His aura had been rising steadily, and the pressure radiating from his body was growing ever stronger.
Jared, who had struggled just to deal with a single demonic zombie earlier, was now growing fiercer the more fought.
Flames danced wildly around him, purging the surrounding lethal intent and forming a scorching domain with at the center.
Under the intense heat, the demonic zombies grew sluggish, howling in pain.
Jared moved with agile precision, weaving effortlessly through the zombie horde.
At times, leapt into the air to behead a demonic zombie with a single slash. Other times, swept low and sliced clean through their legs.
As more and more demonic zombies fell, Jared’s aura reached a terrifying level. He seemed to transform into a flaming god of war. Wherever went, the demonic zombies were reduced to ashes.
***
Inside the city lord mansion, Maceo stared fixedly at the bronze mirror, his eyes full of shock and disbelief.
He had ruled over Rhino City for many years and seen countless gifted cultivators, but never had witnessed such a terrifying rate of growth.
Facing a horde of over a thousand demon zombies, the man not only stood his ground but also grew stronger as the battle progressed. Such a scene was simply unheard of.
“How is this even possible…” Maceo muttered, his fingers unconsciously gripping the armrest of his seat tightly.
He watched the image of Jared battling in flames, his heart filled with questions.
Who exactly is this young man?
How could absorb and convert the purgatory‘s lethal intent into his own strength in such a short time?
Moreover, the sword in his hand was no ordinary item. Astonishingly, it could slay demonic zombies with such ease…
What unsettled Maceo the most was that Jared’s current display of strength far exceeded what had anticipated from any trial challenger
Just as his mind was spinning with thoughts, the image in the bronze mirror suddenly intensified.
Jared shouted, and the flames on his sword surged violently, forming a massive blade of fire. With a powerful swing, sent it sweeping through the horde. Wherever it passed, demonic zombies fell in waves and turned to ash.
He had already cut his way into the heart of the demonic zombie swarm. His movements were ghostlike, and with every flash of his blade, another demonic zombie collapsed.
The fire on the Dragonslayer Sword blazed even hotter, gradually forming a faint illusory shadow of a fire dragon coiling around the blade.
Even more astounding, a visible black vortex began to form in the air around Jared, sucking in all the lethal intent released from the fallen demonic zombies.
With the final demonic zombie slain, Jared slowly sheathed his sword. His body was splattered with blood and dust, but his eyes gleamed with unwavering determination.
The once-sinister purgatory now felt somewhat less oppressive, its lethal intent weakened by the massacre.
Jared took a deep breath, feeling the surging power within his body, and a satisfied smile curled at his lips.
Ashes from the demonic zombies still floated in the purgatory’s foul wind, and smoke continued to rise from the scorched earth.
Just as Jared slid the Dragonslayer Sword into its sheath, a deep hum suddenly rumbled from the void, as if an ancient giant beast had stirred from slumber.
He jerked his head up abruptly, only to see a pitch-black rift warping in mid-air. From it, an oxidized bronze chain slithered out like a living creature, dragging a figure clad in mithril armor, who crashed onto the ground with a thunderous impact.
Boom!
The ground instantly cracked open, forming a spiderweb-like pattern, and amidst the scattered fragments of stone, the armored warrior slowly straightened his back.
From the rusted gaps in his helmet, ghostly green flames flickered in his decayed eye sockets. Worms crawled in and out of his ribcage beneath the cracked mithril plates, and the stench exuded was far more nauseating than that of a thousand zombies.
He wielded a colossal mountain-splitting axe nearly ten feet long. Black sludge clung to its blade, dripping to the ground and hissing as it burned deep pits into the earth. This creature was a demonic zombie from the Wandering Immortal Realm.
