The mysterious figure extended a hand, and an unimaginable torrent of Devouring Power surged forth. Everything, including Mist Mountain, lay within that person's grasp.
Within the mist, Xiao Yan watched with his own eyes as Mu Gu's corpse suddenly began to burn!
Xiao Yan cautiously retreated several steps. A strange Devouring Power, one he knew all too well, erupted from the corpse. Then Mu Gu's body began to burn like fuel, feeding black flames.
At the sight, Xiao Yan recalled his first clash with Mu Gu. He had sensed then that Mu Gu's black flames were exceedingly strange. Now, observing them up close, he could clearly feel them answering something in his own arm!
"Something that reacts to my arm... Could these black flames actually be the Nihility Devouring Flame?" Xiao Yan said in disbelief.
As Xiao Yan spoke, cracks split Mu Gu's skin. Pitch-black flames gushed out with thick Black Mist, a sight that sent a chill down even Xiao Yan's spine.
Xiao Yan suddenly felt the mist's suppression of his Dou Qi begin to lift. Power poured into his body without end. For some reason, the mist's suppression of Dou Qi had vanished completely.
Within the uncanny black flames, a surge of soul power began to emerge once more.
"Heh heh heh... Xiao... Yan... Heh heh..."
The black flames gathered, then twisted through a series of eerie changes into a terrifying black face. Xiao Yan recognized it at once: Mu Gu, who had just died by his hand!
Xiao Yan's pupils contracted sharply. Mu Gu's charred remains writhed within the Black Flame. Countless streams of flame, thick as ink, crawled through the gaps in his bones, staining the stark-white skeleton pitch-black. His shattered skull twisted and re-formed in the fire into a hideous face, half-solid and half-illusory. As