Illusion Technique? Deception?

Mo Chen stood with his hands behind his back, his robes stirring despite the lack of wind, cold glints flickering in his eyes. "Oh? Is that so? Then let me see what other tricks you have!"

The humanoid black shadow suddenly threw back his head and laughed, the sound warping the void.

The black mist around him churned like boiling water as a suffocating pressure swept outward.

"Brat, you think destroying my Yin-Yang Inversion Mirror means you can defeat me?"

His voice rasped like sandpaper, carrying a frenzied edge. "My true trump card was never that mirror!"

Before his words had faded, his body abruptly swelled. The black mist condensed into seemingly solid armor, with bizarre runes emerging across every scale.

His aura rose steadily, and the surrounding void began to collapse, forming countless tiny spatial fissures.

His strength was several times greater than before!

Mo Chen's pupils contracted, warning bells blaring in his heart. This bastard is actually burning his origin to forcibly raise his strength? Is he going all out?

Huang Tianyue and the others in the distance underwent a drastic change in expression.

They, too, clearly sensed the tremendous change in his aura. It was as though some ancient ferocious beast was awakening within the humanoid black shadow, and the pressure made even their divine beast bloodlines tremble.

"This is bad! Master is in danger!" Lan Chumo said anxiously.

Huang Tianyue's voice carried an unprecedented panic. "Mo Chen, be careful!"

Upon hearing them, Mo Chen was about to respond when the humanoid black shadow's surging aura suddenly froze.

He stiffened as though struck by lightning, staring fixedly at Mo Chen as he asked in a trembling voice, "Wait... what did they call you?"

Mo Chen narrowed his eyes warily at the humanoid black shadow. "A man does