that it came from the squirming, grinding flesh and bones of Heavenly Calamity Blightbone's manifested body.
In mere moments.
That mountainlike demonic body gradually transformed into something resembling a red-faced evil ghost, with two twisted horns gleaming with starlight on its forehead and four enormous, fanged mouths covered in star patterns.
Its torso looked as though it had been built from countless Starfall Boulders.
Its lower body still consisted of those eight enormous octopus tentacles.
"Boom...!"
Then the Blood Demon Eye descended from the Star River vortex overhead and embedded itself in the evil ghost's head.
It became the eye of Heavenly Calamity Blightbone's manifested body.
"Rumble..."
In an instant, amid the violent trembling of heaven and earth, fierce aura fluctuations suddenly spread outward in wave after wave from Heavenly Calamity Blightbone's body, like the legendary fire winds of purgatory.
"Boom!!"
Merely facing this aura, the grand formation Xiahou You and the others had formed shuddered beneath the impact, its radiance scattering.
Sensing the killing power within this aura, Xiahou You and the others all felt an inexplicable chill down their spines.
None of them could imagine.
What they could do to stand even the slightest chance of victory against such a terrifyingly powerful existence.
Never mind victory.
They could not even imagine how to escape this monster.
Just as their resolve wavered, Heavenly Lord Shihu, standing outside the grand formation, suddenly roared:
"Xiao You, just hold the grand formation with the others. Think of nothing else!"
His shout steadied Xiahou You and the others.
After speaking, Heavenly Lord Shihu suddenly