Inside Giant Stone City...
At this moment, only eight bats remained in Giant Stone City. As for the remaining Giant Stone Demons, they had all been devoured by those bats, reduced to ordinary stones and stripped of all intelligence.
"You beasts, let me go!"
A youth glared furiously as he struggled.
His face was somewhat contorted, his lips were terribly dry, and his body was exceedingly frail. He had not eaten for days. Had he not possessed some cultivation, he would probably have been tortured to death long ago.
They had all once been residents of Giant Stone City, but now only a scant few of them remained.
"I never imagined there would only be a dozen or so people in this city. That's far fewer than in the last city."
The Bat Emperor sighed softly. Looking at the few humans before him, all as thin as sticks, he had no appetite whatsoever.
"These are what the lords want. All we need to do is follow their orders and send them the living food they want."
Another bat nodded, then placed those humans inside the Teleportation Formation. As the formation shuddered, the humans who had been shouting were transported straight to the other side before they could react...
At that very moment, in the Ten Thousand Fiends Abyss.
Watching the endless stream of humans being transported over, the Black-Robed Man grinned from ear to ear.
"Good, good! With so many people, sacrificing them all will surely awaken the mighty Fiend Beasts!"
The Black-Robed Man spoke excitedly.
"Soon. One month will be enough for me to gather them!"
His sinister, icy voice resounded throughout the Ten Thousand Fiends Abyss, while dense, pitch-black fog shrouded the entire abyss from top to bottom!
Beneath that pitch-black blanket of fog, ghostly wails and wolfish