Chapter 84: Panic, the God... is a Monster!

"What exactly is this thing?"

Staring at the bizarre woman before him, Lin Potian felt a jolt in his heart; he was completely unable to see through her!

She clearly possessed not a shred of spiritual power fluctuation or Immortal Essence throughout her entire body, and was not even a cultivator, yet she could walk through the air and tear through the void?

"Lin Potian, are you spying on me?"

The mouth growing on the woman's forehead curled into an inexplicable smile, a smile so chilling it was unbearable. She scanned the dense crowd of cultivators gathered around, let out a cackling, strange laugh, and reached out to grab a Quasi-Emperor!

"Ugh... get away!"

This Quasi-Emperor cultivator suppressed his nausea, instantly retreating like an arrow released from a bow. Spiritual power surged wildly around his body, and he condensed a divine ability in his palm, striking directly at the bizarre woman!

However, the moment the divine ability was about to hit her, the woman simply raised her hand slightly. Her palm transformed into a black hole filled with teeth, and the divine ability, like a clay ox entering the sea, was swallowed without a trace, possessing not the slightest power of resistance!

Immediately, she took a step forward, her mouth stretching until it dragged on the ground, and walked straight toward the Quasi-Emperor cultivator, looking as if she intended to eat him in one bite!

"What, are you kidding me!"

The Quasi-Emperor's face was drained of all color from fear. Moreover, he was locked in place and could not move at all, watching helplessly as the woman strolled over. That wide-open mouth was constantly eroding his psychological defenses.

"Run, run quickly! A monster, it's a monster!"

Panic-stricken cries erupted instantly at the scene. People kept retreating, but the cultivators were too densely packed. One after another, they rose into the air, and the sounds of collisions rang out incessantly; a riot was nearly triggered!

Even as cultivators, they were still human; the fear in their hearts had completely occupied their reason. Their instincts told them: run!

Many cultivators with lower cultivation realms were so frightened their minds went blank, standing on the spot like wooden chickens...

The impact was simply too great; even the shock of the Great Emperors kneeling just moments ago could not compare to this woman's mouth being able to stretch until it dragged on the ground!

Is this still a human?

The Great Emperors all had their eyelids twitching wildly; they had never seen such a monster either!

An Emperor tentatively unleashed a peerless divine light to intercept the bizarre woman, but it, too, was like a clay ox entering the sea, disappearing without a trace!

If not for the constraints of their status as Great Emperors, they would have wanted to flee!

Swish—!

In just a single breath, the bizarre woman caught up to the Quasi-Emperor's pace, grabbed him by the throat, and stuffed him toward her mouth!

The latter had no power to resist at all, his face full of despair.

Just at this moment, Lin Potian took a step forward and shouted loudly: "Let him go! Aren't you trying to measure me? If you have the guts, follow me!"

"Fine, once I eat you, I will have strength."

Hearing this, the bizarre woman discarded the Quasi-Emperor as if throwing away trash, turned her head to look over, let out a cackling, strange laugh, and walked toward Lin Potian.

"I must lure her away from here, otherwise no one here will be able to escape!" Lin Potian's expression grew increasingly grave.

When this monster-like woman had attacked that Quasi-Emperor cultivator earlier, he had discovered that she could actually seal everyone's movements?

Even the Great Emperors could not move a single bit!

Even he, Lin Potian, had his movement speed greatly suppressed!

Therefore, if he did not lure her away, all the cultivators currently gathered in Central Heaven would be buried here, becoming fish on a chopping block!

Tap, tap, tap!

The bizarre woman walked faster and faster, until she began to run!

The Tongtian Command Spirit transmitted its voice anxiously:

"Young Master, enter the Tongtian Command; it won't be able to find you. You can't manage this anymore; it is not human, it is truly not human! If you fight it, even if it is in a weakened state, your chance of winning is still less than twenty percent!"

"Young Master, believe me, for this filthy thing to appear in the Zhutian Wanjie, destruction is the fate of the Heavens. Please, do not get involved!"

"And after it appeared, I also understood: the reason the Tongtian Tower left was also because of it!"

"Even the Master would find it very difficult to deal with them at their peak!"

The Spirit was very anxious. It knew the origin of this monster. The humanoid form it had now was only because it had been assimilated by the Heavens; otherwise, its true form would be even more terrifying!

Lin Potian's mind was shaken; the information in these few sentences from the Spirit was simply too massive!

The Tongtian Tower had not gone missing, but was forced to leave because of this monster?

And the word "them"—could it be that this kind of monster is an entire race?

It was actually so powerful that even the taboo seniors found it difficult to handle!

For a moment, Lin Potian could not even digest such a massive amount of information...

But it did not matter anymore. Soldiers come, block them; water comes, cover it with earth. Lin Potian shook his head repeatedly and gave a bitter smile:

"Xiaoxiao, you tell me to flee without hesitation, but how could I flee alone? How could I watch so many cultivators be buried here?"

"They hold me in infinite reverence; if I abandon them, would I still be me? With greater power comes greater responsibility. If such a monster exists in the Heavens, it will turn this place into an Avici Hell!"

"And isn't it in a weakened state? With a twenty percent chance of winning, why not fight? A twenty percent chance is already quite high; it's not certain death!"

"Say no more, I'm going to fight it!"

Having said that, he looked at the bizarre woman rushing toward him, crooked his finger, and his figure turned into a streak of slow-moving light, heading straight into the void, far away from Central Heaven.

Seeing that Lin Potian could still escape the seal and break through the void, the woman's eyes grew even more interested. She chased after him impatiently. With every step she took, she closed the distance to Lin Potian, saying chillingly:

"Interesting. It really is because I am too weak that you can still move. Then let's see how long you can run. Once I eat you, I will have strength."

"True form, appear!"

Hearing this, Lin Potian turned his head to look, his eyes widening; the horror in his heart was beyond measure!

He saw the bizarre woman's body swell violently, her flesh tearing open with shocking wounds. Immediately after, a behemoth struggled out from within, its entire body covered in chaotic red hair, emitting a pungent, fishy stench!

It was enormous in size, far removed from a human form. Its skin was festering and oozing pus, and its exposed muscles were twisted and writhing, as if it had been gnawed on by countless poisonous insects. Every step it took left a pool of black blood on the ground!

It constantly made "he-he" wheezing sounds from its mouth, accompanied by bursts of black blood spraying out, yet its speed did not diminish in the slightest. Instead, it moved like a ghost, rapidly closing the distance to Lin Potian, its lantern-sized eyes flashing with undisguised greed!

"Ugh...!"

"No, can you be any more disgusting?"

Lin Potian was immediately made to vomit by this true form. According to the Spirit, this was still a race—then this race could only be described as... grotesque!

The red-haired monster was furious, its sharp roar resounding:

"You dare to be disrespectful to a god? Lin Potian, I will refine and devour you, inch by inch, strand by strand!"

"A god... you really know how to joke."

The corners of Lin Potian's mouth twitched; if he could, he would really like to wash his eyes.

But at the very moment this true red-haired monster appeared, the Immortal Emperor Qi within Lin Potian, which had almost completely dissipated, was now like a candle flame caught in a gale, forcibly gathered and ignited with a final brilliance, directly raising Lin Potian's cultivation once more to the late stage of Immortal Emperor!

At the same time, the Mysterious Shroud on his body moved without wind, the ancient Runes upon it flickering, once again infusing Lin Potian with power, pushing him to the perfection of Immortal Emperor!

But doing this was not without a price; Lin Potian could feel that in only the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, that wisp of Immortal Emperor Qi would dissipate, the Mysterious Shroud would fall into silence, and Lin Potian would instantly return to the early stage of Immortal King...

Furthermore, Lin Potian could sense their emotions, all of them angrily conveying a message:

"The odds of victory have reached ninety-nine percent, kill it, kill it! Slaughter the god, slaughter the god!"

Hearing this, Lin Potian took a deep breath, looked at the red-haired monster pouncing toward him with its bloody maw wide open, and smelling the stench from its mouth, Lin Potian helplessly accepted a fact... there really are gods in this world.

But a god, it turns out, is a monster!