A sword pierced through his heart, yet Ancestor Jin Hun not only failed to panic—he instead revealed a strange smile.
Ancestor Jin Hun's body collapsed and disintegrated. Immediately afterward, everything around them began to take on a layer of blood-red, which instantly enveloped Lin Fan.
A strange, eerie aura spread through the area, making Lin Fan's heart tighten slightly. In a low voice, he said, "An illusion."
And it was definitely no ordinary illusion. It was even more profound than the illusion he had encountered in the Samsara Secret Realm!
Whoosh, whoosh-whoosh...
At that moment, the void suddenly twisted and surged, and phantom images of golden toads emerged one after another.
Each golden toad was as enormous as a mountain, radiating a terrifying and astonishing presence.
Ancestor Jin Hun's voice rang beside Lin Fan's ears. "Within the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom exist all kinds of strange and powerful Demon Cultivator clans. Some possess physical bodies comparable to extraterrestrial stars, while others possess bloodline inheritances rivaling those of evil demons."
"This Ancestor can look down upon the entire Golden Cicada Clan. Do you think I could have done so without a few extraordinary methods?"
"This is a world that belongs to this Ancestor. Not only will you be unable to escape, you will also be suppressed here forever."
The moment his voice faded, countless golden-toad phantoms suddenly swooped over.
They were interwoven between reality and illusion, yet filled with astonishingly immense power.
Lin Fan's eyes turned cold. He immediately activated Sword Heart, and the sword aura around his body erupted violently, seemingly forming a domain of swords.
Any golden-toad phantom that entered the thousand-meter area around him was twisted into fragments by terrifying Sword Qi.
In an instant, more than a hundred golden-toad phantoms collapsed and disintegrated, but even more golden