This cultivator was, of course, the man possessed by the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor!
"Ugh!!! Ugh!!! Ugh!!!" The cultivator suddenly looked as though he were in unbearable agony, screaming over and over as rings of black qi burst uncontrollably from his body! His entire figure began slowly swelling. Crack!! His clothes started tearing apart!
Suddenly!
"Wh... what's going on?" a cultivator's terrified voice rang out from the doorway.
"Grrr!!!" The Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor let out a low growl like a Demon Beast. Black light suddenly blazed all over him, and with a boom!!!, he vanished into thin air!
"Not good!!" The figure had only just reacted!
Splurch!!! The Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor appeared before the cultivator in an instant. His pitch-black hand tore straight through the man's Protective Barrier and plunged into his belly. It was so fast that everything happened almost instantaneously. The cultivator had no chance to react. His eyes widened in utter terror, and he slowly collapsed.
Bang!!!! The Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor paid no attention to the cultivator's terrified gaze. Black light suddenly blazed around his hand as he forcibly crushed the cultivator's golden core in his grip. A great spray of green light scattered everywhere!
"Aoooo!!!!!!!!" The Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor roared furiously. A vast mass of black qi erupted from him, turning into countless streaks of black light that surged wildly in every direction. The ground shook violently, and the entire building trembled amid waves of astonishingly loud humming!
"Ugh!! Ugh!!! Ugh!!!!!!" After roaring for a long while, the Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor finally dropped to his knees. His body had swollen to several times its original size, and his aura had become staggeringly powerful.
"Huff, huff, huff!!!" The Heaven-Shaking Great Emperor gasped for breath as the black qi around him rapidly withdrew. He muttered, "I finally absorbed it