Everyone present fixed their eyes on the exit of the Skycloud Pool, their faces filled with disbelief.
The distorted figure carried a killing intent so terrifying it was suffocating. It swept through the surroundings like something solid.
As the figure came into focus, killing intent seemed to permeate everything in sight, sending a bone-deep chill through them all.
Yu Caiyi and the other demon False Gods looked over, as did the Human Faction.
They instantly saw the man's face.
Qin An stepped out slowly, dressed in black. His expression was calm and indifferent, like ice that had not thawed in ten thousand years.
He held a pitch-black Straight Saber. An invisible, colorless Void Essence now emanated from it.
If the space around the Straight Saber had not warped, no one would have noticed the Void Essence coating it.
Qin An swept his gaze across the area and immediately spotted Yu Caiyi and the other demon False Gods. The corner of his mouth lifted slightly. "Looks like you've been waiting here a long time. I didn't expect you to be so persistent. But now you can serve as an outlet for my killing intent."
Yu Caiyi's breath caught. Sensing the aura around Qin An, she blurted out, "Don't tell me you've forged a Peerless Foundation in the Crowning Realm? Impossible! How could anyone forge a Peerless Foundation?"
She knew the cultivation radiating from Qin An was unmistakably that of the Crowning Realm.
And from what she knew of him, this man had never given up until he reached the Yellow River.
If he had failed to forge a Peerless Foundation, he might never have entered the Crowning Realm at all, much less come out.
Now, the result was plain to see.
Qin An did not answer. Instead, he asked, "Afraid?"
Yu