The murky air spread across everything it could touch. Even in the dead of night, this mist remained clearly visible — a fog that was unmistakably not mist, but baleful energy (煞气).
Clang! Clang! Clang!Within this baleful aura, one could hear the sounds of weapons clashing. Normally formless, the baleful energy here was so dense it could be seen with the naked eye — a terrifying sight. It had reached an unfathomable level of concentration.
Yet as this Divine-Demonic Baleful Energy swept forth and approached the giant bone crow supporting the massive city of White Crow City, an invisible force stopped it. It couldn't breach the city's borders, much less erode anything within. Inside and outside — two completely separate worlds.
"Go!"
Yi Tianxing, after a brief pause, waved his hand. From within the Hongmeng Heavenly Emperor Tower, he grabbed a few Demonic Wolves and tossed them outside the city.
Awoooo!
These wolves, still leisurely hunting just moments before, were suddenly relocated. Disoriented and frightened, they turned to flee — yet no one chased them.
The moment they entered the baleful mist, they let out miserable howls. Deep gashes appeared across their bodies as if slashed by invisible blades. In mere moments, their flesh was torn apart, skin flayed, reduced to a bloody mess of shredded meat, until only ghastly white bones remained.
Even those bones maintained their fleeing posture.
But soon, even the bones turned black — the baleful energy was corroding their skeletons.
These Demonic Wolves couldn't last even two breaths in the mist before dying. The scene was grotesque.
Witnessing this, many soldiers on the wall paled in shock. Though stronger than those wolves and clad in armor and protective qi, they wouldn't last much longer in that environment. They, too, would become nothing but piles of bones.
Truly, the Divine-Demonic Pit was a deathtrap for all living beings — a place where life could not survive.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, amidst the mist, shadows flashed by.
One could vaguely see hair-covered humanoid creatures. Their bodies were cloaked in black fur, their eyes glowing green — unnervingly so. They emitted a corpse-like chill, completely unaffected by the baleful aura, even breathing it in.
Corpse Fiends (尸煞)Cold as corpses and immune to the baleful energy, these terrifying beings survived deep within it — making them extremely dangerous.
Even a single glance at them sent chills down one's spine. No one dared provoke them lightly. Their sheer existence in such a deadly mist was proof enough of their terror.
Their numbers weren't small either. They flickered in and out of the mist, surrounding White Crow City, but showed clear fear of the giant crow beneath the city, refusing to approach too closely. The outer zone had become an extremely perilous area.
"I wonder… can the Hongmeng Heavenly Emperor Tower refine this baleful energy?"
Yi Tianxing pondered, unwilling to step outside recklessly due to the unknowns.
Still, he was deeply curious about this Divine-Demonic Baleful Energy.
With a thought, the Hongmeng Tower silently appeared outside him, shrinking to the size of a grain of dust — an effortless transformation for it.
The tower silently floated outside the city and entered the mist. A devouring force emerged, pulling in large quantities of the baleful energy like a bottomless pit, drawing it into the tower's chaotic core space.
Inside the chaotic space, everything could be refined. Even this terrifying energy was slowly converted into Chaotic Qi — the most primordial essence of all things.
The Divine-Demonic Baleful Energy is extremely pure, nearly equal in potency to Chaotic Qi.Its conversion rate is astonishingly high, allowing the internal tower space to expand rapidly.
Though the mist felt sticky and viscous, slowing the devouring, its quality made it worth the effort. With each breath, the chaotic space inside the tower expanded — and so did all twenty-two internal tower spaces.
This devouring process was utterly silent. Compared to the total volume of mist in the Divine-Demonic Pit, what the tower absorbed was a mere drop in the ocean — completely undetectable.
Yi Tianxing realizes this baleful energy is precious nourishment for the tower.As long as it continues to grow the tower's power, it's worth it — and being safely inside White Crow City, this is not a dangerous land, but a treasure trove.
Had he not feared exposing the tower, he'd stay here indefinitely to consume every last bit.
"Rotate shifts on the wall. We'll leave after dawn."
With that, Yi Tianxing stood quietly atop the wall, waiting for sunrise.
The night passed quietly.
White Crow City proved a stronghold against the Divine-Demonic Baleful Energy. The mist could not enter, nor could the Corpse Fiends.
At the moment before dawn, the baleful mist — as if tied to the cycle of time — swiftly retreated underground, vanishing as suddenly as it had appeared.
The Hongmeng Tower also silently returned into Yi Tianxing's body.
"Thirty thousand li… What a fortune! The Divine-Demonic Battlefield truly is a land of opportunities."
Inspecting the tower's internal space, Yi Tianxing was stunned — the tower had grown from a few thousand li in radius to a full 30,000 li.
Mountains and rivers had undergone massive transformation.
The Divine-Demonic Baleful Energy was confirmed to be perfect nourishment.If it could all be devoured, who knew how powerful the Hongmeng Tower might become?
Caw! Caw! Caw!
Shrill caws heralded the dawn. The White Bone Nether Crows, which had vanished in the night, returned en masse — their cries echoing from across the Divine-Demonic Pit.
From the Bone Forests scattered throughout the pit, countless White Bone Nether Crows took to the air, flocking toward White Crow City like ominous storm clouds, blocking out the rising sun.
Staggering Numbers: Tens of millions — even billions — of crows surged across the sky, too many to count.
Yet instead of attacking the city, they dove straight into the massive White Bone Nether Crow Emperor beneath the city — entering its wings, belly, talons, spine…
This colossal corpse was like a bottomless abyss, swallowing up the entire flock.
As they fused with the massive body, white flames flickered across its wings.
Normally, Nether Crows had black bones,but the Nether Crow Kings and this Crow Emperor had pure white skeletons, resembling flawless jade — like masterful sculptures.
Caw!
The White Bone Nether Crow King appeared again, standing atop the crystal spire, overseeing the fusion process.
It then flew into the massive corpse's skull — and in that instant, the extinguished soul fire reignited.
A radiant flame burned in its eye sockets.
Caw!!
A piercing screech split the sky.
The Crow Emperor erupted in white ghostly fire, and with a mighty leap, it shattered the bones beneath it. Wings spread wide, blotting out the heavens, and in a flash—
The colossal White Bone Nether Crow Emperortook flight, carrying the entire White Crow City into the air.
"It's flying!"
The soldiers had already rushed to the walls, witnessing the revival of the Crow Emperor, now empowered by the millions of crows that had merged into it.
With a single flap of its wings, it soared upward — faster even than a Golden Scale Bird.
In the blink of an eye, it had ascended higher than any flying creature had before.