"Third tier? How surprisingly naive." Fang Xiu glanced at him calmly and said indifferently, "Do you really think you're the only one who has received an upgrade to the Heart of Forbidden Demons?"
"Oh?" Lu Ziming smiled darkly. "Judging from what you're saying, it seems you've broken through to the fourth rank? Is that all the confidence you have? So what if you're at the fourth rank? I'm at the fifth rank!!"
The light of his soul shone ever brighter, making him appear like the blazing sun, illuminating the burial site.
"Below the fifth rank, all are ants, and you, at the fourth rank, are nothing more than a slightly larger ant!"
boom!
An aura of unparalleled dominance emanated from him, rising at a visible speed, so powerful that it shattered the countless snakes and strange creatures that filled the sky.
Just then, Lu Ziming made a grasping motion in the air, and a sword light formed from the light of his mind appeared in his hand. Faintly, a sword cry that resounded throughout the heavens and earth seemed to ring out.
He pointed his sword at Fang Xiu, his eyes blazing with murderous intent.
The next second, Lu Ziming's figure suddenly transformed into a dazzling sword light, rushing towards Fang Xiu at lightning speed.
The monstrous army of Taotie stood before him like an abyss, but he neither dodged nor evaded, instead slashing horizontally with his sword. A hundred-foot-long sword aura soared into the sky, as dazzling as the rising sun.
Night, air, gray fog, eeriness—all were severed by this single sword strike, the extreme sword light illuminating the burial ground.
Whoosh!
A flash of sword light.
The first Taotie that blocked his way had its chest ripped open, leaving a horrific wound.
But this terrifying injury was nothing more than a tickle to Taotie. Before the sword light had even dissipated, the rotting flesh on Taotie's chest began to wriggle and heal, and it was almost completely healed in the blink of an eye.
In the burial ground, the Taotie is immortal.
This wasn't the first time Lu Ziming had fought Fang Xiu, so he was well aware of Taotie's immortality, and what he needed to do was not to kill Taotie at all.
Taking advantage of the moment when Taotie's wound was healing, he transformed into a sword light and suddenly burst out of Taotie's wound, constantly approaching Fang Xiu.
He unleashed a frenzied barrage of sword energy, ravaging the Taotie's body, then weaving through the wounds to rapidly close the distance between himself and Fang Xiu, his eyes burning with an increasingly fierce ruthlessness.
One gluttonous beast, two, three...
Lu Ziming's momentum was unstoppable, like a shooting star streaking across the sky.
"Fang Xiu! I'm going to make you watch as I slowly rip out your heart!" Lu Ziming stared at Fang Xiu, who was less than ten feet tall, his face contorted with rage and cruelty.
However, Fang Xiu remained calm as he watched Lu Ziming rapidly approach.
Suddenly, he spoke, his calm voice ringing out.
"Not bad, they are qualified to be knowledgeable in my field."
Upon obtaining the power of the Forbidden Heart, he had already used this power to break through the bottleneck of the third tier and successfully advance to the fourth tier.
The bottleneck that he had been unable to break through even after devouring countless strange creatures was easily overcome with the help of the Heart of Forbidden Strange Creatures.
The Heart of Forbidden Ghosts holds a very high rank. While not as high as the Ghost God, it far surpasses S-rank, and may even be above S-rank. Moreover, this is only a part of the Forbidden Ghosts. If compared to the classification of Spirit Masters, the true level of the Forbidden Ghosts is probably seventh rank!
A flash of anger crossed Lu Ziming's eyes: "Arrogant!"
He suddenly thrust his sword out, aiming straight for Fang Xiu's heart.
Seeing the sword light constantly approaching, Fang Xiu couldn't help but curl a sinister smile into his lips.
His lips moved slightly, and his calm voice resounded throughout the heavens and earth: "Expand your domain."
boom!
Dark, painful spiritual energy surged from his body, and endless black flames rose, transforming into a grotesque mask and black fire wings. His silver hair cascaded down his back, and his right eye burned with intense blood-red light.
The next moment, everything changed, and the void twisted.
Above the sky, a blood-red moon slowly rose. If you looked closely, you would find that it was not a blood moon at all, but a huge blood-red eye.
Under the glow of blood, endless black fire scorched the earth and spread wildly. And within this endless black fire, a terrifying phantom of hell rose from the ground and slowly took shape.
Inside, countless eerie shadows howl silently, and endless instruments of torture are scattered throughout. There are also mountains of knives and seas of fire, suspended by silver ropes, grinding stones of flesh and blood, bridges for souls, and mountains of corpses and seas of blood...
It was a scene of hell; just one glance was enough to fill one with boundless fear, and stepping inside was even more unbearable, with a suffocating despair washing over you.
Even though Lu Ziming had experienced years of killing in the burial ground, the moment he entered Fang Xiu's domain, his once unstoppable longsword suddenly stopped, his eyes reflected the boundless black fire, and an indescribable extreme fear swept over his entire body, causing him to stand frozen on the spot.
At that moment, he was like a mortal who had mistakenly entered hell, filled with fear and dread.
However, the most terrifying part was yet to come. Deep within this hellish place, where endless black fire raged, terrifying figures slowly emerged.
They were none other than a series of eerie gods!
Taotie, the God of Happiness, angels, Buddha...
Those terrifying and monstrous gods that once stood high in the sky seemed to have all descended to earth, and indescribable babbling rang out wildly, spreading an absolute pressure that seemed to come from higher-dimensional beings.
In this contrast, the so-called eerie paradise's burial grounds seem as beautiful as a paradise.
If the burial grounds are hell on earth, then Fang Xiu's domain is hell within hell.
"What...what is this?!" Lu Ziming roared in disbelief, his eyes filled with horror, and he felt a chill run through his body as if he had fallen into hell.
At this moment, surrounded by a group of strange gods, Fang Xiu's sinister smile widened. He flapped his wings slightly, rose from the ground, and stood in the void, his eyes filled with ferocity and violence.
Hehehe........
Welcome to...Avici Hell!
In an instant, his terrifying, sinister laughter echoed throughout hell. Against the backdrop of hell and the monstrous god, Fang Xiu seemed like the lord of the monstrous god, looking down upon all living beings.
What is the Avici Hell?
The Avici Hell is the eighteenth level of hell.
The instruments of torture include forks and clubs, eagles, snakes, wolves, and dogs; mortars, pestles, saws, chisels, files, cauldrons, boiling water; iron nets and ropes; iron donkeys and iron horses; raw leather bindings around the head; hot iron poured over the body; swallowing iron balls when hungry; drinking molten iron when thirsty; from year to year, through countless eons, the suffering continues without interruption, hence the name Avici (uninterrupted).
The Avici Hell only accepts the most wicked.
In the Avici Hell, there is never any hope of liberation. There is no other feeling except suffering, and the suffering is endless, without interruption of body, time, or form. Day and night, one dies and is reborn countless times, and one cannot even find a moment's respite.
"The Infernal Abyss!? This is your domain? How is this possible!" Lu Ziming's mind was shaken, his face filled with horror: "How could you, a mere fourth-tier cultivator, possibly unleash a domain even more terrifying than the Burial Ground?!"
This is impossible! Absolutely impossible!
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