Chapter 379 - 269 Heavenly Pond Mountain
More than a dozen demon beasts, resembling tigers, wolves, bears, and wild boars, were wandering in the abandoned village, pawing at the corpses on the ground and gnawing on the flesh of the bones.
Suddenly, they perked up their ears and looked to the northwest, where an arrow of snow seemed to shoot across the sky like a flying arrow. The snowy ground rolled like sea waves, as if a piece of ice, similar to a flying boat, was gliding across the snowfield.
Upon closer inspection, one could see that on that block of ice was a Blood Man with no skin at all, treading on blood and riding ice, tunneling and flying, rushing straight over in an instant, and sweeping to the front.
Before the demon beasts could use their limited brain capacity to comprehend the scene before them, the Blood Man had already flown over, waving his right hand and sweeping his thumb, instantly striking out a blood line over four zhang long!
With a "hiss——!", the blood line swept across, beheading the demon beasts of the entire village, severing their bodies at the waist, all scattering across the icefield!
Seizing the moment when the meat was still warm, the Blood Man flew over, ripped and picked with his fingers, swallowed the Demon Core, skinned the hides, absorbed the Demon Blood and Flesh, and finally wrapped his whole body in the hides before taking a breath, leaping into the icy wind, as if standing on a vast glacier, gazing at the vast snowfield in the distance.
After escaping, Tie Dan realized that it had already started snowing. The cold penetrated the body, and even a cultivator must always channel True Qi to resist the Gang Wind. Moreover, the snow was very dirty, not ordinary ice crystals, but mixed with many impurities and dust, with some things that could not be seen or touched, nor explained, yet felt wrong.
Tie Dan, without the obstruction of outer skin, immediately discovered that this dirty snow would not only block the meridians and seal the Qi Veins, but if overly tainted, it would seep into the bones, inevitably posing hidden dangers to the Taoist Body. If not for the Heavenly Ruin Earth Evil Sword’s ability to temper the body, who knows how long it would take to retemper the Dao Body anew.
"Awoo——"
Suddenly, a wolf howl came from afar, clearly a demon summoning reinforcements. Tie Dan, not yet full, immediately slid over the ice to start his meal.
After swiftly traveling several li and crossing a mountain peak, he soon saw on the other side of an ice-covered hill, Demon Qi surging and Daoist energy crisscrossing—it was clearly a battle of spells between people.
So Tie Dan flew up to take a closer look, and sure enough, it was a group of Mystic Sect Disciples under attack by demons.
Counting them, there were fifteen or sixteen, besieged by over a hundred demons at the Core Formation stage, struggling bitterly. It looked like several were wounded, and several more were exhausted. Most had already depleted their True Qi and could only retreat to a small hill, relying on the terrain, using swords and crossbows for self-defense. Among the crowd, only three foundationally solid were left to block the mountain path temporarily, resisting the demons for a time.