Taishi Mountain.
Within the void, countless spatial rifts formed a passageway, from which demons poured forth without end.
Even... several passageways fused together, forming a terrifying exit like a black hole. Clump after clump of ink-black, liquid-like creatures surged out of it.
Boom!
A fierce aura at the Great Fiend level swept across the entire scene.
"It's a Great Fiend!"
"A Great Fiend-level demon!"
"We can't beat it—run!"
The cultivators atop the defensive line fell into utter chaos. They manipulated spirit cannons and spirit crossbows... but after discovering that they had no effect whatsoever, several cultivators exchanged glances before suddenly fleeing backward without a word.
However, before they could escape the defensive line, their bodies fell to the ground like kites with severed strings. They were dead...
It was not the King of Shadow Manipulation who had attacked. Rather, the Daoist talismans within their bodies had directly claimed their lives!
"Those who flee in the face of battle shall be executed without exception!"
High-ranking cultivators of the Orthodox Unity and Fang Xian Dao flew out on the wind and swept their gazes across the scene. "It's merely one Great Fiend. Our Great Sages will deal with it!"
Yet even as he spoke, the shadow beneath an old Daoist of Fang Xian Dao wound upward and seized his neck.
Pfft!
This time, the old Daoist's entire head exploded outright.
Like a signal, countless cultivators controlled by shadows began slaughtering one another or taking their own lives...
A Great Fiend-level demon was simply this terrifying and despair-inducing!
Splash!
After that mass of black liquid fell from the black hole, it continued expanding. Wherever it passed, every solid object rising above the shadows slowly sank downward.
It was as though wherever the shadows lay was another world entirely.
Splash!
The black liquid struck