Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Ao Niu’s voice was still reverberating in An Lin’s voice transmission talisman.
An Lin, Xu Xiaolan, Gluttony, and Xiao Ze’s expressions all became extremely serious. After all, this was a mighty figure of the Dao Integration Stage that was after them!
They already found cultivators of the Return to Void Final Stage extremely hard to deal with. Now, a mythological beast of the Dao Integration Stage had them in its crosshairs. They would be powerless in front of such a supreme being.
They could only flee!
“Hurry up and leave that place! We’ll flee right away!”
“Moo… We can’t leave. Our escape has been blocked off by the Nightmare Mud Man…” Ao Niu whimpered.
An Lin: “…”
He didn’t hesitate and immediately rung up Dongfang Zhuangshi’s voice transmission talisman. To his surprise, his call was instantly answered. Dongfang Zhuangshi’s calm voice traveled over.
“Hey, An Lin. What’s up?”
“You’re aware of the Divine Bat Emperor’s actions, yeah?” An Lin asked anxiously. “Are you guys really trapped there?”
“Heh, we’re fine. It’s merely the Nightmare Mud Man’s misconception. Give me a minute… No, I’ll be done in half a minute…”
An Lin didn’t hang up the voice transmission talisman, and he could hear the loud rumbles of different energies colliding together.
“Hahaha… Demonic Blood Kirin, stop struggling and accept your fate!” the Nightmare Mud Man’s voice traveled out from the voice transmission talisman.
The sounds of dreamy charms and crazed screams could also be heard.
Even though An Lin was hearing this through the voice transmission talisman, his mind still wavered a tiny bit.
…
Within the Heavenly Basin.
Pitch-black shadows blotted out heaven and earth.
The Nightmare Mud Man’s body was torn apart by Dongfang Zhuangshi again.
Whoosh!
The shredded body melted back together like slush. Blood seeped from the Nightmare Mud Man’s mouth, and its aura was also weak. However, there was a victorious smile on its face.
“Hahahaha… So what if you can wound me ten thousand times? I will indeed suffer grave injuries. However, you won’t be able to kill me before the Divine Bat Emperor arrives! Do you understand what life is? My life force isn’t something you can imagine!”
For some reason, even though he had been pummeled thousands of times, the Nightmare Mud Man still had a sense of blind superiority. It was as though being a sandbag was something to be proud of.
In fact… one couldn’t blame the Nightmare Mud Man for feeling this. After all, this was its only talent…
Dongfang Zhuangshi couldn’t help but laugh upon hearing the Nightmare Mud Man’s words. “Life? Do you think that I don’t understand life? Have you forgotten how my title of Demonic Blood Kirin came to be?”
A sense of great danger suddenly enveloped the Nightmare Mud Man.
Its gaze was drawn to Dongfang Zhuangshi’s kirin claws. For some reason, its heart shuddered in fear!
There were still traces of its blood on the kirin claws, and this blood slowly became black and distorted. Then, it was obliterated into particles so fine that even divine senses wouldn’t be able to detect them.
The Nightmare Mud Man’s pupils contracted. Such harrowing power of death…
Thump!
At this moment, its heart suddenly jumped violently.
The Nightmare Mud Man’s expression changed drastically, and it started retreating in a frenzy.
“It’s no use! When I ripped your body apart with my kirin claws, that demonic blood was already injected into your body…” Dongfang Zhuangshi cracked a bloodthirsty smile.
“Ah…!” A heart-wrenching pain suddenly seared through its entire body.
The Nightmare Mud Man’s life force started collapsing from within. Not only did its flesh and meridians crumble, but even its sea of vital energy and divine sense also started to decompose and crumble!
Dongfang Zhuangshi remained still and completely ignored the Nightmare Mud Man’s escaping figure. “I don’t understand life?” he said as he smiled cruelly. “I, a being who once created a Demonic Blood Beast Army out of fresh blood, doesn’t understand life?
“I once poisoned an entire city to death using a single drop of demonic blood. I ended the life of an entire tribe using a rain of demonic blood. I thus received the title of Demonic Blood Kirin. How can I not understand life?”
The Nightmare Mud Man’s body continued to crumble, yet it could find no way of stopping the destructive energy in its body. This was an energy that could utterly strip one’s life away from them!
“No, I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die!” the Nightmare Mud Man howled in despair. There was a look of terror in its eyes as it stared at Dongfang Zhuangshi.
Dongfang Zhuangshi’s eyes glinted with a bloodthirsty expression as he enjoyed the spectacle before him. A demonic laugh rang from his lips. “Ahahaha… Experience the joy of death! This is the moment where you’ll have the deepest perception of life!”
The golden groundhog, Ao Niu, and the Divine Poison Frog were all stupefied as they stared at the male in the sky. His appearance as a civilized and cultured person had been completely tossed out of the window. He was clearly an apocalyptic demon hiding in human skin! Furthermore, it was extremely likely that this was Dongfang Zhuangshi’s true self!
“Ah…!” Following an anguished cry, the last inkling of life force left the Nightmare Mud Man’s body. The power of the divine dao dissipated, and the cage that it had formed also vanished. Light beamed down on the land once more.
The Nightmare Mud Man never would’ve imagined that its cage would be absolutely f*cking useless. Because Dongfang Zhuangshi chose to kill him, and then casually swagger away from this place.
Dongfang Zhuangshi picked up the still-connected voice transmission talisman. “Done. I’ll head over to your location right away.”
An Lin stood next to a crater outside the Heavenly Basin, and he looked at the voice transmission talisman speechlessly.
Although he didn’t witness the battle, the sounds that he heard told him that it was a brutal one. Oh, hang on. It was brutal for the Nightmare Mud Man. To Dongfang Zhuangshi, it was enjoyable!
He could picture the male’s demonic smile just by listening to his laughter. It was a beautiful image…
He silently estimated the time. M-hm, it was indeed under a minute.
Dongfang Zhuangshi took the Nightmare Mud Man’s storage ring as the spoil of battle. Then, he stepped through space and teleported toward An Lin’s location with the golden groundhog, Ao Niu, and the Divine Poison Frog.
An Lin and the others stayed put and awaited their arrival. An Lin continually took out spirit stones and fed them to Gundam Three and Gundam Four. This was in order to replenish their energy.
Gundam Three and Gundam Four were fearsome, and their appetites were even more fearsome. An Lin’s heart ached as he watched them gobble up tens of thousands of spirit stones.
Crack…
A spatial fissure appeared, and Dongfang Zhuangshi appeared before An Lin with the three bludger beasts.
“Looks like we did quite well! We wiped out all the enemies,” Dongfang Zhuangshi said in satisfaction as he looked at the impressive crater.
“Stop wallowing in joy! Hurry up and take us away from here!” An Lin urged anxiously.
Dongfang Zhuangshi’s current strength was no match for the Divine Bat Emperor.
If they were caught, they would all be done for.
They had already held a discussion before leaving the mystic realm. With the Nightmare Mud Man’s power, it would definitely detect the presence of Dongfang Zhuangshi and the others. As such, it would definitely contact the Divine Bat Emperor.
Thus, the only thing that An Lin and the others could do was flee once they left that mystic realm. Or, they could choose to kill the enemies and then flee. The first option carried the risk of being slowed down by the Nightmare Mud Man and being pursued by the Divine Bat Emperor. The second option was more difficult to execute, but success meant that their risks would be reduced.
They had Dongfang Zhuangshi, so they were extremely confident and thus chose the second option. They had indeed succeeded. Unfortunately, their three useless teammates answered that voice transmission talisman…
Dongfang Zhuangshi brought An Lin and the others with him as he spatial hopped away.
Right now, he could utilize the power of a Return to Void Pinnacle Stage cultivator. This was sufficient for their escape.
Two minutes later, a gigantic fissure appeared above the Heavenly Basin.
The Divine Bat Emperor stepped out of the fissure. Behind him were three supreme beings of the Return to Void Final Stage.
The bat shook in fury as it looked at the obliterated Heavenly Basin and the vanishing blood-colored passageway. “They’ve all died… The Demonic Blood Kirin also escaped…”
Boom!
The sky suddenly became gloomy. It was as though it contained a boundless wrath.
“They won’t make it far. Notify all the immortal beasts. Seal off the Beast Cesspool! Activate the Heavenly Eye Spell Formation!
“No matter the price, they must be found!”
The Divine Bat Emperor’s voice boomed like thunder. It was clearly on the verge of violent rage.
“Yes!”
The three immortal beasts started contacting all the other Immortal Beasts in the Beast Cesspool.
Heavenly Eye Spell Formation—activate!
