The instant supreme divine power descended upon him from a distant world beyond the Domain.
Without the slightest hesitation, he willed that wisp of divine power to burn, detonating his monstrous body, already mutated beyond any semblance of humanity.
Divine power burned.
His body swelled.
His skin split.
Light shone through the cracks.
In an extremely short span of time, the mutated man's body rapidly passed through four stages. Then, before Gu Qing and Liu Zhiyi could react, his completely mutated body exploded.
The explosion was utterly silent, without the slightest shock wave.
Only an invisible surge of mutating energy spread outward like ripples, instantly sweeping through everything within a hundred-meter radius.
Caught within its range, Liu Zhiyi and Gu Qing had no time to dodge. The invisible mutating energy invaded their bodies directly.
"Hahaha, you brought this on yourselves!"
Before the aftermath of the explosion had even subsided, crazed laughter rang out in the air.
It was the mutated man's voice.
He had blown himself up, but he had not died. Instead, he continued to exist in a special state.
Waiting for the day he could regain a physical body and make his comeback.
The laughter had barely sounded before it rapidly moved away from Gu Qing and Liu Zhiyi.
The man was exceedingly cautious. Afraid that Liu Zhiyi might possess some means of countering souls, he was fleeing the landscaped grove at top speed.
Liu Zhiyi had investigated Black Shadow for a long time and fought these lackeys of the Evil God on many occasions. She saw through his escape trick at a glance.
With a thought, she swiftly summoned a strange, pitch-black flying insect before her and commanded in a low voice:
"After him!"
"Buzz, buzz, buzz!"
The black insect beat its wings and shot through the