Everyone looked astonished at the figure that had appeared out of nowhere.
Hadn't the Immortal Ascension Assembly already ended?
Shouldn't all the surviving disciples of the major sects have left?
Why was someone still here?
But after a closer look, their expressions grew grave.
The newcomer wore tattered gray clothes, and a startling blackish-gray aura flared around him. His exposed skin was the same blackish gray, with bulging veins pulsing slowly beneath it. His eyes were filled with blood-red bloodlust.
This fellow could no longer be called human. His body was suffused with raging Demonic Qi, giving off an aura that made their scalps prickle.
Ye Han narrowed his eyes slightly. This must have been one of the cultivators Senior Brother Zhang Qingshan had told him about—disciples who had entered the Darkness Forbidden Ground and been corrupted by Demonic Qi and undergone Demonization.
Yet Ye Han had never imagined that these demonized cultivators would remain in the Darkness Forbidden Ground after all the sect disciples attending the Immortal Ascension Assembly had left!
Looking at the approaching demonized cultivator, Gu Changdao immediately shouted, "Be careful! This fellow's aura is dangerous."
The demonized cultivator looked at the five of them and grinned, revealing a mouth missing more than half its teeth. Wisps of blackish-red energy spurted from his mouth and nose. "Kill! Kill you all!!"
As he spoke, his hands rapidly formed seals. He clapped them together, and a surge of blackish-gray energy erupted behind him. A pitch-black spear appeared in his hand, and he thrust it viciously toward the five of them...
Whoosh!
The pitch-black spear magic artifact instantly erupted with black light, splitting into five black Spear-Rays aimed at the five of them. They pierced the air in an instant and hurtled toward them with terrifying, suffocating force...
**"You're courting