Unexpected Appearance, Eerie Arrival

Just as Wei Zhongxian and Yu Huatian took a half-step forward.

"Whoosh—"

An extremely cold and gloomy wind blew across the entire battlefield without any warning.

This wind did not blow from the sky, nor from the alleys, but seemed to seep directly from the abyss of hell.

The air, originally scorching hot from the massive fire, plummeted to the freezing point in an instant.

Under the blowing of this gloomy wind, the raging flames instantly turned a ghastly green!

The green flames danced without the slightest warmth, instead exuding a piercing chill.

"This... what is this?"

The crowd beating up Ye Chen suddenly froze, a sense of fear originating from the depths of their souls making them involuntarily stop their hands.

Even the Chief Eunuch Sun Li, who was preparing to deal Ye Chen a fatal blow, instantly changed his expression, his Astral Qi fluctuating violently out of control.

"Something is wrong! This aura..." Sun Li abruptly looked up toward an inconspicuous, dilapidated shack barely a hundred meters away from the tower.

There, it had originally been a pitch-black shadow.

But at this moment, that shadow seemed to come alive, beginning to squirm and expand madly.

"Giggle..."

A hair-raising laughter emanated from the shadow, sounding like an infant's cry, and also like an old man grinding his teeth.

Immediately after, a dense, impenetrable black mist erupted from that shack as the center in an instant!

Spectral Domain!

This was the innate divine ability that only a Level Six Anomaly could cast—Spectral Domain!

"Oh no! It is an Anomaly! And it is a great ominous-level Anomaly!"

Wang Hao saw it most clearly through the Son of Heaven's Qi Observation Art. In his eyes, a terrifying monster of massive size, covered entirely in human faces, was currently entrenched in that shack. That overwhelming sinister aura simply blotted out the sky and the sun!

"Run!"

Wang Hao was horrified and was just about to turn around.

But that Anomaly had clearly come prepared, or it was attracted by the soaring blood energy here and something on Wang Hao's body.

It completely ignored the corpses littering the ground and the half-dead Ye Chen, directly charging toward the tower!

Boom!

The black mist instantly spread out, as fast as lightning, completely enveloping the tower where Wang Hao was located, as well as Wei Zhongxian and Yu Huatian who were guarding him, in the blink of an eye.

"Your Majesty!!!"

Seeing this scene, Sun Li's eyes nearly split open as he let out a shrill scream.

"Save the Emperor! Quick, save the Emperor!!!"

Pei Jingzhe also shuddered, cold sweat instantly soaking his back.

At this moment, whatever assassin, whatever must-kill target, whatever Ye Chen, none of it mattered anymore!

The thing in that shack was a Level Six Anomaly! That was a terrifying existence capable of slaughtering an entire city!

Moreover, its Spectral Domain had swallowed the Emperor!

If the young emperor died here tonight...

A face simultaneously appeared in the minds of Sun Li and Pei Jingzhe. That was Wang Hao's biological grandfather, Emperor Zhangwu, Wang Jingyuan!

If that master knew that his own grandson had died, and died under the protection of so many of their experts...

The consequences of that, just thinking about it, made Sun Li, an expert of the Seventh Layer of the Martial Dao, feel his soul tremble.

"Ignore that assassin! Everyone, charge into the Spectral Domain with me! Save His Majesty!!!"

Sun Li went mad, abandoning Ye Chen who had already been beaten to his last breath. His Astral Qi burned to the limit as he charged like a cannonball toward the black mist that had swallowed the tower.

Pei Jingzhe, Cao Zhengchun, Hai Dafu, and the others also reacted, their faces deathly pale, and rushed forward like madmen behind Sun Li.

And the blood-soaked Ye Chen struggled to open his swollen eyes, watching all those people who had originally wanted to kill him suddenly run away, and pulled a terribly ugly smile at the corner of his mouth.

"Cough cough... Heaven does not want me to die..."

He exhausted all his strength to flee in the opposite direction. Although he looked as wretched as a stray dog, he knew that he had narrowly escaped death once again.

Meanwhile, atop the tower, Wang Hao, enveloped by the Spectral Domain, was currently facing the greatest life-and-death crisis since his transmigration.

In that boundless darkness, countless twisted human faces, wearing greedy and sinister smiles, were slowly approaching him...

The boundless darkness, like thick ink, instantly swallowed the tower.

Wang Hao only felt his vision blur. The scorching firelight, the pungent smell of blood, and even the sound of the flowing air around him were all completely stripped away in this instant.

Cold.

A cold that pierced the bone marrow.

It was as if he had instantly plunged from the scorching summer into the Nine Netherworld Hell. In this darkness, there was no up, down, left, or right, only a suffocating dead silence.

"Your Majesty! Watch out!"

The voices of Wei Zhongxian and Yu Huatian rang in his ears, but they sounded extremely ethereal and distant, as if separated by a thick layer of water. The two experts of the Fifth Layer of the Martial Dao stood on the left and right, desperately guarding in front of Wang Hao. Their True Qi circulated madly, propping up a True Qi shield barely two meters square around the three of them.

However, in front of the ghastly green eerie mist surrounding them, this True Qi shield was like a flickering candle in the wind, shaking violently and emitting a corrosive sizzle sound.

"Giggle..."

That scalp-numbing laughter rang out again. Immediately after, pale human faces emerged from the darkness.

These faces belonged to men and women, old and young; some were crying, some were laughing, and some had their features twisted together. They floated densely in mid-air, like phototactic fish in the deep sea. Their ghastly green eyeballs stared fixedly at Wang Hao and the other two, carrying undisguised greed.

"Playing the devil! Break for me!"

Wei Zhongxian had the most ruthless personality; when had he ever suffered such a grievance? He shouted fiercely, and dozens of sharp Sunflower True Qi shot out from his fingertips like dozens of invisible sharp swords, instantly piercing the dozen or so faces at the very front.

"Puff puff puff!"

The human faces were punctured like balloons, turning into a puff of black smoke.

"Hmph, nothing more than this..." Wei Zhongxian was just about to sneer, but the next second, his smile froze on his face.

He saw that the scattered black smoke actually condensed again in less than a breath's time! And this time, one became two, two became four. The number of defeated human faces had fully doubled, and their size had also become more massive. They opened their bloody mouths full of fangs, madly gnawing at their True Qi shield.

"Do not waste your effort!" Yu Huatian's face was solemn. "This is the innate Spectral Domain of a Level Six Anomaly. Inside here, it is the rule itself. Physical and ordinary True Qi attacks simply cannot kill it!"

"Then what do we do? Do we just wait here to die?!" Cold sweat seeped out on Wei Zhongxian's forehead. Their True Qi was being consumed extremely fast; at most, they could hold out for another half an incense stick of time before the shield would shatter.

"What are you panicking for."

Just as the two were feeling flustered, a voice without the slightest ripple sounded behind them.

Wang Hao stood with his hands behind his back. He knew very well that the more it was a time like this, the less they could afford to lose their composure.

"Your Majesty..." The two turned their heads, but could not help being stunned.