Chu Tian noticed that the ice beneath his feet had become soft.
It felt as if spring had arrived and the river was thawing.
Her warmth was the complete opposite of the Blazing Demon Hound's.
The Blazing Demon Hound possessed a dominant heat, one that left no grass growing wherever it passed.
The heat emanating from Dong Dong, however, was like warm sunlight caressing the skin.
"Don't worry, I've communicated with it. While those fellows injured its body, they didn't harm the old turtle's heart.
The heart is right here beneath my feet... It's a stroke of luck. As long as its heart warms up, they'll have to wait for the old turtle's counterattack!"
Although Dong Dong's demeanor was cold, there was no coldness in her words.
"That's good. As long as it recovers, those millions of people can come over!"
Chu Tian overheard the conversation between Dong Dong and Xiao Long Nü.
Until the last sentence, he wondered what Xiao Long Nü meant.
Could those millions of people be the ones led by the old City Lord?
*Crack...*
The sky trembled.
Just as Chu Tian was about to ask, he saw the Blazing Demon Hound abruptly break free from the spatial constraints.
Its entire body appeared on the ice plain.
*Boom...*
Its four legs landed, shaking the ground thrice.
*Roar...*
"Little loach, you led me here, intending to use me to deal with these guys?"
After landing, the Blazing Demon Hound tilted its head and looked towards Chu Tian and the others.
An immense pressure accompanied its gaze, making Chu Tian's chest feel tight.
"You're the little loach, your whole family are little loaches! If there's good food, why aren't you eating quickly? Do you have that much time?" Xiao Long Nü put her hands on her hips.
"Hmph..." The Blazing Demon Hound snorted.
Chu Tian expected it to get angry.
To his surprise, after snorting, it turned its head and looked at the blood-red pillar of light in the sky.
"These few guys are too weak, but they do taste good!" The Blazing Demon Hound sniffed the air.
It extended its massive tongue and licked the ground.
A thick layer of blood and corpses was swept into its mouth.
*Smack, smack...*
"Blazing Demon Hound, how about we make a deal?" a voice transmitted from the Blood Tribe formation, sounding ancient.
"Oh, what deal?" The Blazing Demon Hound didn't immediately attack.
Chu Tian's heart skipped a beat upon hearing them talk about a deal.
He turned to look at Xiao Long Nü.
She smiled at him slightly.
It seemed she was fully confident.
"As long as you don't interfere, you can enjoy the flesh and blood of all living beings on the Xuan Tian Star at your leisure. How about that?" the voice said calmly.
It was as if they were completely certain of claiming the Xuan Tian Star.
"Haha, I guess you're a bumpkin from the Xuan Tian Star? You might have some memories of the Blood Tribe, but you clearly don't understand the situation!"
This dog's words were truly unpleasant. What did it mean by a bumpkin from the Xuan Tian Star?
"What do you mean?" The voice was clearly taken aback by the insult.
"What do I mean? I mean exactly what I said! You, a bumpkin, are just a pawn! What right do you have to share the flesh and blood of this entire star with me?
Once you open that teleportation gate and the true Blood Tribe arrives, you won't even be a mere soldier!
And you have the nerve to negotiate terms with me?
We Demon Clan roam the gaps between various universes.
We've long since dealt with your kind... delicious blood food... in the gaps between the first and second universes...
The last time I ate my fill... it seems to have been hundreds of thousands of years ago.
That taste... I've been craving it.
Today, I can taste it again.
And I have that little loach to thank for it.
So, as a thank you, I'll help her by devouring you all first!
Although... it'll only be enough to get my teeth into..."
This Blazing Demon Hound was highly intelligent.
As soon as it finished speaking, its massive body charged towards the blood formation!
"Hmph... Grandstanding! I am no mere soldier!" the voice from the blood formation retorted, filled with indignation.
*Boom...*
The blood-red pillar of light surged.
Those mutated Blood Tribesmen who had retreated into the blood-red pillar of light once again swarmed out ferociously!
Chu Tian observed from afar that the strength of these newly emerging Blood Tribesmen had further increased.
Clearly, the Blood Tribe's formation possessed the same effect as the one modified by Ya Ya for their own side.
The speed at which these Blood Tribesmen absorbed the blood energy from the formation to improve was much faster than those who were currently cultivating and entering enlightenment within their own formation.
Looking from afar, there was a dark red portal within the Blood Tribe's grand formation.
It was half-open. The Void Mirror realm expert on the other side was clearly presiding over some kind of ritual, having not made a move yet.
*Boom...*
Just as those cannon fodder Blood Tribesmen frantically poured out.
Flames suddenly erupted from the Blazing Demon Hound's body.
"You blood food are even more fragrant when roasted!" The creature remained unhurried in the face of this fodder.
Flames shot out, their temperature controlled with extreme precision!
A sea of fire swept through, roasting the entire group of Blood Tribesmen.
Then, with a flick of its massive tongue, it swept them all into its mouth.
Chu Tian was stunned. This was less like a fight and more like a feast...
Judging by its speed, let alone the mere four million on the other side, even forty million beings wouldn't be enough to satisfy it.
In the blink of an eye, the living beings surging from the Blood Tribe formation began to dwindle!
Even the four-meter-tall Blood Tribesmen Chu Tian had seen before, wielding giant axes, were no match for this dog.
"So strong? What level is this dog?" Chu Tian murmured to himself.
"A Rank Twelve demonic beast, equivalent to the peak late stage of the Void Mirror realm!" Xiao Long Nü explained from the side.
"Holy cow... Wouldn't that mean one of them is enough, and we won't have anything to do?" Chu Tian's eyes widened.
He had learned from the Blood King that the opponent only had one early stage Void Mirror realm expert.
"Don't celebrate too early. He can't stay here for long!"
Xiao Long Nü pouted, her gaze shifting to Ding Ding, who had entered the formation and begun cultivating!
"You mean..."
"Yes, he doesn't belong to this world! The Demon Clan are beings that roam the gaps between universes.
They are severely bound by laws.
When they arrive in a true universe, their duration is no more than half an hour!
Once the time is up, they will be forcibly sent away by the laws of this world!"
Xiao Long Nü explained softly.
Chu Tian finally understood why the demonic beasts summoned by Ding Ding would dissipate into black mist after a certain period.
It turned out to be the so-called laws erasing them and sending them back to their original world.
"You are going too far!"
Just as the Blazing Demon Hound finished clearing out the insignificant foes.
It suddenly swung a foreleg, its immeasurable flames burning through the void.
It slammed fiercely into the Blood Tribe's pillar of light!
*Bang...*
With a deafening roar.
The entire pillar of light shook.
A heart-wrenching howl echoed from within the pillar!
However, the hound swung its other foreleg.
*Bang...*
Another deafening roar echoed.
The pillar shook even more violently!
"Enough..."
After the voice spoke, a figure clad entirely in grey robes flew out.
Chu Tian narrowed his eyes, recognizing the grey robes as the attire of the Feng Hun Sect.
He presumed this person was the pervert the Blood King had mentioned.
The one who used women as cauldrons and simultaneously absorbed the brain marrow of children to cultivate.
And the one who had devoured Feng Lie, who had escaped from the Sacred Spirit Realm.
He likely was an ancestor of the Feng Hun Sect from some generation.
As this person emerged, they waved their hands.
A crimson blood-red light directly struck the Blazing Demon Hound's nose!
To Chu Tian's surprise, the Blazing Demon Hound's massive form actually took two steps back.
It even shook its head, clearly indicating that the attack possessed considerable power.
The Blazing Demon Hound was clearly enraged by this attack!
It arched its back, adopting the starting stance for a canine attack!
In the next moment, its massive form charged ferociously towards the Blood Tribe's grand formation!
The person on the other side did not dodge!
They adopted a posture of drawing a bow and throwing a punch in mid-air.
Simultaneously, Chu Tian noticed that the light of the Blood Tribe's grand formation instantly erupted.
The boundless blood-red color seemed to be drawn by an invisible force, converging towards that person. At this moment, the blood-red formation instantly became clear and transparent.
*Boom...*
Chu Tian's eardrums ached intensely.
The entire void shattered.
Thousands of kilometers-long void rifts appeared in the air.
Void turbulence swept across the entire space!
"Xuan Shui Shield!"
Xiao Long Nü, who had been standing beside Chu Tian, pulled him and tossed him towards Dong Dong.
A shield of light, condensed from a water curtain, was formed.
It blocked the front of the three of them.
*Bang...* The void turbulence arrived instantly.
Xiao Long Nü's Xuan Shui Shield vibrated incessantly.
All the flowing water in the entire space converged towards it!
The Xuan Shui Shield was peeled away layer by layer, but new water sources immediately converged, reforming the water curtain!
After a moment, Xiao Long Nü breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, fortunately. If this ice hadn't melted into water earlier! I wouldn't have been able to withstand this impact!"
Chu Tian's gaze was now fixed on the grand formation arranged by Miao Zuo.
He had just seen the entire grand formation emit a brilliant radiance.
At the last moment, cracks had spread across the formation.
Just as he was worried, the shockwave finally passed.
The cracks on the grand formation were gradually healing.