Demonic qi roared, surging like the sea.
This surging tide of decay was brimming with vitality, like the foul black slime flowing from rotten fruit, with worms writhing within it. The turbid demonic qi spread like a flood, rising and falling in unison, as if keeping time with some being's breathing.
Then it twisted and contracted, gathering into a gigantic, grotesque humanoid shape.
It had three heads, five arms, seven mouths, and nine eyes. Its form resembled a bloated corpse, and countless pairs of glimmering eyes flickered beneath the black, tar-like slime that flowed over its body.
At the center of its chest, a huge mouth lined with scythe-like fangs opened and closed like the maw of an abyss.
Deep within that mouth lay an unreachable darkness of chaos.
A being that oppressed the hearts and minds of all living things revealed part of itself from the Netherworld. Everyone felt the sky dim slightly, as if something had blotted out the sun.
"A Heavenly Demon manifesting?!" The Red Armor Guards' commander saw this and nearly cried out. They had no way of dealing with a Heavenly Demon avatar as immense as a mountain.
He immediately ordered the troops to keep retreating. Even the battle-hardened Red Armor Guards looked utterly disheveled.
Fortunately, the Heavenly Demon had no interest in the Red Armor Guards or humanity. Its deep gaze pierced a distance beyond reckoning before settling here. Only then did it take a step toward Xuanming Valley.
[Thousands of mountains, hundreds of peaks; countless rivers and streams... Human seals are always so dull.]
It reached a hand into Xuanming Valley, then paused in surprise. [The Fuxie Fragment has already been taken?! Who did it, and when?]
It looked around, its Divine Sense sweeping over the Red Armor Guards' camp, which was covered