The Terrifying Truth

Boom! Boom! Boom! Heaven-shaking explosions rang out, and the towering altar completely collapsed in that instant.

As earth and stone churned, the cave ceiling shattered entirely as well. Lake water poured down in a raging torrent, like a celestial river flooding backward, inundating this Lake Bottom Cave.

"You... are courting death!"

Even as the thunderous rumbling still echoed, a hoarse, piercing voice instantly suppressed every other sound and exploded in the ears of everyone present.

At the sound, Chu Mu's pupils contracted sharply, his gaze instantly locking onto the direction from which the voice had come.

Blood light and a curtain of water intertwined. The man hovered in midair, his physique and features now wholly twisted into a demonic form.

He now stood nearly nine zhang tall, fangs protruding from his mouth, two pitch-black curved horns growing from his head, and an iron tail covered in scales trailing behind him. More horrifying still, blood-red Demon Markings covered his entire body like layer upon layer of overlapping scales, concealing most of his naked flesh.

His original features could faintly still be seen, but crimson ferocity shone from his eyes. He was filled with nothing but bloodlust and slaughter, without the slightest trace of humanity.

He cast a frigid glance at Chu Mu and the others. His eyes, originally brimming with savage bloodlust, unexpectedly regained a measure of clarity—but that clarity was swiftly swallowed once more by the towering Killing Intent.

Before anyone could react, he suddenly crouched and shot forward like an arrow, weaving through the curtain of water and blood. In the blink of an eye, he had arrived before the Jadeite Mountain Clan member closest to him.

"Stop him!"

The Jadeite Mountain Clan member's face went pale with shock. As he cried out, he fiercely slapped his chest. His