Chapter 154 Fist Destroys Evil Spirit, Blood Shadow Takes His Life

[At the underground altar, bloody light shot into the sky.]

["Bang!"]

[This punch...]

[...landed solidly right on Tianxin's face.]

[In this instant...]

[...time seemed to be stretched infinitely.]

[It was too fast.]

[So fast that even this dignified Mountain-Sea Realm Grandmaster...]

[...didn't even have time to mobilize the Origin Power in his body to form a protective barrier.]

[Tianxin's pupils contracted violently.]

[The brilliant golden fist before his eyes...]

[...actually began to gradually transform into distant and fragmented images.]

[He remembered decades ago.]

[Back in the Chaos Zone, he was a person who couldn't get enough to eat or enough clothes to stay warm.]

[A thin, weak boy who fought with wild dogs for half a moldy biscuit.]

[He remembered when he was on the verge of starving to death...]

[...and was captured by a slave-hunting party of the Heart-Eroding Cult and taken to a dark, sunless stronghold.]

[As fresh blood selected through screening...]

[...he underwent inhumane brainwashing and training.]

[But from that day on, he was able to eat his fill.]

[So he resolved to climb upward; he wanted to become a man above others!]

[For this goal, he abandoned all humanity.]

[He learned betrayal; he learned sacrifice.]

[He framed the Senior who had promoted him.]

[He slaughtered countless innocent refugees.]

[Stepping over piles of white bones...]

[...he used any means necessary to climb to the highest position in the Heart-Eroding Cult.]

[A few months ago, he finally made a Breakthrough to the Mountain-Sea Realm.]

[He became the Cult Leader.]

[He was full of ambition, wanting to lead the Sacred Cult back to the center of the Federation.]

[He wanted to make all people in the world crawl at his feet.]

[But now...]

[In the face of absolute power...]

[Tianxin seemed to have returned to his childhood.]

[Still just as powerless.]

["Boom!"]

[Tianxin's body was like it had been hit by a cannonball.]

[He was sent flying backward.]

[Smashing the Black Bone Throne that symbolized the Cult Leader's authority.]

[He fell unconscious amidst a pile of rubble.]

[His body and soul were silent.]

[However, Grandmaster Zhao Zongtian did not deliver a killing blow.]

[A living Mountain-Sea Realm cult leader...]

[...was worth far more than a corpse.]

[Keeping him alive would be of great use.]

[However, while Grandmaster Zhao Zongtian was 'gentle' toward Tianxin...]

[...toward the other high-ranking members on the altar...]

[...he was not nearly so polite.]

["Enemy attack!"]

["Protect the Cult Leader!"]

["Run!!!"]

["Escape, quickly!"]

[It wasn't until Tianxin was sent flying by a single punch...]

[...that the high-ranking members of the Heart-Eroding Cult around the altar finally snapped out of it.]

[But this group of high-ranking cultists...]

[...had completely different reactions at this moment.]

[Savage Bone, Mian Sui, Wan Tong, and the others...]

[...saw Tianxin being attacked.]

[The first thing they thought of was not to go and help at all.]

[Instead, they frantically activated their Qi...]

[...and fled in all directions!]

[Tianxin was in the Mountain-Sea Realm.]

[Even Tianxin was sent flying by one punch.]

[Wouldn't they just be going to their deaths?]

[Of course, it wasn't that there were no loyalists.]

[Singing Bird, Qing Gui, Chi Lei, and You Mei.]

[These four confidants, who had been personally promoted by Tianxin...]

[...roared in anger upon seeing the Cult Leader attacked.]

[They lunged toward Grandmaster Zhao Zongtian from four different directions.]

[But in the eyes of a Great Grandmaster...]

[...whether they wanted to run or fight for their lives...]

[...they only had one status.]

["Dead men."]

[Grandmaster Zhao Zongtian stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes cold.]

[At some point, he had already dropped his disguise.]

[Restoring his original appearance with white hair and beard...]

[...and an immortal, transcendent air.]

["Freeze."]

[He simply uttered a single word.]

[In the next second...]

[...whether it was Mian Sui's group who were about to smash through the ceiling to escape...]

[...or the four led by Singing Bird who had already rushed to within ten meters of Grandmaster Zhao Zongtian...]

[...all of them seemed to have been hit by a pause button.]

[They froze mid-air.]

[Grandmaster Zhao Zongtian raised his hand and waved.]

["Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang..."]

[A series of hair-raising muffled sounds erupted.]

[These Soaring Realm Martial Artists who usually acted with such arrogance...]

[...their upper bodies instantly exploded.]

[Clouds of thick blood mist bloomed in mid-air.]

[Mutilated limbs and fragments of internal organs...]

[...fell like a rain of blood.]

[Scattered in all directions, splattering around the altar.]

[Amidst the rain of blood, Grandmaster Zhao Zongtian did not activate his protective Qi to block it.]

[He allowed that filthy, sinful blood...]

[...to splatter onto his spotless white training clothes.]

[It dyed his white hair and long beard red.]

[As a Shentong Realm Martial Artist...]

[...making it so not a single drop of blood touched him was as easy as turning over his hand.]

[But he didn't.]

[He wanted to drink his enemies' blood to his heart's content.]

[He wanted to use this room full of crimson...]

[...to offer a sacrifice to the countless comrades who had died one after another at the hands of the cult for the peace of the Human Race!]

[Blood debts can only be paid with blood.]

[After cleaning up these small fry...]

[...Grandmaster Zhao Zongtian walked slowly toward the unconscious Tianxin in the ruins.]

[He lifted him up like a dead dog...]

[...grabbing Tianxin by the neck.]

[He held him up.]

[Just then...]

["Buzz!!!"]

[The ongoing "Blood Shadow Life Replacement" ritual...]

[...because the altar had absorbed a large amount of Martial Artists' essence and blood...]

[...was operating at its Peak on its own!]

[However, the person standing in the center of the altar receiving the baptism...]

[...had changed from Grandmaster Zhao Zongtian to the Heart-Eroding Cult Leader, Tianxin, who was being held in mid-air.]

[As the intensity of the eerie whispers from the void reached its highest point...]

[...a blood-colored crystal also appeared in the center of the altar.]

[It floated upward.]

[Emitting an extremely evil and chaotic aura.]

[At the same time...]

[...directly above the altar...]

[...space was torn open.]

[Three giant blood-colored pupils covered in bloody patterns...]

[...abruptly appeared on the dome above.]

[The Avatar of the "Myriad Ages Pure Eye Burning Body God" had descended!]