Netherworld Retrograde

Chapter 489: Chapter 231: You’re Actually Still Alive!

The Blood God believers near the small town instantly melted away.

Even the Church Spiritual Ability Users who had mutated into Bloodsuckers couldn’t avoid this fate, it was just a matter of how long they could hold on.

They struggled painfully, escaping the vicinity of the town, seemingly hoping to return to their group to seek refuge, but were dissolved half-way there, their bones and flesh turning into a viscous crimson liquid and sluggishly writhing on the ground.

This halted the pursuers in their tracks, driving them to pull away from the town with fear.

They could only watch as the Eternal believers took shelter in this eerie town.

Li Yelai also felt somewhat relieved; he saw that servant of Red Fury, the elite from the Five Senses Church who had lost half their face. Within the Church, he held a higher-up position, a servant and trusted aide of the Divine Chosen, not weak in strength.

However, because he approached the town too closely, he was infected with a terrifying virus or what might be called an organism, causing his bones and muscles to soften and turning half of his body into a viscous mix of blood and flesh.

He roared in agony, praying, but could not prevent the mutation. A believer tried to help him up but got infected upon approaching and quickly started to dissolve.

This caused many believers to panic and stay away, drawing a clear distance.

His body liquified, yet he was still alive, writhing in pain on the ground.

Even the spiritual ability users of the Five Senses couldn’t resist this virus? Truly frightening.

Had it not been for a chat with the scholar, Li Yelai would’ve been alert, perhaps he would have been infected too — such an indomitable poison.

”It seems this is the small town hidden within the mountains that the scholar mentioned. That means the scholar must also be active nearby,” Li Yelai’s gaze swept over the nearby mountain peaks.

That fellow might just be sitting on a mountaintop somewhere, enjoying the show, and of course, Champion Team One might be doing the same.

If his status as Divine Chosen allowed, Li Yelai would’ve wanted to find a place to sit with a stool and munch on sunflower seeds with the Little Mad King and watch the Chaos believers engage in their civil war.

Meanwhile, Red Fury’s expression darkened. He swung his axe, sending a massive shadow of the blade that split apart the pool of flesh, granting it release.

Looking at his deceased and disfigured servant, Red Fury couldn’t contain his violent aura.

They had successfully assaulted their targets, nearly ransacking the factory fortress, crushing the enemy’s main forces, harvesting a large number of believers, and acquiring a huge amount of resources, but they lost a major figure on the way.

This made Red Fury extremely enraged, unleashing a furious desire to slaughter.

”What is this town? Why wasn’t it scouted in advance?” Red Fury questioned coldly, the surrounding believers remaining silent, no one daring to speak up at this moment, for they would undoubtedly be executed by the angry Divine Chosen.

Whereas another Divine Chosen, Xue Yin, said, ”Enough, they were so well-hidden, it’s normal they were not easily detected. Now that we’ve found it, we just need to consider how to break through it and achieve a great victory.”

Li Yelai also spoke up in time, ”If you want information on this town, then it must be obtained from the captives, if... there are any left.”

That was a good point. Speaking of captives to Blood God believers blinded by bloodshed was a joke.

They craved slaying, regardless of the opponent’s gender, identity, age, or condition, ready to lift their butchering knives.

As a result, a battle often ended in annihilation, with both sides suffering astonishingly high rates of casualties.

”Don’t worry, I have made arrangements. We need enough slaves to build our factories and cultivate extraordinary creatures,” Xue Yin replied. ”Before we get precise intelligence, let’s not act rashly. Just watch over them and make sure they don’t escape.”

After leaving a large number of people to guard the town, the three Divine Chosen returned to the factory fortress.

In this war, the Blood God Sect’s believers suffered losses of over one-third, nearly half.

But many believers also received blessings, becoming true followers, walking the path of slaughter and war, following the Blood God.

Those who could not withstand the madness of the urge to kill, the low-level spirit users, were twisted into Bloodsuckers who obeyed the Divine Chosen’s orders.

This helped to restore the overall combat strength of the Blood God believers.

This was the tenacity of the Blood God Sect—invigorated by war, the more they were baptized in warfare, the more blessed believers they would gain.

Even if they didn’t withstand the blessing and were twisted by the killing desire, they could still be transformed into the Blood God’s peculiar ’Sufferers,’ the Bloodsuckers.

Be it believers or Bloodsuckers, both could be considered elite.

After a great battle, their troops’ quality would increase, and this was why these believers craved war. The attack launched by Red Fury against the Eternal Life Sect was also motivated by the desire to refine believers and spawn more believers and Bloodsuckers.

Otherwise, calling in two thousand Bloodsuckers would only have ended the war quicker.

This great battle turned the Eternal Life Faction’s factory into the possession of the Blood God believers, with the supplies inside being sorted and organized by the logistics personnel who arrived later.

This was an Extraordinary Creature cultivation base of the Eternal Life Faction, where, with the blessings of Chaos, they raised several extraordinary creatures.

Hence, the haul was significant.

Over eight hundred pieces of Extraordinary Material, more than thirteen tons of material impurities, but no Taboo Items, perhaps they had already been taken.

When Li Yelai returned to the factory fortress, what he saw was a huge pile of severed heads and a multitude of the incinerated bodies of Plague Knights.

Among them, the Corpse Pile contained some heads of Blood God Sect believers, who died in this war and had their heads cut off.