The man in the lead immediately sensed that something was wrong.
The man he had entangled showed no sign of weakness at all. How was that possible?
This is the Holy Sovereign's residence. We are subjects blessed by the Holy Sovereign. Here, we should be invincible, the strongest of all.
Even if this man is powerful, the overwhelming contamination filling this residence should be eroding and weakening him!!
"It must be because I'm not using enough force. The Holy Sovereign must not have noticed this intruder."
At that thought, the man felt that the Holy Sovereign's residence had been defiled.
A red light suddenly flashed in his eyes.
Huge masses of flesh surged wildly into his hands. His body shriveled at a visible speed until nothing remained but skin stretched over bone, making him look like a skeleton. Meanwhile, his hands, piled high with flesh, swelled to an absurd size.
More bone spikes erupted from the ground, and the entire expanse of earth began to shake violently.
Buds made of rotten flesh bloomed at the tips of the bones growing from his body. The buds burst open, revealing densely packed teeth. As they split, countless bone shards sprayed out like a torrential downpour.
"Only after withering in death can you see spring. Go repent before the Holy Sovereign!"
His voice emerged from both his skull and the ground, his devotion bordering on madness.
"Every inch of flesh you shatter will become the spring soil bestowed upon me by the Holy Sovereign."
Within a circle five to ten meters in diameter centered on Lu Yuan, countless tendrils of flesh surged out of the ground. Layer after layer wrapped tightly around him, encasing him in a giant cocoon of flesh and dry bones.
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