132: To exterminate them all? What do you think?

Chen Nian hovered in the air above the square.

Below him, thousands of Eternal Life Cult members surrounded a massive altar in the center, built from unknown bones.

At the top of the altar, an enormous, still-thumping heart emitted a nauseating blood-red glow.

Crimson energy lines extended from the cultists, merging into the heart; every pulse caused the space of the entire square to tremble.

Chen Nian did not hide his aura.

Or rather, he simply didn't deign to hide it.

A pressure as vast as an abyss descended instantly—heavy, viscous, carrying the decay of death and the chill of slaughter, overbearingly squeezing every atom in this space.

"Buzz—!"

The massive heart jolted violently, the energy lines feeding it instantly became chaotic, and all the cultists let out a muffled groan as the ritual was forced to an end.

Sharp screams tore through the scene.

"Who's there!"

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

Chaos broke out below, with panicked cries rising and falling.

Beside the altar, a High Priest wearing a bone crown and holding a scepter suddenly looked up, his clouded eyes locking onto Chen Nian in mid-air.

His chest heaved violently, clearly shaken by the sudden turn of events and the terrifying pressure.

"Who dares to intrude upon the Holy Domain?!"

The High Priest shouted sternly, trying to use the volume of his voice to mask his inner terror.

However, Chen Nian didn't even look at him.

His gaze fell with interest on the ugly heart on the altar, as if he were admiring a ridiculous piece of art.

"Tsk."

He clicked his tongue softly.

"You made such a big scene just to nurture such an ugly thing?"

Chen Nian sneered contemptuously.

"The aesthetics of your Eternal Life Cult are truly... hard to describe."

He completely ignored the High Priest's questioning; that towering rage was no different from thin air in his eyes.

"You're looking for death!"

The High Priest had never suffered such humiliation. He pointed his bone scepter at Chen Nian, and two clusters of eerie green flames ignited in the eyes of the skull atop it.

"Kill him! Use his flesh and blood as a sacrifice to My Lord!"

He roared his orders.

But Chen Nian didn't even give him the chance to continue his performance.

Before the fanatical cultists below could react, he simply gave a bored, casual wave of his hand.

The movement was nonchalant, like shooing away an annoying fly.

Nether Shock, activated!

In an instant, several bursts of eerie green energy, so powerful they made the heart skip a beat, erupted from his hand.

Carrying an aura of total annihilation, they accurately blasted toward the Eternal Life Cult members at the perimeter of the altar who were attempting to charge.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Accompanied by several earth-shattering explosions, the cultists and the hard ground beneath them were instantly blown to pieces wherever the energy passed.

Several massive, charred craters appeared instantly, their edges flickering with eerie green energy that continued to corrode and decompose the surrounding matter.

The entire square fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone was scared out of their wits by this god-like strike.

The cultists, who had been filled with righteous indignation just a moment ago, were now frozen in place, not daring to move an inch.

Fear spread through the crowd like a plague.

"You... who on earth are you?"

The High Priest's voice was dry, carrying an uncontrollable tremor.

He finally realized that the person who had intruded today was an existence they completely could not understand or contend with.

Only then did Chen Nian lazily shift his gaze from the heart and look directly at this high-ranking member of the Eternal Life Cult for the first time.

"Who I am is not something you are worthy of knowing."

"You all just need to wait for death obediently."

His words were plain, yet they carried an unquestionable arrogance.

These words were even more insulting than the world-destroying strike from before.

"Arrogant!"

"Fight him!"

"For the Lord of Eternal Life!"

Several cultists, who seemed to be Little Leaders, were provoked into a savage frenzy. Their eyes turned blood-red, and energy fluctuations far exceeding those of ordinary cultists erupted from their bodies as they turned into several streaks of light charging at Chen Nian.

Eerie Bone Armor surfaced on their bodies, and their power surged step by step under the stimulation of Secret Techniques.

"Overestimating yourselves."

Chen Nian didn't even bother to move a finger.

He just calmly watched the charging figures.

However, before they could even get within a hundred meters of Chen Nian, an invisible force field suddenly appeared.

Those elite cultists seemed to slam into an invisible wall, their charging momentum coming to an abrupt halt.

Next, Chen Nian simply clenched his hand, and golden energy instantly erupted, enveloping those Eternal Life Cult members.

In the next second, their bodies began to twist and fold in an extremely bizarre manner.

The sound of bones shattering was clearly audible, and their flesh was squeezed into a mass by the invisible force.

Finally, with a bang, they instantly exploded into several clouds of blood mist, completely swallowed by the golden energy field.

From beginning to end, Chen Nian hadn't moved an inch from his position.

He hovered there like an indifferent monarch, looking down at the death struggles of ants.

"Anyone else want to try?"

There was a hint of playfulness in his words.

This time, no one dared to move.

In the square of thousands, one could hear a pin drop.

It was a despair that reached the very marrow of their bones.

The High Priest's body was trembling violently as he looked at Chen Nian, his eyes full of horror.

"Who exactly are you?"

"In my memory, we have no grievances or enmity with you. Why would you resort to such a cruel hand!"

"What exactly is the issue between the Eternal Life Cult and Your Excellency?!"

The High Priest finally couldn't take it anymore.

He issued a stern questioning, trying to seek a reason—even if it was just one that would let him die with his eyes closed.

"An issue?"

Chen Nian laughed contemptuously, as if he had heard an extremely ridiculous joke.

"You sent a bunch of small fry to block me and even tried to kill me with a trash Formation."

"Is that reason enough?"

"Boom—!"

These words were like a bolt of thunder from the Nine Heavens, striking hard on the High Priest's skull.

His mind went blank, and the blood in his body seemed to freeze at this moment.

Blocking... Formation... these keywords linked together, instantly pointing to a name that made him incredulous and chilled to the bone.

The peerless Genius who had been repeatedly mentioned by the Cult Leader and several Elders, regarded as the ultimate target that must be recruited.

The mysterious powerhouse who was said to have single-handedly stirred up all of Donghai City.

Chen Nian!

It turns out he is Chen Nian!

The High Priest's body swayed violently, almost tumbling down from the side of the altar.

No wonder—no wonder he was so powerful and so unscrupulous.

It turned out that the one they had provoked was a true god or demon.

The High Priest's heart was filled with endless regret and fear. He opened his mouth but couldn't say a single word.

Looking at it now, all that talk of recruitment and offering great rewards had become a massive joke.

The other party simply hadn't taken the Eternal Life Cult seriously; from the very beginning, he had come for a settlement.

His chest heaved violently, and despair was like a vine, tightly strangling his heart.

"Are you really... really going to exterminate us all?"

He used the last of his strength to squeeze out this dry inquiry.

Perhaps there was still a sliver of a chance.

A one-in-a-ten-thousand chance to beg for mercy.

Chen Nian looked at his pitiful and pathetic state, and the curve of his lips grew even wider.

What answered him was not words.

But action.

Chen Nian waved his hand casually again, like dusting off a speck from his sleeve.

Several more bursts of eerie green Nether Shock erupted.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The sounds of explosions rose and fell, merging into one.

A large number of Eternal Life Cult members were instantly blown to dust before they could even let out a scream.

However, after doing all this, Chen Nian only spoke lazily, as if answering a boring question.

"What do you think?"