The Ghost Market Undergoes a Shocking Change, Chaos Reveals Its Power

Two dark energy chains tore through the air, carrying biting cold and the screeching sound of corroding space, instantly reaching Nightmare!

Before the chains arrived, a powerful binding force had already descended, attempting to seal off all his space for evasion!

Onlookers in the Ghost Market gasped, as if they had already seen the tragic sight of Nightmare being entangled by the chains, his bones dissolved and flesh melted.

The fierce reputation of the Eshi Yue Organization in Qingyang City had long been deeply ingrained in people's hearts!

However, facing this sudden, lethal siege, Nightmare's expression was as cold as eternal ice.

He didn't even look at the two chains, instead triggering the pigeon-egg-sized Chaos Seed within his body!

The dao seed spun at an unprecedented speed, and an aura of Chaos, ignorance, capable of containing all things and annihilating all things, permeated from within his body!

The space around him seemed to twist and blur because of this!

"Binding?" A trace of disdain flashed in Nightmare's eyes.

The Dao of Chaos transcends all laws; how could it be bound by mere energy chains?

Just as the chains were about to touch his body, he triggered the divine rhythm of the void lotus seed, his figure moving like a ghost, performing a subtle, extreme shift within a square inch in a way that defied common sense, almost like spatial teleportation!

Puff! Puff!

The two energy chains grazed his clothes and slammed into a stone wall behind him!

That wall, built of hard bluestone, was instantly corroded, leaving two huge holes, the edges sizzling and emitting black smoke!

"What?!"

The pupils of the two Eshi Yue members contracted sharply, their faces filled with disbelief!

Their combined attack, perfectly coordinated, was powerful enough to severely injure or even instantly kill a Cultivator of the same stage, yet it had been avoided by the opponent so nonchalantly?!

A hint of suspicion flashed in the eyes of the Eshi Yue leader at the Early Golden Core Stage, but it was immediately replaced by deeper killing intent: "He really has some tricks! Attack together, take him down!"

He no longer underestimated his opponent, and with a thought, a short blade burning with black flames appeared in his hand.

The blade was twisted, emitting an evil aura that made one's Divine Soul tremble!

He moved, appearing on Nightmare's left side as if teleporting, the short blade thrusting directly at Nightmare's temple!

The speed was far beyond that of his two subordinates!

At the same time, the other two Eshi Yue members again channeled dark energy, transforming it into countless fine black needles, covering all of Nightmare's possible escape routes like a rainstorm!

A three-sided attack, sealing the heavens and earth!

The all-out siege of one Early Golden Core Stage expert and two Peak Late Foundation Establishment Stage experts in this narrow Ghost Market alley had almost formed a dead-end trap!

Nightmare's expression remained calm and waveless.

His mind operated at high speed, and the combat deduction module of the primal cube instantly analyzed the attack trajectories, energy intensity, and even the subtle habitual preferences of the three!

If there was no way to avoid, then... don't avoid!

He triggered the Chaos Seed, condensing all the chaos qi flow he had just recovered onto his fists!

At the same time, he simulated the trace of the "existence continuation" guardian Dao Rhyme he had comprehended while confronting the Remnant Soul of the Demon Ancestor, integrating it into his fist momentum!

He did not choose to defend; instead, he chose to attack as a form of defense!

Facing the rain of black needles attacking from the front, he triggered the Dao Rhyme of Annihilation and threw out his left fist!

On the fist, gray chaos qi flow condensed.

Wherever it passed, those sharp black needles melted and annihilated like ice meeting the sun!

He had actually used pure Power of Annihilation to forcefully blast open a path!

Facing the pincer attack of the Eshi Yue leader's short blade from the right and the other member's chain from the left, he triggered the vitality and guardian Dao Rhyme of the World Tree, his right fist drawing a perfect arc.

The chaos qi flow condensed in front of him into a constantly rotating, birthing and dying Chaos vortex!

Clang! Sizzle!

The black-flame-burning short blade and the dark chains hit the Chaos vortex almost simultaneously!

The violent explosion he had expected did not happen!

The Chaos vortex was like a bottomless black hole; the black flames on the short blade and the corrosive energy on the chains were forcibly pulled, decomposed, and devoured the moment they touched the vortex!

Only the physical impact of the short blade and chains was transmitted, but it was layered and weakened by the guardian Dao Rhyme and spatial unloading characteristics contained in the vortex!

Nightmare's body shook slightly, his face turning pale, and a sharp pain came from his Divine Soul; taking a hit from an Early Golden Core Stage expert head-on was a significant burden for him.

But he had taken it after all!

Furthermore, through the devouring of the Chaos vortex, he clearly captured the operating method and core weakness of the opponent's energy!

"How is this possible?!" The Eshi Yue leader was shocked!

This "Soul-Eating Blade" was a treasure bestowed by the organization, specialized in injuring Divine Souls and corroding spiritual energy, yet it had been blocked by the opponent's strange vortex?

It even felt like it was being devoured?!

Just as he was shaken, his old power exhausted and new power not yet generated—

Nightmare moved!

He locked onto the Late Foundation Establishment Stage member who had just finished releasing the black needles and was in a state of brief recovery!

He triggered a portion of the Eshi Yue energy he had just devoured, mixed with his own Dao Rhyme of Annihilation, simulating an aura that was extremely similar to the Eshi Yue attack but even colder and more treacherous, transforming it into an invisible mental spike that arrived first despite being launched later, instantly sinking into that member's Sea of Consciousness!

"Ugh, ah!"

The member's body stiffened suddenly, letting out a shrill scream, black blood oozing from his seven orifices, the light in his eyes instantly dissipating, and he fell straight down!

His Divine Soul had completely shattered under Nightmare's mental attack, which contained the true meaning of Annihilation and the characteristics of Eclipse Moon!

A feint to the east and an attack to the west, killing one person in an instant!

All this happened in the blink of an eye!

It was not until the member fell that the Eshi Yue leader and the other member reacted!

"Old Four!" The other member's eyes were splitting with rage.

The Eshi Yue leader was even more shocked and angry.

He did not expect the opponent to be so ruthless and decisive, and his strength to be so weird and unpredictable!

"You're courting death!" The Eshi Yue leader was completely enraged, the dark energy around his body erupting like a volcano, and the black flames on the short blade suddenly shot up several feet, ready to unleash a stronger killer move!

However, Nightmare's expression was cold; would he give him another chance?

While killing one person in an instant, he had already locked onto a weak node of the Ghost Market's illusion array!

That was a place he had noticed when he sneaked in just now!

Triggering the divine rhythm of the void lotus seed and the power of the Chaos Seed, he punched fiercely at the seemingly ordinary stone wall beside him!

On his fist, chaos qi flow and spatial power intertwined!

Crack!

The stone wall shattered in response, revealing the twisted space passage behind it!

It was exactly one of the exits of the Ghost Market!

"Want to leave? Leave the fragment behind!" The Eshi Yue leader roared, the Soul-Eating Blade turning into a black lightning bolt, stabbing directly at Nightmare's back!

Nightmare didn't even look back, triggering his power, mixing a portion of the Eshi Yue energy he had just devoured with his own Dao Rhyme of Annihilation, and throwing a Chaos-colored energy ball backward!

Boom!

The energy ball collided with the Soul-Eating Blade, erupting with a chaotic shockwave!

The Power of Annihilation and Eshi Yue energy contained in the energy ball conflicted and annihilated each other, producing an extremely unstable explosion, which not only blocked the Soul-Eating Blade but also blew the debris in the alley flying everywhere, smoke and dust filling the air!

Taking this opportunity, Nightmare flashed and plunged into the space passage, disappearing!

"Chase! He can't run far! Notify the sentry points outside the city, seal off the northwest direction!" The Eshi Yue leader was trembling with anger, waving away the smoke and dust, looking at the empty passage entrance, and shouting sternly at the surviving subordinate.

He swept his gaze over the subordinate on the ground whose Divine Soul had been destroyed, and then recalled Nightmare's weird and unpredictable methods, especially the explosion mixed with his own power at the end, and a chill could not help but rise in his heart.

This person must not be left alive! That fragment must be retrieved!

This short and intense conflict in the Ghost Market was like a stone thrown into a calm lake, quickly spreading in the undercurrents of Qingyang City.

News of a mysterious expert, carrying a great treasure, clashing head-on with the Eshi Yue Organization and killing one of its members before escaping, began to circulate in certain secret channels.

At this moment, Nightmare had already appeared in a piece of abandoned residential area on the south side of Qingyang City through the temporarily opened passage.

His expression moved slightly, confirming that no pursuers had immediately followed, and then he locked onto the northwest direction coordinates pointed out by the fragment, without the slightest hesitation, his figure turning into a faint phantom, merging into the night, and galloping toward the outside of the city.

The half-fragment in his arms still emitted a cold touch.

The secret of the Eshi Yue Organization outside the city was about to be revealed to him.