Although the poisonous soup brewed by the Butcher caused the current situation.
It was clearly impossible to rely on the two sides fighting each other to pick up the spoils.
Because the effect of the poisonous soup had already come through.
Most of the demons began to be poisoned, with barely one-tenth of their strength remaining, some even splitting open on the spot without being touched.
So after a fierce battle.
The demons were utterly defeated.
Even though Chang Ji and her subordinates weren't weak, and only a few were lightly injured.
But on the demon side, more than half were killed.
The few remaining demons were the strongest who had come, and the effect of the poison was temporarily not activated.
"We've fallen into a trap, someone is plotting against us in the shadows, haven't you realized it yet?"
Chang Ji took this opportunity to quickly explain.
The few demons eyed her warily, not continuing their attack, instead contemplating Chang Ji's words seriously.
Most demons were like this.
Simple-minded and physically strong.
Only after you overpower them will they sit down peacefully to reason with you.
"Indeed, it seems we've really been manipulated."
The remaining demons gradually began to understand after hearing Chang Ji's explanation.
However.
They realized it too late.
There were few demons who died in battle earlier; most perished due to poisoning.
Once the remaining demons realized, the toxins in their bodies surged, gradually covering them with cracks.
Chang Ji gradually realized the situation was dire.
The person who poisoned them in the shadows clearly wouldn't only target demons.
Now that all demons were dead, that person in the shadows might come after her.
She had been operating here for hundreds of years.
Her roots were deep, her defense solid.
The inn was surrounded by Spirit Arrays, if anyone approached, she would surely notice.
"Could it be those people who entered by mistake?"
Images of Baiyu and his group flashed through Chang Ji's mind, but she dismissed them immediately.
Their strength differed too much, it was impossible for them to do such things.
The reason Chang Ji didn't bother to restrain Baiyu and the others was because she was absolutely confident in their lack of ability to cause much trouble.
All considered, to no avail.
Chang Ji gloomily looked towards the kitchen, summoned her subordinates, planning to check it out together.
Just at this moment.
A chill ran through her heart as she caught a glimpse of a striking blade coming down toward her head.
"Finally came out, I was worried you'd never show."
Chang Ji bent her whole body, becoming as thin and light as a sheet of paper, meeting the blade.
Her seemingly weak hand faced the blade's edge.
The Butcher, with a huge pig's head, held two cleavers in both hands, fiercely striking Chang Ji.
Crack!
Despite flesh meeting the blade.
The sound of metal clashing rang out.
Even a burst of dazzling sparks erupted from Chang Ji's hand.
The Butcher's face was icy, "So you're just a sinister entity possessing a body, with intelligence and wisdom developed, I thought you were something else."
Having said this.
He wielded the cleavers as if chopping vegetables.
Chopping Chang Ji's body that was thin as paper.
The opponent had no chance to resist whatsoever.
Instantly.
Blood splattered constantly, piece after piece.
Chang Ji's wails echoed from under the knife, lonely and helpless.
Obviously, the gap between the two was too great.
Chang Ji was utterly suppressed by the Butcher.
His wild chopping almost claimed her life.
After the Butcher paused.
She bolted backward immediately, trying to escape the clutches, only to be caught again: "Trying to run?"
The Butcher's hand was like iron clamps; Chang Ji couldn't break free despite all her efforts.
"Who are you?"
Unlike her previous outburst of anger.
Now, Chang Ji felt fear.
The opponent's depth of power left her unable even to think of resisting.
"Butcher, the Immortal of Red Cup."
The Butcher was blunt.
Chang Ji's expression changed: "Red Cup? You want to start a divine war? The Mirage King and Red Wall are both Blood Origin God!"
"Divine war? Are you worthy?"
The Butcher let out a derisive laugh, speaking no more, reaching for Chang Ji's head with a large hand.
Bang...
A sound like a balloon being crushed.
Chang Ji's head was completely crushed by the Butcher into pieces, but there was nothing in her brain, only wisps of black gas.
This...
Baiyu, watching from the kitchen, felt the strangeness of the Tidal World again.
Every kind of thing existed.
Every kind of play existed.
After the black gas flowed out, it did not dissipate but drifted toward the inn's exterior.
The Butcher took out a cloth bag, covering everything around him.
The black gas was all collected into the bag.
After he tied the bag's strings, the black gas inside still rampaged, trying to escape.
"All done, heh heh."
The Butcher let out two pig-like snorts, looking particularly satisfied.
With Chang Ji's defeat.
The greatest crisis was resolved, and those remaining were all minor underlings, easy to deal with.
Baiyu walked out from behind the kitchen, seeing the hall completely under the Butcher's control, finally felt at ease.
"We're truly powerful, the two of us together managed to take down so many demons."
Baiyu stood at the front of the hall.
The Butcher glanced at him, chuckling: "You talk interestingly, there must be many good things to find in this inn, go have a look around.
Let's make it clear first.
We'll divide it eighty-twenty, you twenty, I eighty.
As for those companions in the kitchen, once they leave here, they'll automatically wake up.
However.
These two people have already been brainwashed by the sinister entity, with their spirits shattered, they will never return to normal."
The Butcher pointed to the two martial artists from the Anomaly Bureau lying in the hall, their eyes vacant.
The previous battle took many lives.
Only half remained of those initially present.
"What on earth is Chang Ji?"
Baiyu asked.
The Butcher's expression turned cold: "A special sinister entity, this thing is the enemy of all living beings, only demons can accept them.
This is also our irreconcilable conflict with demons.
Essentially.
The Divine Spirits on the human side detest sinister entities deeply; the second divine war was sparked by them."
The Butcher just provided a general idea.
He didn't wish to elaborate, and Baiyu wasn't aware of the vast information contained within.
Anyway, about sinister entities.
It wasn't Baiyu's first time hearing of them; he had encountered one in Mountain City before.
However.
He only encountered it once and didn't know much.
The Butcher tidied the battlefield in the hall.
Seizing the opportunity, Baiyu went to the second floor.
This was where Chang Ji had emerged from earlier.
The entire second floor had only one large room, showing no abnormalities from the outside.
But.
When Baiyu pushed the door open, he felt entirely uneasy.
The room's floor was covered with fine red carpet, but it was all stained with blood.
The decorations around were all made from bones.
Human skulls.
And bones of other creatures.
The rich stench of rotting meat nearly filled the whole space.
