Martial Arts: Starting with Bajiquan, I will prove my divine power through the ultimate path!

Boom!

Thunder rumbled from deep within the dark clouds.

In the hazy, persistent gray fog, a figure nearly four meters tall was enveloped in raging flames.

He was like a beast in human skin.

His body was covered in bulging, muscular muscles that looked like they were about to burst through his skin, and scarlet cracks spread all over his body.

He stood in the muddy, rainy night, the mud and water under his feet and the rain falling from the sky evaporating into steam from the high temperature on his body, and diamond-shaped scales the size of fingernails covered his entire body!

Thick layers of keratin have grown on his eyes, eardrums, neck, knees, joints, and other areas.

Even more outrageous is that his shoulder blades are spread out like fan blades, resembling a ferocious and violent humanoid dragon, with his joints cracking.

boom!

He unleashed immense power from his arms, slamming the monster in front of him down!

The monster has a ferocious and terrifying appearance.

What comes into view is a huge, bloated body, like a small car. It is in a state of decay and expansion, with rotting flesh and a nauseating smell wafting in the air. It looks like a lump of rotting, dissolving flesh, writhing incessantly.

Countless barbed tentacles crawled toward Shi Wen's body from every pore and every inch of his rotting flesh.

Each tentacle was covered with barbs and suckers, tightly binding him.

Don't give him any chance to struggle and escape!

In the rotting flesh and blood.

The abscess swelled up like a bubble, burst, and revealed the pulsating, bright red granulation tissue underneath.

The severed tentacle will rapidly sprout more tiny, frantic appendages, and even the dripping pus, once it touches flesh, will grow into dense roots, as if taking root and growing in his body as a new warm bed!

The strangest thing is...

Amidst the rotting pile of flesh and blood, a single eye the size of a washbasin stared intently at Shi Wen.

Its eyeball was not like an eyeball in the usual sense; it was more like a black hole leading to a deep void.

It seemed as if it was trying to drag Shi Wen's consciousness into the chaotic void!

boom!!

The flames around Shi Wen were as if they had been doused with kerosene, and they instantly burst into flames.

"Die!"

A roar like that of a ferocious beast rang out.

Shi Wen's entire right arm muscles swelled several times their original size, and his entire body shone with an orange-red light, as if pure earth flames were flowing through his flesh and blood, and he slammed hard into that one eye.

The mass of flesh emitted a sharp, terrifying scream.

Countless tentacles ripped and tore at his body in a chaotic and ferocious manner, as if trying to tear him to pieces!

Crimson blood oozed from Shi Wen's ears.

Countless serrated cuts appeared on his strong body!

This process lasted for several tens of seconds before stopping.

As the eyeball ruptured.

The one-eyed, shattered, rotting flesh turned into a pool of thick liquid in a very short time.

Washed away by the heavy rain, it blended into the muddy mountainside!

A breeze swept through the mountains, and the gray fog vanished without a trace before Shi Wen's eyes, as if it had never existed!

Shi Wen straightened his chest, the intense heat inside his body gradually contracting. He exhaled a sulfurous odor with each breath, and dense granulation tissue grew from the hideous wounds all over his body that had been torn by the tentacles.

Within a hundred breaths, a scab formed on the wound.

A moment later, not a single scratch could be seen!

"call……"

"Strange, what kind of monster is this? I had to activate 50x burn damage to kill it?"

"Was this the work of those guys from the True Immortal Temple? Or is it a naturally formed phenomenon? But how could it possibly form naturally? I've never seen anything like this in the wild in my past life's memories!"

"Could it be the gray fog those border soldiers were talking about?"

"But wasn't the gray fog outside the high walls on the border of Tiannan Prefecture? How did it drift to Zhang'an Prefecture?"

"The two places are separated by countless miles. Could the gray fog possibly cross Tiannan Prefecture and drift directly to Zhang'an Prefecture?"

Shi Wen chewed on the meat of the strange beast.

His breathing gradually calmed down, and his injuries disappeared without a trace.

Looking at the gloomy sky, with thunder rumbling incessantly, and the mist spreading and raging through the mountains, some forests were shrouded in even thicker fog, revealing an indescribable eeriness.

Shi Wen frowned deeply.

He didn't know what had happened.

But it's obvious.

The situation in Heiyun County will not be peaceful from now on!

"Hmm... what is this?"

Shi Wen discovered a gray bead the size of a quail egg in the dissolved thick water. He picked it up out of curiosity, but couldn't see anything special about it.

[Special energy detected. Should we recover it?]

"Special item?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Shi Wen's eyes.

Soon, that surprise turned into even deeper joy and ecstasy!

The Extreme Seal has powerful functions and many unexplored aspects, among which the functions of evolution items are particularly amazing.

For example, the evolved Fish-Dragon Blood, Breathing Technique, and the Heart of the Withered Dragon saved him a lot of time in cultivating martial arts and accumulating resources, and even gave him such a powerful physique!

However, the energy required for evolution is extremely demanding.

Evolution is not achieved by physically searching for medicinal herbs or pills to nourish and accumulate enough energy.

Instead, it needs something like the bizarre.

Only Jiyin will recycle.

These kinds of things are extremely hard to find, which is why his rapid improvement is limited.

But what if... these kinds of things could be supplemented?

Shi Wen suppressed his inner elation, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up slightly, and a lingering bloodlust flashed in his eyes.

"Extreme Seal, add points, the Rotten Flesh of the Ice-Silent Death Lord!"

Without saying a word, Shi Wen focused all his energy on this object!

Unfortunately.

This amount of energy only shortened the evolution time by a day and a half.

"What a pity."

Although Shi Wen didn't know what a true beast or a former master was, or how big the gap was between the two, or who was more powerful.

But one thing is certain!

This mysterious ancient lord, who once controlled death and black ice, must possess extremely powerful and terrifying strength and unknown forces.

He was stripped of his life rank by the later ascendants, yet he still managed to become a dark and mad hunter, still wielding the power of ice, death, and immortality. One can only imagine how terrifying he was in the past!

Even if he only gains a tiny, insignificant power.

But when it comes to the so-called Holy Son, he would probably be trampled underfoot!

"A single bite of a beast's heart has elevated my physical body to this level. If I were to devour the flesh of my former master, how powerful would my body become?"

"As for the so-called negative impacts and mere cause and effect..."

"Why should we care?!"

"Just don't disturb my peaceful life, and don't pressure me..."

A savage glint flashed across Shi Wen's face.

Suddenly, he glanced at a certain column of the seal and looked slightly puzzled.