The demons and monsters in the hall fell silent as cicadas in winter, their hearts and guts shattered with terror.
Only one person remained.
Beneath her disheveled hair,
the girl's lowered eyes, from an angle no one could see, gradually began to mirror some of the young man's emotions.
"What a coincidence. I was thinking the same thing."
"..."
The smile on the young man's face abruptly froze.
The burning fervor in his eyes quickly faded, turning to surprise, then shock, and finally transforming into boundless fury.
"Looking for death!"
The young man's expression darkened. Golden light erupted around him, and his figure vanished in an instant.
He didn't charge at Jiang Yuechu. Instead, he became a streak of light and shot straight toward Green Underworld Great Sage, not far away.
Kill the weak first, then devour the strong.
That was the instinct of a beast on the hunt.
Green Underworld Great Sage's pupils shuddered. He was just about to retreat
when a more swift, dark figure shot past him, arriving first despite setting out later.
It wasn't going to stop the young man.
Instead...
BOOM—!!!
On the other side, a Mountain-Viewing Realm Flood Dragon had been on guard, but hadn't even had time to let out a cry of anguish
before a hand forced its head down into its chest.
Jiang Yuechu let go, allowing the headless corpse to crumple limply to the ground.
Billowing black energy gushed from the apertures around her body, like hungry ghosts breaking out of their cage, instantly enveloping the demon's corpse.
In the blink of an eye, its illusory soul was forcibly dragged out. It wailed in the black mist as it turned into a pure orb of light and sank into the girl's body.
The brocade-robed young man had only just charged