Chapter 305 - 166: Heaven-Defying Comprehension Shocks Everyone, Confronting the Heart Demon in the Mist of Heart Inquiry
He had passed!
A deathly silence filled the entire circular hall.
Only the figures in the murals on the walls, which had just lit up, still emanated a faint glow.
...
The golden light dissipated, and the scene before Jiang Che’s eyes twisted and blurred.
When his vision cleared, he found himself in a boundless, thick fog where he couldn’t see his hand in front of his face.
’It seems this is the third trial: the Temperament Pass, the Fog of Heart Inquiry,’ Jiang Che thought.
The fog was cold and viscous, carrying a faint, cloying scent that seemed to stir the deepest anxieties within a person’s heart.
He used his [True: All-Seeing Eye] to observe.
But he found nothing at all!
A chill went through Jiang Che. He immediately focused his mind and went on full alert.
However, before he could make a move, the surrounding fog began to churn violently!
The scene before him changed once more.
When he came to his senses, he found himself standing in an incredibly familiar place!
It was the Martial Arts Arena in front of the main hall of the Cangyun Sect’s Yunhai Courtyard!
However, the Yunhai Courtyard before him was no longer the place of cultivation he remembered—a place that, while somewhat lonely, was peaceful and serene.
This place had become an Asura Hell!
The sky was an eerie dark red, as if stained by endless blood.
The air was thick with the overpowering stench of blood and burning flesh.
The once-spotless bluestone ground was now a river of blood, with severed limbs scattered everywhere.
Familiar corpses lay strewn about his feet.
His master, Xu Qingshan, lay with his eyes wide open, his face frozen in an expression of incredulous horror.
A huge, bloody hole had been punched clean through his chest.
His eldest senior brother, Xiao Mingqian, had an expression of agony on his good-natured face, and both of his arms had been snapped.
Chen Shi, Li Rui, Zhang Ping...
The sect brothers with whom he had once shared drinks and discussed the future were now all cold corpses, their Yunhai Courtyard Daoist Robes stained red with blood.
In the entire Yunhai Courtyard, there wasn’t a single survivor!
"No... This is impossible!"
Jiang Che’s pupils contracted violently. His heart felt as if it were being crushed by a giant, invisible hand, and an icy chill shot from the soles of his feet to the top of his skull!
Without realizing it, he had completely forgotten that he was in the Fog of Heart Inquiry!
He forgot that all of this was an illusion!
Just as his mind reeled from the horrific sight before him, he suddenly discovered something that horrified him to his very core!
He looked down at his hands.
They were not the hands of a human.
Instead, they were a pair of massive claws covered in menacing Black Armor, glinting with a cold, metallic light!
He... had transformed into a Black-armored Giant over ten meters tall, like a Demon God descended upon the world!
An unprecedented and terrifying power, one that felt capable of destroying the heavens and the earth, surged madly through his body!
He even had the distinct impression...
...that in his current state, he could utterly crush even a top expert of the True Master Realm with a single punch!
At the same time, a tyrannical, bloodthirsty, and all-consuming primal desire, like the most potent poison, instantly flooded his mind!
Looking down at the sea of blood and mountain of corpses at his feet, he felt not a trace of sadness or anger. Instead, a... twisted, indescribable pleasure welled up inside him!
It was the tyrannical satisfaction of trampling everything underfoot, of utterly destroying all in his path!
He could clearly "feel" that this hellish scene before him was his own doing—that "he" had created it with his own hands!
"NO!!!"
From the depths of his soul, Jiang Che’s sanity let out a wretched, desperate roar!
He tried to resist, to break free from this physical shell now dominated by the desire for slaughter!
However, the immense will to kill that came from the Heart of the Black Abyss was like a cataclysmic tsunami, instantly drowning and devouring his feeble resistance!
His thoughts, his emotions, everything that made him "Jiang Che"—all of it was being rapidly assimilated and erased by that dark, violent power...
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