The lingering aftereffects of the tenfold mental amplification still surged through his sea of consciousness. His mind mirror was like glazed glass, its radiance contained within.
Fang Gang crushed the last trace of black ash left by the contamination source in his palm, feeling the brand-new power surging through his body—the late Marrow Cleansing Realm!
The power of rebirth after breaking through was like a sleeping volcano awakening, violent strength filling every inch of his muscles and bones.
However, the danger had not been lifted.
From the darkness around the edge of the sinkhole, shadowy ghosts and black-robed cultists silently emerged. Their numbers were as vast as a black tide, completely surrounding the enormous pit.
Chilling, chaotic auras intertwined, forming a suffocating pressure.
Three terrifying presences far surpassing ordinary cultists locked onto Fang Gang at the bottom of the pit like three icy poisonous stingers.
On the left stood a gaunt elder as thin as a skeleton, holding a twisted, entwined white mourning staff dripping with viscous black fluid. She was none other than the Phantom Sound Priest Fang Gang had severely injured before!
Her aura was unstable, but the venom in her eyes had nearly become tangible.
On the right, dense buzzing came from beneath a black robe. Countless tiny poisonous insects crawled out from its sleeves, gathering in the air into a scalp-numbing insect cloud.
The Insect Gu Priest's body seemed to be made of insect swarms. Its aura was violent now, clearly having recovered considerably as well.
Straight ahead, a towering figure stepped forward, making the ground tremble faintly.
In his hands was no longer the previous dark-green executioner's blade, but an even larger bronze battle axe wrapped in dense blood-colored vengeful souls!
The dented bronze armor over the Ghost General Priest's chest had been temporarily repaired, and savage killing intent burned in his eyes.
"The Holy Lord has commanded..." The Phantom Sound Priest's hoarse, venomous voice drifted through the gloomy wind like the wails of a hundred ghosts. "Kill... the Bald-headed Bright King!"
"Here to die?"
Fang Gang slowly raised his head. His gaze swept across the dark mass of encirclement before finally landing on the three great priests. The corner of his mouth curved into a smile devoid of warmth. "Perfect... I'll use you to test my new fist!"
"Arrogant!"
The Ghost General Priest roared like thunder, the shockwave shaking loose pebbles from above. "Take my axe! Blood Soul Splitting Earth!"
His massive body launched like a battering ram, both hands raising the huge bronze battle axe wrapped in blood-colored vengeful souls!
The blood-red glow on the axe blade surged wildly. Countless twisted vengeful souls let out piercing shrieks, condensing into a blood-colored axe force that tore through the air!
Carrying the might to split mountains and cleave peaks, along with resentment cold enough to freeze souls, it descended toward Fang Gang at the bottom of the pit! A full-force strike from a peak Grade A!
Almost at the same time!
"Myriad Guvs Devour Heaven!" The Insect Gu Priest shrieked, driving its staff into the ground!
The buzzing insect cloud in the air instantly expanded, transforming into a black torrent made up of billions of poisonous insects with metallic glints and vicious mouthparts. Carrying a pungent stench and poison capable of eroding all things, it swept toward Fang Gang from the side like a breached black celestial river!
Wherever the insect torrent passed, even the air gave off sizzling corrosion sounds!
"Sorrowful Soul Lure: Burying Heart!" The Phantom Sound Priest wildly shook her soul-guiding mourning staff. A soundless mental shriek mixed with viscous black fluid, transforming into countless clawing ghost faces full of despair and temptation. Ignoring the distance through space, they lunged straight at Fang Gang's head!
This was an even more insidious mental attack than before, aimed directly at the weaknesses of the heart!
The three great priests attacked from three sides! Physical force, deadly poison, and mental assault! A killing formation had appeared once again!
Faced with an encirclement even more dangerous than the one outside the City God Temple, Fang Gang showed no fear. Instead, blazing battle intent burned in his eyes!
"World-Shaking Dragon Fist!"
A low roar, like the chant of an ancient dragon, exploded from the bottom of the pit!
Fang Gang clenched his right fist, and the vast qi and blood of the late Marrow Cleansing Realm erupted from within him!
It was no longer golden-red, but dark gold, carrying an incomparably fierce force that seemed capable of tearing apart the heavens!
The immense power of dragons and elephants surged and roared through his sinews and bones. Nine Yang True Fire compressed and gathered, while the shocking force of Eight Extremes! Prison Quake! merged into his fist intent!
He threw a punch!
Its target was the blood-colored vengeful soul axe force descending toward him with the greatest momentum!
Dark-gold qi and blood mixed with pure yang true fire atop his fist, compressing and spinning until they vaguely formed the phantom of a roaring dragon head!
The dragon head opened its enormous jaws, carrying the tyrannical will to shatter laws and rip apart space!
Boom—!!!!
The dark-gold dragon-head fist force collided viciously with the blood-colored vengeful soul axe force!
There was no stalemate!
Crack!!!
A piercing shattering sound rang out like breaking glass!
The seemingly indestructible blood-colored axe force, wrapped in countless vengeful souls, exploded the instant it touched the dark-gold dragon-head fist force as though it were made of paper!
Before the countless blood-colored vengeful souls could even scream, they were instantly purified and annihilated by the pure yang power and shattering will contained within the dark-gold fist force!
The violent fist force did not diminish, smashing heavily into the enormous Soul-Splitting Blood Axe in the Ghost General Priest's hands!
Clang—boom!!!!
It was like thunder exploding across the ninth heaven!
The bronze battle axe's blade shattered instantly!
The axe body twisted out of shape!
Irresistible immense force surged viciously through the handle and into the Ghost General Priest's arms!
"Puh—!!!"
The Ghost General Priest's sleeves exploded, while his muscles and bones gave off a teeth-grinding crunch of fracture!
His enormous body flew backward like it had been struck by a speeding locomotive, blasting into the densely packed cultists in the distance like a cannonball. He instantly crushed a swath of them to death, and whether he lived or died was unknown!
One punch! The Ghost General Priest, wielding a heavy weapon, had been crippled!
And at the very instant Fang Gang sent the Ghost General Priest flying!
The sweeping torrent of poisonous insects slammed into the qi-and-blood smoke naturally rising around Fang Gang's body, mixed with dark-gold radiance!
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
It was like billions of moths plunging into an incinerator!
Countless poisonous insects glittering with cold light struck the pure-yang, unyielding qi-and-blood smoke carrying shattering intent and were instantly burned to ash!
The corrosive black mist of deadly poison could not even get within a meter of Fang Gang's body before the scorching heatwave scattered and purified it!
The Insect Gu Priest let out a miserable insect-like cry. Large portions of its insect-made body charred black and collapsed, and its aura instantly withered!
At the same time!
The Phantom Sound Priest's soundless mental shriek and venomous ghost faces also slammed viciously into Fang Gang's sea of consciousness!
Within his sea of consciousness, the glazed mind mirror shone brilliantly!
Though the mental amplification had begun to fade, the strength of his will still far exceeded what it had been before!
The venomous ghost faces, enough to drown even Grade A experts in despair, struck the glazed mind mirror like eggs hitting diamond!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Countless ghost faces instantly exploded and vanished!
The Phantom Sound Priest seemed to have been struck by a heavy hammer. Her soul-guiding mourning staff flew from her grip, and she was hurled away by an invisible mental backlash like a kite with its string cut. She crashed into a boulder and completely passed out!
In the span of lightning and flint!
The joint encirclement and assassination by the three great priests—broken!
Fang Gang stood where he was and slowly withdrew his fist.
The dark-gold qi-and-blood smoke around him gradually receded, revealing his lean, powerful body.
The wounds on his arms had healed by more than half under his powerful vitality, leaving behind only faint marks.
The bottom of the pit fell silent!
The surviving cultists and ghosts stared at the figure standing like a demon god, then at the three great priests who had been crippled in an instant. Their eyes were filled with boundless terror!
Someone let out a terrified scream, as though lighting a fuse, and the encirclement instantly collapsed!
All the cultists and ghosts scattered in every direction with frantic screams like startled rabbits!
Fang Gang did not pursue those insignificant enemies. His gaze pierced through the chaotic, fleeing figures and landed on someone who had appeared at the edge of the sinkhole at some unknown time.
It was a withered old man in a blood-red robe, leaning on a strange scepter carved from white bone and embedded at its tip with a beating heart.
He did not radiate any particularly terrifying aura, but his cloudy eyes seemed to contain mountains of corpses and seas of blood as he calmly watched Fang Gang at the bottom of the pit.
The Blood Sacrifice Priest! The leader of the Twelve Priests of the Nightmare Holy Cult! A genuine S-rank expert!
"Bald-headed Bright King..."
The Blood Sacrifice Priest's voice was dry and hoarse, like two pieces of bone grinding together. "You are very good... The Holy Lord greatly appreciates your... vessel-like body..."
He slowly raised the white-bone scepter in his hand. The strange heart embedded at its tip, still beating, suddenly emitted blood light so dense it could not be dispersed!
"Therefore... your flesh and blood... will become the Holy Lord's finest sacrifice... for his return!"
The blood-colored heart at the tip of the scepter suddenly throbbed!
An invisible force field carrying dense blood stench and the laws of death instantly enveloped the entire sinkhole!
All the fleeing cultists and ghosts suddenly stiffened. Then, as if all their life force had been drained away, they instantly turned into desiccated corpses, fell to the ground, and shattered!
The essence of their flesh and blood transformed into threads of blood-colored airflow, surging madly toward the heart atop the white-bone scepter!
Blood Sacrifice Domain—unfold!
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