Chapter 1242: Look Up and See the Bright Shining Moon
They were indeed draining corpses! During the three months that had passed, Xu Qing and the ascendees had learned a lot. It was generally better to drain living gods. But for a number of reasons, it was difficult to do so quickly. Therefore, they had focused their training on corpses. That was the best skill to enhance for use on the battlefield.
After all, battlefields were usually full of corpses. And if an enticing target presented itself that wasn’t a corpse, all they had to do was kill it and turn it into a corpse....
During the three months that had passed, their corpse-draining skills had improved a lot.
The battle on this huge planet was the first time they had acted in the open, and it left all onlookers shocked to the core. The Corpsedrainers on the mountain weren’t the only ones staring in shock. The cultivators on the battlefield were similarly astonished, and suddenly felt less pressure.
The fighting had been balanced before, so that meant that whatever pressure left the cultivators was transferred to the gods. Now, the gods not only had to worry about deadly combat with the army cultivators, they also had to worry about being ambushed and drained as corpses.
Xu Qing and the eightteen ascendees roved the battlefield like hungry wolves, or swords shaped like snakes, ready to stab anything they encountered. Wherever they went, corpses were drained dry, and weak gods crumbled. Even the strong gods had to be careful; if they weren’t, they also ran the risk of getting killed.
Naturally, the ascendees only attracted more and more attention. In fact, some of the gods, after being ambushed, forgot about the battle with the Longscale Regiment and instead focused on Xu Qing and the ascendees.
Of course, it went without saying that Xu Qing and the ascendees, given all that they had experienced and survived, were no weaklings. And they had plenty of life-saving magics. In instances where they ran into gods they couldn’t defeat, they just fled as quickly as possible. If they were in a wide, empty space, or were fighting in a dueling environment, then such life-saving magics might not have helped them escape gods this strong. But things were different on a battlefield.
The environment provided all sorts of variables. And even though such variables weren’t necessarily monumental, when they built on each other, they turned into a trend that the gods had to pay attention to.
Unfortunately... the leader of the gods quickly issued orders to try to stabilize thēir position and shore up thēir defenses. The results were middling. Xu Qing and the ascendees were too crafty and too strong. And they knew when to fall back in the face of overwhelming force.
Xu Qing was the best of all. He targeted the Godfire gods, and given that he had a Quasi-Immortal cultivation base, as well as a terrifyingly strong immortal embryo, he could kill such gods with a single blow. In any instances in which he couldn’t drain a corpse on the spot, he just collected the corpse to deal with later.
If the battlefield was a jungle, then the ascendees were predators! And Xu Qing had been developing such skills since he was young. Starfire was drawn out by the excitement of the fighting, and secretly used god magics to absorb the godly authority of the dead gods.