Yuanshi's Evil Corpse even followed the karmic position Daoist Ran Deng had held as Vice Leader of Chan Sect to glimpse the scene just before his death.
Houtu's Ancestral Witch True Form, utterly savage and exuding pressure comparable to a being at Quasi-Saint Consummation, smashed a fist straight at him.
Daoist Ran Deng had been blasted apart without the slightest suspense.
Yuanshi's Evil Corpse incarnation could clearly sense that Daoist Ran Deng had not failed to resist. He had already mustered all his strength to deploy his two Innate Spiritual Treasures, the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler and the Coffin Lamp.
He had even pushed the power of both Innate Spiritual Treasures to its absolute peak.
But it had been useless!
Under the overwhelming force of the Earth Law wielded by Houtu, they had accomplished nothing whatsoever.
He had been smashed apart alive.
As for Patriarch Minghe, Yuanshi's Evil Corpse had only divined that he had led the charge toward Houtu, then been blasted apart.
But Yuanshi's Evil Corpse had not divined how Patriarch Minghe had ultimately perished. That stretch of Heavenly Secrets had been suppressed.
Yuanshi's Evil Corpse instinctively looked toward Houtu and the others.
"Did you suppress the Heavenly Secrets with the Chaos Bell?"
"Heh."
"Unfortunately, it's useless."
"These Otherworld Flowers blooming all across the Netherworld Blood Sea have already laid all your secrets bare, Houtu."
"To completely wipe out Patriarch Minghe in such a short time, with his survival abilities so overwhelmingly powerful, you must have awakened an Earthly Dao Divine Ability, Houtu."
After muttering these words to himself, a pleased expression quietly surfaced on the face of Yuanshi's Evil Corpse incarnation.
By his reckoning, the pressure of Patriarch Minghe's undying Netherworld Blood Sea body must have forced Houtu to awaken and unleash this Earthly Dao Divine Ability.
That was