Mara Descends Upon the World

Evil beast.

Evil beast!

Wang Jixuan directly unleashed the Demon Star Annihilation Art, which had long become forbidden. Boundless Demonic Thought surged forth, the spiritual power within his body abruptly boiled, and layer upon layer of Black Flame erupted across his entire body.

Everywhere his spiritual awareness reached was filled with Blade Beasts—nearly endless Blade Beasts occupying the Underground Passage below.

His last shred of clarity allowed Wang Jixuan to use an escape technique the instant he crashed into the valley. He charged recklessly into the location of a King-Class Blade Beast within a Blade Beast Lair.

That King-Class Blade Beast had been hiding in an underground hollow. The surrounding walls were covered with Blade Beasts evolving from mid-tier to high-tier, while below lay countless Glowing Stone Shards packed densely together.

The escape technique ended!

Wang Jixuan burst through the rock wall, directly sending several High-Tier Blade Beasts flying as he broke into the underground hollow.

His figure hovered within the underground hollow.

Whether it was the King-Class Blade Beast or the surrounding mid- and high-tier Blade Beasts, they all displayed the same emotion at that moment.

Stunned.

Their mouthparts opened and closed continuously as Blade Beast souls observed the humanoid creature wrapped in rolling Black Energy.

Clink, clink.

It was the sound of silver needles striking the ground.

Within the Black Energy, the corners of that handsome face curled upward in a cold smile. His figure suddenly lunged forward, reaching barehanded toward the King-Class Blade Beast that was still lying there.

Even the King-Class Blade Beast froze.

It had received a warning from the Galinno and knew the humans were about to begin another round of bombardment. It had deliberately crawled from the upper hollow into the lower one, leaving behind a batch of old, weak, sick, and crippled Blade Beasts that could not evolve for the Human Military to farm battle achievements from. It had thought it could comfortably and steadily continue absorbing the energy within the stone shards here while urging these little ones to advance quickly... and then a strange human suddenly appeared.

But who was he?

How could the overlord of this region, the death knell of humanity, be frightened by a single human?

The King-Class Blade Beast opened its mouth to roar, gathering a Mental Shock at the center of its mouthparts. But just as it began charging, the figure rushing at it suddenly accelerated, leaving behind several afterimages. Layers of light gathered around its clenched fist, and its speed surged again.

Bang!

The King-Class Blade Beast had no time to close its open mouthparts. A gap appeared in the upper portion of its originally oval mouth, and hard exoskeleton and flesh flew backward, splattering across the stone wall opposite it.

The incompletely charged Mental Shock began to erupt.

Yet the black figure ignored it entirely, enduring the King-Class Blade Beast's Mental Shock as he plunged directly into its mouthparts.

The King-Class Blade Beast's body collapsed downward beyond its control. The psionic glow flickering across it rapidly went out. Wang Jixuan had already emerged from the gap atop its head, holding a miniature version of the Blade Beast in his hand before lightly crushing it.

The Black Energy around him condensed into a dragon, which swallowed the soul fragments in a single gulp.

The black figure revealed an intoxicated expression, suddenly opened his eyes, and turned toward the areas where more than a dozen Sub-King Class Blade Beasts were scattered. Then he lunged toward them.

The Blade Beast Swarm erupted into chaos!

The Blade Beasts crazily pounced toward the black figure, while two greatswords appeared in his hands. He swung them left and right, charging into their midst like a whirlwind.

The dragon ravaged the battlefield, Mara descended, radiant as the Killing God!

The Killing God purged evil!

That whirlwind swept through the Core Area of the Blade Beast Lair with extreme speed.

Those watching this through the device Wang Jixuan wore did not know how to evaluate what they were seeing for a moment.

An SS-Class Psionicist should have been able to achieve this level of slaughter.

But the madness and effortless freedom within that slaughter were something even an SS-Class Psionicist fighting for their life could never imitate.

"So fast," Ji Xiao said hoarsely after swallowing hard.

The stronger members of the Buddha Hall Squad had recovered somewhat. Though it would still take a long time for them to return to peak condition, they could already get up and walk a few steps.

Several of them gathered behind Peony and watched the night-vision footage being filmed ahead.

Because it had been recorded in a low-light environment and was further disturbed by demonic energy, most of the time they could only see a blurry shadow on the main screen.

Ji Xiao had called it fast because of the rate at which the red dots vanished from the radar map.

The region that had originally been filled with densely packed red dots was suddenly cleared out.

Not even ten minutes had passed.

On the main screen, Wang Jixuan had already entered a mode of indiscriminate slaughter. Wherever there was a living creature, he charged toward it.

The roar of the Black Dragon around him grew louder and louder.

The Black Energy also became denser and denser.

Wu Man asked worriedly, "Does Sir have enough psionic energy?"

"Enough," Peony said. "Since the battle began, the psionic energy reading within the commander's body has risen from one hundred percent to one hundred twenty-three percent."

"Risen?"

"Yes," Peony said. "I cannot explain why either, but it has indeed increased. The commander originally had a mass of psionic energy within his body. Later, after the commander broke through a major realm, that mass condensed into a point. According to the commander, that point is called a Golden Core. Now, a new sea of qi is forming outside the commander's Golden Core."

"Huh?" Ji Yale frowned and stared. "Doesn't that mean Sir has become a perpetual-motion machine?"

"Human mental strength is limited."

That was what Peony said.

She had relaxed somewhat by then.

Because judging from all kinds of data, Wang Jixuan's condition was indeed improving more and more. His brainwaves had already begun stabilizing.

A stable Slaughter Desire.

"There is only one thing I am worried about now," Peony Sighed softly. "After the commander clears this Blade Beast Lair, I do not know which direction he will turn toward. If he turns toward the human-controlled territory, then the situation will become extremely dire."

Ji Xiao, Ji Yale, and Wu Man all fell silent.

They did not dare imagine what it would look like if Wang Jixuan, out of control and in this state, charged into a fortress.

Wu Man said, "We must do everything we can to prevent that from happening... otherwise, Sir will regret it for the rest of his life."

Everyone nodded at once.

Just as they were speaking, the blue Light Spot representing Wang Jixuan's position flickered lightly and shot from underground toward the southeast.

Everyone Breathed a Sigh of Relief.

That was the direction away from the D5 Comprehensive War Zone.

Ji Xiao suddenly reacted. "A King-Class Blade Beast Swarm was defeated just like that? Not a King-Class Blade Beast, but a King-Class Blade Beast Swarm?"

Everyone fell silent again as Peony began dispatching drones underground to investigate the situation.

In the footage from Wang Jixuan's point of view, the Black Energy had become slightly more solid, transforming into a thin membrane wrapped around Wang Jixuan.

He was shooting through an Underground Passage crowded with Blade Beasts. Everywhere he passed, Basic Blade Beasts simultaneously lost their vitality, their souls directly absorbed by the Black Energy. That dragon was like a giant vacuum cleaner.

Wang Jixuan's newly cultivated Dragon Python Strange Soul began another explosive increase in strength.

Peony explained simply, "According to estimates, about Seventy Percent of the Blade Beast Lair's individuals remain. However, they are all larvae or basic low-tier Blade Beasts. The commander probably has no interest in such weak souls."

"Mhm." Wu Man closed his eyes to sense the surroundings and Murmured, "The Blade Beasts are afraid. Panic has already spread throughout the Blade Beast Swarm."

Ji Xiao muttered, "Just don't attract a Pillar-Class Blade Beast."

"Shut that crow beak of yours!" Ji Yale viciously kicked the fat man.

Peony did not say much.

She felt that even if another Pillar-Class Blade Beast came, it probably would not be enough against Wang Jixuan in this state.

A Pillar-Class Blade Beast likely could not resist this power that corrupted and Devoured Soul.

Fifteen minutes later.

The radar map showed that the King-Class Blade Beast in the second Blade Beast Lair had once again been easily killed by Wang Jixuan. Enormous psionic energy dispersed outward, and Wang Jixuan once more entered slaughter mode, hunting the "powerful souls" within that Blade Beast Lair.

Psionic energy and soul power were not the only things Wang Jixuan wanted.

He was experiencing the terror of those living beings.

The terror born from instinct.

All living things feared death, but Blade Beasts had no culture to support them. Most of their individuals possessed only instinct and simple thought.

That pure terror was the delicacy demonic arts loved most.

The feeling made him incomparably exhilarated, as though he were racing freely above the clouds and a great gate to ascension was about to open.

Ascension! Hahahaha! Ascension!

This Daoist will ascend today!

Kill!

Wang Jixuan's eyes were blood-red.

The second lair was quickly cleared out, and this time, large numbers of Blade Beasts began fleeing along the Underground Passage.

Wang Jixuan chased those Blade Beasts and easily Arrived At the next lair.

Rolling demonic energy had already overflowed from underground to the surface.

The Blade Beasts had changed from their initial indifference to treating the situation as if facing a great enemy.

The Galinno believed that humanity was testing a new type of biological weapon. They had not yet determined that this slaughterer was the Black Storm, and Galinno had already begun heading to the site of the incident.

Flying Blade Beast Swarms began appearing in the sky, engaging in fierce battle with groups of human fighter jets.

However, humanity had not been greatly prepared for this sudden war, and the Blade Beasts, which had suffered severe losses Three Times in a row before this, were even less prepared.

The Blade Beasts were mobilizing.

They began sacrificing Blade Beast Swarms near the Sleeping Pillar-Class Blade Beasts, intending to use the awakening indicators of the Pillar-Class Blade Beasts to intimidate humanity.

Another hour passed like this. Blade Beast Lairs guarded by a total of four King-Class Blade Beasts were bathed in blood, and the Blade Beast Swarm across an entire region began to stir.

The nearest Galinno had already Taken Over command of all Blade Beast Swarms in the area.

Large numbers of Pseudo Spirit Slaves ran underground, surging toward that black figure.

And to Wang Jixuan at that moment, they were nothing more than...

New dishes.

The psionic energy index within his body had already reached over two hundred percent of what it had been before the battle. His Dragon Python Strange Soul now stretched over a hundred zhang in length.

Such unrestrained plundering and slaughter was far more effective than transforming into Ghost Gate Pass and receiving resentful souls.

Neither Wang Jixuan nor Fu Jian had anticipated this before.

Because of Wang Jixuan's slaughter, they had effectively cleared one-fifth of the D5 Comprehensive War Zone.

Without King-Class, Sub-King Class, and General-Class Blade Beasts to support them, the remaining Basic Blade Beasts might have been numerous, but they could only consume humanity's basic ammunition.

And Wang Jixuan's slaughter was far from over.

He charged toward the defensive line organized by the Galinno. As long as he killed his way through that line, he could enter the Blade Beasts' deeply occupied territory.

There were great numbers of sleeping Blade Beasts there, Super King-Class Blade Beasts, and even the beast gods revered by the Blade Beasts.

Just as Peony had said, human mental strength had its limits.

But demons seemed to have none.

At the Same Time.

Amina had just Arrived At the passage she had used the last time she returned from the Ancient Civilization.

She was about to use an escape technique to enter the spiritual-energy passage below and search for the ruins of the Ancient Civilization according to the method taught by that remnant spirit scholar of the Ancient Civilization when a series of calls suddenly sounded Beside the Ear.

Amina was actually rather anxious now.

But after thinking briefly, she still decided to answer the summons. She found a quiet crack in the rock underground, crawled back into her Stone Slab Wall, and returned to the Stone Coffin within the spire.

She once more arrived at the gathering place of Spiritual Practitioners.

The scenery here had changed. A simple square Stone Hall stood in the middle of a lake, the lake reflecting blue skies and White Clouds, while strange creatures could be seen everywhere.

They were all merely simulated illusions.

Amina lightly tapped the ground with the tip of her foot and flashed directly into the Stone Hall, sitting beside a square table.

One of the four seats at the square table was clearly reserved for Wang Jixuan.

Sabrina and Nierda Tamon sat on the left and right.

Amina said, "I have urgent matters to attend to, so let's keep this brief."

"What is the Black Storm doing?"

Sabrina had shed the appearance of a "frail Little Girl" she had worn before the Stargate and was now calm and proud.

Amina answered simply, "As you can see, killing Blade Beasts."

"What he is doing will provoke a Blade Beast counterattack, and we are not ready yet."

"That is not something I can control." Amina gently shook her head. "You should be able to see that in my relationship with him, I am the passive one. I am also the weaker one."

Sabrina was about to continue blaming her, but Nierda Tamon Raised Hand in a gesture.

Sabrina immediately fell silent.

Nierda Tamon, the Strong Man who always wore Golden Armor, frowned and asked at that moment.

"The Black Storm has lost control, hasn't he?"

"Mhm, probably."

"The power on him makes me uneasy," Nierda Tamon said. "I Do Not Understand his Cultivation Method, but this path of cultivation is indeed more creative than the path we follow by inheriting Core Circuits."

Amina said, "If you are worried that he will provoke Blade Beast retaliation and affect your recovery of strength, then I can tell you with certainty that there is no need to worry."

"Why?" Sabrina asked.

"Because he is the Black Storm."

Amina Humphed.

"He should now be the first target the Blade Beasts want to eliminate. He is charging toward the region where the Blade Beast Swarm's forces are most concentrated, and his speed is astonishing.

"He will draw all the Blade Beasts' hatred and attention."

Sabrina nodded, lowered her head in thought, and said nothing more.

Nierda Tamon instead asked, "What do you need me to do?"

"I cannot request aid from you on his behalf. The pride in his bones is something I have never seen in my life."

Amina said.

"But if you can lend him a hand when he needs it, I believe he will be more willing to resolve the old enmity between you.

"I have seen what he looked like at the height of his power, within his Sea of Memories that cannot be falsified.

"If he returns to his peak, then even if all our civilizations at their height were added together, he would still suppress us head-on. That is the peak of individual power in the current dimension.

"So this investment in goodwill will be very meaningful."

Nierda Tamon slowly nodded, lowering his head in thought as well.

"I still have things to do."

Amina's figure swiftly faded. She left the communication space, put away the stone tablet, and rushed along the psionic passage below toward the Ancient Civilization.

Before entering a Subspace Barrier, Amina deliberately paused and used her Core Circuit to sense the battle situation. Then she froze slightly.

Wang Jixuan was charging toward humanity's Earth Realm?

He seemed to have slaughtered his way through an entire region, rushing from the D5 Comprehensive War Zone to the border of the D7 Comprehensive War Zone.

This...

Amina considered herself familiar with This Guy, Wang Zheng.

She could not help growing more anxious. Her figure crashed into the barrier as though falling from the nine heavens, swiftly activating the "key" within her body and locating the only door.

She could not let Wang Zheng fall into regret over slaughtering his own kind!

That was Wang Zheng's fatal weakness!