The central core of Area 27.
Buzz!
An unimaginably powerful pressure suddenly emerged, racing closer from the distance at incredible speed.
Wan Shan, Greenfang, and everyone else present sensed that formidable aura at the same time.
It was neither Wan Shan's mountainlike weight nor Greenfang's sinister unpredictability, but a pressure of... annihilation and destruction, a destructive inferno reeking strongly of sulfur!
That pressure descended like the falling vault of heaven, instantly enveloping a vast stretch of the Gobi.
The colorful poisonous mist lingering nearby burned away in an instant. The ground cracked, loose stones shattered, and the air seemed to ignite, filling with a pungent, scorching heat.
Before their eyes, an enormous dark figure slowly emerged from the mist, his entire body wrapped in black-and-red Purgatory Flame. The flickering fire completely obscured his face, leaving only a pair of eyes blazing with black-and-red flames, cold and indifferent, like a fiend from hell.
He made no unnecessary movements. Merely standing there, he placed immense pressure on Wan Shan, Greenfang, and the others.
"Who... who are you?!" Wan Shan's brows knitted tightly. He narrowed his eyes and stared fixedly at the stranger, driving his Third Tier Erosion Martial origin astral force to its limit to block out the pressure.
He could sense that the aura radiating from the stranger was genuine inferno power.
Yet although this inferno power was exceptionally pure, its strength did not match the divine astral force condensed at that realm.
This left him utterly puzzled for a moment.
"Brother Wan, this must be that Inferno heretic you mentioned. Quite an entrance, though he seems considerably weaker than I imagined."
After his initial surprise, Greenfang had calmed down. He, too, sensed something amiss with the origin astral force the stranger emitted. An inexplicable unease still lingered in his heart,