Chapter 1132: Chapter 1126: Ultimate Evil
“Crack… crack! CRACK!!!”
On the Qiu Clan Immortal Mountain, the rules of ice and snow, gathered by the power of the Qiu Clan’s ‘Snow Spirit’ bloodline, no longer retained the mildness of winter snow and ice, instead wildly raging through the air.
So much so that piercing sounds of ice structures colliding and tearing echoed throughout the Immortal Mountain, which had already been reduced to an enormous iceberg.
Everything was frozen over; even the air itself bore cracks formed by condensed ice crystals.
Above the cloudy sky swirling with the iceberg’s frigid air, Qiu clansmen filled with vindictive pleasure stood atop the Snow God giant transformed by Qiu Anran.
In front of them were countless giant ice pillars.
After Qiu Anran unleashed the Spiritual power he couldn’t fully control, the giant slowly reached out its hand.
These ice pillars, commanded as easily as moving one’s own arms, were manipulated to pierce toward where Li Tianming was located, until his figure could no longer be seen.
As ice debris and ice crystals fell like starlight amidst the dust and resounding collisions, these colliding ice pillars gradually formed a massive sphere, completely submerging Li Tianming.
The rules of ice and snow could freeze all things.
It wasn’t until the Snow God giant that Qiu Anran had transformed into appeared small beneath the massive ice sphere in the sky that this terrifying scene of ice pillar piercing and impact finally brought a chilling tranquility to this world of ice and snow.
The last remaining hundred or so Qiu Clan experts on the shoulders of the Snow God giant broke the silence.
Looking at Qiu Anran’s handiwork, their expressions gradually turned to vindictive pleasure before they finally let out cheers.
“Clan Elder, under our Qiu Immortal Clan’s trump card, this person is definitely dead!”
“There are still the Li Clan members. Let’s go kill them, avenge our clansmen, and kill everyone surnamed Li!”
However, the Snow God giant remained motionless.
The bloodshot eyes on Qiu Anran’s massive head continued staring intently at the cloudy sky.
Within the blue ice sphere—which had been pierced, struck, and buried like a meteor by the ice pillars—that aura had not disappeared.
Ultimate evil!
Qiu Anran felt the power within his body, waiting grimly for Li Tianming’s reappearance.
Inside the Snow God giant, the bloodlines of the Qiu clansmen surged and flowed.
This Spiritual power had already reached the Void Refining realm.
He felt the rules of ice and snow; he could now completely utilize this Spiritual power, as if everything in the world lay under his manipulation.
With sharply defined fists clenched tightly, Qiu Anran stood ready, fully prepared for battle.
“No matter what you are, I will beat you back to your original form!
Whether you’re a lunatic or whatever thing you are, I want to keep you alive so you can watch your clansmen die one by one in front of me!”
Qiu Anran had spent his entire life cultivating within the family.
As a genius of the world, the family had always hoped he would go further, and he himself wholeheartedly wished to lead his clansmen to resist the endless blizzards and the Demon Race of the Northern Border.
But the appearance of the Li Clan shattered all his fantasies.
All the Spiritual power in his body right now came from the most naked blood of his clansmen.
This sudden extermination of his clan made him feel the deep anger and resentment embedded within his bloodline, and it also made him firmly believe that the flow of his clansmen’s bloodline granted him enough strength to exact revenge from the flesh and blood of the Li Clan.
Definitely!
…
“Ancestor Tianming!”
Looking at the ice sphere in the cloudy sky—now even more massive than the Qiu Clan Immortal Mountain—Li Zhijing, who was fleeing with her clansmen, turned pale.
Even though she had fled the battlefield’s range at the fastest speed possible, Li Zhijing could still feel the biting chill in the air.
This was the rule-based Spiritual power formed by Qiu Anran’s uncontrollable surge of power.
Flowers, plants, trees, and even a mouse that drilled out from the ice layer had all been completely frozen over.
“Rest assured, the Old Ancestor has the utmost trust in Ancestor Tianming.”
Li Yuanshang offered a word of comfort, exhaling a breath of cold air as his face turned pale from the strain of battle.
He immediately grabbed a handful of pills from his spatial ring and stuffed them into his mouth, while simultaneously using Spiritual power to send pills to the surrounding clansmen.
However, he still couldn’t conceal the worry in his eyes.
Seeing the worried expressions of the clansmen and elders, he spoke in a deep voice:
“I served my Great-Grandfather in the Imperial Capital. My Great-Grandfather once warned me never to show any disrespect to Ancestor Tianyi or the Old Ancestor.”
Li Yuanshang’s words caused everyone’s expressions to ease slightly.
Li Xinri, having become increasingly interested in family affairs after this battle, asked in confusion, “What does this have to do with Ancestor Tianyi and the Old Ancestor?”
“Because it would awaken an unscrupulous demon.”
Li Yuanshang furrowed his brows.
He himself harbored doubts about Li Chang’an’s words.
In his impression, Li Tianming had always been gentle, shy, and somewhat… slow-witted.
Li Zhijing brightened, “Is Ancestor Tianming like the few undying ancestors in family legends, all practicing demonic arts?”
If that were the case, then there truly was nothing to worry about.
However, Li Yuanshang shook his head, his expression turning grave.
“No, Great-Grandfather said that the Seven Ancestors of the Seven Ironclads are true demons; they can already control their demonic thoughts.
But Ancestor Tianming… he was born a bad seed, an existence whose life even the Heavenly Dao would demand.
He should have died prematurely; it was the legendary Ancestor Yaowen of the family who used the destiny of the Wu Tribe to save his life.”
Everyone felt their hearts skip a beat as they looked in horror toward the ice sphere.
They were both terrified by the family’s hidden past and deeply curious about Li Tianming’s existence.
As time slowly ticked by, it seemed that Qiu Anran was even more capable of sensing Li Tianming’s terror than they were.
“It broke!”
Li Xinjue whispered softly.
Everyone’s eyes widened, their bodies tensing as they prepared to charge back toward the Immortal Mountain at any moment.
In this region where the air had nearly frozen solid, a clear sound—like a hundred claws scratching at one’s heart—suddenly rang out in the cloudy sky.
“Crack… crack… crack!!!”
The ice sphere began fracturing, ice debris breaking apart and falling.
From the widening fissures, a dark, profound black gas unexpectedly seeped out, spreading in all directions along with the freezing white mist of ice and snow.
“He’s not dead? How is this possible?”
“This aura…”
“Not good, watch out!”
From the cracks in the massive ice sphere, dark profound energy poured out, emitting monstrous killing intent and malicious thoughts.
The Qiu clansmen standing on the shoulders of the Snow God giant instantly turned pale.
Such malicious intent had actually formed an illusion.
They seemed to witness terrifying scenes flickering within the dark profound energy drifting with the wind—
A young man slaughtering someone, disemboweling the corpse, grabbing the heart and licking the blood from its tip; covered in gore, inflicting cruel torture on a bound victim—death by a thousand cuts, extracting human meridians one by one, causing them to protrude grotesquely from mangled flesh; weaving through a chaotic battlefield, tearing people apart with his bare hands, emerging drenched in blood from a cleaved corpse…
And throughout it all—
This person was smiling.
Anyone could tell that he was not killing out of hatred or necessity, but purely for… pleasure.
How could such a person exist in this world?
He was born a bad seed!
Qiu Anran also sensed the terrifying aura emanating from within the ice sphere.
The massive Snow God giant reached out its hand once more.
“Crack, crack, crack!”
On the ground, ice pillars burst through the frozen surface of the Qiu Clan Immortal Mountain and shot skyward again, densely locking onto the great terror about to emerge.
“If I can suppress you once, I can suppress you a second time, until you have no strength left to resist!”
Qiu Anran made no attempt to conceal his killing intent.
Not even he realized that he had already begun to be influenced by the malice radiating from the ice sphere.
As the bloodline surged within his body, Li Tianming was transforming—and Qiu Anran’s Spiritual power was also growing stronger over time.
On this Qiu Clan Immortal Mountain, his Snow God giant body was the deity ruling over this world of ice and snow.
“Bang!”
Finally, beneath the Spiritual power gathered by Qiu Anran—and the array formations and techniques forming a web-like structure in the sky by the clansmen exhausting their power—the ice sphere began to shatter.
Ice debris and snow mist burst outward.
Qiu Anran’s eyes were bloodshot.
He saw Li Tianming emerging from the collapsing sphere.
At this moment, Li Tianming was enveloped in a dark, profound aura, while talismans were affixed to over a hundred Dharma artifacts and Spirit Artifacts surrounding him.
This person no longer bore that ‘harmless to humans and animals alike’ appearance.
All that remained was pure ferocity—and madness.
The moment he appeared, he let out a wild, unrestrained laugh.
Saliva dripped from the corners of his mouth as he laughed, as though he were celebrating being freed to see the world once more.
“Kill him!”
Qiu Anran roared furiously, clenching his right palm.
The sky full of ice pillars converged under his command.
The Qiu clansmen shouted in unison, unleashing their techniques as they surged toward Li Tianming like a tidal wave.
Qiu Anran’s voice carried the blazing fury in his chest.
He was the god of this place.
No matter what kind of monstrous lunatic this Li Clan member was, he would pay an unbearable price for provoking a god!
But this time… it was different.
The sky full of ice pillars could no longer suppress Li Tianming.
“What kind of technique is this? How could he possibly manipulate so many Dharma artifacts and Spirit Artifacts?!!”
A Qiu clansman cried out in alarm.
In the pale, frozen sky, besides the dark aura emanating from Li Tianming, countless brilliant colors suddenly erupted.
“Rumble! Rumble!”
It was those Dharma artifacts and Spirit Artifacts, each affixed with talismans—self-destructing.
Li Tianming was actually controlling over a hundred Dharma artifacts and Spirit Artifacts alone.
Such a method required an immense amount of Spiritual power, and an equally terrifyingly strong divine soul—one that would normally shatter under such strain.
[Hundred Treasures]
This was a Trait Li Tianming had possessed since long ago.
Perhaps from that moment onward, his soul had already been torn apart and reforged.
The Qiu Clan members knew nothing of his past; they could only tremble before this terrifying technique.
Now, with talismans added to these hundred treasures, the power of their self-destruction was amplified to a horrifying degree.
The ice pillars collided with the hundred treasures, filling the sky with dust, mist, and dazzling bursts of Spiritual light.
The Qiu clansmen continued pouring their Spiritual power toward Li Tianming.
Like a bubble bursting at the edge of boiling smoke, a dark figure suddenly shot out.
“You dare?!!”
The Snow God giant roared in fury, blue light blazing from its eyes.
In this domain, he was the absolute god—everything he gazed upon froze instantly.
He could clearly sense that the lunatic had set his sights on his clansmen.
Yet the freezing had no effect.
From an unknown source, endless Spiritual power surged within that lunatic’s body, already breaking through the shackles of the Void Refining realm.
Moreover…
He was a Talisman Master.
“Ah!!!”
Qiu Anran screamed toward the heavens, unleashing techniques without pause.
Because Li Tianming had already transformed into a streak of black shadow, snatching away two Qiu clansmen from his shoulder.
A yellow talisman vanished from Li Tianming’s hand.
“Fun, this is fun! I was suffocating, trapped in this piece of trash’s soul! I’m going to play until I’ve had enough, hahaha!”
That was the Grade 6 ‘Swift Shadow Rune’, turning him into a streak of light to enhance his speed.
As Li Tianming regained control of his body, he was equally familiar with the techniques of the ‘other self’.
Now, he was like a child finally getting his hands on a long-desired toy.
Behind him roared the enraged ice and snow giant.
He soared into the sky, gripping the necks of two Golden Core Qiu clansmen.
Their eyes widened in absolute terror.
Trapped within the illusion created by Li Tianming’s deranged will, their consciousness desperately struggled to return to reality.
They didn’t even notice their bodies being destroyed.
It was Li Tianming’s Spiritual power flaying their flesh in midair.
In mere moments, only two skeletons remained in his hands.
He licked his lips with a bright red tongue and casually tossed the skeletons aside like trash.
With a flicker from his spatial ring, two talisman papers appeared in his grasp.
His sharp eyes gleamed, as though discovering new ways to play with his toys.
“Heavenly Lightning Rune, for roasting meat.”
“Fierce Fire Divine Strike Rune, I’ve long wanted to see what burning from the inside out looks like.”
“Jiejiejie!!!”
Another wave of ice-and-snow force descended.
But this Li Tianming was no longer the same Li Tianming.
Even though he wielded less than a tenth of his true power, his experience as a battle-hardened veteran made him far more terrifying than before.
With numerous Traits like [Assassin], [Wife Killer], [Hitman]… and [Natural Bad Seed], he was anything but easy to deal with.
Temporarily taking control of a Half-Step Void Refining soul also unsealed the heaven-bestowed techniques and Primordial Spirit of his alternate personality.
[Realm: Fifth-Tier Divinity Transformation]
[Domain: Heaven’s Bane]
[Natural Bad Seed, destined by heaven and earth to die prematurely, not permitted to remain in the mortal realm.
Within this domain exists Spiritual power absolutely forbidden by heaven and earth.
An aggregate of negative Spiritual powers such as resentment, fear, and annihilation…
Anyone who enters is instantly corrupted, while simultaneously doubling the domain controller’s Spiritual power.]
[Heaven-Bestowed Primordial Spirit Technique: Extermination]
[Technique applied to the body. Those touched will wither instantly; this applies to both the physical body and the Primordial Spirit.
Under this technique, any other techniques utilized will be imbued with the ‘Wither’ effect.]
[Primordial Spirit: Aggregate of Resentment.
A cultivator of this Primordial Spirit art gathers resentment to strengthen themselves, thus they are intolerable to heaven and earth.]
“You’re courting death!!!”
Two more clansmen were seized by Li Tianming.
As raging flames and heavenly lightning ravaged them, Qiu Anran charged forward like a madman.
He didn’t even notice that beneath Li Tianming’s ‘Heaven’s Bane’ domain and ‘Extermination’ technique, dark mist had already begun spreading across his body.
That was corruption.
His Spiritual power surged wildly, forming a vast ice-domain in the sky.
He attacked relentlessly, convinced only that he must kill Li Tianming to satisfy the raging fury in his heart.
Where had Qiu Anran’s former composure gone?
He was now like a headless fly, chasing helplessly as Li Tianming tore through his clansmen one by one.
Each time Li Tianming seized a Qiu clansman, he would laugh madly and torture them to death with talismans right before Qiu Anran’s eyes.
Until finally—
He stopped.
With a single punch, ice shattered and fell.
The crazed Li Tianming stood upon the forearm he had just struck, a sinister smile on his face.
At that moment, the entire Qiu Clan Immortal Mountain fell into silence.
Qiu Anran’s bloodshot gaze remained fixed.
Dark mist spread across his massive body.
Two streams of blood tears slowly rolled down the Snow God giant’s face.
He stared blankly at the ant-like figure standing on his arm.
The sinister smile on Li Tianming’s face gradually faded.
He stood with his hands behind his back, facing away from Qiu Anran, as residual waves of Spiritual power lifted his blood-stained hair.
In the distance, Li Xinri, Li Xinjue, and the others—who had originally prepared to return and assist—stood frozen in place.
None of them dared step forward.
The Snow God giant’s voice trembled,
“Why… why… why did you kill my clansmen, and still torture my clansmen… including me…”
“Because it amused me.”
Ice and snow continued to spread across the Qiu Clan Immortal Mountain, the sound of shifting ice echoing faintly.
There were no longer any screams, no more slaughter—only silence.
Li Tianming lightly stepped off Qiu Anran’s forearm.
Braving the wind and snow, he used the ‘Shrinking the Earth to an Inch’ technique and walked toward his clan’s juniors.
“…”
Gulp.
After a long silence, the clansmen looked at Li Tianming—his eyes now clear once more, his expression returning to that familiar ‘harmless to humans and animals alike’ look.
They couldn’t help but swallow hard.
And then…
They all took half a step back.
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