Reverend Lantian didn’t hear the mand to kill him. By the time he sensed danger, eight House Yumo specters were already surrounding and attacking him!
"Everyone, there's no need for this...." Reverend Lantian was stunned on the spot.
The specters didn’t listen to a word he said, and one attack from each of them left Reverend Lantian as a corpse floating in the Outer Yin.
"What if someone stronger shows up?" After the murder, some of the other specters were a bit uneasy.
"We'll play it by ear. Kill whoever we can! The fewer people who know, the better." Reverend Xiaogui was also angry. Killing someone hadn’t eased the frustration of not being able to go in after being the first to discover it. The more he thought about it, the more aggrieved he became.
No one else showed up for the next three hours. The yin-yang essence storm was truly a perfect cover, concealing even such a large metal planet.
After squatting for so long, Reverend Xiaogui couldn’t hold back any longer. He stood up and said, "You all stay here and continue guarding. I’ll just go in a little to take a quick look, then e right back."
"That...." The other reverends frowned.
"Don’t follow me in. You’ll regret it if I find out!" Reverend Xiaogui didn’t wait for their response and immediately slipped into the darkness.
"Fine!" The seven remaining reverends exchanged helpless glances. There was a large gap in status between sixth- and seventh-level foundationeers. Reverend Xiaogui’s life was worth more than all of theirs bined, unless they could also break through.
But in reality, they had reached their limit in life and were unlikely to advance any further.
As they idly chatted, their conversations gradually turned sarcastic.
"He’d better not let greed get him killed in there."
"People die for wealth, just like birds die for food. This is the Outer Yin, where countless eminents have perished. How brave of those three to risk their lives for some merits...."
Most of their thoughts were kept to brief glances, as they dared not openly speak due to the possible presence of spies.
"Wait, what’s this?" One of the reverends picked something up from the ground. He applied some force and crushed an invisible object in his hand, revealing a silver lump that resembled a silver cockroach.
"Strange, I’ve seen these invisible metal bugs in Myriadpath Valley before."
"Why’re they here?"
The group was suddenly unnerved.
The yin-yang essence storm in the tunnel wasn’t that intense, allowing Yin Chen to send smaller bodies inside. From start to finish, Tianming had been observing their every move.
He had also been heading in the same direction, guided by the flower. He even knew that the massive steel planet had appeared because he had unlocked the crystal coffin. It just so happened that a group of House Yumo members had been nearby when it emerged.
As the specters began searching for the little bugs, a cloud of purple mist suddenly rushed in, forming a figure that stood before them!
"The Mistrunner!" they screamed in shock, their faces paling.
Yin Chen’s exploration of the steel planet was far from plete, so Tianming had to quickly deal with the nuisances to give it time to infiltrate further.
I’d have had some trouble if you all stayed together. But you split into three groups just to treasure hunt! Tianming inwardly smirked. The fools were courting death, so they had no one else to blame! He unleashed his full power and charged right into the crowd.
"Capture him and it’ll be a great achievement!" Despite their initial shock, one reverend actually grew excited. They all used their skyghoul transformations, entering a fierce confrontation with Tianming. There were seven sixth-level foundationeer reverends!
I’ll kill two first to create a flaw! Tianming had Ying Huo and the others shield him from attacks while he targeted one reverend. Meow Meow’s Fiveway Blitzrun was extremely effective in group battles, easily positioning Tianming behind his target. His black-and-gold sword light flashed, instantly killing his target with the blindingly fast Grandvoid pendium and Xiaozhi Sword Art.
Once the first fell, the second would soon follow in his footsteps.
Tianming’s speed and dexterity overwhelmed the House Yumo specters as the Pentagram Suishen Art fell, executing a second reverend. Now, with only five left, the survivors began thinking of fleeing.
Tianming blocked the exit of the metal planet. As the five reverends moved toward him, he unleashed his grand lexicon wonder. After breaking through to the fortuna-class, Tianming’s Xia words had substantially increased in number and he now had around two thousand characters. He split them into four parts, suppressing four of the reverends, then swiftly executed another before targeting yet another with Vitasteal.
The remaining reverends were paralyzed with fear as they saw the purple characters swirling around them. Then, disbelief joined their fear.
"Is this... a wonder?"
"A specter with a wonder.... These abilities seem familiar!"
"It looks like Li Tianming, that House Suishen pathkeeper!"
"What?!"
The four remaining reverends were pletely dumbfounded. Staring at Tianming, they couldn’t believe their eyes. In their minds, his maximum strength was that of a second-level foundationeer, not someone capable of slaughtering seven sixth-level foundationeer reverends!
Before they could fully prehend it, Tianming, with the help of his fortuna-class wonder and lifebound beasts’ abilities, mercilessly crushed them. None of the remaining reverends could escape, each dying with a mix of despair and disbelief.
"Yes, I’m Li Tianming, the reaper sent to judge House Yumo!" As Tianming removed his purple mask in front of them, their remnant souls were torn apart. Tianming didn’t even need to tell them that he was the one who had killed twenty of their eminents. They would have died even more unwillingly had they known!
"What goes around es around. Retribution was always just a matter of time."
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