The First Descent and Contact (Bonus Chapter for Full Monthly Vote Support-Please Keep Voting!)

One Mystic Art after another was completed.

Powerful waves of Mystic Arts took shape, erupting together with savage shrieks as they dragged long, bright threads through the Void. Those threads must have possessed some special ability.

After all, their goal was to peel off his skin!

Xu Yuan's gaze darkened.

If nothing unexpected happened, if he were only an ordinary cultivator in the Qi Refining Realm—

He really would die here.

Only his Human Skin would be left behind, then stitched together with some Mystic Art so these people could assume his Identity.

How would they impersonate him?

How would they treat Yang Xiaobing?

How would they treat Zhao Shulan, or even Zhao Afei?

Xu Yuan stood motionless, staring blankly into the Void as though fear had struck him senseless.

Across from him.

The man instructed, "Once he's trapped, be careful when you peel him. Don't damage the skin."

"Yes!" the others answered in unison.

The next instant.

Xu Yuan suddenly drew the Ninefold Nether Shadow Sword. Gripping it tightly with both hands, he slashed at Emptiness before him with the speed of rolling Thunder!

Five heads flew into the air.

"Seal."

Xu Yuan shifted the sword to one hand and pressed his other hand toward the five heads from afar.

In the Void.

Faint lines of text refreshed in a frenzy:

You used "Heaven and Earth-Stealing" to alter the environment around five enemies, moving them into the path of your blade.

You used "Deep Dive" to designate the deaths of five enemies as a "secret," sealing it in the Abyss Dimension, concealing it and causing this secret to "go missing."

You used "Heaven and Earth-Stealing" to alter the flight environment of every Mystic Art, changing their target to the sole remaining person opposite you.

All the text flashed past.