183: Chapter 180 The Strange Man

Chu Chaosheng's heart sank abruptly.

With his cultivation, he had not noticed in the slightest when or how the other party had appeared in his secret chamber!

This place was the core of his closed-door cultivation, where layers of Formations and Restrictions had been laid out!

The other party did not radiate even the slightest fluctuation of aura; he looked just like an ordinary person.

However, it was this unusual calmness that made the wariness in Chu Chaosheng's heart grow even stronger, even making his scalp tingle.

"Who exactly are you? How dare you be so bold as to intrude upon my place of closed-door cultivation!"

Chu Chaosheng suppressed the fear in his heart and slowly stood up. His body trembled slightly; clearly, he had pushed the spirit power within him to its limit, waiting to unleash a thunderous blow at the slightest sign of movement.

Facing Chu Chaosheng's questioning, the man in black acted as if he had not heard, merely raising his eyelids nonchalantly and glancing at him with an extremely cold gaze.

That gaze was hollow and lifeless, without any emotional fluctuation, as if Chu Chaosheng were nothing more than an insignificant ant in his eyes.

Immediately after, the corners of the man in black's mouth curled up slightly, revealing an eerie, evil smile. "Why would a person... who is about to die and head to the Yellow Springs, need to know my name?"

His voice was cold and ruthless, as if it had come from the depths of Hell.

Before the words had even faded, the figure of the man in black moved like a ghost, rushing forward without warning and pointing a finger straight at Chu Chaosheng!

This finger looked plain and unremarkable; it carried neither earth-shattering might nor dazzling spiritual light.

However, in Chu Chaosheng's eyes, this finger was like the scythe of the Grim Reaper, piercing straight toward him with endless terror and despair!

In an instant, Chu Chaosheng felt a chill rise from his spine and spread throughout his entire body. Every hair on his body stood on end at that moment!

Suddenly, an unprecedented life-and-death crisis pressed heavily upon his heart like a heavy mountain! This sense of crisis came on so fiercely that it made his heartbeat accelerate instantly, as if it were about to leap out of his throat!

"Courting death!" Chu Chaosheng was furious, his eyes wide with rage. He was the dignified Old Ancestor of the Great Chu, a Late-stage Grandmaster! That someone would dare to provoke him like this meant they were simply tired of living!

He let out a roar that sounded like thunder, exploding in the secret chamber and causing the surrounding walls to tremble slightly. Following this roar, he threw a punch with all his might—it was fierce, unparalleled, and unstoppable!

As the punch was thrown, wind and thunder followed; the entire space of the secret chamber shook violently because of this punch! It was as if the whole world were about to be shattered by it!

This was his signature technique! The power of this punch was enough to shatter mountains; even a powerhouse of the same Rank would never dare to take this punch head-on!

However, just as his fist was about to hit the target, a scene occurred that shocked him beyond measure.

The seemingly unremarkable finger collided precisely with his fierce and unparalleled fist.

No sound was made, and not even a trace of energy fluctuation was produced. It was as if this finger and this fist had never collided at all.

But Chu Chaosheng clearly felt that his fist was being firmly sucked by an invisible force; no matter how hard he tried, he could not move it forward even a fraction!

What terrified him even more was that the man in black's finger seemed to pierce through space itself, easily penetrating his protective spirit power and pointing straight at his fist's edge!

In an instant, a strange, cold power, filled with the aura of death and decay, surged into his body like a breached dam!

"What... power is this!"

Chu Chaosheng was terrified to the extreme.

Wherever that power passed, his Meridians, his flesh, and even his spirit power were withering and dissolving at a terrifying speed!

This completely exceeded his understanding!

Even he had never heard of such an eerie method!

He could feel that the other party's cultivation seemed to be on par with his own.

But this strange power made his cultivation, which he took such pride in, completely useless!

"Not good!"

Seeing that the situation was not right, Chu Chaosheng made a prompt decision, infinite fear rising in his heart.

He no longer cared about the dignity of an Imperial Dynasty Old Ancestor; he violently withdrew, turned around, and wanted to break through the secret chamber to escape!

He had a strong intuition that if he did not run, he would surely die today!

"Want to run?"

A mocking smile appeared on the man in black's face, as if he had long seen through his thoughts.

"In my presence, do you have the qualification to run?"

His figure suddenly became illusory.

The entire person had actually transformed into a dense, indescribable... black mist!

That black mist ignored the distance of space and, at a speed that surpassed Chu Chaosheng's reaction, caught up to him instantly.

Then, with an incomparably strong and overbearing posture, it madly surged into his body through his seven orifices!

"Ah—!"

Chu Chaosheng let out a miserable shriek that did not sound human.

His body fell heavily to the ground, twitching violently.

His eyes flickered between clarity and Chaos, filled with struggle and pain.

He could feel that his Divine Soul was being devoured by that black mist, bit by bit!

This pain was ten thousand times more terrifying than any torture in the world!

However, this struggle did not last long.

A moment later.

Chu Chaosheng's body stopped twitching.

He slowly stood up from the ground.

His eyes had become completely dead and cold.

That was a kind of gaze that did not belong to Chu Chaosheng.

"This body... is not bad."

"Chu Chaosheng" moved his neck, causing a "creaking" sound, and spoke to himself in a brand new, raspy tone.

"Then, let's start from here and taste the flavor of this 'pasture' again..."

On his face appeared an eerie and evil smile, exactly the same as the man in black's.