Even though Cemetery Keeper could normally remove any kind of poison from his body without a problem, the one that Qiu Xu had inflicted upon him proved nearly impossible to resist. Not only were all of Cemetery Keeper’s corpses consumed in the process, but so too were all the corpses that belonged to his underlings from Justice Manor. Without their corpse puppets, their combat strength took a sharp drop.

Finally, after all the corpse puppets were destroyed, Cemetery Keeper barely managed to gain a minor level of control over the poison. He then immediately returned to Justice Manor and proceeded to use the entire inventory of corpse puppets there to completely dispel the poison. He did not hesitate to leave Ironblood Weave; even if he had stayed, he was in no condition to hold back the Astral Beast Domain’s forces.

While leaving, Cemetery Keeper made a point to contact the Daosource Sect and request that another powerhouse be sent to protect Ironblood Weave. While he did this, he made sure to report Qiu Xu’s betrayal as well.

Cemetery Keeper’s departure led to the collapse of Ironblood Weave’s defenses. The enormous praying mantis casually slaughtered countless defenders from the Sixth Mainland who had stayed behind in Ironblood Weave, and it led countless astral beasts forward as they flooded out of Ironblood Weave. It was like a dam had burst, and the astral beasts flooded into the Outerverse’s eastern weaves as they...