Zhou Xuan narrowed his eyes. The white bones around him pressed closer and closer.
That wisp of black qi was outrageously fast, shooting straight toward the space between Zhou Xuan's brows.
Zhou Xuan stood where he was, not moving a muscle.
The black qi plunged straight into his forehead.
Buzz.
A buzzing rang through Zhou Xuan's head. The bones in half his body flashed, while the death qi in the other half erupted completely. His skin turned gray in patches, the flesh beneath writhing like worms. His veins and tendons bulged out, frighteningly black.
Green, black, white, gray, and the power that had just burrowed inside.
The five powers went utterly berserk inside his body.
Zhou Xuan abruptly threw his head back, forcing a roar from his throat that no human should have been able to make.
His bones melted like wax. His internal organs were almost gone.
"Eat me?" Zhou Xuan's eyes were bloodshot, his gray-black pupils brimming with madness. "I'll chew you up first!"
The black-gold Dao fruit spun to its limit. He forcibly dragged the Slaughter Law out of his Dantian and turned it into a hammer.
He swung it up.
Smashed it down.
He hammered the tangled mess of powers inside his body, blow after vicious blow.
His own body became a furnace. The moment his skin split, the blood dried before it could even flow out. A flash of green light healed it, only for the black qi to tear it apart again.
Zhou Xuan nearly ground his teeth to pieces. His jawbone creaked.
One blow. Two blows. Ten blows.
After who knew how many strikes, he finally hammered those powers together into a mass of dim light whose color defied description.
Zhou Xuan opened his eyes.
His left eye was gray-gold, his right pure