The figure in the gray fog—a strange existence formed from the fusion of ancient Baleful Qi and the corpses of the Wu Tribe—felt an unprecedented shock the moment Xu Ping’an appeared.
It was not fear of the strength or weakness of his power, but an almost instinctive perception of something “abnormal.”
How could this person penetrate the pressure field he had deliberately created and approach his back so silently? It defied all logic!
However, when those indifferent eyes, which seemed to reflect the dust of endless ages, looked closely at Xu Ping’an, that shock quickly transformed into realization.
This was followed by an unabashed, mocking laugh that carried the wild, ancient aura of the Great Desolation.
“Haha… Hahaha!”
The laughter was hoarse and dry, sending ripples through the surrounding space.
“I wondered what kind of divine being had arrived, but it turns out… it is actually the legendary Chaotic Body!”
His gaze was like a cold scraper, scanning over Xu Ping’an’s body.
“A physique from before Heaven and Earth were divided, a vessel immune to all laws and difficult for any evil to approach… If this were the Great Desolation, nurtured by the fortune of the world’s opening, perhaps you could have truly achieved earth-shattering greatness. Even if you did not become a Saint, you would be a regional hegemon, worthy of debating the Dao with the Ancestral Witch and the Demon Emperor!”
The laughter stopped abruptly, turning into a condescending pity and ridicule.
“What a pity, what a pity! You were born at the wrong time! Now, Heaven and Earth are set, the laws are stable, Spiritual Energy has its owners, and the Great Dao has its trajectory! You, this Chaotic Body, possess a treasure mountain but cannot enter! You cannot absorb Spiritual Energy into your body, nor can you cultivate the fruit of the Vital Essence Dao. You possess a fine shell, but how are you different from a cripple? Hahahaha!”
He seemed to have discovered a massive joke—an existence that should have been the darling of Heaven and Earth had fallen to this state, possessing only a superficial appearance in this Dharma Ending Age compared to the Great Desolation.
But immediately after, a startling cold light and fury erupted in his dead eyes.
That was not right! If he were truly a powerless cripple, how could he appear behind him without a sound?
How could he have delivered such a heavy blow a few days ago through the connection of that insignificant Sub-Gu, causing him lingering mental pain and significant depletion even now?
“It is you!”
The voice of the Baleful Qi Wu corpse suddenly became sharp and ear-piercing, filled with the rage of being wounded by an ant.
“A few days ago, the one who injured that wisp of my divine sense was you, you little thief! I thought the Liuyun Sect was hiding some old monster, but it turns out… it was you, this waste who only has a special physique, causing trouble! What evil method did you use?!”
His anger rose, and the gray fog surged violently.
The sky-covering bone hand that had been stagnant once again gathered an even more terrifying Baleful Qi of death, locking onto the nearby Xu Ping’an!
This time, it was no longer a casual strike like before, but a blow concentrated with the will to kill.
He wanted to crush this little bug, who had used some strange means to wound him, along with his ridiculous Chaotic Body, into fine powder!
However, at the very moment his killing intent reached its peak and the bone hand was about to strike down with the force of a thunderbolt—
A very faint feeling of “being watched,” which made the very source of his soul feel stinging and uneasy, descended without warning!
This feeling… did not come from the divine sense probes of the ants below.
It came from… a higher level!
A more fundamental level!
The Baleful Qi Wu corpse jerked its head.
It did not use its eyes, but rather its spiritual sense, which merged Baleful Qi with a portion of fragmented Wu Tribe instincts, to look toward the “heights” in the unseen realm.
He saw that the curtain of Heavenly Secrets, which he had forcefully twisted and obscured using a secret Treasure and his own characteristics, was now rippling like a water surface into which a stone had been thrown!
Wisps of the “Gaze of Heavenly Will,” which should have been isolated and confused, were now faintly projecting through those ripples!
Although it was not yet clear and not enough to immediately lock onto him, that layer of protection was being peeled away.
“You…!”
The Baleful Qi Wu corpse understood instantly, staring in shock and anger at Xu Ping’an, who still wore a smile.
It was this kid! It must be this kid using some strange method he did not know about, related to the Chaotic Body, to interfere with or even partially reverse the arrangements he had made to obscure the Heavenly Secrets!
Although it did not seem to be completely broken, it had already begun to attract the attention of the Heavenly Dao!
Once the Heavenly Secrets were completely clear and the Heavenly Dao sensed a large-scale activity of Wu Tribe auras that “should not exist” here—with the intent to destroy the elites of the Human Tribe and shake the Human Fortune—the descending backlash would be devastating!
Though he considered himself extraordinary, he absolutely did not dare to face the full power of the Heavenly Dao head-on, especially when he had not yet fully recovered and his Plan was only halfway through!
“Good! Very good!”
The voice of the Baleful Qi Wu corpse actually calmed down, but beneath that calm was a mountain-toppling killing intent and a madness born of being pushed to the edge of a cliff.
“I did not expect that my ten-thousand-year Plan would almost be ruined by you, a Chaotic Body that cannot perform Training! It seems that if I do not eliminate you, this variable, today, it will not do!”
He was no longer in a hurry to instantly strike Xu Ping’an dead but quickly made a decision.
The gray fog around him suddenly contracted inward, revealing a body that was not tall, even somewhat shriveled, with greenish-gray skin covered in strange, dark red patterns.
Old scars remained on that body, emitting intense resentment, indignation, and Baleful Qi.
At the same time, he raised his hand and beckoned. A tattered small banner, gray-white and appearing as if condensed from the skeletons and hatred of countless living beings, appeared in his hand.
The moment the small banner appeared, the temperature in the venue plummeted.
Countless shrill, desperate wails echoed in the depths of everyone’s souls as hallucinations.
Some Disciples with weak willpower even clutched their heads and cried out in pain.
“I originally wanted to play a little longer, letting you the so-called… righteous paths of the later generations slowly taste the flavor of collapsing fortune in despair.”
The Baleful Qi Wu corpse held the bone banner, his voice grand and cold, carrying the weight of an announcement.
“Since you, this variable, have forced me to use some of my real strength ahead of schedule, then I shall let you die with understanding!”
His gaze swept over the people below who were struggling against the pressure with suspicion and uncertainty, finally landing on Xu Ping’an. He spoke one word at a time:
“I am a wisp of corpse-fiend intelligence born by chance after ten thousand years of being nurtured by the Baleful Qi of the earth veins! I was formed when the Blood Fiend of all tribes, the deathly aura of the battlefield, and the fragments of the unyielding war souls of the Wu Tribe converged upon the fallen body of ‘Great Shaman Chigu of the Houtu Tribe’ during the final battle of the Wu and Demon at the end of the Great Desolation, when Mount Buzhou collapsed and Heaven and Earth mourned! I inherited a portion of the memories, combat techniques, and will of the Great Shaman Chigu! Furthermore, because I am a convergence of Baleful Qi and deathly aura, I do not possess the defect of the Wu Tribe being naturally unable to refine their Vital Essence!”
“I am the Shamanic Fiend! My will is to regather the dissipated fortune of the Wu Tribe and once again show the glory of the ancient Wu Tribe traversing the Earth and commanding the laws!”
He pointed at the masses below, his tone filled with indifference and disdain for the “Human Tribe,” the race that had risen later:
“You of the Human Tribe merely luckily usurped the position of the protagonists of Heaven and Earth! Fortune? Foundations? Today, I shall use the blood, souls, and fortune of your Human Tribe elites to become the first stepping stone for the revival of my Wu Tribe!”
As his voice fell, he violently shook the Myriad Filth Bone Banner in his hand!
“Wooo—!!”
In an instant, ghosts wailed and gods howled; the sky and earth changed color!
Countless gray-white skeletal phantoms, twisted vengeful souls, and filthy Blood Fiend Qi erupted from the bone banner like a bursting flood!
It was no longer mere pressure but a tangible torrent of attack filled with corrosive and destructive power.
One part swept toward the cultivators of various sects who showed expressions of despair, while another more condensed and terrifying part lunged directly at Xu Ping’an in mid-air!
Only at this moment did this existence calling himself the “Shamanic Fiend” truly reveal his terrifying fangs as a remnant of the Great Desolation!
It was no longer a test, no longer intimidation, but a true killing move intended to exterminate everyone present!
And Xu Ping’an still stood in his original place. Facing the surging torrent of death, the faint smile on his face seemed to deepen slightly.
He acted as if he did not see the terrifying attack that was enough to annihilate a Nascent Soul and foul any Treasure. He simply raised his hand slightly.
Between his fingertips, a warm, translucent white, square seal with a coiled dragon handle had appeared at some unknown time.
The Imperial Jade Seal of Great Qi.
“A stepping stone?”
Xu Ping’an’s voice was not loud, yet it strangely drowned out the wails of the ten thousand ghosts.
“Quite a big mouth. I just wonder if you, this ‘thing’ that died and lived again, yet lives without being alive, can withstand… the backlash of the Human Orthodoxy?”
He lightly stroked the Imperial Seal with his fingertip and smiled faintly.
A golden light containing the Human Fortune suddenly erupted from the eight characters on the base of the Imperial Seal!
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