Evil Arts

Evil Art

The mighty blade radiance shook the air until it buzzed, sending ripples of light surging outward one after another.

Brilliance burst apart, the dazzling white light forcing everyone nearby to turn their faces aside and avoid it.

Only when the radiance fell did everyone immediately turn back to look.

That shocking scene startled the crowd into silence!

In the middle of the field, Bai Wanli had already been sent flying back more than ten zhang. He knelt on one knee, facing the ground, panting for breath.

A silver spear was planted one zhang in front of him—and the shaft had actually been bent by the blow!

"Pfft..."

A mouthful of bloody water sprayed from Bai Wanli's mouth!

He had actually been seriously injured!

Tang Wanjing covered her small mouth with her hand, boundless terror showing in her eyes.

"Ouyang Ke actually seriously injured Bai Wanli!!"

"What's going on? Ouyang Ke's aura right now is so strong!"

"Is this his true strength?"

"In his battle with Yu Xiaoxun just now, he was actually still holding something back!"

"Heavens, how is that possible?"

The onlookers all stared at Ouyang Ke in terror as well. At this moment, Ouyang Ke's fighting spirit was blazing, the heavy blade in his hand giving off a horrifying aura. The force around him was so powerful that even the dust and mist automatically avoided him.

Ouyang Ke was extraordinarily excited—So this is my true strength?

Sure enough, he could even seriously injure Bai Wanli!

Rumor had it that Bai Wanli had cultivated the Maha Golden Body, with terrifying defensive power. Even if he stood still and let a perfected Earth Martial Realm expert attack him, he would not be moved. Added to the profound protective energy around his body, this was what allowed him to attack without worry at any time.

However, no one had ever truly witnessed his Maha Golden Body or his protective energy.

Because no one had ever forced him to reveal the power of the Maha Golden Body and the protective energy.

Ouyang Ke seemed to be the first!

Ouyang Ke's full-force strike, Unrestrained Blade, had actually seriously injured Bai Wanli!

A heroic feeling rose in Ouyang Ke's heart. Of course he knew what this meant. It meant that he, Ouyang Ke, actually possessed the strength to vie for the first seat on the Earth Ranking!!

And all of this had been brought to him by Jiang Feng!

Jiang Feng, Jiang Feng! That youth was simply like a god!

"Bai Wanli!" Ouyang Ke's confidence was more than sufficient. "Withdraw now, and I'll leave you your life. Otherwise..."

He could finally utter such arrogant words!

He had never thought of it before, nor had he dared to imagine it—that one day, he, Ouyang Ke, would actually be able to make the legendary first seat of the Earth Ranking, Bai Wanli, kneel seriously injured before him!

"Hahahahaha..." Bai Wanli slowly raised his head, a pair of bloodshot eyes glaring viciously at Ouyang Ke.

He, Bai Wanli, had never been like this since his rise!

He admitted it. He had misjudged him!

This Ouyang Ke had been hiding his strength all along, making him careless, and in the end had suddenly erupted with immense power and seriously injured him.

"A good scheme!" Bai Wanli had no choice but to admire it.

"Ouyang Ke..." Bai Wanli's mouth was full of blood. The moment he opened it, bloody water spilled from the corners of his lips.

"Do you truly think I, Bai Wanli, have only this little ability?"

The crowd had only just recovered from the boundless shock of Ouyang Ke defeating Bai Wanli when they saw Bai Wanli slowly rise to his feet.

"He's standing up. Don't tell me he still wants to fight?"

"Exactly. Ouyang Ke's blade already had the power to kill a Heaven Martial Realm expert. Bai Wanli can actually still stand!"

"Could it be—could it be that he still has hidden reserves?"

Under everyone's eyes, a terrifying aura suddenly exploded from Bai Wanli's body.

"Ouyang Ke, you're very good, very good! No one has ever forced me to use this move before—not even Shen Bijun!"

"You did it. You are the only one who has made me unleash this move!"

"To die beneath this move of mine can be counted as the fortune of your life!"

"Hahaha..."

As the terrifying aura spread out, Bai Wanli's body began to swell and transform continuously!

"This is..." The crowd was horrified. "What a terrifying aura. I... with my perfected Earth Martial Realm cultivation, I actually feel fear in my heart and don't dare look straight at it!"

"Could it be—could it be bloodline activation?"

"No, it isn't bloodline activation. Bloodline activation wouldn't emit such an evil aura!"

Ouyang Ke's expression changed drastically as well, because he could clearly feel the aura on Bai Wanli's body climbing higher and higher.

"Damn it, this Bai Wanli actually has such a method."

"His aura has already doubled, and it's still rising... doubled again... tripled!!"

At that moment, Bai Wanli finally stopped changing.

His fleshly body had actually reached a height of ten feet. His robes tore apart, revealing the flesh beneath, all of it blood-red.

Wisps of scarlet mist coiled around his body. His face had already become shaped like a demon's; where was there still the shadow of a man? His blood-red eyes shone with boundless bloodthirsty battle intent, a pair of fangs jutted past his lips, and the nails on both hands had turned into glossy black claws.

"What an evil aura. I can feel a boundless, endless evil aura from him."

"Could it be that he cultivated some evil forbidden art?"

"Could it be that all those people he killed were used by him to cultivate this evil art?"

"Damn it, this bastard actually dared to use people to cultivate an evil art. Isn't he afraid of heavenly punishment? Isn't he afraid of being discovered by the experts of the Transcendental Spirit Realm?"

"Damn it, this man truly deserves to die!"

"Heaven knows how many people he used to cultivate this forbidden art. Who can come kill him!?"

"Whoever kills him, I'm willing to follow them to the death!"

In this world, all kinds of evil arts emerged one after another, and there would always be people who cultivated them. But cultivating these evil arts, without exception, required countless lives to be offered as sacrifice. If they were left unchecked, heaven knew what this empire would become.

Therefore, the empire had long since issued a law: no one was allowed to cultivate such evil arts.

Originally, everyone had thought that Bai Wanli had merely relied on killing opponent after opponent to climb step by step to where he was. Now, it seemed he had actually been secretly cultivating an evil art as well. For a time, there was not a single person who did not want him dead!

To cultivate an evil art was to make an enemy of the entire martial world of the empire!

"Die!!!"

Bai Wanli roared, turning into a streak of blood-red shadow as he lunged straight at Ouyang Ke!

Facing this lunge, Ouyang Ke swore that there was absolutely no way he could block it!

The sheer surging momentum rolling toward him alone already made him feel as though he had fallen into an ice cavern!

"I'm dead!" Ouyang Ke sighed inwardly. To think I finally managed to stand at the top of the Earth Ranking, only to die to an evil art. I can't accept this. But even if I can't accept it, what can I do?

"Young Master, I can no longer repay your grace of remaking me in this life!"

As the onlookers retreated and fled, they kept their attention on Ouyang Ke.

They believed that the only person present who might possibly contend with Bai Wanli right now was Ouyang Ke.

If Ouyang Ke could not hold Bai Wanli off, then after Bai Wanli killed Ouyang Ke, he would definitely destroy the entire town to prevent the information from leaking out. After all, once word spread that he cultivated an evil art, let alone those Heaven Martial Realm experts, even experts from the Transcendental Spirit Realm would come to take his life.

So now, they would flee if they could flee, only hoping Ouyang Ke could buy everyone a little more time.

"No good. Ouyang Ke has already lost all will to fight. In the face of Bai Wanli's evil aura, Ouyang Ke's battle intent has already been swallowed clean."

"Split up and run. Even if only one person escapes, we must spread the news."

"That's the Dragon Tower Master of Zhushan Town. Everyone, later, even if we have to risk our lives, we must protect him and let him escape back to the Dragon Tower, then spread this matter through the Dragon Tower."

For such a battle, the Dragon Tower Master naturally had to come. But he had never imagined that it would end in such a result.

The Dragon Tower Master's robes were extremely eye-catching, and everyone spotted him at a glance.

At this moment, a group of Earth Martial Realm experts subconsciously gathered toward him, preparing to use their own lives to protect him as he fled back to the Dragon Tower.

Before such a great matter of right and wrong, it was truly rare that everyone could still preserve that last shred of reason.

Ouyang Ke's heart was like dead ash. Looking at the blood-red shadow lunging straight at him, he knew he absolutely could not escape.

"Die!!"

Bai Wanli roared again, already within arm's reach. His huge hand tore directly toward Ouyang Ke's chest, swearing to dig out every one of Ouyang Ke's organs.

However, right at that moment, a voice came from the inn behind Ouyang Ke.

"Hmph, I originally wanted to leave you alive. Now it seems I must kill you!"

The first half of that voice came from inside the inn, but the second half rang out beside Ouyang Ke's ear.

Tang Wanjing discovered in terror that at some unknown point, a young man had already appeared beside Ouyang Ke.