Chapter 461: Carrion Buddha

Everyone's faces drained of color.

"The Carrion Buddha is here!"

"Captain, what do we do?!"

Zhou Qiong, who had been preparing to strike again, looked anxiously at Su Mu. "Now isn't the time for infighting! I know we have our differences, but if we want to survive the Carrion Buddha, we have to join forces. What do you say?"

"I don't think much of that idea."

Zhou Qiong forced down his burning anger. "Don't you understand that when the snipe and the clam grapple, the fisherman profits? If we fight to the death, all of us will die at the hands of the Carrion Buddha! As fellow God Hunters, we should unite when facing a divine abomination!"

"That's your logic, not mine."

"Lunatic! Chu Ying, look at this madman you brought back!" Zhou Qiong cursed furiously. He was convinced Su Mu was completely insane—to still be thinking about infighting with a divine abomination right in front of them. Did he really want to drag them all down to die together?

Roar!!

A heaven-shaking roar tore through the air.

Driven by that terrifying bellow, a visible shockwave completely overturned the building they were in!

A Carrion Buddha, standing tens of meters tall, crashed into view.

Like a moving mountain of rot, it forced its way into the rubble. Its body was densely covered in festering sores that oozed foul-smelling pus, leaving a trail of bloody, purulent footprints in its wake.

The next moment, the blood and pus dripping from the Carrion Buddha seemed to come alive, rapidly spreading outward. In the blink of an eye, the ground within a hundred li was completely covered in the bloody muck.

The ground beneath everyone's feet turned unusually viscous, as if they had stepped into a swamp.

Bubbles gurgled up from the bloody mire, birthing clumps of rotting flesh within.

"Not good! It's its Rotten Flesh Domain—we can't get out!" Zhou Qiong was burning with anxiety, his eyes frantically scanning the surroundings for an escape route.

He had experienced this Rotten Flesh Domain once before. Last time, several team members had died, and they had only managed to forcibly shatter it at the cost of severe injuries.

Now, already heavily injured, he was utterly powerless to break through it again.

'Damn you, Su Mu!'

Murderous intent flared in Zhou Qiong's eyes. If Su Mu hadn't killed the Headless Monk, the Carrion Buddha would never have been drawn here in the first place!

Although he hated Su Mu to the core, he had to set their grievances aside for now if he wanted to survive.

"Su Mu, you can see how powerful the Carrion Buddha is! Hurry and join forces with me to break this Rotten Flesh Dom—"

Before he could finish, he froze. To his disbelief, Su Mu was walking straight toward the Carrion Buddha.

Endless baleful aura surged from Su Mu, as if threatening to pierce the oppressive sky. Black ripples emanated from beneath his feet; wherever he stepped, the ground rapidly turned pitch-black and cracked, as though the earth itself could not bear the weight of his terrifying aura.

His deep eyes had turned an unfathomable black, making him look like an evil god stepping straight out of the Abyss!

'Its strength is roughly at the Saint Grade, accompanied by mottled divine power. Does it have corrosive properties?' Su Mu observed casually, seeing through the Carrion Buddha's foundation at a glance.

An ordinary Saint Grade would indeed find it hard to deal with, as that mottled divine power was intensely corrosive. Anyone who touched it would be corroded.

But this level of divine power couldn't break Su Mu's defenses. With his formidable physique and the Divinity of the Six Gods protecting him, he truly didn't take a mere divine abomination seriously.

Zhou Qiong's eyes split with rage. "Lunatic! You arrogant, conceited lunatic! You won't be satisfied until you've gotten us all kil—"

Su Mu suddenly clenched his fist. Hundreds of millions of wisps of black baleful aura gathered around it like a black hole, devouring the surrounding light.

Then, he threw a punch...

Boom!!

The air compressed abruptly, and a terrifying sonic boom exploded. An endless torrent of baleful aura erupted with unstoppable momentum, effortlessly blowing through more than half of the Carrion Buddha's body.

Wherever the baleful aura passed, space itself cracked and distorted.

When the sky-filling black aura dispersed, only the lower half of the mountain-sized Carrion Buddha remained standing. The rest of its body had been completely annihilated.

The Rotten Flesh Domain that had spread across a hundred li shattered with a deafening bang!

Everyone stared dumbfounded at the unbelievable scene, shocked beyond measure.

Su Mu slowly retracted his right fist. A light breeze blew past, and the remaining half of the Carrion Buddha crashed to the ground, kicking up a massive cloud of dust.

He turned around and smiled at the petrified Zhou Qiong. "Alright, no one will disturb us now."

Zhou Qiong subconsciously took half a step back, his forehead beaded with cold sweat. To instantly kill the Carrion Buddha with a single strike... this kind of strength absolutely did not belong to an ordinary Saint Grade. Could he be a figure on the level of a Saint Lord!?

'How is this possible!? How could such a figure appear here...'

Tap, tap, tap...

The steady sound of footsteps drew closer to Zhou Qiong.

Zhou Qiong unconsciously swallowed, his hands trembling slightly beneath his wide sleeves. "Mr... Mr. Su, it's a misunderstanding... it's all a misunderstanding. Please, listen to my explanation..."

A stiff, fawning smile surfaced on his face.

Su Mu's footsteps didn't stop, and his smile remained. "Mhm, I'm listening."

"I..." Zhou Qiong was momentarily at a loss for words. Bead-sized drops of sweat continuously slid down his face. His brain spun madly, attempting to dredge up a lifetime of logic to save his own life.

"I was wrong, Mr. Su. I shouldn't have spoken out of turn, but the ignorant are innocent! I didn't know your identity beforehand. I know I was in the wrong, but surely my crime doesn't warrant death! As long as you let me off, I, Zhou Qiong... and the entirety of Dawn's Blade will follow your lead..."

"Heh." The corners of Su Mu's lips curled up. He pushed up his Tinted Glasses and looked at the man with a light chuckle. "You haven't realized you're wrong; you've just realized you're afraid. It's a pity. You're so good at reasoning, yet why can't you come up with a reason that will let you live?"

"No, no, no! Give me a chance! Mr. Su, I beg you to give me one more chance, I will definitely—"

"Who do you think you are, to deserve a chance from me?"

Su Mu lightly raised his hand. Endless black baleful aura gathered in his palm, resembling a black hole that devoured all things and causing the surrounding space to distort faintly.

Crackle!

Zhou Qiong turned and ran without the slightest hesitation. He transformed into a streak of blue lightning and sped into the distance.

He moved so fast it was comparable to teleportation.

Faced with the fleeing Zhou Qiong, Su Mu didn't chase. Instead, he simply smiled as he watched the man's miserable retreating figure.

The next moment, he activated Twisted Divinity.

In the distant sky, directly in the path of the speeding blue lightning, space distorted instantly.

The blue lightning plunged headfirst into the distorted space and vanished.

At the same time, the space in front of Su Mu also distorted.

Swish!

Zhou Qiong's figure shot out from it, only to find Su Mu standing right in front of him with a smile.