272: A bunch of useless bastards who only know how to bare their teeth.

"Boom—!"

A noisy clamor filled with a tyrannical Aura.

Accompanied by dense and heavy footsteps.

Like a tide, it surged from the dark passages deep within the stronghold!

Before the figures arrived, their voices reached first!

Various roars filled with hostility already made the entire cave hum:

"What's going on?! What happened at the outpost?! Why has the life-force signature disappeared?!"

"Such a strong smell of blood! Is there an enemy invasion?!"

"Which blind fool dares to run wild on our turf?!"

"No matter who it is, anyone who dares to trespass into the Abyss's restricted area will have their Soul extracted and refined, tortured for ten thousand years!"

"Catch the intruder! We must not let him escape!"

These voices were filled with shock, rage, irritability, and an extreme killing intent from having their authority offended!

Clearly, the commotion Chen Nian made at the entrance had completely alerted the Demonic Evil forces inside the stronghold!

Soon, accompanied by violent tremors in the ground and a foul wind brought by the Evil Energy shockwaves.

A dense crowd of Demonic Evils swarmed out from the three main passages, instantly filling the area!

There were hundreds of them!

These newly appeared Demonic Evils were clearly much more elite than the previous guards!

They were larger and more hideous, their bodies covered in thick bone armor or shimmering scales, their claws and teeth sharp, and their eyes burning with flames of cruelty and tyranny.

Their Auras generally reached the fifth or sixth tier.

Among them, there were even a dozen figures whose energy fluctuations had reached the Seventh-Tier!

Leading them was a Evil Spirit Commander over three meters tall, covered in dark purple crystal armor, with curved horns on its head, holding a giant axe burning with green evil flames!

Its Aura was as deep as an Abyss, already reaching the Seventh-Tier!

As soon as they arrived, that terrifying evil Aura unique to high-tier Demonic Evils.

Swept out like a physical tsunami, diluting much of the bloody smell in the air.

The temperature inside the entire cave dropped abruptly.

The light seemed to be swallowed by the dense Evil Energy, becoming dim and oppressive!

However, when they saw the scene before them—

All the Demonic Evils, including the Soul-Rending Demon General, froze in place as if they had been collectively hit by a binding spell!

Their scarlet, dark green, and pale pupils contracted violently at the same moment!

The reflected scene caused their brains to completely crash as they tried to process the image that far exceeded their expectations!

A mountain of corpses! A sea of blood! An Asura slaughterhouse!

At the entrance of the cave, the ground was already completely soaked with thick, dark red blood, leaving almost nowhere to step!

Shattered internal organs, broken bones, and twisted limbs were everywhere; some pieces of meat were even still twitching slightly!

The thick, inseparable smell of blood and the stench of dissipated Evil Energy mixed into a nauseating chill that struck straight at the Soul!

And what terrified them even more was—

In the center of that pool of blood, several hideous heads had rolled!

One of them was the head of the Abyssal Emissary who had been ordered to go out and contact the Shadow Worship Cult!

The frozen, extreme fear and pain on its face.

Like the most vicious curse, it stung the eyes of every Demonic Evil!

All dead!

All the guards stationed at the entrance, including that Abyssal Emissary, had actually been slaughtered in such a short time, leaving no intact corpses!

How was this an invasion?

This was clearly a crushing massacre, suffocatingly efficient and outrageously cruel!

"This... how is this possible?!" A Sixth-Tier Demonic Evil minor leader exclaimed, its voice distorted by extreme horror.

"Lord Emissary... and all the guards... wiped out?!" another Demonic Evil's voice trembled.

The extreme shock and confusion doused their aggressive Aura like ice-cold water!

However, this deathly shock lasted for less than two seconds.

When their gazes bypassed the severed limbs and pools of blood to lock onto the only standing figure, which was completely out of place in this hellish scene—

All the shock and confusion were instantly replaced by a surge of rage!

A human?

Only one human?

A plain-looking young human wearing ridiculous casual clothes?

Was it he who caused this Asura-like scene?

How is that possible?!

Absurd! Ridiculous! Unbelievable!

The Soul-Rending Demon General's pupils, burning with green ghost fire, locked tightly onto Chen Nian.

He let out a roar mixed with rage and killing intent:

"Was it you? Did you kill our kin and destroy the outpost here?!"

It couldn't accept that the one who caused such terrifying results was actually such an ordinary-looking human!

This was simply the greatest insult to it, to their stronghold, and to the entire Abyss!

The other Demonic Evils also snapped out of their shock, letting out even more frenzied roars and threats:

"You bastard! What despicable methods did you use?!"

"How dare you break into our Abyss stronghold alone and slaughter our warriors! You have some nerve!"

"No matter who you are, you're dead today! We will extract your Soul and burn it with Demonic Fire for ten thousand years!"

"Kill him! Avenge our fallen kin!"

The Demonic Evils were incensed, their Evil Energy soaring as if they wanted to skin Chen Nian alive and devour him!

However, under the gaze of over a hundred ferocious eyes, Chen Nian merely lightly brushed the dust off his sleeves.

He lifted his eyelids, his gaze sweeping over the aggressive army of Demonic Evils.

Finally, it landed on the leading Soul-Rending Demon General. A curve of extreme contempt formed at the corner of his mouth as he spoke flatly:

"After making such a huge commotion, I thought some decent characters had arrived."

"Turns out, it's just another bunch of trash that only knows how to bare their teeth?"

His voice wasn't loud, but it clearly drowned out all the roars and reached the ears of every Demonic Evil.

It was filled with unconcealed disdain and disappointment.

Upon hearing this, the Soul-Rending Demon General instantly flew into a rage, feeling an unprecedented and ultimate humiliation!

"Arrogant ant! You dare to talk big when death is at your doorstep!"

It suddenly raised its giant axe burning with green flames, pointed it at Chen Nian from afar, and let out a heaven-shaking roar:

"Attack! Capture him alive! This general will personally crush his bones inch by inch and extract his Soul to use as a Sky Lantern!"

"Let him taste what it means to wish he were dead!"

With the command, the already impatient Demonic Evils immediately let out frenzied roars!

"Kill!!!"

The leading dozen or so fifth and Sixth-Tier Demonic Evil leaders, like mad dogs off their leashes, were the first to erupt!

They simply did not believe.

That a human, surrounded by so many high-tier Demonic Evils, could still stir up any trouble.

The guards and the Abyssal Emissary from earlier must have been hit by some insidious sneak attack or scheme!

They pushed their full Evil Energy, turning into various colored ferocious light streaks.

Unleashing their strongest attacks, they lunged at Chen Nian from different directions!