Gao Wu: I became the minor villain that the protagonist was about to destroy.

The four of them stood frozen in place, staring at the man who exuded an aura like that of a demon. They trembled as if they were mortals seeing a ferocious beast, fear rising from their hearts.

At this moment, a middle-aged man was looking down at everything from the sky.

The moment Ye Ming unleashed such power, even he felt a pang of fear.

"It's amazing that such a small place has such talented young people! It's really interesting."

"It's gotten to the point where I'm even thinking of taking this kid as my apprentice. No, he's already my apprentice."

The man's eyes darted around: "But before that, let me see just how far you can go."

The man's right hand kept changing hand seals, and a circular diagram with a large number of runes slowly rotated in his hand.

Four small figures suddenly appeared on the original image.

"Anger burns in my heart, fighting spirit soars to the heavens; blood ignites the three realms, and all enemies are annihilated."

"Asura Path - Heaven-Burning Battle Intent!" [Enhances physique by 20 times, strength by 10 times, and speed by 10 times. Additional attributes: Increasing strength with each battle, ignoring pain, and becoming like a madman.]

The four people below had only one thought in their minds: to surrender.

In that instant, four streams of light descended from the sky and merged directly into the bodies of the four people.

Ye Ming narrowed his eyes, and in an instant, an astonishing aura of killing intent surged from the bodies of the four people.

Ye Ming's eyes suddenly turned to the sky, but the clouds obscured his view, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

(Is that the guy behind it?)

Just as Ye Ming was pondering, the four of them rushed towards him like madmen. In the blink of an eye, Tie Xian and Shi Xia had already reached Ye Ming's front.

Both of them had bloodshot eyes, their muscles were congested with blood, and their psionic energy became exceptionally violent.

The two men swung their fists out fiercely, and Ye Ming raised his spiked club and held it horizontally in front of his chest.

With a muffled "bang!", Ye Ming's body slid several meters backward.

"What a powerful boost!"

Immediately, Ye Ming exerted force with his feet and dodged to the side. Several sharp spikes made of shadows appeared behind him and stabbed towards him.

"Pfft!"

The ground shattered instantly. Tie Xian and Shi Xia kicked the flying boulders at Ye Ming, who smashed them one by one with his spiked club.

At this moment, Ye Ming revealed a hint of excitement.

With a sudden burst of power, his figure vanished from his original spot and reappeared in front of Shi Xia, holding aloft a black spiked club and clenching his right hand tightly.

"Thunderous Eight Trigrams!"

"Bang!!"

The blow struck the stone structure squarely in the front, causing it to cave in at a visible speed before slamming into the ground. In an instant, the ground within a radius of tens of meters shattered, and a large amount of rubble rolled down the mountain.

"one."

In the deep pit, Shi Xia's bones were shattered, and he no longer had the strength to groan. He was stuck in the crevices of the rocks at the bottom of the pit like mud, with only his slightly rising and falling chest proving that there was still a glimmer of hope for him.

The smell of blood and dust filled the air, and even the wind seemed to pause there.

At this moment, Cang Yi finally completed the condensation of the blood sphere, which hung high in the sky like a lunar eclipse.

In an instant, the blood sphere plummeted like a meteor toward the deep pit where Ye Ming was!

Just as the blood cell was about to touch the edge of the pit.

Ye Ming looked up at the falling blood orb, made a hand seal in front of his chest with his right hand, and pointed.

"The Fundamental Seal - Subduing the Three Worlds".

The air froze instantly.

The blood sphere, brimming with violent energy powerful enough to corrode mountain rocks, remained frozen in mid-air, less than ten feet above the ground. It was as if time itself had been frozen in place by an invisible hand, even the boiling blood patterns on the sphere's surface had stopped flowing.

next moment.

"Swoosh—Boom!!!"

The blood sphere exploded from the inside out without warning! Instead of an outward-rushing storm, it collapsed rapidly inward, bursting into a crimson blood mist that blotted out the sky and swept in all directions.

As the mist reached, the remaining dead trees sizzled and eroded, turning into charred remains in an instant; smoke rose from the exposed rock surfaces, which were riddled with countless pits. The already desolate mountaintop had now become a deadly wasteland filled with poison and death.

Ye Ming stood in the center of the poisonous fog, yet an invisible barrier seemed to surround him. Spiritual energy flowed, transforming into a faint yet resilient halo that kept all blood poison and corrosion at bay. The blood fog surged, yet could not get within three feet of him.

"Whoosh—whoosh whoosh—!"

A sharp whistling sound came from outside the fog! In Ye Ming's perception, dozens of blood-red energy blades, as thin as cicada wings yet incomparably sharp, were tearing through the fog and slashing at him from different tricky angles.

Ye Ming didn't even move a step before he swung his heavy spiked club, "Black Fang."

The movements are concise and the trajectory is crisp.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

The blood-red blade collided with the densely packed black spikes, shattering like fragile glass, exploding into bursts of fine red light that then dissolved into the blood mist.

"A boring trick."

"Of course—that includes you!"

Before he finished speaking, the shadow on the rocky ground beneath his feet suddenly came to life.

That was no ordinary shadow, but a thick, inky darkness that seeped from the depths of the earth.

They spread at an eerie speed, becoming like a deep pool in the blink of an eye, threatening to devour and entangle Ye Ming's feet.

A cold glint flashed in Ye Ming's eyes as he slowly raised his right foot. The black shadow wrapped around his right foot tried to bind it, but Ye Ming did not hesitate for a moment as he raised his foot. His right foot gathered weaponry and spiritual energy, and a violent energy gathered under his foot.

With a loud "Boom!", his right foot slammed down.

A shockwave erupted from the ground, and he shot into the sky like an arrow, leaving a cracked crater beneath his feet.

The dark shadow seemed to possess life and will. The moment Ye Ming left the ground, it suddenly contracted and condensed, transforming into a thick, black liquid like a venomous snake, which shot up after him!

Ye Ming looked back from mid-air, his pupils reflecting the relentlessly biting dark serpent.

Below, there was a desolate mountain reduced to scorched earth, a silent stone building at the bottom of the pit, a huge blood-red skeleton, and Tie Xian, who had been completely transformed into a beast.

Ye Ming suddenly turned around and swung his spiked club, knocking the black snake that was chasing him down with a single blow.

He turned around, stomped his right foot on the air, and with a loud "bang!", his figure shot towards the blood-red skull like an arrow released from a bow. Instantly, a violent aura surged from Ye Ming's body, and a layer of faint black scales appeared on his skin.

"The Great Heavenly Ascent - Subduing and Supporting - Fundamental Ignorance!!"

A large amount of spiritual energy condensed on Ye Ming's spiked club, and a strange intent gathered on the club.

This imposing aura instantly enveloped the entire mountaintop, causing the tiger to prostrate itself on the ground, trembling all over.

The crimson skull gathered a large amount of blood energy above, forming a huge crimson shield, trying to use it to resist the fear that came from the depths of his bones.

Tie Xian, standing to the side, conjured a phantom of a fierce tiger, which rested beneath the giant shield.

"Bang!!"

The moment the spiked club touched the crimson shield, the giant shield shattered instantly. The phantom of the tiger also shattered upon contact with the club, and the powerful blow slammed down on the crimson skull's head.

"boom--!!!"

The violent energy surged down, causing the entire hill to tremble violently. A dazzling white light flashed by, and a tremendous sound spread outwards from the mountain range. The walls of nearby houses cracked, and all the glass shattered.