Outside the City God Temple, killing intent congealed like tangible ice.
Three figures radiating powerful yet bizarre auras stood like three sinister mountains, sealing off every route of escape.
Behind them, shadowy cultists and vicious ghosts writhed in the darkness like a tide waiting to devour its prey.
"Bald brat, hand over the sacred artifact's origin, and I'll leave you an intact corpse!" Directly ahead, the Ghost General Priest's voice sounded like two rusted bronze blocks grinding together, dull and piercing.
The executioner's blade in his hand, burning with ghostly green flames, lifted slightly. The vengeful souls coiled around the blade let out shrill wails, and the temperature in the air plummeted.
To the left, the Phantom Sound Priest covered her mouth and chuckled, but her laughter carried an echo of grief that made one's scalp prickle. "Why resist? Let big sister use this Soul Guiding Death Rat to send you into the most beautiful eternal sleep. How about it?"
The mourning rat in her hand dripped thick black fluid. Every drop seemed to strike the depths of the heart, stirring the deepest sorrow and despair.
To the right, the shadows beneath the Insect Gu Priest's black robe writhed violently. His hoarse voice sounded like countless venomous insects scraping together. "Flesh and blood... make the finest nests for insects..."
The thick, roiling black mist beneath his feet abruptly expanded. The buzzing of countless tiny poisonous insects beating their wings merged into a teeth-grating din, and toxic miasma capable of corroding bone and soul silently spread outward!
The auras of three peak Grade A beings erupted without restraint, intertwining!
Phantom sound bewitched the mind, insect gu corroded the body, and the ghost general tore apart the soul!
An invisible force field instantly formed, completely turning the space dozens of meters around the ruined temple's entrance into a dead zone! The air was thick as glue, while both mind and body endured crushing pressure!
At the heart of the storm, Fang Gang's clothes snapped wildly in the violent currents of energy.
His left hand still gripped that pitch-black Broken Horn. Dark golden blood patterns flowed over it, continuously pouring violent yet icy power into his left arm.
The dark golden markings of the imprint had already spread to his shoulder blade. It felt as though something alive writhed beneath his skin, bringing a strange sensation of scorching pain and surging strength.
Facing this killing trap that would have made even an S-rank expert treat it with utmost caution, Fang Gang's eyes held not the slightest ripple. There was only battle intent boiling to its limit, along with a trace of... mockery?
"Is that all you've got?" His voice was not loud, yet it clearly pierced through the Phantom Sound Priest's sobbing, the insect gu's buzzing, and the ghosts' shrieks, carrying the indifference of one looking down upon ants.
Before his words had faded, all three attacks arrived!
"Ghost Cry! Soul-Rending Slash!" the Ghost General Priest roared!
The ghostly green flames on the executioner's blade surged, transforming into a massive blade aura that tore through the night. Entwined with countless howling vengeful souls, it carried the frigid chill of frozen souls and the force to shatter mountains as it cleaved down upon him!
Where the blade aura passed, the ground was plowed open into a deep trench!
"Guide the Soul! Enter the Dream!" The Phantom Sound Priest lightly shook her mourning rat. A silent mental shriek mixed with thick black fluid, becoming invisible poisonous spikes that ignored physical defenses and stabbed straight into Fang Gang's sea of consciousness!
It sought to ignite the deepest fear in his heart and drag him into an eternal nightmare!
"Ten Thousand Gu! Corrode Heaven!" The Insect Gu Priest slammed his staff against the ground!
The roiling black mist and toxic miasma swelled like living creatures, instantly becoming a flood of countless tiny venomous insects that glinted with metallic cold light. Carrying a pungent stench and poison capable of corroding all things, they surged toward Fang Gang from every direction like black waves!
Wherever they passed, the ground hissed and released green smoke!
Mental attack! Energy slash! Physical poison! Three in one! There was nowhere to evade!
"Come!"
Golden-red light burst from Fang Gang's eyes!
The Nine Yang Qi and Blood within him erupted like a volcano suppressed for hundreds of millions of years!
Golden-red magma surged beneath his skin, and his entire body instantly became a blazing little sun!
The scorching, tyrannical aura of pure yang spread madly outward, instantly evaporating the thick, cold air around him!
The immense strength of dragon and elephant surged and roared through his sinews and bones, releasing deep thunderous booms!
He did not use any complex martial technique. He merely poured all his strength into his left fist!
Golden-red Nine Yang True Fire compressed and gathered over his fist, while the vibrations of Dragon Elephant Thunder Sound fused into it!
The air was compressed and distorted by extreme force, forming a crazily spinning golden-red vortex visible to the naked eye!
Pure! Tyrannical! Breaking all techniques with strength!
"Break—!!!"
His furious roar was like the cry of a dragon from the highest heavens!
His left fist, blazing with a golden-red vortex, slammed forth!
Its target was the ghostly green blade aura descending from above with the greatest might!
No evasion! No blocking! Only the most direct head-on clash!
BOOM—!!!!!!!
An indescribable collision!
Golden-red and ghostly green light crashed together like two small suns!
A roar a hundred times more terrifying than before erupted! The violent energy shockwave exploded outward like a tsunami!
The ground was peeled up layer by layer like fragile crackers, then pulverized!
The shockwave smashed into the crumbling walls of the City God Temple. The already tottering temple groaned under the strain as huge chunks of wall collapsed with a thunderous crash!
The anticipated deadlock never appeared!
The seemingly indestructible ghostfire blade aura, wrapped around countless vengeful souls, made a piercing crack the instant it touched the golden-red vortex around his fist, like fragile glass!
The golden-red vortex spun madly like a millstone, grinding away!
The vibrational force contained within Dragon Elephant Thunder Sound shattered the blade aura's structure from the inside! The pure yang true fire was also the absolute nemesis of vengeful souls and ghostfire!
Sizzle—Boom!!!
The blade aura endured for barely half a second before exploding apart!
Countless wisps of ghostly green fire and howling vengeful souls were instantly ignited and purified by the golden-red true fire, turning into scorched, foul-smelling ash that drifted through the sky!
The Ghost General Priest jolted as if struck by lightning. His massive body shuddered violently, and a clear dent appeared in the chest covered by bronze armor!
He gave a muffled grunt. Thick black blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were filled with incredulous horror!
His full-force attack had actually been blown apart by a single punch?!
Yet after smashing through the blade aura, Fang Gang's fist force only paused slightly!
The golden-red vortex did not slow! Carrying the lingering might to shatter everything, it blasted viciously toward the Ghost General Priest's chest!
"No!!" The Ghost General Priest was terrified out of his wits and hastily held the executioner's blade horizontally before his chest to block!
Clang—Crack!!!
A piercing clash of metal was accompanied by the crisp sound of shattering bones!
The heavy executioner's blade was blasted apart by the golden-red vortex! The broken blade, carrying overwhelming force, smashed viciously into the Ghost General Priest's bronze breastplate!
Pfft—!!!
The breastplate visibly caved in and shattered!
The Ghost General Priest's huge body flew backward like a cannonball struck by a speeding train! Blood sprayed wildly from his mouth!
He crashed into the distant mass of writhing cultists and ghosts, instantly crushing a swath of them! His fate was unknown!
Almost at the exact moment the Ghost General Priest was sent flying!
The Phantom Sound Priest's silent mental shriek and thick black fluid slammed viciously into Fang Gang's sea of consciousness!
Within his sea of consciousness, the heart mirror of Heart Like Glazed Glass shone brilliantly! Clear, resilient glazed radiance formed the purest crystal barrier!
Buzz!
The mental attack, enough to make a Grade B expert instantly collapse, struck the heart mirror like a mud ox sinking into the sea!
It raised only a few imperceptible ripples! The thick black fluid was like something encountering its nemesis. Under the illumination of the clear glazed radiance, it gave off a sizzling sound as it dissolved, instantly vanishing into nothing!
The pale makeup on the Phantom Sound Priest's face twisted instantly. She let out a terrified scream, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and her aura immediately withered!
Her mental attack had actually been completely nullified and rebounded against her?!
At the same time!
The surging flood of venomous insects also slammed into the golden-red Qi and Blood blazing around Fang Gang!
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
Like snow thrown into boiling oil! Countless tiny venomous insects struck the pure yang true fire and could not even last half a second before instantly burning into ash!
The poisonous black mist was scattered and purified in an instant by the scorching gale of Qi and Blood! It could not come within ten feet of Fang Gang's body at all!
The shadows beneath the Insect Gu Priest's black robe fluctuated violently. He let out a hiss like a venomous snake flicking its tongue, clearly suffering backlash as well!
In that brief flash!
The killing array jointly laid down by the three priests—was broken!
Fang Gang stood where he was, the golden-red flames around him slowly drawing back.
He casually shook his left fist. Golden-red light flowed over his knuckles, completely unharmed.
His icy gaze swept over the horrified Phantom Sound Priest and Insect Gu Priest, then he glanced at the wreckage where the Ghost General Priest had crashed.
"I told you," his voice echoed across the deathly silent battlefield like the whisper of a god of death, "one move... wasn't enough to look at."
In the shadows, the Phantom Sound Priest and Insect Gu Priest exchanged a glance. Each saw the unmasked terror in the other's eyes. This bald man... was a monster!
However, just as Fang Gang was preparing to finish off the two priests completely!
Buzz—!
An icy torrent of data far greater than before descended in an instant, like the Milky Way pouring down from the nine heavens! It precisely locked onto the pitch-black Broken Horn in Fang Gang's hand!
The emotionless electronic synthesized voice of the Faceless Cult Master rang over the entire battlefield, carrying unprecedented "gravity" and "alarm":
"Warning! Warning!!"
"Container origin... contamination level... abnormally surging!!"
"Key... fusion process... out of control!!"
"Unknown higher will... corrosive fluctuations detected!!"
"Danger level... exceeds threshold!!!"
"Activating... highest sequence... eradication protocol!!!"
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