Every secret art and cultivation method Wang Yu had learned flashed through his mind. After a brief moment of thought, he formed a seal with both hands and murmured an incantation. A yellow Spirit Inscription diagram faintly flickered through his eyes, and everything around him took on a hazy yellow cast. It was the Qi-Observing Secret Art.
He immediately looked down at himself and saw a half-foot-high layer of blood qi covering his body. It curled and shifted ceaselessly, seeming to contain an astonishing heat.
"Overclocking!" Wang Yu called out. Crystalline light flashed through his pupils again as he carefully examined the blood qi.
At the center of the golden desert, a massive altar built from white stone had appeared out of thin air. Objects resembling bamboo slips could faintly be seen on the offering table at its summit.
The golden sand before the altar was densely strewn with the corpses of crablike demon beasts.
Each beast was several feet long, with sharp, enormous pincers that gleamed like metal and backs covered in pearl-like eyeballs of varying sizes. Now, however, they all lay with their limbs pointing skyward, their bellies completely burst open and green blood spilled all over the ground.
Thunderous booms rang out in the air above the corpses.
A giant crab demon beast roughly twenty feet long, its entire body translucent like blue-green jade, was locked in fierce combat with a blurry figure wrapped in blood-colored mist.
The blue-green crab swung its enormous pincers so tightly that neither wind nor rain could penetrate, creating layer upon layer of afterimages before itself. At the same time, it continuously spat out white bubbles of varying sizes.
Moments after leaving the beast's mouth, the bubbles burst on their own, spraying foul-smelling green venom that blanketed nearly every direction.
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