This place was completely unfamiliar to Lin Xiao, and it was definitely not the Domain of Evil. There was no sunlight at all inside the Domain of Evil.
“Did we charge straight out of the Domain of Evil?”
Lin Xiao muttered to himself.
Every time a strange phenomenon occurred, there was a chance of breaking out from the Domain of Evil. This time, the giant infant Mo Luo had directly shattered space, so they had indeed escaped from the domain.
He simply had no idea exactly where they had emerged.
“I wonder how Senior Brother Long Tutian is doing…” Remembering that they had entered Death White Rock together over a year ago, worry rose in Lin Xiao’s heart. If Long Tutian had not stayed behind for his sake, he would never have needed to face the Ji family’s Rivers and Mountains State Cauldron.
After the Ji family’s Grand Elder performed a blood sacrifice upon the Rivers and Mountains State Cauldron, its power had become utterly terrifying. Knowing he could not withstand it, Long Tutian had sent Lin Xiao into Death White Rock. After that, Long Tutian himself had been trapped.
Lin Xiao could hardly imagine what had become of Long Tutian after being confined by that cauldron.
Given Long Tutian’s talent, the Ji family would certainly have seized the chance to eliminate him.
At this thought, Lin Xiao’s fists clenched involuntarily. A trace of killing intent flashed in his eyes as he spat coldly, “Ji family!”
Only after a long while did he slowly relax his hands and pull himself together. He swept his gaze around and said, “The Continental Spirit Controller Grand Competition is only three months away. The most urgent task now is to hurry to Canglong Gate and find out what has happened to Senior Brother Long!”
With that, he glanced at the rising sun, roughly calculated the direction, and shot off toward one side.
Yet barely had Lin Xiao flown any distance when a voice rang out. “There’s a human here!”
The words had scarcely left the speaker’s mouth when more than a dozen figures sped out from ahead and blocked Lin Xiao’s path.
Immediately after, the figures spread out and surrounded him completely.
At their head was a young man in cyan clothes, seemingly just over twenty years old and standing fully seven or eight chi tall, a good deal taller than ordinary people.
The cultivation he radiated had reached Eighth Layer Martial Emperor.
Most strikingly, the young man’s face and all exposed skin were cyan in colour, and even his eyes were cyan without any visible black pupils.
He looked distinctly unusual.
The others were either burly giants or short and stocky, none of them resembling normal humans.
Their cultivation levels ranged between Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Layer Martial Emperor.
Lin Xiao swept his gaze across the crowd that had suddenly surrounded him, frowned slightly, and asked, “Who are you people? Why are you blocking my way?”
Upon hearing this, the leading cyan-clothed youth flew into a rage. “Hmph! You come to our beast clan territory to steal things, and you still dare ask who we are? Die!”
Without further ado, the youth attacked. He thrust his palm forward, and a cyan beam of light transformed into a razor-sharp sword that stabbed straight toward Lin Xiao’s heart.
Lin Xiao’s expression turned icy, cold light flashing in his eyes.
From their appearance, these people were clearly spirit beasts that had taken human form. He had no idea what had happened here, but the moment they saw he was human, they attacked to kill.
In that case, he would show no courtesy either. An Eighth Layer Martial Emperor was nothing in his eyes.
Boom! Lin Xiao casually threw a punch. A chaotic fist beam erupted, instantly shattering the opponent’s attack and piercing straight through the cyan youth’s chest.
Pfft!
Cyan blood sprayed out. A bloody hole had been punched clean through the youth’s chest.
“What?”
Shock filled the cyan youth’s face. He looked down in disbelief at his own chest.
This human youth before him also appeared only just over twenty. Humans of that age were completely different from spirit beasts who had assumed human shape, yet his strength was actually this terrifying?
The other transformed spirit beasts were equally stunned.
The strength of this human youth far exceeded their expectations. He had casually punched a hole straight through their leader.
“Get him!”
At that moment, the cyan youth roared in fury. Cyan flesh rapidly grew over the hole in his chest, healing in moments.
“Hmm?”
Lin Xiao was shocked. He had punched clean through the chest and destroyed the heart, yet the opponent had not died?
Instead, the wound had healed?
The heart had even regrown?
What kind of spirit beast possessed such ability?
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
At that instant, numerous figures charged at Lin Xiao from close range. Each moved like a ferocious beast, their physical bodies evidently extremely powerful. Wielding swords and blades, the group slashed wildly at him.
Sssk!
Lin Xiao instantly activated the Heaven Devouring Art. An enormous vortex of black, cyan, and blue formed above his head. Terrifying violent thunder energy, incinerating energy, and devouring energy surged out at once. The surrounding temperature shot up immediately.
All the figures slashing toward him were instantly sucked into the massive devouring vortex.
“Ah!”
“No!”
…Screams of terror rang out. One figure after another was swallowed into the vortex. With several muffled thuds, the entire group was consecutively devoured and incinerated, vanishing completely inside the vortex.
“You are from the Tianluo Spirit Snail Clan?
No, the Tianluo Spirit Snail does not possess devouring power. Just who are you?”
Ahead, the only one who had not attacked, the cyan-clothed youth, revealed an expression of horror. He cried out in alarm while erupting with tremendous power and retreating explosively backward, avoiding being drawn into the vortex.
“Tianluo Spirit Snail Clan?”
Lin Xiao was puzzled. He had never heard of such a race.
He also had no idea what spirit beast lineage the other party was talking about.
Still, it clearly had something to do with spirit snails.
Snails were a type of insect. Very few could cultivate into spirit insects, let alone form an entire spirit beast race.
So what exactly was this Tianluo Spirit Snail Clan?
Could it be an extremely powerful spirit beast race?
He had never heard of this race in this region either. Was it because he had spent too little time in Yang Province and knew too little about the Central Continent?
Whoosh!
At that moment, Lin Xiao shot forward. His speed exploded as he rapidly closed in on the cyan youth. Spiritual awareness surged out and poured directly into the youth’s mind.
However, Lin Xiao’s spiritual awareness was only equivalent to a mid-seventh-grade spirit controller. Although there was an element of surprise, it was still insufficient to control the mind of an Eighth Layer Martial Emperor.
The opponent’s energy shook and scattered the spiritual awareness.
“You, you’re a spirit controller! You’re from the Tantai family!”
The cyan youth cried out again in shock, simultaneously throwing a heavy punch toward Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao met it with his own fist. Bang!
The impact sent the cyan youth crashing downward into the ground, smashing a huge crater. The resulting dust cloud overturned and destroyed the surrounding trees.
“The Tantai family?”
Bewilderment appeared in Lin Xiao’s eyes.
He naturally knew of the Tantai family. It was one of the eight great clans of the entire Central Continent, on equal footing with the Ji family.
Yet the eight great clans each dominated one province. Yang Province belonged to the Ji family. As competing powers of the same level, they would never permit the Tantai family to establish a foothold here. He had never heard of any Tantai branch in Yang Province either.
Why then, the moment this youth learned he was a spirit controller, did he immediately assume he belonged to the Tantai family?
Rather than Spirit Phoenix Valley or some other force?
“I need to ask him properly!”
Feeling that something was amiss, Lin Xiao instantly charged downward toward the youth in the crater. He reached out and clamped his hand around the other’s throat.
At the same time, spiritual force enveloped the youth’s body, preventing him from counterattacking quickly.
“Tell me, where is this place?”
Lin Xiao gripped the throat tightly and demanded coldly.
“This place… you don’t know where this is?”
Surprise appeared on the cyan youth’s face.
“Speak!”
Lin Xiao tightened his grip further. Cracking sounds came from the youth’s throat.
“I’ll talk, I’ll talk!”
The youth hurriedly cried out.
