"No!! Damn it! Once My Lord fully awakens, you will all die!!" The humanoid Black Mist gripping Lu Sheng's arm roared.
"No need to wait that long."
A bald man dressed in a gray robe, gaunt as a dried corpse, slowly emerged from the forest.
"I'm glad to see you again. Andy, I never expected that after a thousand years, you and I would meet again under such circumstances. Fate truly moves in mysterious ways."
"It's you! Barn Remisas!" The humanoid Black Mist had clearly recognized him as well. Its figure flashed, blocking Lu Sheng's path. In the blink of an eye, two slender, elongated black swords condensed in its arms, and it charged straight at the corpse-like man.
"You alone think you can stop me? Or rather," the corpse-like man raised his right hand. "Do you think the gap between Void Lords is merely for show!??"
His originally withered arm suddenly swelled to several times its former size, dark-red blood seeping from the pores across its surface.
That blood-covered hand clawed fiercely at the humanoid Black Mist, Andy.
Screech!!
Like a blade, the bloody hand effortlessly pierced through the humanoid Black Mist and savagely seized the trunk of a massive tree behind it.
Pfft! A gigantic circular crater several meters wide instantly appeared on the tree's surface, countless splinters and clouds of dust scattering in all directions.
The humanoid Black Mist rapidly reassembled elsewhere. The moment his body recovered, Andy dropped to his knees, clutching his abdomen. He vomited mouthful after mouthful of Black Mud-like matter onto the ground.
"Are you the only one?" Barn, the corpse-like man, smiled as he slowly approached Lu Sheng. "There should be others hiding nearby, shouldn't there?"
"Run! Run now!!" Andy suddenly bellowed, violently flinging a streak of black qi toward Lu Sheng.