Chapter 555: Tit for Tat

The warriors of the various beast clans, who were in the midst of battle, became exceptionally excited upon hearing the chanting of the gray-robed beastman. Many even began to sing their own clan's war songs amidst the fighting.

Compared to the bizarre chanting, the war songs of the beastmen were more imposing, echoing through the battlefield and lingering for a long time. However, Han Li still felt that the chanting, though not loud, was better at grabbing his mind, giving him the illusion that the blood in his body was boiling.

Han Li slightly focused his mind, breaking free from that strange emotion. When he looked at the beastmen on the battlefield again, he noticed that the area where the Bear Clan was fighting was now filled with a layer of dark red mist.

Above the backs of all the Bear Clan warriors, a bloody light shone, from which a bloody phantom in the shape of a ferocious beast's head emerged. After a series of snarls, it flashed and disappeared into their bodies.

Immediately afterward, Han Li saw the eyes of these Bear Clan warriors suddenly turn blood-red, their bodies swelling several times in size, with sharp teeth protruding from the corners of their mouths and even some turbid saliva dripping out.

"Kill... kill... kill!"

Frenzied, eager roars erupted from their mouths, shaking the earth for miles!

At this moment, almost all the Bear Clan people's aura became bloodthirsty and manic, charging towards the insectoids in a near-animalistic manner.

On the other side, a strange phantom also emerged outside the bodies of the Unicorn Clan, its appearance also like some kind of strange beast, but different from that of the Bear Clan, with a single horn and radiating bursts of green light.

After these phantoms entered their clan members' bodies, none of the Unicorn Clan members grew taller, nor did their eyes turn red like the Bear Clan, but the bones at their shoulders and elbows changed, all growing sharp, knife-like white bones that protruded from their bodies.

At the same time, eight slender bones were exposed outside their backs, looking as if eight spider legs had grown, each one like a hundred-refined steel spear, flashing with a snow-white, cold light, sharp and unmatched.

In addition to these two major clans, the other beast clans also had their own changes, becoming more powerful.

"Is this your beast clan's Bloodthirst Technique?" Han Li asked doubtfully.

"Bloodthirst Technique? That's somewhat fitting, but we don't call it that. This is our Totem Sacrifice Technique, through which the high priests of each clan sacrifice their own essence blood to communicate with the True Spirits enshrined by each clan, thereby obtaining a portion of the True Spirit's power and protection." Nuoyifan was slightly stunned, then shook her head with a smile and explained.

Hearing this, Han Li understood that those gray-robed people scattered among the various clans were originally the high priests of each clan, and the phantoms floating on the various clans were the totem marks of the True Spirits they believed in.

"Since each clan can communicate with and enshrine True Spirits, why not invite their true bodies to come? With so many True Spirits helping, wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort to deal with the insectoids?" Han Li still asked, puzzled.

"Senior Li doesn't know, although our beast clan, from the Eight Great Holy Clans down, all enshrine their respective True Spirits, this is not a true contractual relationship. Therefore, in addition to providing a certain degree of protection within their territory, whether or not they are willing to lend power to their clan members depends entirely on the depth of their relationship. However, our beast clan has always been extremely pious towards our respective True Spirits, so most of the time the True Spirits will help us. It's just that such a level as the descent of a true body is rarely seen." Nuoyifan shook her head and said.

"Even in a crisis of life and death like today, they are still unwilling to descend?" Han Li continued to ask.

"There are many restrictions on True Spirits descending in their true bodies through the Sacrifice Technique, especially when they are not within their own territory. Even the effect of providing blessings will be weakened, let alone the descent of their true bodies. Many of the clans here have left their residences quite far, and True Spirits generally do not easily leave their territories so far." Nuoyifan said again.

Han Li nodded thoughtfully upon hearing this, feeling that the relationship between the barbarian beast clans and the True Spirits was somewhat similar to the Earth Immortals of the Black Wind Sea, but lacked the maintenance of blood ties, and the relationship between each other was not so close.

It seems that the Ancestral God Earth Immortals, which are not very common in the Northern Cold Immortal Domain, exist in another similar mode in this wilderness, and are quite common.

Just then, among the three thousand-foot-tall Cyclops who were slaughtering the insectoid's forces, one of them suddenly lost its footing and fell forward.

"It's him..." Han Li stared intently and couldn't help but exclaim.

He saw the ground beneath the Cyclops suddenly collapse downward, and a sand beast much larger than the thousand-foot giant suddenly rose from the ground like a dragon emerging from the sea, opening its blood-filled mouth with huge, jagged teeth and biting towards the fallen Cyclops.

Its aura was extremely powerful, and it was clearly the giant sand beast that had attacked the Yuanchang City ferry before, its strength nearly reaching the Grand Unity Realm.

This scene happened too suddenly, and the Cyclops fell like a mountain, its head seemingly being sent into the mouth of the giant sand beast.

With a "crack" sound, blood splattered everywhere!

As soon as it emerged, the giant sand beast bit off the entire head of the Cyclops.

Without its head, blood scattered like rain from the giant's neck. Although its body was skewed, one hand still held the giant wolf-tooth club, smashing it heavily towards the sand beast.

With a loud "boom!"

The sand beast's body was struck by this powerful blow and sank back into the ground. The headless Cyclops' body swayed, and finally crashed to the ground with a bang, its huge mountain-like body crushing thousands of insectoid giant ants that had not escaped in time into dust.

Accompanied by a rustling sound, the soil on the ground surged, and countless dense small sand beasts poured out from the ground, spreading like a layer of surging yellow sand, engulfing the Cyclops' corpse.

After a few breaths, all the small sand beasts disappeared, leaving nothing but a strong bloody smell on the ground.

Seeing this, the other two Cyclops crushed a swarm of Human-Faced Scorpions that had surged up with their wolf-tooth clubs, then began to turn around and retreat towards the beastmen's direction.

However, just then, a short figure, less than six feet tall and dark green all over, suddenly appeared in the rear of the insectoid army.

Han Li stared intently and found that although its body shape was similar to that of a human, its face was square and extremely strange, with two eyeballs horizontally above its forehead, completely black inside, without any whites.

Above its head, there were also two slender antennae, looking like a grasshopper that had become a spirit.

"Gugu..."

Only a strange croaking sound came from its mouth, and immediately after, a sound of insect wings flapping echoed in the rear of the insectoid army. Then, a cloud of dark green rose from the ground, flying towards the beastmen in an overwhelming manner.

"Damn it, it's the Green Locust Clan! How can there be so many?" Nuoyifan exclaimed in surprise upon seeing this.

"What's wrong? Are these locusts difficult to deal with?" Han Li asked, sweeping his gaze across the cloud of dark green.

"The Green Locust Clan devours everything, swallowing everything. Wherever they go, life is often extinguished, so even within the insectoid race, they are rejected by the other clans. They live in the swamp all year round, and their numbers are not very large. I didn't expect them to have bred such a huge group now." Nuoyifan said with a frown.

Before she finished speaking, the cloud of dark green had already caught up with the remaining two Cyclops.

The Cyclops obviously knew how powerful these guys were, so they didn't entangle with them, but directly strode away.

Although the Green Locust Clan had a large number of insects, they could not stop the Cyclops from ramming through. They surrounded the Cyclops again and again, and were rammed open again and again.

However, Han Li could clearly see that the speed at which the two Cyclops broke through the encirclement was getting slower and slower. In about seven or eight more times, they would be completely surrounded by the Green Locust Clan and unable to escape.

As the Cyclops got closer and closer to the beastmen, the beastmen's support followed closely.

In the high sky, huge black two-winged giant lizards flew over. After circling in the high sky, they opened their mouths wide and torrents of flames with thick smoke gushed out, instantly engulfing a large number of Green Locust Clan people.

The cloud of dark green immediately burst into flames, making a series of crackling sounds.

Then, one by one, the Green Locust Clan people fell from the high sky like fiery rain and meteors.

The remaining Green Locust Clan people swooped down towards the lower ground, rushing into the other armies of the beastmen.

These ordinary beastmen obviously didn't have the physique of the Cyclops. After being swept by them, they directly turned into tens of thousands of white skeletons, some even maintaining their original postures.

The two Cyclops finally broke free from the encirclement of the Green Locust Clan. Their exposed bodies were covered with wounds, covered with small bite marks, looking very terrifying.

Their steps were heavy as they walked back towards the Dark Star Valley, seemingly wanting to temporarily disengage from the battle.

But no one noticed that hundreds of red beetles, no bigger than rice grains, with tails glowing like fireflies, flew over one after the other, plunging into the wounds of the two Cyclops, wriggling a few times, and burrowing in.

The two Cyclops seemed to sense something and stopped at the same time, looking towards the place where the bugs had burrowed in.

They saw that at the wounds, one blood-red bulge after another swelled up, like living flesh tumors, growing larger and larger with each puff and deflate, swelling to the size of the Cyclops' heads in a few breaths.

Seeing this, a hint of horror clearly flashed in the eyes of the two Cyclops, but before they could make any movements, the blood-colored flesh tumors shone with a red light and exploded.

The bodies of the two giants instantly disintegrated, turning into countless fragments, and blood poured down like a flood, instantly covering the entire battlefield.