"This demoness is incredibly annoying."
"Dear husband, pay her no mind. If she provokes us again, I'll pluck every hair from her body, leaving her a bald white jade bird."
At this moment, Tao Qian had no time to pay attention to anything else.
He watched in horror as almost every warlord completely lost control.
There was an abrupt disturbance that erupted like a volcano and churned like a boiling fishpond.
Around Tao Qian, there were hardly any members of the Human Clan.
Every warlord was howling, shrieking, singing, revealing their most repulsive, most disgusting, deeply Mutated true forms.
In Fengtian Province, Gao Tianci was gone, replaced instead by a headless, muscled ten Zhang giant holding a knife in one hand and a flag in another, with nipples for eyes, and a navel for a mouth. Its body was covered with wounds as if tens of thousands of Evil Ghosts had gnawed on it, spewing pus and blood that reeked unbearably.
In Desert North Province, Yelü Baoshan was nowhere to be seen, and in his place was a monster resembling a ferocious dragon tortoise, its back loaded with Long Spears, eyes growing everywhere, and even sporting three heads.
In Fengcang Province, Li Zhixian laughed as he shed his human skin and transformed into a monstrous strange fish resembling a mountain, colorful, with appendages, membranous wings, and gaping bloody mouths.
The fleeing warlord Zhu Xun, who was the greediest and most desirous of Yuan Mingzhen's power, was now Parasited by a Jade Egg. As he reaped the benefits, his Mutated true form was the most grotesque among all the warlords.
His refined clothing burst apart, his pale body swelling in the wind, becoming bloated and smooth, with meat pillars of varying lengths and thicknesses growing from it. They were of different colors, mainly dark and bright red. Curiously though, where his body should naturally have had them, there was nothing.
Onlookers could not easily distinguish the true forms of the other Mutated warlords,
But Zhu Xun was strikingly visible.
...
Besides these warlords, some Evil Cultivators had also fallen victim.
Like Lady You Rui.
Her Mutated true form matched Zhu Xun's quite closely.
If this was the state of the warlords, the armies stationed outside the provincial cities from each province would not be spared either.
Adding up to a total of millions, the army was directly stirred into a frenzy by Yuan Mingzhen.
Just like their masters, they followed the sacred, bewitching, and sinister Devil Concubine Qingluan towards the summit of Han Mountain Temple.
Whether it was the earth or the sky,
This moment was anything but peaceful.
Even Tao Qian, Yunrong, and even Shipi were startled by the restlessness between heaven and earth.
Inside and outside the city, all sorts of evil energies were mixed together, colliding, fighting, merging... reminiscent of an era dominated by the elements of earth, water, fire, and wind.
Mere contact with these energies meant certain death.
Tao Qian, Yunrong, You Changqing, Shi Zhongsheng, Elder Du Shou – those unaffected could still cope.
But the lower-level Cultivators and the million citizens of the city—
As dozens of large and small warlords began rushing out of the city, they were already in danger of being affected.
Right at this moment!
Master Shenxiu and over a hundred Vajra Monks finally understood why Demon Buddha Temple had so easily relinquished the provincial city, only to wait here.
Cursing under their breath, the monks were forced to act, forming a Big Array to protect the civilians.
Master Shenxiu even threw out several powerful Buddha Treasures, including the Great Auspicious Bright Cloud, barely fending off the onslaught as the Mutated warlords tried to break out of the city and cause disaster.
They didn't even have a chance to catch their breath.
Shortly thereafter, a truly terrifying impact arrived.
Outside the city was a sight that left all spectators from the Seventy-two provinces, who had been watching through the Spirit Mirror Crystal Ball, with an unforgettable image.
Dozens of Mutated monsters, along with millions of Mutated members of the Extraordinary Army... Their gathering place was fitting for descriptions such as Human World's Purgatory or Demon World.
For a moment, it seemed as though people had traveled through time and space, witnessing the world that their ancestral Human Clan had faced.
Most likely, it resembled this scene.
They had lost all their humanity!
Only the most primitive, wild desires remained, trampling over each other, chasing after the stunning Qingluan in the sky.
Primordial myths, ancient epic scenes, seemed like Heavenly Dao seals imprinted onto the hearts of all who saw them.
And then, back to the grim reality.
As the bird-headed human-bodied Yuan Mingzhen landed on the Biwu Divine Tree, all Evil Demons, in their pursuit to ascend the mountain, to seize her, began to slaughter each other without restraint.
Flesh and blood!
Halos of light!
Destruction!
The outskirts of Qiantang Province City had become a blood-soaked Secret Realm.
The horrific noise was so overwhelming that it stunned the senses, leaving only a torrent of images that plunged Minds into turmoil and Heart Souls into chaos.
This was a spectacle like no other, a chaotic battle like no other.
Tao Qian had experienced the upheaval in Demon City, the Yang Sui Uprising, the New Moon Uprising... plenty of military clashes.
For instance, the outskirts of Demon City had once seen similar scenes.
However, they were so diluted compared to this.
Whether it was the strength of the warlords and their soldiers, the intensity of madness, or the chaotic mix of Source Qi, it couldn't compare at all.
If Demon City was a fraction, then the fields outside the provincial city were the whole.
Killing! Completely driven mad with killing.
Every moment brimmed with astonishing contamination.
Following the "boom boom boom" of explosions, most Spirit Mirror Crystal Balls shattered.
If not for Master Shenxiu acting promptly to shield the eyes of a million civilians with the auspicious light, perhaps they too would have already gone mad.
But this was only temporary, the slaughter was too severe, the evil too intense.