After a night of gathering, the aura of living souls on the altar had grown even denser.
The black runes blazed with light, and faint, sobbing ghost cries drifted from within the altar.
Just then, the Chief Priest abruptly opened his eyes, his brows drawing together slightly.
He had sensed killing intent.
An icy, bone-piercing killing intent was closing in on the ancestral hall.
"What's going on?"
The Second Guardian also sensed something amiss and spoke in a low voice.
Before they could react, two muffled thuds sounded outside the hall.
It was the sound of the guards at the entrance collapsing.
The Chief Priest's expression changed, and he sprang to his feet.
"An enemy!"
The words had barely left his mouth when someone kicked open the main hall's doors.
Crash-
The heavy wooden doors fell to either side with a thunderous crash, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Su Ming walked slowly inside, his gray robe stirring without a breeze, his indifferent gaze sweeping over everyone in the hall.
"Who are you? You dare trespass on a branch altar of the Black Baleful Church? You're courting death!"
The Second Guardian stepped forward and barked furiously. At the same time, yin energy slowly rose from his body, fully revealing his aura at the peak of the Immortal Emperor Realm.
He paid Su Ming no heed whatsoever.
He merely assumed some blind fool of a survivor leader had come knocking, or perhaps a disciple of the Profound Sun Sword Sect.
Su Ming glanced at him indifferently and uttered two words.
"Your killer."
As his words fell, Su Ming vanished from where he stood.
So fast!
The Second Guardian's heart jolted. His vision blurred, and Su Ming was already standing before him.
He instinctively raised an arm to block while his other