Jiang Xuan pleaded.
Jiang Chengye remained silent for a moment.
"Brother Chengye, are you going to abandon me again?"
Zhongli let the black heart drift closer, speaking as if questioning, yet also as if lamenting.
Jiang Chengye gazed at the black heart that seemed to constantly waver between him and Jiang Xuan, then after a moment of silence, he suddenly smiled at Jiang Xuan and whispered in a voice only they could hear:
"It's alright, it'll be over soon. Once I become a Martial King, it will all be over, and nothing... will be able to control me anymore."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Chengye suddenly grabbed the black heart and swallowed it without hesitation.
The sky suddenly darkened.
Jiang Chengye froze in place, and he lowered his head slightly.
Skull.
An invisible atmosphere of oppression began to permeate the space between heaven and earth.
Everyone instinctively took a step back, because a chilling aura was awakening within Jiang Chengye.
That aura far surpassed the one Jiang Chengye had previously displayed, and it was still rising.
"Brother Chengye... um!"
Zhongli sensed the terrifying aura, but revealed a look of joy.
She took a step forward, but her voice trailed off as a trembling hand gripped her throat tightly.
The skin on that arm kept breaking and healing, with tiny black lightning bolts faintly visible within... Jiang Chengye's arm.
He gripped Zhongli's neck tightly and slowly raised his head.
"hiss……"
When everyone saw Jiang Chengye's appearance, they all gasped in shock.
What kind of eyes were those?
Dark, violent, cruel, twisted... it was as if all the negative energy that had just drifted away from the black heart had been transferred to those eyes at this moment.
A cruel smile appeared on Jiang Chengye's lips, and then his palm instantly pierced through Zhongli's chest and abdomen.
Zhong Li, with an incredulous look in his eyes, struggled desperately, even emanating a vast aura of stars from his body, but he had no power to resist in Jiang Chengye's hands.
Boom!
Jiang Chengye casually tossed Zhong Li, who was as broken as a rag doll, and Zhong Li's body immediately sank into the ground like a cannonball, becoming motionless.
Then, Jiang Chengye slowly turned his head, his cold eyes sweeping across the entire room.
"Run! Run now!"
Someone shouted, and panic instantly spread throughout the area.
No words were needed; Jiang Chengye's murderous gaze said it all.
Even Zhongli, who was already a king, could not stop him; all the others combined would only face certain death.
"I knew it... What are you all still looking at? Get out of here!"
Cheng Qingqing had warned Zhong Li long ago, and seeing that the situation was indeed out of control, she couldn't help but curse. Turning her head, she saw that Qu Bai and the others were staring at her blankly, and she couldn't help but get angry.
"No... Professor Cheng, where is Shen Qian?" Qu Bai asked, puzzled.
Cheng Qingqing, who had just helped the dazed Ji Ruoshui up, was taken aback upon hearing this. She then turned her head abruptly and saw that the monkey was also scratching its head and looking around in confusion, as if to say that it was here just before it sank.
Before anyone could find Shen Qian's figure, the space within a thousand meters around Yaochi Palace suddenly distorted in mid-air.
"Oh no!"
Cheng Qingqing's expression suddenly changed.
"This is……"
Although Qu Bai and the others did not understand why, they also felt the omnipresent and terrifying sense of oppression.
In a daze, a feeling of being like an ant appeared in everyone's mind, as if they could be easily crushed at any moment. This was utterly absurd for martial artists at the Mountain and Sea Realm, but it was indeed present at this moment.
"A domain, the domain of a Great Emperor."
Cheng Qingqing's expression changed several times, and she said quietly, "We can't leave... No one can leave."
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