Living Beings

The milky-white flames hung around the hall like white curtains draping down from all sides. Though there was no wind, they stirred on their own. They were clearly flames, yet now they bore an especially eerie tinge of blood-red that sent a chill through one's heart.

Yao Wan said nothing. Though the person before her had not said a word, she somehow felt as if she had been targeted.

Was it because of that strange sensation?

Or was it that she could sense that presence, and that presence could sense her as well?

Yao Wan found it all rather absurd.

She had not even figured out what was going on.

Had she really been targeted?

Forget it. She should subdue this ancestor from a thousand years ago first—

Yao Wan had no intention of holding back. The Dou Shen Unity Battle Method within her began operating at once, abruptly pushing her cultivation from merely One-star Dou Sheng to the Four-star Dou Sheng realm. Her surging aura finally caused a faint ripple to appear on that corpse-like, lifeless face.

"...Yao Clan?"

The man muttered instinctively. Clearly, his consciousness had not been entirely burned away by the Demon Flame. Though he was a flame slave, his powerful Four-star Dou Sheng cultivation had indeed granted him considerable freedom.

Yet Yao Wan's presence merely surprised him somewhat.

"Bang!"

The ground of the hall suddenly shook violently. The gaunt figure lightly clenched the air before him, and a bizarre, exaggerated blood-red giant axe several zhang long appeared out of thin air. Against such an enormous axe, his skinny figure looked somewhat comical, but everyone present could clearly sense the terrifying power hidden within that gaunt body.

Gu Nan Hai frowned slightly as he looked at the blood-red giant axe, as though pondering something.

"This man