Chapter 553 (2/2)

The area within 100 li fell into a state of silence. The Ghost King slowly condensed parts of the mountain in order to recover, while the Third Prince focused his concentration, trying to recover his physical body.

There was no sight of the ten great Elders. It was as if they had all made their escape.

Fang Xingjian frowned and said, “If I don’t get the Origin Essence Stone, then I can only wipe out your entire Terrene Shrine, removing it from history.”

Now that things had come down to this with him being discovered so early, Fang Xingjian no longer planned on keeping himself hidden. He could only force the other party to abide. Anyway, the Terrene Shrine had a horrible reputation, thus Fang Xingjian would have no burden in the least to be using force against a faction like this.

The Worm King’s feeble voice rang out from all directions. Fang Xingjian could sense that the voice was coming from many bugs, that were so small they were hard to be seen by the naked eye. He had no idea where the Worm King’s actual body was.

“Fang Xingjian, you’re not allowed to even scrape off some powder off the Origin Essence Stone, let alone take one gram of it with you. Don’t be too arrogant. This is our Terrene Shrine’s headquarters. Do you really think that you can have the upper hand?”

Fang Xingjian let out a cold laugh and punched out. Violent sword force pushed the air, turning into a sword Qi that was several tens of li in length, and it moved out in all directions. The voice-transmitting bugs that had been hiding in the air were all crushed.

“Your leader—the World Annihilation Heavenly Lord—isn’t even here. Just with the few of you being so useless… What can you possibly do to me?”

Although Fang Xingjian’s words were extremely arrogant, each of his nerves were extremely tensed up. He was constantly on guard against the possible retaliation from the Terrene Shrine.

It was almost at the same moment when Fang Xingjian finished speaking when a sigh rang out from the sky.

“Who said that I’m not here?”

In the first instance when this line was spoken, a wave of gray light encompassed Fang Xingjian’s body. It came gushing with an aura that seemed as if it wanted to engulf the world, nurture the world, engulf all living things, and nurture all living things.

Benevolent and brutal, blood-thirsty and pure, kind and evil… Waves of contradicting auras weaved together, giving Fang Xingjian an extremely majestic and mighty feeling. It was as if this was how the world truly was like.

Fang Xingjian could faintly see a gigantic wild beast in the air. It was as if the entire world was on its shoulder.

This was the visualization of the image of the god—the World Annihilation Colossal Beast—that the Gray Robed Mages revered. It was a god that was said in the legends to have carried the entire world on its back.

When this wave of aura came surging forth from the gray light, Fang Xingjian’s entire consciousness was almost entirely frozen, causing his power to be completely suppressed.

‘The World Annihilation Heavenly Lord? The power of his will is ten times or even a hundred times more powerful than Li Shuanghua’s. This is the power of the strongest person amongst the Gray Robed Mages?

‘He completely turned the gushes of immense diabolic energy into the power of his own will. After the world’s metamorphosis, accompanied by the sudden rise in diabolic energy and how powerful he was to begin with… as well as having accumulated the experience of thousands or ten thousands of years of the Terrene Shrine, his powers have also risen sharply. To think that he’s actually able to slightly suppress the power of my physical body?’

However, at the next moment, a sword intent that was sharp and seemed as if it could slash through everything rose in Fang Xingjian’s body. It was the Heaven’s Volition Sword Intent.

Tearing sounds rang out as Fang Xingjian broke out from the confinement. However, as he did so, a gigantic black snake that was as majestic as a mountain range slithered out from void space. With strong vital energy and blood which were like tsunamis from the seas, it completely wrapped around Fang Xingjian and the entire massif that was in his hand.