Chapter 5683
Kai, panting, continued, “Senior… Tianmen… Tianmen didn’t disappear without a trace, but… but was slaughtered overnight by this Soul Devourer! He was originally a disciple of Tianmen, yet he repaid kindness with enmity, murdering his master and destroying his ancestors!”
“What?”
The languid look on Shen Zhiyan’s face vanished the moment he heard this!
An indescribable terrifying aura, like a primordial beast that had slumbered for millennia, suddenly awakened and erupted from his body!
This aura was no longer the previous peaceful and lazy one, but was filled with endless killing intent, rage, and a monstrous power that seemed capable of tearing apart the heavens and overturning the universe!
“Boom—!!!”
The entire world changed color again!
The gloomy sky, which had been shrouded in the Soul Devourer’s demonic domain, now seemed to have been pierced by a sun. Dazzling light emanated from Shen Zhiyan, rivaling the endless demonic energy and even showing a faint tendency to dispel it!
The earth trembled violently, and the energy turbulence that had just subsided was stirred up again. The howling wind was no longer a cold, demonic wind.
Instead, it carried a blazing, fierce, and all-encompassing righteous energy!
Shen Zhiyan abruptly turned his head, his eyes, which had previously held a hint of intoxication, now sharp as thunderbolts from the heavens, locking onto the Soul Devourer in the air.
His voice, as cold as ice, asked, word by word, “Is what he said true?”
The Soul Devourer’s expression changed slightly the instant Shen Zhiyan’s aura erupted, but then a ferocious smile appeared: “So what if it is? Those hypocrites from the Heavenly Gate, so corrupt and utterly useless, deserved to be my stepping stones to the peak!
I devoured their souls and merged their cultivation to reach my current level! What? You want to avenge them?”
Upon confirmation, Shen Zhiyan’s body swayed slightly, as if he had endured a tremendous impact.
He slowly closed his eyes, his face filled with indescribable pain, anger, and…deep guilt.
When he opened his eyes again, they were blood-red and filled with resolute killing intent!
He didn’t look at the Soul Devourer again, but suddenly turned around, facing the distant Tianmen Mountain, and with a “thud,” he knelt heavily on the ground!
With this kneel, the world fell silent!
Whether it was the remaining disciples of the Yama Heavenly Sect or the Soul Devourer who loomed overhead, everyone was stunned by his sudden action.
“Master! My fellow disciples! My unworthy disciple Shen Zhiyan… is late!!!”
Shen Zhiyan’s voice was hoarse, filled with endless sorrow and regret, echoing between heaven and earth.
He kowtowed three times heavily, his forehead striking the hard, broken ground with a dull thud, leaving mottled bloodstains.
“This disciple was once unruly and violated the sect rules, expelled from the sect by Master, and ashamed to call myself a member of Tianmen… But the blood of Tianmen will forever flow in my veins! I will never forget the sect’s nurturing grace and the teachings it has imparted!”
“Today, this disciple learned that the sect had fallen victim to this traitor’s cruelty, and the entire sect was slaughtered. This hatred is irreconcilable! This disciple, Shen Zhiyan, hereby swears that I will personally kill this fiend and use his soul to appease the countless wronged souls of the sect! If I break this oath, may I be struck down by heaven and earth and never be reincarnated!”
Every word was filled with blood and hatred!
The soaring resentment and killing intent, mixed with his vast and powerful aura, made the entire world groan!
Kai stared in shock at Shen Zhiyan’s kneeling back, his heart churning with turmoil.
He never expected that this seemingly unreliable senior was actually a disciple of Tianmen! And… the eldest senior brother?
“Senior… you…”
Kai couldn’t help but speak.
Shen Zhiyan slowly stood up, turned around, his face no longer streaked with tears, only an icy killing intent and an almost insane calm remained.