"We must bring back the hope of our evil cultivators!" Qi Chong commanded the evil cultivators.

After setting out to hunt down the escaped evil cultivators, the evil cultivators also went berserk and suddenly rushed out of the base.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

"Protect our clan's treasures!"

"Dominate the cultivation world!"

The five divine beasts and the cultivators did not take this small number of evil cultivators seriously.

"A bunch of worthless scoundrels, still daydreaming. I'm here to wake you up and make you face reality!" Bai Yi glanced at the group of evil cultivators who rushed out.

Whether they were injected with adrenaline or stimulated by something, the heretical cultivators acted as if they didn't care about their lives.

Other heretical cultivators are one thing, but Qi Chong's ten near-god-like heretical cultivators are really troublesome.

The sounds of battle erupted once again.

While the fighting was raging on one side, another battle began on the other.

The number of people surrounding and attacking that evil cultivator was even greater than the number of people fighting against the hundreds of evil cultivators, all knowing that that evil cultivator was of paramount importance.

The pursuers met, and the evil cultivator was surrounded.

The cultivators from the cultivation world and the phantoms from the transitional realm completely surrounded the evil cultivator, and even Xuan Ye, the strongest among the five divine beasts, was there.

Their gazes fell simultaneously on the furnace in the evil cultivator's hands, locking onto their target.

The evil cultivator held the furnace to his chest and tapped it repeatedly, watching with amusement the crowd surrounding him.

There was no panic in his expression; his eyes even showed a hint of contempt.

"The treasures of my evil cultivator clan are now complete. Do you think you can stop me?"

"Even if you can leave, you must leave the furnace in your hands!" Xuan Ye's expression was unusually serious.

The evil cultivator sneered, "Go ahead and try!"

He channeled spiritual energy into the furnace in his hand, causing the pale black gas emanating from it to multiply and spread rapidly.

At the same time, everyone around them launched a sudden attack!

The evil cultivator kept dodging the overwhelming attacks, but showed no intention of attacking, seemingly waiting for the "treasure" in his hand to come into play.

When the black energy came into contact with the cultivators' bodies, a corrosive pain instantly came. After only a moment of contact, it had already corroded away a layer of skin!

Xuan Ye frowned; the pain was almost identical to the pain caused by the strange gas earlier.

The difference is that the corrosiveness of this black energy is many times stronger, and it no longer targets only them, but everyone!

He immediately used Shen Sangruo's fire seed, but the flame shield only existed around him for a moment before being swallowed up by the black mist.

No matter how strong the strange gas was before, it shouldn't have been able to completely engulf Shen Sangruo's flames.

It should be noted that her flames are incredibly effective against objects of evil nature, yet they were instead engulfed by this black aura.

What exactly is this black mist, and how terrifying is it?

Xuan Ye's face scrunched up, as if he realized something was wrong.

In a short while, the black mist spread and enveloped their entire area. Even though it was only a thin layer, it corroded a layer off everyone present.

If they hadn't used their spiritual power to control the bleeding, they would all have been covered in blood.

This black aura is very strange; it can be said to be ubiquitous, able to penetrate and spread no matter what magical artifacts they use to defend themselves.

They can even be transported to the transitional realm through phantom images, directly corrupting the ancestors' true forms.

Once you're hooked, it's hard to shake off.

Unseen by them, even the plants beneath their feet were being corroded, and black mist seeped through the soil, engulfing every living thing it could touch.

"What the hell is this thing?!"

The evil cultivator's smile grew even more arrogant. "Nothing special, nothing special, hahaha!"

Shen Sangruo and the others on the third line of defense could only see a dark mass in the distance, which gradually enveloped them all.

The black mist thickened, making it almost impossible to see anything within it.

"What's going on ahead? I can't see anything!" Song Weiyan said anxiously.

She frowned, and with a thought, a feather fan appeared in her hand, ready to try to dispel the black mist with flames.

Those black wisps were not simple; they were likely similar to the eerie gas, but even more powerful.

If this is the evil cultivator's last trump card, then will her ability to extinguish the flames of evil be a turning point?

Her mind was filled with countless thoughts, and the sea of ​​fire stretched out along with them.

However, the flames were instantly swallowed up by the black mist the moment they touched it, and all the flames remained only on a very shallow layer on the surface of the black mist.

This was something that had never happened before when facing strange gas. Not only could she not clear the black gas, her flames couldn't even penetrate it.

As if directly blocked by the black energy, her flames could not shake the black energy in the slightest.

Her thoughts came to an abrupt halt as the flames stopped. Shen Sangruo's expression froze for a moment before becoming unusually solemn.

"this……"

Upon seeing this scene, Ye Huai and the others all showed expressions of disbelief, as if they had witnessed something unbelievable.

For a moment, I didn't know what to say.

“My flames have no effect on that black mist,” she said, frowning as she spoke each word carefully.

She could sense that it did have some effect, but it was extremely minimal.

It was much weaker than when the demonic energy was first removed from Qi Yan's body.

It's no exaggeration to say that a small amount would be enough for her to burn for decades.

Compared to the endless stream of black energy, her flames were utterly inadequate.

His gaze was fixed on the black mist, his face as if covered with a layer of frost.

The faces of everyone present turned extremely grim. Apart from Shen Sangruo's flames, they couldn't think of anything else that could deal with the gas in the hands of the evil cultivator.

If even her flames are useless...

They seemed to have anticipated what would happen next.

The fate of the cultivation world is moving closer to its predetermined trajectory, and no matter how hard they try, they cannot stop it.

Shen Sanruo stroked the feather fan, mentally estimating the intensity of the black energy.

Judging from what just happened, even if she reaches the Integration Stage, her flames will probably only be able to touch this black energy.

With the help of the dark energy, after a fierce battle, the encirclement was gradually broken.

The crowd could only watch helplessly as the evil cultivators broke through the encirclement. They simply couldn't hold on any longer in the black mist; their hands were corroded, revealing their bare bones.

Even if they were unwilling, they could only retreat to heal their wounds.

Thus, the heretical cultivator soon met up with the other heretical cultivators who were there to meet him, bringing with him the furnace.

Qi Chong stood amidst the black mist, his arrogant laughter amplified by spiritual energy and reaching everyone's ears.

"Could you stop it? Could you possibly stop it?! In the end, the furnace returned to my hands!"

"You can't stop it, just like the fate of the cultivation world. You try every method and fight desperately to the end, but you still can't change it!"

"I'm giving you one day. Run now, and you might die a little later!"

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