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.1

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....2

During the three months that had passed, their corpse-draining skills had improved a lot.2

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.0

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.0

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...2