Clues II

With everything arranged, Lu Sheng had no lingering worries.

He gave the surrounding Gray World one last look. Just as Lu Sheng was about to plop down into the formation and leave, something stirred in his heart, and he paused slightly.

"Since I'm leaving anyway, I probably won't have another chance to come back here. Then..." He pondered for a moment, then slowly turned around and looked toward the deeper reaches of the Gray World.

"Let's give it a try."

After a moment of silence, Lu Sheng put away the formation and suddenly stretched out his hand.

Thump.

A dull, heavy heartbeat suddenly spread from his body.

The heartbeat made the air around him ripple faintly. Deep infrasonic waves spread swiftly in every direction along the bone-strewn ground.

In but an instant, every skeleton within tens of thousands of miles trembled.

Thump.

A second heartbeat rang out.

Lu Sheng's body had begun to swell and distort.

His physical body, already at the Martial Emperor level, was being flooded madly with vast amounts of earth energy. That unimaginably immense, terrifying power of his true body surged into him at the speed of seawater rushing backward through a breached dyke.

"By my name, let all energies submit." Lu Sheng's outstretched arm suddenly burst with a pop, turning into a bloody mess. The earth energy was too terrifying; his flesh could no longer endure it and exploded in an instant.

After his arm came his legs, then his torso and neck.

Finally, his head.

Boom!!

In barely a dozen breaths, the individual once known as Pang Si Cheng had completely exploded into a massive, writhing crimson fleshball.

The fleshball pulsed slowly, like a heartbeat.

Great swathes of ink-like shadows began spreading outward from the fleshball. These inky shadows seemed capable of devouring and