Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The swarm of Lickers immediately lunged toward the evil fetus’s flesh mountain.
Provoked, the evil fetus swung its dense, clustered flesh spikes to counterattack!
In an instant, a fierce battle broke out within the cavern space!
Lickers frequently became paralyzed by the illusion, frozen in place and pierced by spikes, but were freed with help from their comrades.
After some struggle, some Lickers gradually approached the evil fetus’s main body.
Sharp claws left blood-red marks across the evil fetus’s body.
The marks quickly healed back to normal.
Such terrifying defense and self-healing ability!
Nasir frowned repeatedly as he watched nearby.
This was troublesome!
The Lickers’ attacks were like scratching a giant mountain with a nail clipper.
Seeing this, Fang Heng’s lips curled into a playful smile.
The real trouble wasn’t the evil fetus’s self-healing.
It was its added counter-damage ability.
As the Lickers swung their claws to attack, their claws were immediately covered in shadows, applying a passive corrosion damage reflection effect on them.
Fang Heng’s hand glowed with a holy scepter as he cast a long-range Holy Purification spell forward!
The negative effects attached to the Lickers were cleansed.
The Lickers charged at the evil fetus again, wildly attacking with their claws!
The evil fetus’s physical defense was far stronger than its spell defense — even tougher to deal with than expected.
Fang Heng’s peripheral vision caught the game hints.
[Hint: Your zombie clone dealt 124 damage to an unknown life form.]
[Hint: Your zombie clone’s special ability activated; it absorbed 0.1 physique attribute.]
Attribute absorption!
Besides division, the Lickers had the additional ability to absorb attributes.
This effect was especially effective against the evil fetus, a boss-level creature with terrifying defense and vitality!
The Lickers didn’t need to deal high damage every time, only defense-breaking damage to absorb a little attribute from the evil fetus with each attack.
Each absorption was small, but the number of Lickers was huge!
Many small gains added up.
They would drain it completely dry!
Fang Heng waved again, pulling out another stack of rune papers from his backpack and scattering them beyond the holy barrier.
Lickers poured out of the exploding rune papers, swarming toward the cavern’s center where the evil fetus lay, repeatedly dividing!
Nasir’s eyelids twitched as he watched.
In the blink of an eye, thousands of Lickers filled more than half the cavern, swarming toward the evil fetus in the center!
"Chi, chi chi chi..."
The evil fetus wildly stabbed out with its tentacle spikes.
Nasir carefully observed and glanced cautiously at Fang Heng beside him.
Maybe this was Fang Heng’s true strength?
At first glance, the Lickers didn’t seem powerful because their opponent was a legendary-level creature.
But on closer look, Nasir realized each Licker’s attributes were comparable to an elementary-level martial artist.
Especially their terrifying self-healing ability.
He had seen a Licker’s tentacle get directly severed by the evil fetus, yet its body restored itself in seconds!
And even more frightening was their rapid resurrection after death.
But the evil fetus was equally powerful.
Like an immovable mountain.
Compared to it, the Lickers were countless ants that couldn’t be killed.
It seemed neither side could overcome the other.
Nasir’s gaze shifted back to Fang Heng.
Fang Heng looked confident, showing no signs of stopping, letting his summoned creatures keep attacking.
In a short time, the flesh mountain-like evil fetus was almost surrounded layer upon layer by dense Lickers.
The Lickers kept getting stabbed or knocked away by the spiked tentacles.
Yet some always slipped through the defense net of spikes, landing on the evil fetus and relentlessly attacking!
Outside the ritual magic array.
Lanyue Clan priests knelt before the ritual magic array, praying and operating it.
Black shadow tentacles continuously extended from the magic array, creeping toward the kneeling priests, draining their vitality and dragging them into the array to be devoured!
One by one, the ritual priests’ lives were consumed by the evil fetus.
Nearby, the Lanyue Clan patriarch and several elders, having never seen such a situation, showed growing fear in their eyes.
"The God fetus has never been this hungry before."
The Lanyue Clan ancestors had summoned the Evil God via ritual, raising it at the maze’s bottom. Clan members prayed to it through sacrifices to gain knowledge and power.
Every year, hundreds of clansmen were consumed by the Evil God, but this was the first time it had displayed such wild agitation, ravenously devouring the clan’s lives.
An elder said in a deep voice, "The Evil God is weakening. It needs to consume more blood and flesh, feeding on more pain."
"Why is it weakening? Is it because of the two sacrifices below?"
Everyone’s expressions grew heavy.
Could anyone survive falling into the Evil God priests’ cavern?
Several Noel Clan elders arrived with clan warriors and over twenty ships for reinforcements, immediately preparing to form teams to thoroughly explore the maze.
Mu Shunan, worried about the two trapped inside the cavern, stepped forward and requested to join the search team. "I was present when Fang Heng and the others went missing. I know something about the maze’s interior. I volunteer to join the search."
The lead elder of the Noel Clan nodded lightly.
"Elder, we have already asked the Lanyue Clan members. The maze has always been sacred ground, and normally, no one approaches except the priests. Ordinary clanspeople don’t know what’s happening inside."
"We tried using mental suggestion to probe their memories but found no clues."
"No time to wait. Let’s go."
The Noel Clan elder waved gently and led the teams into the maze to search.
Anxious, Mu Shunan led the group deeper along the passage they had come through.
Just as during their first exploration, none of the teams encountered any enemies on the way.
Soon, they arrived at the giant magic array where Fang Heng and the others had disappeared.
The Noel Clan knew the alchemy magic array best, so two elders approached it and studied it carefully.
After waiting for five full minutes, the lead elder grew impatient and asked, "Elders, what do you find?"
The two elders stood and looked at each other, shaking their heads.
"It is confirmed to be a special, large-scale magic array, already at a transcendent level. Activating this array requires a specific sequence."