A burnt-looking black arm stretched out from the crack in the second heaven and grasped the black lotus field.
The lotus burning with black flames suddenly shattered, and two figures flew out from it and crashed into the ruins of Tianxuan Mountain.
"What is this?" Kong Xuan was shocked.
There were rustling pieces of ash falling from the burnt arm. After the ash fell, the ground below seemed to be infected by a curse and suddenly lost its color. The flowers, plants and trees withered, and the houses and buildings collapsed. Several disciples of Beitianmen who did not have time to escape stood there in horror, and were soon turned into wasteland.
"This thing is devouring vitality, get out of here quickly." Mo Yan suddenly said.
Li Changan's brows jumped.
"What the hell is this? The Taiyi Taoist from Beitianmen? Why does it only have one hand?"
Yes, what appeared in everyone's sight was only an arm, a black arm that looked as if it had been burnt. However, this severed arm easily broke through the black lotus field of the Wheel King and devoured large tracts of vitality.
Li Changan sensitively noticed that with the appearance of this severed hand, the vitality in his body began to dissipate uncontrollably, and the source of all this was this severed hand.
In the distant sky, the King of the Underworld narrowed his eyes and stared at the severed hand that appeared, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.
"What's going on? How can this severed hand have the aura of Taiyi Taoist?"
As he spoke, he looked up at the third heaven of Tianxuan Mountain, and a strange look flashed in his eyes.
"Could this be the arm of Taoist Taiyi... Rumor has it that after experiencing the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, Taoist Taiyi was burned to death by cursed fire and disappeared. Could it be that he sneaked into Beizhou to recuperate? To avoid the Five Decays of Heaven and Man?"
"Then... what role does Emperor Ziwei play? Tsk tsk, interesting..."
The Chakravartin slowly raised a smile, suppressed the fear in his eyes, and withdrew, as if melting, and disappeared into nothingness again.
In the second heaven, a layer of haze appeared at some point, like the ashes left after a piece of burnt paper, floating down from the air.
Anything that was contaminated by this ash lost its vitality in an instant, as if the source of life had been extracted, and turned into dust in the blink of an eye.
After just a few breaths, the entire Second Heaven turned into a gray and dead place, as if even the original spiritual energy of Tianxuan Mountain had been drained away.
"This thing is very evil, everyone be careful." Li Changan said vigilantly. Although he had been invincible for ten breaths, he didn't think he would use the protection of the ancient fairyland once a year in this place.
And the opponent is still a ghost thing that no one knows what it is.
"I seem to have heard of this kind of burnt ashes!" Xing Tian stood in front of Li Changan with an unusually solemn expression.
"In addition to those who transcend tribulations and ascend to heaven without hindrance in the Central Saint Continent, there are also many practitioners who follow the path of the sage. However, the practice of the sage path is very much subject to the constraints of the Heavenly Dao. Basically, every progress is inevitably tested by the Heavenly Dao. The most famous and terrifying of these tests is the legendary Five Degenerations of the Celestial Being."
Xing Tian lowered his voice and said, "Among the five signs of decline, there's the Heavenly Fire Tribulation, which corresponds to the decline of the body. This arm looks very similar to the saint who suffered the Heavenly Fire Tribulation in the legend. It's hard to say...it's a certain saint."
saint!
Li Changan felt a sting in his chest and almost choked to death.
Damn it, in the past thousand years of Beizhou, where has there been any saints? Aside from Zong Baiye, who had just entered the path of sainthood, there was only that perverted Li Jiuzhong left. Many people had survived the tribulation in Beitianmen over the past thousand years, but I'd never heard of anyone surviving.
If he is not from Beitianmen, then... he is most likely a saint from Zhongshengzhou.
"Damn, we can't stay here for long. Brothers, the wind is blowing!"
Li Changan was about to drop his post and run away, but he saw Xing Tian standing there stupidly, and a fanatical aura of kingship arose spontaneously.
Li Changan jumped up and slapped him on the forehead, "Are you fucking mentally ill? If you want to die, don't take me with you. You idiot, don't even consider the situation."
Xing Tian scratched his head and turned around reluctantly, but at this moment, the severed hand that had crushed the black lotus field suddenly opened its five fingers and grabbed towards Xing Tian.
The space solidified in an instant, and layers of space fragments peeled off and collapsed from the void. Li Changan lost control of his body in an instant and flew towards the black broken hand.
"Shit, we're done for!" Li Changan shouted. The next moment, Xing Tian stomped his foot into the air, creating a thud as if he were stepping on the ground. The men who had been dragged towards the severed hand were suddenly freed from his control.
"Seventh and Eighth Brothers, take the eldest brother away first, and leave this to me and Fourth Brother!" Xing Tian said.
Kong Xuan transformed into a huge Mingwang Peacock, swallowed Li Changan in one gulp, and turned to escape. Sun Wukong hesitated for a moment and wanted to help Xingtian, but after thinking about it, he gave up and turned around to chase Kong Xuan.
Mo Yan frowned, and the black mole mark between his eyebrows flickered with a halo of light. "Seventh sister, you leave here first, I'll stay and take a look!"
Li nodded, "Then be careful."
As he spoke, he turned around and transformed into a huge fire-winged bird, flying away from the second heaven.
There are four people still staying in the ruins of the Second Heaven: Xing Tian, Hou Yi, Mo Yan, and Qing Xuan who has not left and is lingering not far away.
After this battle, Beitianmen lost six of the Eight Heavenly Kings and two of the four Hedao Tianzuns, leaving only Qingxuan and Taiyi. The disciples below the Anti-Void Realm did not suffer much loss, but the foundation of Beitianmen was mostly damaged, and these disciples of low realms could no longer play any role.
"Over the years, the inheritance of saints in Northern Continent has been mostly broken, but it is undeniable that the way of saints, like the way of immortals, is superior to the order of practitioners in Northern Continent. If this severed hand really came from a saint in Central Saint Continent, then its power is probably beyond our imagination."
Houyi looked solemn, and the power of the stars gathered in his hands, turning into a bright silver longbow.
Xing Tian stood on the other side, suspended in the air, holding upside down a pitch-black battle axe in his right hand, carrying an extremely heavy pressure.
On the other side, a huge black Qilin phantom appeared behind Mo Yan, its deep pupils staring at the black severed hand.
"I did learn some information about the cultivation of saints from my father. The way of saints draws upon the strength of all living beings to cultivate. The manifestation of all living beings is the way of heaven. Therefore, the way of saints can easily cause the backlash of heaven. It can almost be said that every step brings a disaster, every step brings a calamity."
"Every saint who survives the catastrophe of the Heavenly Dao is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Those who can survive the Five Degenerations of Heavenly Beings are definitely the best among saints, comparable to immortals. So if this severed hand is truly the body of a saint who has experienced the Five Degenerations of Heavenly Beings, then even if the three of us join forces, we will hardly be a match."
Hou Yi grinned, "How do you know you can't win if you haven't fought before?"
Mo Yan looked at his two brothers with defiant expressions, and after a long while he chuckled, "That's right, since it looks like we can't escape anyway, we might as well give it a try, the methods of a saint!"
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