240: Chapter 235 The Mad Taoist Xuanji!

Facing Chen Zhiwen's cold, bone-chilling interrogation, Daoist Xuanji's turbid eyes first froze slightly, as if he did not expect that in this world he regarded as 'livestock in captivity,' there would be someone who dared to speak to him in such a tone.

But immediately after, Chen Zhiwen's question seemed to touch upon the most sensitive and shameful Taboo deep within his heart.

His aged face, which was already as shriveled as tree bark, suddenly darkened in an instant, becoming colder than this sea of bones and deeper than this endless black mist!

An indescribable, monstrous killing intent, like a volcano that had been dormant for ten thousand years, suddenly erupted from his hunched body!

"Boom!"

This killing intent was no longer the aloof indifference from before, but a substantial pressure filled with endless resentment, madness, and violence!

It instantly swept across the entire space, causing the ancient bones quietly piled around to emit an unbearable 'crack-crack' sound, as if they were about to be crushed into powder by this terrifying aura!

Chen Zhiwen only felt a pressure as vast as the mountains and seas rushing towards him; his protective golden spiritual light flickered violently, almost collapsing on the spot! He had no choice but to hold the dao-slaying sword across his chest and exert his full power to activate his Hegemonic Sword Intent, only then barely managing to steady his figure in this world-destroying storm of killing intent.

"You ask me why?!"

Daoist Xuanji's turbid eyes were now blood-red, filled with mad bloodshot veins. He was no longer that calm and detached 'Creator God,' but more like a wounded beast driven into a desperate situation, about to devour someone!

He roared in a voice that was almost a shriek, filled with endless hatred: "Because... because not long ago, I was schemed against by a villain! A despicable, shameless piece of trash who deserves to be cut into a thousand pieces!"

This 'villain' was Daoist Xuanji's greatest enemy in this life. The grudge between the two of them had long reached a state of life-and-death, entangled for more than ten thousand years.

Throughout these long years, both sides had exhausted every scheme and used every power they could to completely put the other to death.

"And that enemy of mine, I don't know where he learned that this Cultivation Technique I practice has a fatal flaw!" Daoist Xuanji said, gnashing his teeth, every word seemingly squeezed from between his teeth, filled with deep-seated hatred.

"That is, after I have just finished refining a Small World, I enter a very short period of weakness! During that period, my cultivation is less than fifty percent of my Peak!"

"That damned bastard seized this once-in-a-ten-thousand-year Opportunity! Just after I finished refining another world, when I was at my weakest, he suddenly ambushed me, catching me off guard!"

Mentioning this, the muscles on Daoist Xuanji's face twitched crazily; that hideous appearance was enough to make even evil ghosts shudder.

"That battle was earth-shattering, obscuring the sun and moon! Although I eventually managed to escape from his hands by relying on my trump cards, but... my life Origin suffered unprecedented, heavy damage! My Dao foundation was almost destroyed!"

"All these years, I have not dared to return to the Sect, I have not dared to expose myself to anyone's sight, I could only hide in this endless Void Realm turbulence like a stray dog, lingering on, silently healing my wounds!"

To heal the fatal Dao wounds on his body, Daoist Xuanji had reached the point of burning his bridges, stopping at nothing.

"I have already... refined all the worlds within the other four of my five Divine Treasure Palaces!"

"Turning the billions of living beings in those four worlds, along with the worlds themselves, into the purest life Origin to repair my shattered Dao foundation!"

When he said these words, there was not the slightest pity or reluctance in his tone, only a kind of desperate madness.

"And this Huangzhou World is the very last world within me!"

Daoist Xuanji's blood-red gaze was locked tightly onto Chen Zhiwen, as if he wanted to devour him alive.

"As long as... as long as I refine the living beings of this entire Huangzhou, along with this world itself! My wounds will be completely healed! My cultivation might even take this Opportunity to go a step further, peeking into the legendary 'Void Refining' realm!"

"When that time comes! I will definitely slaughter my way back to the Lingyue Continent! I will kill my enemy, along with his Sect, leaving no one alive, not even the chickens and dogs! I will extract their Divine Soul, place them in the Netherworld Fire, and burn them for ten thousand years, so they will never be reincarnated!"

By the end, Daoist Xuanji's already hideous face was completely twisted. His voice was no longer a roar, but a howl like that of an evil ghost from the Nine Netherworlds, filled with resentment and curses, echoing in this deathly silent space, making one's hair stand on end.

After hearing this, Chen Zhiwen's heart sank to the bottom.

So that was it.

It turned out that this Void Realm crack traversing the sky was not an accident, but the world barrier actively torn open by the 'Creator' of this world in order to repair his own wounds!

He was going to 'harvest' early!

He was going to treat the entire Huangzhou, along with all the lives upon it, as the final ingredient to refine and devour!

An uncontrollable, monstrous rage erupted from the deepest part of Chen Zhiwen's heart!

"You... insane beast!"

In Chen Zhiwen's eyes, golden flames burned fiercely; that was killing intent pure to the extreme!

He felt sorrow for these Taboo bones covering the ground!

He felt anger for the billions of innocent living beings on Huangzhou who were about to be refined as medicinal dregs!

For his own selfish desires, Daoist Xuanji regarded billions of lives as mere grass; such behavior had already transcended the categories of good and evil, it was a completely demonic act!

However, facing Chen Zhiwen's killing intent that seemed almost capable of burning down heaven and earth, the hideousness and madness on Daoist Xuanji's face receded like the tide.

He once again resumed that aloof, detached expression, as if the person who had just lost his composure and roared was not him at all.

He cast a leisurely glance at Chen Zhiwen with the eyes of someone looking at a dead man.

"The anger of an ant is truly cheap and laughable."

"Although I do not know how you, this anomaly, came to my world, but... since you have arrived, you will not be able to leave."

"Just stay here, and together with those real ants on Huangzhou, honorably become the stepping stone for me to return to the Peak, and be... completely refined by me!"

Having said that, Daoist Xuanji raised his head and let out a burst of unbridled, wild laughter!

That laughter, filled with triumph and cruelty, echoed over this sea of bones, appearing exceptionally harsh and chilling!

Before the laughter had faded, his figure transformed into a streak of blood-colored light and, without hesitation, shot back into that huge blood-colored crystal.