Fierce God

"Everyone... was dead?"

For the first time in his life, the young master, born into privilege and raised in luxury above all others, felt a chill seeping from the marrow of his bones.

How had they died?

How had they been killed?

And exactly whose hands had they died by?

What exactly was that "thing" inside the Monster Refining Map?

The great hall stood empty. All the Soul Lamps had gone extinct, with only wisps of ghastly white smoke curling upward. No one answered him.

At that moment, the Soul Lamp before Jin Yixuan suddenly glowed red, and a tiny, sinister flame flickered to life.

Jin Yixuan's dead body twisted and convulsed. Then it lifted its head and slowly opened its eyes.

His eyes contained only whites, veined with blood.

And upon his shoulder appeared another scarlet "Blood Shadow" possessing him—Mr. Tu.

The young master's expression turned grave as he asked coldly, "Sir, what exactly happened?"

"Mr. Tu," possessing Jin Yixuan, wept tears of blood from his eyes. His aged voice was steeped in fear. "The one who invaded the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons... was a 'Fierce God.'"

The young master's face paled slightly. "A Fierce God?"

Mr. Tu said, "I did not enter the map and did not see it with my own eyes. But from the tiny fragments of Divine Thought that returned before this body died, I sensed a trace of... a 'deity's' aura!"

"That aura was exceedingly strange. It was like a god, yet also like a human, and unfathomably terrifying."

"Divinity and Humanity are mutually repellent. Any half-human, half-god being must enter the evil path. Such an existence is a powerful, monstrous fiend at the level of Divine Thought."

"Within Ganxue Prefecture, we cannot draw upon the divine might of the Lord of the