If Yang An had not known very clearly that his emotions and consciousness were currently stable, and that Gong Niang had not changed the pain she was inflicting upon him, he would have assumed that his consciousness frequency had been altered.
Otherwise, how could he explain the sudden disappearance of that enormous black shadow?
The masked black-clothed person had made no apparent movement. He had merely uttered a single word, and the black shadow was gone.
The surroundings fell silent at once, leaving only Yang An's thunderous breathing.
The black-clothed man slowly turned to look at Yang An, seeming to examine him with painstaking care.
"To possess a World Body at the Zombie God level with cultivation like yours, yet not be listed in my Dao Sect's records—I've never seen such a thing before. Tsk, tsk.
"But I am very curious. Where did you learn my Dao Sect's secret art, the Drum Beating Xian Technique?"
He spoke each word slowly, clicking his tongue in wonder.
Although Yang An had activated the Crimson Wheel Infinite Body, his entire body glowing golden and brimming with formidable physical strength,
what intrigued the man more was the Drum Beating Xian Technique seal before Yang An, which had merged into one.
The Drum Beating Xian Technique came from the Earth Celestial wondrous methods engraved upon the Earth Celestial Method Stele, and the Earth Celestial Method Stele was part of the Earth Celestial Dao Sect's inheritance. The man was not wrong about that. Yang An was not surprised that he had recognized the Drum Beating Xian Technique at a glance.
He could now be certain that this fellow was a World Mender from the Earth Celestial Dao Sect. He simply had not expected the man to target him, or to find him so quickly. For a