Chapter 376: Chapter 266: It’s Just Six Zombie Gods...

"Wait! What about the dragon?!"

But their shock lasted only a moment before one of the Demon Fiends quickly realized what was happening.

The Cultivator was gone, but what about the Giant Light Dragon manifested from the Rules?

All the Demon Fiends looked up at the sky, which was now completely empty. Instead, an unfamiliar aura had appeared at the center of the altar.

The Demon Fiends instantly sensed that something was wrong. Understanding dawned, and they whipped their heads toward the Core Altar.

There, a masked figure hovered silently above the altar, their gaze also fixed upon them.

Though they couldn’t see the face beneath the mask, they felt an invisible, scornful mockery directed at them.

"Damn it, we’ve been tricked! That iron clunker and that Demon Dragon were both products of the Rules! This guy... he deceived us!"

"..."

The Demon Fiends finally put it all together. They never imagined they could have misjudged so badly—that even the iron clunker they had attacked was a manifestation of the Rules.

Their scheme to snatch the prize had backfired. Instead of gaining anything, they had simply paved the way for someone else!

"Hand over the Forbidden Artifact Fragment! Or... die!"

The Demon Fiends roared in fury, instantly reverting to their true forms and charging straight for Yang An.

With the Forbidden Artifact Fragment taken by Yang An, no more manifestations of the Rules would appear to obstruct them.

’We have to catch this guy, snatch back the Forbidden Artifact Fragment, then skin him alive, rip out his tendons, and grind his bones to dust.’

Facing the ferocious charge of the six Zombie God Great Demon Fiends, Yang An remained motionless in the distance.

’It’s just six Zombie Gods...’ 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

With a flip of his palm, he stored the Forbidden Artifact Fragment in his Storage Magical Artifact.

At that very moment, the six Zombie God Great Demon Fiends had transformed into six hideous behemoths. They rapidly closed the distance, about to come within a hundred meters of Yang An.

But Yang An simply raised his hand gently, and then...

"Bye-bye!"

In an instant, a blinding light erupted from Yang An’s body, then compressed to its absolute limit, enveloping him completely.

BOOM—

A world-shaking explosion suddenly ripped through the air.

The force of the blast radiated in all directions. The already devastated land trembled once more as a storm of sand and stone raged within a radius of several hundred meters.

The six Great Demon Fiends clearly hadn’t anticipated this. Their eyes looked ready to split as they watched helplessly while Yang An turned to ash. His life force dissipated in an instant, utterly annihilated. Not even his soul remained; he had vanished without a trace.

"Damn it! Damn it! DAMN IT!"

The Demon Fiends let out furious, unwilling roars that echoed across the heavens and earth, and they began to wantonly vent their frustration by destroying everything around them.

They were so close! Just one step away!

The Forbidden Artifact Fragment that had been within their grasp was gone, just like that. None of them had expected that man to decisively choose suicide, leaving nothing behind.

How could such a shameless person exist in this world?

Couldn’t he have just obediently handed over the Forbidden Artifact Fragment? At worst, he would have suffered a bit of torture at their hands. What was this business about suicide? Were they really that terrifying?

’It doesn’t make sense!’

’It just doesn’t make any sense!’

The appearance of an Immortal Origin Land was already a rare event. Although this was just a small-to-medium-sized one—it could even be called a secret realm—it was but the tip of the iceberg compared to the legendary Immortal Origin Land as a whole.

But who knew how long it would be until the next Immortal Origin Land containing a Middle Grade Forbidden Artifact Fragment appeared.

Faced with Yang An’s suicide and the disappearance of the Forbidden Artifact Fragment, they were helpless. All they could do was vent their frustration and rage.

But just then, as if sensing something, all the Demon Fiends looked in the same direction. Their destructive rampage came to an abrupt halt, their malevolent, hideous faces suddenly frozen in a stupor.

’The Immortal Origin Land... The way out of the Immortal Origin Land... it’s gone!’