Pretending To Be A Boss-Chapter 684 - 66: Cunning Little Fox (First Update)

In Spiritual Purgatory, only those with extremely special Netherworld physiques could survive.

The temperature here was extremely low, but what was most terrifying were these intangible wandering spirits that would continuously draw away the life essence of living beings.

The phoenix never dies and is reborn in fire.

This saying was indeed correct, but the rebirth through fire of the phoenix in this world was vastly different from the nirvana of the phoenix in the Human World.

The blue flames the Undying Xuan Bird bathed in were flames that drew upon the life force of others.

And rebirth through fire was more like a theft of life.

The Xuan Bird, although categorized as a divine beast, was in reality more evil than infernal creatures. But it was neither a divine beast nor an infernal creature.

It belonged, like the Sin-Bone Spider, to a very rare branch—the Nether Beasts.

The Sin Snatching Territory held a very special meaning for the Undying Xuan Bird because its true master had once been buried here.

Before it had pledged allegiance to the Court of All Beasts.

[Why are you here! Why are you still alive?]

The Xuan Bird was as stunned as if it had seen a ghost upon encountering this invulnerable monster, although ghosts were everywhere here.

Its cry was shrill and piercing.

Tang could not understand at all.

"I, go out, you, open door," Tang threatened.

Then he thought about it and realized his threat seemed a bit lackluster. He pondered how Tang Xian might phrase it.

After deliberating for two seconds, Tang said:

"You, open door, otherwise, beating."

His fists, the size of sandbags, clenched tight, and horns slowly grew on his head as a black substance, charred as coal, swiftly covered Tang.

The Xuan Bird still found it unbelievable.

Within Spiritual Purgatory, unless a Nether Beast entered, life forces would be drained quickly. Vitality seemed to be pulled by some force, slowly extracted.

Even cataclysmic beings would perish after spending some time here.

That was why the Xuan Bird had dragged the Gold-Breaking Beast into Spiritual Purgatory when the Eye of the Mirror had nearly slain it.

Because even the briefest time in Spiritual Purgatory meant attrition for the Gold-Breaking Beast.

But the situation was urgent then, and the Xuan Bird had to make a decision.

The current scenario was a first for the Xuan Bird. It was the first time any beast in Spiritual Purgatory had seemed completely unbothered.

[What exactly are you? You don't have the aura of a Nether Beast, so how can you survive in the Netherworld?]

Every cause has an effect; the mission Tang failed to complete back then was precisely the one assigned by the Xuan Bird.

Although the Xuan Bird did not know that Tang's failure to complete the mission had resulted in his ostracism by the Lei Xiaos and even being turned into an experimental subject.

But in the laboratory on the sacred mountain, it never stopped the ancient apes from doing whatever they desired to Tang.

Even Tang's body contained the blood of the Xuan Bird.

The blood of a Nether Beast was a deadly poison to ordinary creatures. Who knows what inhuman tortures Tang had endured over the years?

Whatever beast blood that was incomprehensible, incapable of being processed, too valuable to discard but useless to keep, was mostly injected into Tang.

He was an experimental subject, but also a long-eared ancient ape, or rather, a plaything under the rule of the Court of All Beasts—a prop that could be ruthlessly trampled upon.

Even in the records of the ancient ape leader, there were accounts of what blood had been injected into Tang and what changes it led to. Most of the remarks were made in a mocking tone, as if these acts were amusing pastimes for them.

This was why, after breaking free from his restraints, Tang's eyes burned red as if a demon had emerged from hell, fueled by his rage toward the ancient apes and the actions of the Court of All Beasts over the years, which had become an obsession in his heart.

The Court of All Beasts had sown the cause, and Tang had become the effect.

This special monster, even unreadable by Tang Xian's sea of consciousness, was now set to become the most dreaded beast of the Xuan Bird, the Judgment Chief of the Court of All Beasts.

Outside, the Xuan Bird had already been beaten to within an inch of its life by Tang Xian, and its current fighting strength was greatly compromised.

As Tang approached step by step, the Xuan Bird shouted:

[Away! Lowly creature! Away!]

Blue flames spewed out, enveloping Tang, burning his soul.

But Tang did not even blink.

If there was anyone in this world who could make Tang feel pain, it was probably only Tang Xian.

Apart from Tang Xian, no one could harm Tang.

"Blue flames, not painful," Tang said calmly, looking at the Xuan Bird.

He allowed the flames to consume him. Indeed, the Xuan Bird felt the Nether Flame drawing away Tang's life force, but Tang's life restoration speed was astonishingly fast.

[Another being from Eden?]

Fear before battle is taboo, but at this moment, the Xuan Bird had no will to fight, feeling only fear.

"Lava beast, blood, painful, your flames, not painful," Tang's gaze grew colder.

He remembered that the long-eared ancient apes had once captured a lava beast, whose blood was like molten magma. Their skin seemed to overflow with magma, revealing rocky textures threaded with lava veins.

Yet the ancient apes still managed to infuse the scorching blood of the lava beast into Tang's body through special means.

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Was it for research? It was merely to take pleasure in watching Tang's contorted, agonizing expressions.

The surrounding wraiths seemed to sense Tang's threat to the master of this domain, collectively turning their heads to look at Tang.