Evil Mutation

Seeing the two Living Dead holding Shentu Nantian, many people began to sympathize with him. A once-proud man, he ended up like this, his corpse not even able to rest in peace, being used by Shentu Jue to exchange for profit. It is truly tragic.

However, the world of martial arts is cruel; to survive in this world of martial arts, one must abide by its rules.

As more and more black energy surged in, Shentu Nantian's corpse began to turn a strange blood-red color, which grew increasingly dense and spread throughout Shentu Nantian entire body.

Seeing this scene, the Living Dead, its body emanating black mist, knew the time was ripe and prepared to begin the final Body Snatching.

These two mysterious figures entered the Empress Secret Realm and assisted the dark-skinned youth in plotting against the God Descending Tower. However, when the Artifact Spirit the God Descending Tower used the power of the Ancient Empress to repel the power of the giant eye of the God Burying Abyss, she regained control of the God Descending Tower.

At this moment, the two mysterious men and the dark-skinned boy lost their cover.

As a result, the dark-skinned boy's physical body was destroyed by the Artifact Spirit of the God Descending Tower, and his soul was also severely damaged. He was eventually killed by Lin Xin Tong Yi Yun.

Their situation was also extremely tragic. Before the Artifact Spirit of the God Descending Tower fell into a deep sleep, she used the defensive restrictions within the God Descending Tower to trap them in Time Barrier, intending to kill them. However, to her surprise, they managed to hold on until the God Descending Tower's energy was completely depleted without dying.

Their physical bodies are now decaying and on the verge of collapse. They must be replaced with new bodies immediately, otherwise their Yin Sha Main Body slowly exhaust their soul power and die.

As the black energy was completely drawn away, the decaying body lost its last support, and its flesh began to crumble and fall off. Its eyeballs also completely rotted away, leaving only two dark eye sockets.

At the same time, Shentu Nantian, who had been Body Snatching, slowly opened his eyes, and his gaze regained its sparkle.

However, this look was completely different from Shentu Nantian's; it was a sinister and evil gaze, which meant that Shentu Nantian's body had already been taken over.

The newly born "Shentu Nantian" clenched his fists, getting used to his new body.

There was a huge bloody hole in Shentu Nantian's chest, his heart pierced through. However, when he looked at the hole, his expression was blank, as if he didn't care at all.

This caused the Tianyuan Realm Elder to swallow hard. Just who were these two zombie-like figures? How could they Body Snatching such severely injured bodies and still use them directly?

But thinking about it, it makes sense. Their bodies were already rotten beyond recognition, no different from corpses buried underground, yet they still survived. Compared to them, Shentu Nantian was only pierced through the heart, which is much better.

"That woman!"

Shentu Nantian gritted his teeth, staring at the exit of the Empress Secret Realm, a deep killing intent surfacing in his eyes. He had been trapped by Artifact Spirit of the God Descending Tower for countless millennia, and his hatred for it was unimaginable.

"Alright, the matter is over. We need to go back and report. The Empress Inheritance has been inherited by that man and woman. This matter is of great importance, and we must inform the Divine Lord immediately."

Another Living Dead spoke through telepathy, and after he finished speaking, he also selected the corpse of a young hero who had been killed by Yi Yun and Lin Xin Tong.

The deceased was at the Dao Seed Realm, and his talent was inferior to Shentu Nantian's, but the situation was special, so the mysterious man had no choice but to make do.

He paid a hefty price to buy the corpse and began the second round of Body Snatching.

The people present exchanged glances, and for a moment no one stopped them, including Shentu Jue. He had originally suspected that Shentu Nantian's death was related to these two Living Dead, but now he didn't intend to ask any further. These two people were too strange, giving him a bad feeling.

The appearance of the two, along with the giant eye that had previously emerged from the center of the God Burying Abyss, cast a shadow over the hearts of Shentu Jue and the others.

During the process of the second mysterious person completing the Body Snatching, no one knew that at this time, within Shentu Nantian's body, a wisp of black energy silently rose from Shentu Nantian's dantian and traveled upstream along the meridians.

This wisp of black energy, like a winding little snake, silently swam towards Shentu Nantian's soul sea.

The Sea of Souls is precisely where the Yin Sha soul resides...

This wisp of black energy was silent and almost imperceptible. It had been lurking in Shentu Nantian's body for a long time, and none of the many Emperors and elders of the Shentu Family had ever discovered its existence.

However, if Yi Yun were here, he would have noticed this black energy immediately.

It was the Evil Energy that Yi Yun planted in Shentu Nantian's body a year and a half ago!

This energy is extremely strange. At the Medicine Trial Assembly, if Yi Yun hadn't had the Energy Vision of the Purple Crystal, he wouldn't have been able to extract it from the Empress's relic.

At that time, the Evil Energy had not yet matured, Yi Yun, with the Purple Crystal in hand, could manipulate it at will.

Yi Yun planted Evil Energy in Shentu Nantian's body purely out of malice, intending to trick Shentu Nantian and shorten his lifespan.

Later, in the Empress Secret Realm, Yi Yun encountered Shentu Nantian, and he even tried to control that Evil Energy with the Purple Crystal, which still worked.

Next, Shentu Nantian was killed by Yi Yun, and Yi Yun stopped paying attention to the Evil Energy within Shentu Nantian's body.

Yi Yun didn't realize that this energy was anything special, after all, it only existed in the Empress's Relic, which was made by the Shentu Family according to the Empress Secret Recipe. Even if the recipe was top-notch, it wasn't necessarily that powerful.

In reality, one of the bone fragments used by the Shentu Family in crafting the Empress's relic actually came from the Empress Secret Realm...

The Shentu Family had no idea that the bone placed alongside the Empress Secret Recipe, which appeared black and even half-rotten, was actually an Ancient Evil Bone of mysterious origin...

At this moment, Shentu Nantian was watching his companion Body Snatching and was protecting him.

Suddenly, he felt a faint chill creep over him. This chill made him shudder. He calmed himself and tried to use his senses to find the source of the chill, but... he found nothing. The chill had vanished, as if it had never existed.

Shentu Nantian frowned. His investigation yielded no results, so he could only attribute it to his body's unfamiliarity with its new form.

After all, he had suffered a severe blow from the Time Barrier and Body Snatching of a new body, so he was extremely weak and had no ability to detect the invasion of Evil Energy.

This Evil Energy silently seeped into the soul sea, its main body beginning to split into countless fine threads, deeply rooted in this soul sea, slowly growing.

It's like a sprouting seed; it's still very weak now, but before long, it will be able to devour everything in this sea of souls...

...(To be continued~^~)