Are you kidding me?! The boss of the Hell Dungeon is a loli!

The giant mouth stopped biting, and the sharp teeth that were pressed against her palm retracted row by row, while the hundred-meter-wide fleshy petals also began to contract inward.

"Sister...Master?"

The call, tinged with a nasal tone, came from deep within the mouth.

"You recognized me?"

"It tastes the same."

"Then wake up and stop pretending to be a good-for-nothing."

When the giant mouth shrank to ten meters, the reverse bloodline stopped wearing away, and the name on the coffin lid stabilized again.

The bloodline seized the opportunity to converge, pulling Jiang Luo and the shrunken mass of flesh back to the roof.

Finally, a two-meter-tall ball of flesh landed on the edge of the rooftop, with tentacles hanging down on both sides of its body and a crooked, boyish face squeezed onto its surface.

Jiang Luo landed in front of it and first checked the wound on its palm.

"Little White, look up."

The fleshy ball raised its face, and the eyeballs at the ends of its whiskers circled around Jiang Luo several times.

"My older sister has grown taller."

"Anything else?"

"His voice has also become deeper."

"How can you still recognize him like this?"

"You can tell just by smelling it."

Jiang Xiaobai extended a tendril and touched the calamity pattern on Jiang Luo's wrist.

"Big sister has Shiro's power."

"Do you remember what happened before you entered the trial?"

"Little White followed her older sister inside and then fell asleep."

"And then what happens after you wake up?"

"Hungry."

"Besides hunger?"

I'm still hungry.

Jiang Luo stared at that crooked face for a couple of breaths before giving up on getting any complete information out of this glutton.

After Jiang Xiaobai's consciousness was stripped away by the trial, a portion of her symbiotic power remained within her origin.

Just now, the two original bodies made contact with each other, and that part of the power flowed back through the wound, which allowed the consciousness of the present world to take over the Devourer from a hundred years ago.

As for why Jiang Juechen left Jiang Xiaobai here, and what the Calamity Lock Seal inside the fleshy ball, which was bitten by sharp teeth, represents, we can only investigate after the trial is over.

"Big sister, can Xiaobai continue eating?"

Jiang Xiaobai's whiskers pointed to the fleshy wall on the top of his head, and the crooked boy's face was full of anticipation.

"Those eyes are crunchy, and they taste good when you chew them."

"Change how you address me first."

"what?"

"When there are outsiders present, call them host."

Jiang Luo tapped the white bone anchor point.

"Once the people here find out who I am, you and I will both be stuck in our graves."

"Xiaobai doesn't want to stay here."

"Then remember that."

"Owner."

"good."

Jiang Luo raised his hand and pointed to the constantly churning flesh above his head.

"These things are edible."

Jiang Xiaobai's eyes all turned to the sky at the same time.

"Will you eat it all?"

Leave none of them alive.

"Can we eat the bottom part too?"

One of its tendrils turned towards the outside of the city, pointing to the Senate army lined up with their eyes closed.

Jiang Luo swept her gaze across the army formation, and the calamity patterns on her palm lit up. The 20,000 strange creatures outside the city had already been added to her list of spoils of war.

"The flesh and bones are yours."

"Crystallizations, Lord's Marks, weapons, and spatial items—spit them all out."

"What if one piece is missing?"

There will be no dessert tonight.

Jiang Xiaobai's whiskers immediately straightened.

"Little White will vomit it all out!"

The ball of flesh bounced off the rooftop, its body expanding towards the sky, growing from ten meters to fifty meters, and finally transforming back into a gigantic mouth a hundred meters long.

With the first bite, a large section of flesh, along with the cleavage-like pupil residing within it, vanished.

The shattered eyeballs, mixed with black liquid, slid into the sharp teeth. The Corruptor, hidden in the flesh wall, had just opened its mouth when it was pulled deep into its oral cavity by the tentacles.

A dense grinding sound came from the sky, large sections of the remaining fleshy walls rolled up, and black liquid splashed out of the city along the breach.

Inside the Senate's ranks, the soundproof membranes attached to the outside of helmets shattered one after another.

Caesar raised his heavy armor helmet and saw the Devourer gnawing on the flesh walls. He immediately plunged his greatsword into the center of the army formation.

"Satan, maintain the left wing."

Satan wiped the black liquid off the armor, and flames flickered in his palm.

"How did it get out of control?"

"Seal its mouth first."

"Where's the coffin for burying one's name?"

"The health bar is still in the castle's hands."

Caesar gripped his greatsword, and military formations lit up inside his bone armor.

"The rule of war is that rebels must be punished together."

Twenty thousand eerie shadows beneath their feet simultaneously detached from their bodies, converging in mid-air to form a churning black tide.

Any being marked by the Shadow Tide will be judged as a traitor to the Senate by the military formation and then executed by 20,000 soldiers.

Satan raised his arm, and the flames in his palm split into hundreds of chains.

"Seal it off, don't let it touch the core of the military formation!"

The chains of fire were the first to wrap around the giant maw, followed closely by the churning tide of shadows, which covered half the sky.

Just as Jiang Xiaobai finished swallowing the second piece of flesh, flames locked onto the tentacles, and the sealing rules spread inward along the flesh.

"noob."

Jiang Luo stood on the edge of the rooftop and pointed to the shadowy tide.

"Owner?"

"They've brought the food."

The giant mouth let out a burp with a burnt smell, then turned to the army formation outside the city.

The black fangs snapped the chains of flame in one bite, and the sealing rules attached to them were also sucked into their mouths, leaving not even a spark.

The flames in Satan's palm went out on the spot, leaving only a few wisps of charred smoke between his fingers.

"It even obeys the lockdown rules?"

Caesar drew his greatsword, attempting to bring the Shadow Tide army back to their position.

"Cease fire!"

The order was relayed throughout the legion, but Shadow Tide did not return. Instead, he was entangled around the waist by Jiang Xiaobai's tentacles and sent round and round towards the giant mouth.

"The master said so."

The black, sharp teeth snapped shut, and the four bloody characters "The rebels will be executed" were broken into several pieces between them.

"Meat belongs to a novice."

The coffin, bearing the name of the deceased, emitted a long wail in the main hall. Bloodstains crisscrossed and spread across the coffin lid, and the first name of Caesar's Legion appeared.

"Things should be returned to their rightful owner."

The dull thud of sharp teeth closing echoed across the battlefield. Before the sound of armor shattering on the right flank of Caesar's army had even stopped, an entire rank of soldiers had already fallen into Jiang Xiaobai's mouth.

The tentacles swept across the left wing, and rows of heavy armor were strangely swept up in the middle. The screams had just emerged from the helmets when the spinning black teeth chewed up the sounds and flesh together.

The flame in Satan's palm was now only the size of a fist. He stood in front of Caesar, and with his other hand he grabbed the core of the army formation.

"The entire army must retreat three hundred paces. Disconnect the bone armor communication links immediately if no response is received!"

The order was relayed throughout the army, but no one on the right flank answered. Caesar severed the bone armor markings, and the remaining soldiers immediately retreated towards the red glow of the ancient castle.

After swallowing the army's shadow tide, Jiang Xiaobai turned all his eyes to the outside of the city. His hundred-meter-long maw opened towards the scattered troops, and his tentacles had already crossed the roof of the ancient castle.

"Stop chasing, just finish what's in front of you."

Jiang Luo stood on the edge of the rooftop, the Calamity Pattern retracted into his palm, and then gave Jiang Xiaobai another command through the Burial Name Coffin.

"Guard the Red Moon boundary. Those who cross it can be eaten, but don't bother with those who run away."

Jiang Luo lightly tapped the coffin lid with her fingertip, and the blood-red characters lit up.

"If you spit out even one less crystal, there will be no dessert tonight."

"Don't worry, Master, Little White will count them all!"

The giant mouth let out a burp with a burnt smell, its whiskers wrapped around the last piece of the outer flesh wall, and it retreated back into the sky above the castle to begin chewing the remaining remains.

Jiang Luo turned and walked into the rooftop exit, pressing down on the white bone anchor point left by Naya.

"Nyarlathotep, the remaining troops outside the city are retreating; there's no need to pursue them."

The anchor point did not respond.

"Nyarlathotep?"

The green flames on the surface were still burning. Jiang Luo pinched the joints to check them over. The anchor point itself was intact, but the communication lines were broken from the end of the main hall.