Bloodthirst Formation
"What's going on? I didn't launch an attack. How did the White Tiger's shadow appear?"
"Moreover, most of my True Essence has been drained away at once. What about you?"
Lu Qingshan stared blankly at the white tiger phantom that had appeared out of nowhere and asked, looking completely bewildered.
"This must be Wu Qingfeng's doing. I didn't expect Wu Qingfeng could control us. Everyone, try to control the Four Symbols Formation!"
Song Xuanji's True Essence also instantly drained away by more than half, and he said with a gloomy expression.
The four then tried to control the white tiger phantom, but no matter how much they activated their True Essence, the Four Symbols Formation remained unresponsive.
Just then, Wu Qingfeng brought his two tiger claws together and slashed forcefully towards the six Demon Lord.
Within the Four Symbols Formation, the white tiger phantom immediately pounced towards the six Fifth-Tier Demon Lord.
This time, the white tiger phantom carried the power equivalent to a full-force attack from the Celestial Person Realm First Layer.
"Boom!"
A loud bang.
The white tiger phantom pounced on the six Demon Lord. This attack was equivalent to Celestial Person Realm First Layer. The six Demon Lord were powerless to resist and were instantly killed by the tiger's two claws.
With the deaths of the six Demon Lord, the white tiger's shadow also vanished.
"Hu Xiaotian! Your death is imminent!"
Wu Qingfeng's expression remained unchanged upon seeing the six Demon Lord dead. He then looked at Hu Xiaotian, who was severely injured not far away.
"I truly underestimated you."
"With your meager skills, you think you can kill me? In your next life!"
Six Fifth-Tier Demon Lord died, but Hu Xiaotian remained unchanged.
With a powerful leap, it swept across the battlefield, gathering the six Demon Lord' corpses that had just been killed, and holding them in its tiger claws.
Wu Qingfeng stood still, watching Hu Xiaotian do all this, without making a move to stop him.
A moment later, Hu Xiaotian gathered the corpses of the nine Fifth-Tier Demon Lord in front of him, looked up at Wu Qingfeng, and said with a hint of surprise in his voice.
"You actually didn't stop me! It seems you're quite confident in yourself!"
"I truly hope you still have some tricks up your sleeve; please don't disappoint me!"
Wu Qingfeng said to Hu Xiaotian with a victorious expression.
"Then you'd better watch out—don't you dare regret it!"
Before he could finish speaking, Hu Xiaotian suddenly opened his mouth wide and swallowed all nine corpses of Fifth-Tier Demon Lord whole!
"He's gone mad?!" Among the Four Symbols, Lu Qingshan's pupils shrank sharply. "With a great battle imminent, why is he swallowing those Demon Lord corpses?!"
"If I'm not mistaken..." Song Xuanji narrowed his eyes, his voice heavy, "This is the bloodline supernatural power of the demon beast race— the Kin-Devouring Secret Technique! It forcibly elevates one's own cultivation by consuming the flesh and blood of one's own kind!"
As a member of the Headquarters Demon-Slaying Bureau, his knowledge far surpassed that of the other three.
And indeed, that's exactly what he said.
After swallowing nine corpses, a faint blood-red light suddenly rose around Hu Xiaotian, and his aura surged wildly like a burst dam. In just a few breaths—
First-Transition Demon Emperor, broken!
Second-Transition Demon Emperor, accomplished!
The ten-zhang-tall white tiger expanded again, transforming in the blink of an eye into a colossal creature twenty zhang tall. Its white fur stood on end like steel needles, and blood-red stripes spread along its body, making it appear as if it were alive.
"Now..."
Hu Xiaotian slowly lowered his head, looking down at Wu Qingfeng, who was like an ant at his feet, and spoke in a chilling voice:
"Do you regret it?"
With just one fang, it was larger than Wu Qingfeng himself. It seemed that even if it opened its mouth to swallow him whole, it wouldn't be enough to fill a gap between its teeth.
However, Wu Qingfeng was not afraid; instead, he laughed.
"Excellent! Excellent! You have indeed not disappointed me!"
"You wanted to know what other tricks I had up my sleeve, didn't you? Now I'll show you clearly—"
The moment the words left his mouth, Wu Qingfeng suddenly raised his claw and slammed it hard against his own chest!
"Puff--!"
A large mouthful of blood gushed out.
His right claw was stained with blood. He drew a swift line in the air, and an obscure, profound blood-red rune flashed and disappeared in the void. Then, he turned his claw and slammed it down onto the ground—the rune disappeared into the earth.
Rumble...
The next instant, the entire Canglan City trembled violently, as if some ancient, dormant being deep underground had opened its eyes.
A sense of alarm rose in Hu Xiaotian's heart, and he dared not hesitate any longer. His enormous tiger paw, carrying the force to split mountains and shatter the earth, slammed down fiercely!
However--
Wu Qingfeng's figure was still in the same place one second, and the next second he was standing in mid-air a hundred feet above the ground!
"Hahaha! Now, this entire Canglan City is my home!"
Before he finished speaking, his figure vanished again, only to suddenly reappear in another direction.
"A mere trick!" Hu Xiaotian sneered. "So what if you teleport? It's still relying on external force. I don't believe you can keep teleporting forever! When this formation's spiritual energy is exhausted—that will be your death!"
It knew perfectly well that the nine Fifth-Tier Demon Lord it had just devoured were genuine Second-Transition Demon Emperor, far surpassing the cultivation of unorthodox methods like those of Wu Qingfeng.
Since we can't catch up, let's kill the others first!
Thinking of this, Hu Xiaotian suddenly turned his head, scanned the battlefield, and looked at Lu Feng in the distance.
Lu Feng, who was watching the battle intently from a distance, was startled when he suddenly saw the giant white tiger turn its head to look in his direction.
"Huh? Why is Hu Xiaotian looking at me instead of fighting Old Monster Wu?"
At that moment, Wu Qingfeng, who had been completely ignored, did not feel the slightest bit smug. Instead, a surge of overwhelming anger welled up in his heart.
Wrong!
At this moment, Hu Xiaotian should be angry, terrified, and desperate!
Instead of being like this now... having the leisure to pay attention to other things!
"Hu Xiaotian!!! Even at a time like this, you still have the mind to worry about other things?!"
"Could it be... that you didn't notice anything different about these corpses?!"
Upon hearing Hu Xiaotian's tiger body trembled, and his massive head slowly lowered as he looked at the corpses scattered on the ground.
Upon closer inspection, every single white hair on its body stood on end.
Whether human cultivators or the remains of demonic beasts—all the corpses were shriveled and withered, skin and bones, and completely devoid of color, as if something had drained all the blood from their bodies in an instant!
"Oh no... it's Bloodthirst Formation!!"
Within the Four Symbols Formation, Song Xuanji gazed at the countless pale corpses covering the field, his face instantly turning ashen. He spoke, word by word:
"This is an evil forbidden formation— the Bloodthirst Formation! It forcibly refines and gathers the flesh and blood of the city's dead, feeding back to the person who set it up... causing their cultivation to skyrocket!!"
But to his shock, the area covered by this Bloodthirst Formation was the entire Canglan City!
Setting up an array of this scale is no easy feat and cannot be accomplished overnight.
"Could it be... that Wu Qingfeng started secretly setting up this trap a long time ago? From the very beginning, he never intended for any of us to leave alive!"
After Song Xuanji finished speaking, the other three fell silent.
They were trapped in the center of the formation, unable to advance or retreat, and unable to even send out a message for help.
At this moment, Wu Qingfeng, who was in mid-air, underwent a sudden and unexpected change!