Fiend-God, Terror, He Isn't Human!

Collapsed limply on the ground, staring at the impassive Huang Tian, the Bishop was utterly overwhelmed with disbelief. He could not comprehend it. They were both at the Combat Master realm—how could the man have crippled half his body with a single punch? It made no sense at all! Under normal circumstances, shouldn't they have exchanged dozens of blows back and forth before unleashing their ultimate techniques to decide victory in a final strike? His head buzzed. Suddenly remembering something, he coughed up a mouthful of blood and rasped slowly, "How... did you find this place?" Seeing that Huang Tian remained silent, he gave a sneering chuckle. "Heh, are you actually afraid of a dying man?" Huang Tian glanced down at him. "Right now, you're trying to stall for time by talking, hoping for the void passage to finish forming, aren't you?" The Bishop froze. That was indeed precisely what he had been thinking— After a moment of silence, he looked at Huang Tian in bewilderment. "Since you know, why haven't you moved to destroy the ritual?" Huang Tian couldn't be bothered to reply. He merely tilted his head back, examining the blood-red pillar of light. The Bishop was puzzled, yet secretly delighted. Although he had no idea why Huang Tian had not wrecked the ritual or what the man was scheming, none of that mattered. What mattered was that in just over three minutes, once the passage fully took shape, the Feast Lord's kin would descend! When that time came— He stole a glance at Huang Tian, venom flashing in his eyes. *Just a few more minutes, and you will be torn apart and devoured!* Whoosh... The blood-colored pillar of light in the sky rippled, solidifying more and more. Seconds ticked into minutes. Finally, with a resonant hum, the void passage fully materialized, radiating bursts of bloody light in all directions! "It's over!" "We won't make it in time!" Speeding in their vehicles toward the site, Yuan Gang, Chen Mengzhu, and the others looked out at the distant beam of light spanning the night sky, their hearts trembling. Even though they had mentally prepared themselves, despair still welled up unbidden at the sight of the passage taking shape. "Is the entirety of Baidi City really going to become a living hell...?" In the abandoned factory. The Bishop, who had been holding his breath with cautious restraint, suddenly erupted into mad laughter, coughing up blood as he laughed. Raising his only remaining left hand, he pointed at Huang Tian. "Though I don't know—*cough, cough*—what you were thinking, standing by and watching our Lord's kin descend... it doesn't matter anymore! Now, you die! Everyone in Baidi City dies! A magnificent, splendid flesh feast of hundreds of thousands of people is right before our eyes!!" Amid his frantic laughter, directly beneath the void passage, the air began to ripple. The ripples multiplied rapidly, and suddenly, the blood-red light blazed with blinding intensity! A figure squeezed its way out of the passage. When it hit the ground, a heavy thud resonated, making the earth shudder slightly. Standing 2.3 meters tall, it possessed a humanoid frame covered in dark green skin and fine, dense scales. Its head resembled a lizard's, its split maw filled with needle-sharp teeth. Its aura was exceptionally dense and heavy, no weaker than the uninjured Bishop's had been—plainly a kin at the Combat Master realm! It drew a deep breath, its chest swelling exaggeratedly, before letting out a hearty laugh. "The fresh aroma of flesh and blood!" As it spoke, its eyes greedily swept over the surroundings. "So delectable—" The words cut off abruptly. Because a fist was already smashing forward like lightning! Too fast! Its eyes widened in horror. It instinctively tried to raise its arms to block, but it was already far too late. The fist slammed squarely into the center of its chest, unloading a surging torrent of power directly into its body. *Splat!* A bowl-sized bloody cavity blew open across its chest, spraying pulverized bone, shredded organs, and blood into the air. The light vanished from its eyes in an instant. Its body swayed before toppling backward stiffly. *Thud!* The corpse hit the ground, kicking up a plume of dust. Huang Tian withdrew his fist and flicked the blood off his hand, looking as casual as if he had merely swatted a mosquito. "Roar—!" More guttural roars echoed from within the passage as three monsters squeezed out almost simultaneously. One gripped a massive bone hammer; another had fleshy wings on its back; the third bore curved horns atop its head. The moment they landed, they saw their companion's corpse—and Huang Tian standing beside it. "Kill him!" The horned monster bellowed, and all three kin lunged forward at once. The hammer-wielding monster reached him first, swinging the colossal bone hammer toward Huang Tian's head with howling wind. Huang Tian did not dodge; he merely raised his left forearm horizontally above his head. *Clang!* When the bone hammer struck his arm, it produced a sound like colliding metal. Huang Tian's sleeve tore open to reveal bronze-colored skin—flawless, without so much as a red mark. Bewilderment flickered in the monster's eyes. In that split second, Huang Tian raised his right fist and drove it out. A shockwave rolled forth, the displaced air wailing in agony. *Boom!* The hammer-wielding monster flew sideways, slamming straight into a wall and shattering it into dozens of fissures. Its head drooped, its limbs twitched, and the light in its eyes rapidly dimmed. By then, the horned monster's charge had arrived. Lowering its head, it aimed its twin horns at Huang Tian's waist and abdomen. Every step left a deep footprint in the concrete as it accelerated into an afterimage, the fierce gale kicking up crushed stones that showered outward like shrapnel. Huang Tian's expression remained unchanged. Sinking slightly into his stance, he pressed his right palm downward, slamming it squarely between the two horns and bringing the beast to a dead halt. Then, his five fingers clamped shut. *Crack, snap!* The sound of fracturing skull rang out. The hardened horns snapped, and brain matter mingled with blood gushed forth. The monster shuddered violently a few times before finally going limp. *Whoosh—* The winged monster had already vaulted into midair, sweeping behind Huang Tian. It dove down ferociously, its hooked talons glinting with eerie blue light as they aimed straight for the back of his neck! Huang Tian spun, his left leg whipping out like a steel lash! The sweep was so blisteringly fast that it tore a rolling wake of white vapor through the air, blurring into an afterimage. *Bang!* The instep of his foot lashed brutally into the winged monster's right ribs. The moment impact occurred, it was as though an ancient primordial beast had slammed into it head-on. The creature shot away in a straight line, smashing straight through a high wall. Bricks and masonry erupted like artillery shrapnel, sending a cloud of dust billowing toward the sky. "Ugh..." It struggled to crawl to its feet, but the right half of its body had been kicked into pulp. Blood welled from its mouth as its eyes fixed upon Huang Tian walking through the hole in the wall, filled with sheer terror. "Wait... We can..." it rasped, trying to communicate. Huang Tian stepped up before it and looked down. Moonlight slanted through the roof, illuminating his blood-flecked face, which remained as serene as ever. Then, he raised his foot and stomped down viciously! *Splat!* Bones snapped, flesh and blood splattered, and its heart burst, quickly pooling into a thick, sticky puddle on the ground. "Impossible... How could he be this strong?!" The Bishop, watching from the sidelines, fell into a daze. He mumbled under his breath, scarcely daring to believe his eyes. Four consecutive Combat Master realm kin hadn't even lasted ten seconds against Huang Tian. How was this normal?! *Hum, buzz...* Right then, the ripples of the void passage intensified abruptly, and the Bishop's eyes lit up. This was the sign of a Martial Grandmaster realm kin descending! Whoosh— A few seconds later, a figure slowly stepped out from the passage. It was also humanoid, but taller—a full 2.6 meters tall. Its skin was deep purple, devoid of scales, clad instead in a suit of black armor. A scimitar hung at its waist, the blade gleaming with cold light. "What a beautiful planet. Let me, Udi, for our Lord—" Before it could finish speaking, it fell silent. It had spotted the blood-soaked corpses on the ground. Instantly alert, its hand fell to the hilt of its blade, its gaze fixing coldly on Huang Tian. "You killed them?" The moment those words left its lips, it drew its scimitar. The blade gleamed bright as the moon, sweeping with biting frost as it cleaved straight down toward Huang Tian. Facing the descending blade-light, Huang Tian's frame shifted. His body suddenly expanded and surged upward, bones popping loudly, tendons snapping taut, muscles rolling and undulating like dragons and serpents. Under his deep-bronze skin, veins writhed and knotted like living things. His heartbeat thundered with heavy power, the muscles across his shoulders and back bulging like layered cliffs, exuding an aesthetic of slaughter! In the blink of an eye, a terrifying figure three meters tall stood towering within the factory! Huang Tian reached out with his left palm, meeting the snow-white blade. *Clack!* The blade was stopped dead in its tracks. It failed to cut even a fraction into his flesh; not a single drop of blood welled up. Udi's heart seized in shock. It tried to wrench the scimitar back to strike again, but the blade was firmly locked in Huang Tian's grip, unable to budge. "If your strength were just a little bit greater, you might have managed to scratch me," Huang Tian remarked calmly. His right hand snapped into a fist, clenching with an explosive pop. Then he reared back and drove a brutal punch straight toward Udi's face! The punch was not blindingly fast, but wherever the fist passed, the air was compressed and evacuated, detonating a succession of white shockwave rings. Backdraft surged in reverse, setting Huang Tian's black hair dancing wildly. "Aaargh!" Udi had no time to dodge. It could only roar madly, release the hilt, and cross its arms before its face in defense. *Boom!* The fist crashed solidly against its forearms, sending its entire body flying backward through the air. Huang Tian sprang upward like a roc spreading its wings, leaping ten meters into the sky. Arriving ahead of the flying monster, he plummeted downward toward Udi like a falling meteorite! "No—!" Terror flooded Udi's eyes. It tried desperately to evade, but before it could make a move, Huang Tian's feet slammed onto its chest, violently stomping it into the earth! *Rumble!* With Udi at the epicenter, the ground fractured like a spiderweb, cracks spreading outward for hundreds, even thousands of meters. The entire factory shuddered violently; iron gates clanged and rattled, and walls already leaning in ruin collapsed with a crash, kicking up dense plumes of dust! Its upper torso was completely trampled into the ground. Its lower body remained relatively intact thanks to the armor's protection, but it was battered with injuries, blood pouring from the joints of the plate. It was not dead yet. A kin at the Martial Grandmaster realm possessed exceptionally stubborn vitality. Huang Tian stepped off its body and stood beside it, gazing down. Udi tried to say something, but when it opened its mouth, only ragged wheezes escaped; it couldn't articulate a single word. Huang Tian gave it no further chance to speak. With another heavy punch, he hammered straight down onto the head sunk into the earth! *Thud!* The ground shook once more. Udi's head burst open like a shattered gourd, brain matter splattering as eyeballs and blood sprayed outward. Its body twitched reflexively a few times, then went completely still. Flicking the brain matter and blood from his hand, Huang Tian straightened up. His towering frame stood like a colossal deity, looking all the more terrifying and awe-inspiring under the moonlight. *Buzz...* Just then, movement came from the void passage once more. A Combat Master realm kin squeezed out, letting out an obsequious, fawning laugh the instant it emerged. "Lord Udi! I'm here! Lord Ud—" Its laughter choked off. It stared blankly at Huang Tian, who stood like a fiend-god, and then glanced at the corpse crushed into the earth. It recognized that armor all too well—it was the very armor worn by Lord Udi. Which meant... "Lord Udi is dead!" Its eyes bugged out, its expression freezing on its face. "Feiya, get out of the way!" Behind it, a single-horned monster squeezed out as well, clamoring as it shoved Feiya's shoulder. "There are others coming through from behind! Why are you blocking the way?" "I... I want to go back," Feiya stammered, trembling all over. The single-horned monster sneered. "Don't tell me you're scared? Lord Udi has everything covered! Besides, this passage is one-way. You couldn't go back even if you wanted to! Come on, move!" Feiya's body stiffened as he slowly stepped aside. Only then did the single-horned monster get a look at their surroundings—and froze. "That corpse... isn't Lord Udi, is it?" it murmured as if sleepwalking. "I... think it is," Feiya replied in utter despair. Even the mighty Lord Udi was dead; what chance did they have of surviving? The three-meter-tall monster before them clearly looked like a creature driven by pure bloodlust— Meeting Feiya's terrified gaze, Huang Tian grinned, his teeth sharp as blades and gleaming chillingly. He stepped forward, closing the distance to the two of them as if teleporting. Under their horrified stares, he reached out with both hands, clamping onto their heads. Palms the size of cattail leaf fans completely covered their heads, his fingers curling shut. "Don't... don't kill me—" "If you dare kill us, our Lord won't spare you!" Feiya and his companion flailed frantically, but Huang Tian's arms did not budge in the slightest. His muscles swelled as he lifted them slowly until their feet dangled off the ground. *Squelch-crack!* Like watermelons crushed in giant pincers, their heads ruptured simultaneously. Brain matter mixed with bone fragments and blood leaked through Huang Tian's fingers. He opened his hands, letting the two limp corpses slump to the ground. "Impossible... Impossible..." Not far away, the Bishop repeated those words over and over, feeling as if tonight were a nightmare, as if he were trapped in a dream. Otherwise, how could a Combat Master possibly kill a Martial Grandmaster and multiple Combat Masters in just a few moves? It was absurd beyond belief. Yet whether it was the gruesome spectacle before his eyes or the pungent stench of blood assaulting his nostrils, everything told him this was reality—this was genuinely happening! He turned his head to look at Huang Tian guarding the exit of the void passage, finally guessing why the man hadn't destroyed the ritual earlier. This man believed that by his strength alone, he could slaughter every single kin that descended— *A lunatic! He's an utter lunatic!* Who but a lunatic would take such an insane gamble?! He was facing the kin of a supreme deity, not some petty rabble! After cursing furiously in his heart, the Bishop suddenly fell silent. Because judging by the power Huang Tian had displayed so far, it seemed... he really might... just might be able to camp the spawn and butcher them all?!!