On the plaza's big screen.
The image was somewhat blurry, but they could still tell the scene was in the Demon Domain.
Several children, only five or six years old, had been gathered together in a panic, with several Gu Diao standing around them.
"The energy of the Demon King Flower is relatively gentle."
"Neutralize it with the Beast Blood of a savage bear."
"Let's give it a try."
An aged voice spoke, but only the voice could be heard; the speaker was nowhere to be seen.
Immediately afterward, a Gu Diao casually scooped up a child with its sharp claws and tossed the child into an earthen pit.
Blood filled the pit, and a milky-white flower was tossed in.
The entire process was carried out by a low-level Gu Diao.
The child sat in the Blood Pool, crying and screaming without stopping, the expression on the child's face gradually growing agonized, until finally...
The child's body burst apart.
"It didn't work?"
"The meridians of human children are still too fragile, after all."
"Turning them into demons in a short time is too difficult."
"We need something relatively gentler."
The aged voice murmured thoughtfully, "I suggest extending the duration of the human Demonization experiments, letting these children gradually absorb Beast Blood as they grow, and refining the process that way."
One of the Gu Diao glanced toward the area behind the camera, then disappeared into the woods.
Meanwhile, on the screen.
A sturdy-looking little boy stood in front of the other children, his reddened eyes glaring at them.
The image vanished.
Darkness returned.
Several seconds later, the screen lit up again.
By then, the children had grown a little older, and their bodies looked somewhat sturdier, but their numbers... had dwindled.
A Tai stood out the most among them, a