"You monster! I could tell at a glance that you weren't human!"
"Five Dragon Unity!"
Chen Mu shouted, and black mist surged forth.
With a fierce wave of his hand, the Five Dragons Qi erupted like floodwaters bursting through a dike, crashing savagely toward the figure opposite him.
Sizzle!
As though corroded by concentrated acid, Li Wuyou's entire body immediately began to wither, blacken, shrivel, and rot.
In the blink of an eye, half his body had carbonized into wisps of black smoke, which the Five Dragons Qi blew drifting backward.
Yet the remaining half of his face, mostly ruined though it was, still held crescent-shaped smiling eyes. He stared at Chen Mu with a strange, false smile, like that of a fox.
Buzz!
The flames in the firepit suddenly shrank, and the light beneath the slanted cliff dimmed. Li Wuyou's entire body collapsed with a crash, turning into a pile of black ash that scattered in every direction beneath the cold wind.
Chen Mu finally relaxed a little and hurriedly drew back the Five Dragons Qi, letting it coil around him.
The instant he had heard the footsteps, the True Hearing Technique had activated instinctively.
Then he had discovered that although Li Wuyou appeared ordinary on the surface, the rhythm of life within him was exceptionally chaotic. It was as though he was not one person, but a composite formed from countless living beings.
Chen Mu had immediately sensed something was wrong with the man, so he had tested him with a gourd of River of Forgetfulness Water.
"As expected..." Chen Mu's face was cold.
Thinking of that chaotic Qi Mechanism, his heart chilled. He immediately used the True Hearing Technique to sweep the area within twenty miles several times in succession. Only after confirming that there were no