The cold electronic voice was like a death sentence, every byte carrying the power to freeze the soul.
Across the battlefield, whether the surviving cultists or the bloodthirsty ghosts, all trembled beneath the pressure of this supreme will and prostrated themselves on the ground.
The fear that had just arisen in the eyes of the Phantom Sound Priest and the Insect Gu Priest was instantly replaced by fanatical reverence. Ignoring their injuries, they struggled to kneel.
"We welcome the descent of the Holy Lord's Will!"
Fang Gang, however, stood ramrod straight, like a reef that would never bend in a storm.
The jet-black Broken Horn in his hand had become scorching hot, even beginning to tremble faintly!
The dark golden blood patterns flowing across it accelerated upward like venomous snakes coming alive!
Buzz—!
An indescribably cold, chaotic aura filled with endless greed and madness burrowed viciously into his body through the imprint on his left arm!
This power was utterly tyrannical, carrying the indifferent will of a higher life form looking down upon ants. It frantically battered his flesh, sinews, bones, and even attempted to erode the core of his mind!
"Urgh!" Fang Gang grunted. The muscles in his left arm instantly bulged, and dark golden patterns writhed wildly beneath his skin like living things!
Pain!
Pain a hundred times worse than anything he had ever endured before!
It felt as though billions of red-hot ice needles were piercing and churning through his marrow!
Even more terrifyingly, an uncontrollable brutality and a mad impulse to destroy everything began battering his consciousness like maggots clinging to bone!
Warning! Warning!
Detection of a high-dimensional pollution will forcibly invading!
Container origin fusion rate has exceeded the critical point (45%)! Pollution level rapidly rising (8%)!
Mental barrier under attack! Heart Like Glazed Glass state fluctuating violently!
Pollution will objective: seize host control! Assimilate container origin!
Extreme danger! Extreme danger!
The system's cold red alerts flashed wildly across Fang Gang's mind.
"Trying to possess me?"
Golden-red light surged in Fang Gang's eyes like burning molten stars, instantly suppressing the trace of chaotic dark gold that had risen within them. "Get the hell out of me!"
Roar—!
It was as if ancient dragon-elephants had awakened within his body!
The Nine Yang Divine Art was pushed to its limit!
His qi and blood erupted throughout his body. Golden-red supreme yang true fire burst from his flesh and burned fiercely, turning him into a divine furnace forged from molten gold and iron!
Beneath his skin, the dark golden patterns were forcibly slowed by the burning golden-red true fire, even showing faint signs of being driven back!
At the imprint on his left arm, dark gold and golden red clashed fiercely, producing teeth-grating hissing sounds. His skin alternated between brilliant golden light and dense dark patterns.
"The Holy Lord's Will has issued an extermination order! Baldy! Your time has come!"
Enduring the agonizing pain in her mind, the Phantom Sound Priest let out a shrill scream. She raised the Soul Guiding Death Rat once more, pouring in the last of her mental power. "Sorrowful Soul Lure! Myriad Ghosts Cry!"
The mournful sobbing abruptly sharpened, transforming into countless twisted, venomous ghost faces. Carrying an even fiercer mental shockwave, they ignored physical distance and lunged straight for Fang Gang's head!
"You profane the Holy Lord! Become a nest of insects!"
The Insect Gu Priest's black robe exploded, revealing the horrifying body beneath—a writhing mass composed of countless tiny venomous insects!
He slammed a hand against his chest and spat out a stream of viscous, foul-smelling origin blood that glimmered with ghostly green light, merging it into the rolling black toxic miasma beneath his feet!
The miasma instantly boiled over, transforming into a savage giant maw the size of a house, formed from hundreds of millions of venomous insects. Carrying a foul wind capable of corroding all things, it bit down at Fang Gang from above!
The two priests disregarded the damage to their origins and launched one final mad counterattack! This was the killing blow meant to cooperate with the Holy Lord's extermination order!
"Shut up!"
Facing the pincer attack, a vicious glint flashed in Fang Gang's eyes! He stomped his right foot down!
Boom!
The earth seemed to have been struck by a meteorite!
The ground within ten meters sank and cracked apart!
A violent shockwave of dragon-elephant strength mixed with the qi and blood of Nine Yang True Fire erupted from him in every direction like a tangible golden-red tidal wave!
"Break!"
His explosive roar carried the vibrating force of the Eight Extremes Suppressing Prison Force!
The countless venomous ghost faces rushing toward him were like snow cast into a blazing sun. Before they could even scream, they instantly vaporized amid the golden-red tide and vibrating soundwaves!
The Phantom Sound Priest was struck as if by a massive hammer. Black blood sprayed from all seven of her orifices at once, and the Soul Guiding Death Rat flew from her hand. She was hurled away by the shockwave like a rag sack, smashing into distant ruined walls. Her fate was unknown.
At the same time, Fang Gang's left arm muscles knotted. The dark golden blood patterns fluctuated violently beneath the suppression of Nine Yang True Fire. Without even looking at the giant insect maw biting toward him, he threw out his left fist, wreathed in golden-red true fire, with pure brute force!
There was no technique, only overwhelming force!
Wherever his fist wind reached, the air was compressed and ignited by absolute power, forming a blazing, violent golden-red fist aura!
Pfft—!
Like a red-hot iron rod thrust into a snowbank!
The giant venomous insect maw, formed from the Insect Gu Priest's origin blood, was violently punched through by the golden-red fist aura!
The supreme yang true fire surged into the maw along the fist aura like a prairie fire!
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
A dense barrage of scalp-numbing burning sounds rang out!
Hundreds of millions of venomous insects twisted frantically, carbonized, and burst beneath the supreme yang true fire! Billowing black smoke rose amid the stench! The insect maw instantly collapsed and disintegrated!
"No!!!" The Insect Gu Priest let out an inhuman wail. His body, made of venomous insects, visibly blackened and crumbled over vast sections, while countless charred insect corpses pattered down!
As if his spine had been pulled out, he collapsed limply to the ground, capable of nothing but twitching.
Two moves! Just two moves! The two peak Grade A priests had completely lost their fighting strength!
However, just as Fang Gang annihilated the insect maw with one punch and his momentum reached its peak!
Buzz—!
Above the heavens, that cold torrent of data abruptly condensed!
A massive beam of light more than three meters in diameter, formed purely from dark-blue data chains, tore through the heavy leaden clouds. Like a spear of judgment cast down by a god, it carried the terrifying aura of annihilating all matter and energy, ignored spatial distance, and descended instantly!
Its target—the jet-black Broken Horn in Fang Gang's hand!
Or rather, the connection point between the Broken Horn and the imprint on Fang Gang's left arm!
The Faceless Cult Master's extermination attack had arrived! Fast! Precise! Ruthless!
The timing was incomparably vicious. It came at the exact instant when Fang Gang's old strength had just faded, his new strength had yet to arise, and his left arm was momentarily sluggish from the pollution and suppression!
A terrifying sense of death instantly seized Fang Gang's heart! Every cell in his body screamed madly!
The power contained in this beam far exceeded Grade A! It had absolutely reached the threshold of Grade S!
He could not dodge! There was no time to activate a defensive art!
At the critical moment!
"Get the hell—open!"
Fang Gang's eyes nearly split as he let out an earthshaking roar!
The qi and blood throughout his body surged toward his left arm without restraint! He completely ignored the dark golden blood patterns that were madly eroding him! The muscles in his left arm swelled to their limit, while golden-red and dark golden light intertwined and collided wildly beneath his skin, almost bursting it apart!
He did not try to evade, nor did he attempt to block!
Instead, he drove his left fist, carrying the last explosive power of his entire body, viciously toward that terrifying dark-blue beam!
Attack against attack! Flesh against rules!
Boom—!!!!
An indescribable collision erupted!
The dark-blue data beam slammed fiercely into the fist burning with golden-red flames and entwined in dark golden blood patterns!
There was no sound! Or rather, the sound was swallowed by the region where extreme energies collided and annihilated each other!
Only an utterly blinding flash of light exploded!
Illuminating hundreds of meters around them as brightly as day!
The ground silently vanished and sank!
Forming a massive circular crater!
The shockwave transformed into a visible white ring of air and swept outward with devastating force, completely leveling the final ruins of the City God Temple!
The distant prostrating cultists and ghosts were like fallen leaves caught in a gale, instantly reduced to ashes!
At the center of the crater.
Fang Gang maintained his punching stance, rooted to the spot like a nail.
The sleeve on his left arm had been completely shredded, revealing an arm thick with knotted muscles and covered in strange dark golden blood patterns.
The skin on his knuckles had split open, exposing bone. Strands of dark-blue data streams flickered and eroded within the wounds like maggots clinging to bone, trying to burrow deep into his flesh.
But he had blocked it!
That terrifying Grade S extermination beam had been forcibly scattered by his violent punch, which contained dragon-elephant strength, supreme yang qi and blood, and part of that strange dark golden energy!
Though the remaining energy had severely injured his left arm, it had failed to annihilate him, and even more so, failed to destroy the Broken Horn!
"Cough..." Fang Gang tasted blood in his throat, and a thread of it trickled from the corner of his mouth. His internal organs had been battered by the violent recoil.
Yet the light in his eyes burned like an unyielding flame as he stared fixedly at the dark heavens.
"Trying to eliminate me?"
He slowly raised his blood-soaked left fist and thrust up a bloodstained middle finger toward the direction from which that cold will had come! His voice was hoarse, yet filled with decisive ferocity. "First ask my two-hundred-thousand-jin fist!"
As though provoked, the dark golden blood patterns writhed frantically and instantly broke through the suppression of Nine Yang True Fire, racing up his arm like living creatures!
Wherever they passed, his flesh felt tearing pain and an eerie chill. It was as if countless tiny things were burrowing beneath his skin!
Shoulder blade... collarbone... neck... straight toward his heart!
Warning! Pollution level has exceeded 10%!
Warning! Pollution will is accelerating its erosion! Target: heart!
Detection of whispers from a higher will... attempting mental seduction...
Heart Like Glazed Glass state fluctuating violently... mental defenses are being penetrated...
The system's alarms flashed frantically.
Just then, the jet-black Broken Horn clenched tightly in his hand suddenly transmitted a violent, heartbeat-like pulse!
A cold, chaotic whisper of will filled with endless greed directly burrowed into Fang Gang's mind like countless tiny venomous snakes:
"Power... eternal power... embrace it..."
"Shackles... break the shackles... release me..."
"Resistance... will only bring... destruction..."
"Submit... merge... become... a new... container..."
The whispers were filled with twisted temptation, as if they were speaking the ultimate truth of the universe into his ear, yet also like the sweet trap of an abyssal demon. They frantically battered Fang Gang's mental defenses!
The dark golden blood patterns abruptly spread faster, leaving less than an inch between them and his heart!
Fang Gang felt as if his consciousness were being dragged into a cold vortex. Countless chaotic murmurs and fragmented images flashed before his eyes. The desire for destruction intertwined with an extreme thirst for power, nearly tearing apart his sanity!
"Get lost!!!"
He bit through his tongue. The agonizing pain, mixed with the rusty sweetness filling his mouth, forcibly jolted his consciousness back from the brink of collapse!
Nine Yang Qi and Blood frantically gathered around his heart, forming one final blazing barrier that desperately resisted the erosion of the dark golden blood patterns!
Strong Mental Pollution assault detected! Consuming 50 Evolution Points! Forcibly stabilizing 'Heart Like Glazed Glass'!
Mirror Still Water Heart Sutra proficiency increased! Current: Major Mastery (130/1000)! Mental +50!
The system notification flashed past. A cool, resilient power surged into his sea of consciousness, temporarily stabilizing the violently fluctuating Heart Like Glazed Glass state and clearing Fang Gang's chaotic thoughts.
He stared fixedly at the dark golden patterns that had nearly reached the skin above his heart, feeling the cold will emanating from the Broken Horn grow clearer and greedier by the moment.
This thing... was not some key or the origin of a holy relic at all! Something alive and incredibly terrifying was hidden inside it! It was using the Faceless Cult Master, and it was using him too! It wanted out!
What the Faceless Cult Master wanted to eliminate was not Fang Gang, but this "source of pollution" that was about to lose control!
And he, Fang Gang, had now become the most suitable host container for this source of pollution!
"Want to use me as a stepping stone?"
A mad, vicious glint flashed through Fang Gang's eyes. His lips curled into a bloodstained, almost savage grin. "Then let's see... who devours whom!"
He suddenly tightened his grip on the Broken Horn, allowing the cold pulsing sensation and eroding will to batter him.
Golden-red qi and blood clashed fiercely with the dark golden blood patterns around his heart. Light flickered beneath his skin, as though a silent battle to the death was taking place.
Above the heavens, that cold will seemed to have sensed the strange stalemate below. The torrent of data paused slightly, then released even more piercing alarms:
"Alert! Target pollution has exceeded the critical point! Extermination failed! Extermination failed!"
"Container and pollution source deeply entangled... inseparable!"
"Initiating... contingency plan... reassessing target threat level..."
"Requesting... activation of the 'God-Burying' protocol..."
Dark-blue streams of data surged and reorganized madly deep within the clouds, while an even deeper and more heart-palpitating aura of destruction slowly gathered...
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