Huff!
Huff...
Waves of utterly terrifying ghostly energy surged and writhed through the air, rippling incessantly and giving off heavy, grating breaths...
They rippled throughout the cavern as a fiendish figure dozens of yards tall emerged from the black, rippling curtain of light! Black energy writhed all over its body, which bristled with countless horns and ghost claws studded with red eyes!
"Woooo!" The eerie specter let out a series of astonishing thrums. The entire cavern trembled with a thunderous rumble, and the restriction barrier steadily dissipated...
And just then...
"Haha! It worked!" the lead Masked Cultivator cried excitedly, his aura somewhat weakened. Then he shouted, "Go! Hurry! If we're too late, we're finished too!" Gray light and black energy erupted wildly around him as he moved, clearly deeply fearful of the newly emerged Black Evil King...
In the blink of an eye...
The other three Masked Cultivators, equally terrified, raced after their leader...
But then!
"Hm?" One Masked Cultivator slowed slightly and glanced back...
It was just a single glance. Had this Masked Cultivator known that looking back would cost him his life, he would never have done it, even if someone had beaten him to death...
That turn of his head was no small matter...
The moment he looked back!
"Wooo!" A demonic howl thundered from the Black Evil King's gaping, bloody maw. He suddenly opened it wide, and his blood-red eyes shifted as a strange red glow rippled outward...
"!" The Masked Cultivator's eyes abruptly went blank, and his entire body froze!
It was as though he had been pinned in place...
Then!
"Wooo!" An astonishingly powerful thrum burst from the Black Evil King's mouth in a furious roar. His entire body shuddered violently, and several enormous ghost claws swept toward the cultivator...
"Ah!" Light suddenly blazed