The Nascent Soul great demon's voice echoed endlessly through the main hall, and the entire hall seemed to grow far more stifling.
Hiding in a corner, Li Tianchen was even more dumbfounded than Li Tianwei. He had come to this victory banquet precisely to figure out Li Tianwei's circumstances and learn how he had slipped into the Lingxu Sacred Land.
With the appearance of these Nascent Soul evil demons and the Corrupting Grudge Qi around them, it was already certain that Li Tianwei was an evil demon. That was why he had managed to deceive the elders of the Lingxu Sacred Land and enter it with the aptitude of a Heavenly Spirit Root.
Originally, once these two Nascent Soul great demons dealt with Liu Muyu, the ending could already be said to be set in stone.
Yet no matter how Li Tianchen thought about it, he never expected these two Nascent Soul evil demons—creatures strange beyond all reason—to head straight for Li Tianwei.
From the Nascent Soul evil demons' words, Li Tianchen could also tell that deploying these two Nascent Soul Realm beings had not been for Liu Muyu, but for Li Tianwei.
Seeing this, the impression Li Tianchen had built up of Li Tianwei was completely shattered.
"What's going on? Aren't they on the same side?"
"What exactly is going on?"
Li Tianchen tried in disbelief to find an answer.
The surviving disciples in the hall were different. Hearing the Nascent Soul evil demon's words, they could not help but cast strange looks at Li Tianwei.
As his strength rose, Li Tianwei could now sense those peculiar gazes. His expression darkened further and further until his face was utterly black.
"Good. Good. Very good. Evil demons, is that it?!"
Rage blazed up from Li Tianwei's heart. He found it hard to imagine that evil demons could be this vile.
He had originally thought that these evil demons, appearing with Nascent Soul Realm strength and even setting up such a Hongmen Banquet with a trace of humanity, already displayed how formidable they were.
Yet he had not expected them to be far more wicked than he had imagined.
They had actually slandered someone—slandered a genius like him, with a Heavenly Spirit Root and Foundation Establishment in a Hundred Days—and insulted him by calling him a Pseudo-Spirit Root.
How despicable. How filthy. They were surely trying to destroy his Dao Heart.
Trembling with rage, cold with fury.
Fire seemed to burn in Li Tianwei's eyes as he stared fixedly at the evil demon before him, which was still raising its brows and repeatedly scanning him.
Within Li Tianwei's consciousness, the system had developed an inexplicable thought the moment it heard the evil demon call Li Tianwei a Pseudo-Spirit Root.
For some reason, the system felt like praying for those evil demons.
It was as though Li Tianwei was about to erupt and kill the two Nascent Soul Realm evil demons before him.
"Could your intelligence be wrong? You brought back a Pseudo-Spirit Root—have you exposed yourselves?"
Under the suppression of absolute strength, this Nascent Soul evil demon did not regard Li Tianwei's Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation as worth noticing. It had no idea how immense the fury in Li Tianwei's heart was at that moment.
Instead, it continued berating the other evil demons.
Hearing the evil demon's insulting words once again, Li Tianwei could no longer endure it.
"You evil demons are too vile! If you want to fight and kill, then fight and kill. You actually use such methods to humiliate people—who could stand that?!"
Anger filled Li Tianwei's eyes. He no longer concealed his aura. In an instant, Golden Core liquid spiritual energy surged forth with a howl.
It shot into the sky in a heartbeat. Terrifying fission spiritual power erupted at once, causing the entire hall to shake several times.
Next came death, grudge, slaughter, and evil—four kinds of Dao Intent revealing themselves. Black qi coiled around Li Tianwei's body, while behind him seemed to stand a black shadow, grinning savagely.
In an instant, every evil demon in the hall, along with the Lingxu Sacred Land disciples who had yet to die, turned their gazes toward Li Tianwei.
His surging, distorted spiritual energy was manic and violent.
Combined with those four kinds of Dao Intent—death, grudge, slaughter, and evil—for some reason, they all had an inexplicable feeling.
Li Tianwei seemed even more terrifying and twisted than an evil demon.
Thinking this, the still-conscious disciples of the Lingxu Sacred Land turned to look at the manifestations of the two Nascent Soul Realm evil demons. They were grotesquely warped and brimming with Evil Nature, yet—
Li Tianwei's grudge intent shot into the heavens. As it continuously underwent fission, with energy endlessly erupting and being expended, the dense grudge qi temporarily became even greater than those manifestations, shrouding the entire hall.
"Th-this..."
Li Tianchen, off to the side in the corner, felt his heart tremble when he saw Li Tianwei's sudden eruption.
Originally, in his eyes, Li Tianwei was not an evil demon. At most, he might have been a spy planted within the Lingxu Sacred Land by demonic cultivators. No matter how he looked at it, Li Tianchen believed Li Tianwei had to be something like that.
But now that Li Tianwei had erupted, feeling this pressure, Li Tianchen could not even summon the thought of fighting him.
"This has to be a lie! How is this possible?"
Li Tianchen thought in disbelief.
Originally, Li Tianchen had believed that no matter how much Li Tianwei improved, he was still only a Pseudo-Spirit Root. Sooner or later, he would ruthlessly expose Li Tianwei and relish the feeling of stomping him into the earth.
Yet he had not expected himself to be so ridiculous. What Pseudo-Spirit Root could possibly possess such strength?
He truly could not understand it. Elder Ling had clearly said that Li Tianwei was a Pseudo-Spirit Root, the kind that could never achieve Foundation Establishment in his entire life.
Even if he had achieved Foundation Establishment now, it was probably some trick someone had played.
But when Li Tianwei's strength erupted, Li Tianchen had already begun doubting everything. He could not help touching the ring on his hand.
"Don't ask me. I don't know either. I'm even beginning to suspect that my divine sense was wrong—that I mistook a treasure for trash."
"Little Chen, do you think you can switch places with your brother?"
Elder Ling could not help asking. As a cultivator who had once been at the Nascent Soul Stage, even as only a Remnant Soul, he could sense the Dao Intent erupting from Li Tianwei.
"Four kinds of Dao Intent, and he's still only in the Foundation Establishment Realm."
"Is this Pseudo-Spirit Root really still a Pseudo-Spirit Root?"
Compared to Li Tianchen and Elder Ling, the evil demons were even more bewildered.
At this moment, it too stared at Li Tianwei with a face full of doubt. Relying on Corrupting Grudge Qi and filth, the evil demons even began to wonder whether Li Tianwei himself might be an evil demon.
The two Nascent Soul Realm evil demons had likewise not expected Li Tianwei to suddenly erupt and display the strength of Golden Core liquid spiritual energy despite only being in the Foundation Establishment Realm.
And he even possessed four kinds of Dao Intent.
"Pseudo-Spirit Root? Something's wrong."
As evil demons, they did not possess the divine sense of cultivators. Yet because of their special probing ability, Li Tianwei's spirit root condition could not be hidden from them.
At that moment, it also realized that Li Tianwei was different from the rest.
Just as it was about to capture Li Tianwei, Li Tianwei's aura changed once more.
"Vengeful Curse."
Li Tianwei began chanting, igniting every kind of power contained within his body and directly linking it to the grudge qi between heaven and earth.
Facing Nascent Soul Realm evil demons, Li Tianwei understood that he had to go all out.
And these bastards had to die.
Evil demons should act like evil demons. It would have been fine if they defeated him and invaded his body, but they had ruined someone's Dao Heart for no reason and even slandered him.
If evil demons were people, Li Tianwei would have cursed them for being less than human.