Incarnate.

Liang Chen raised his head slightly after receiving the nearly desperate plea of the blue-haired and green-eyed woman, Yi Xue. His gaze locked on to the stone castle that served as the headquarters for these bandits, a colorless and weak poisonous gas rapidly extending from his body. The gas entered the castle through the smallest openings and quickly started to spread throughout the entirety of it, Liang Chen closing his eyes and using the poison to get a quick look at what was going on within the castle.

His eyes snapped open again after only two short seconds, his expression not revealing the slightest trace of emotion. He crouched down slightly and gave Yumao a few pats on the head, gesturing towards the castle with his chin. Yumao understood his meaning and let out a loud hiss, flapping his wings and shooting towards the stone castle as a black blur.

As Yumao crashed through the walls and entered the castle, Liang Chen descended to the ground like a shooting star, having been left behind when Yumao accelerated to his full speed. He didn't slow his descent in the slightest, resulting in him smashing into the flattened earth with a thunderous crashing sound.

He kicked up a cloud of dust and chunks of earth and stone but his strong body cultivation made it so that he didn't even have a scratch on him when he walked out of the cloud of dust. The place he landed was almost in the very middle of the group of 19 marauders, only a few steps away from the wounded Yi Xue. Seeing him choose to come down here instead of heading to the castle with his pet, she quickly called out to him.

"What on earth are you doing?! You should rescue the children first, they are too weak to be able to hold on for too long in the face of these no-good fellows! I don't know how strong your snakey is, but the leader of these bandits is really scarily strong, you know? He's already managed to step into the Primordial Immortal realm, the hecking grand Primordial Immortal realm! The little Snakey'll be murdered and neatly dissected if you let it stay in there alone!"

Yi Xue grabbed onto Liang Chen's right hand and gave it a strong pull, hoping to pull him forward and then push his back so that she could properly help him understand just what he should do. But to her surprise, his body didn't even budge in the slightest when she exerted her force, it was as if she was trying to pull an entire mountain.

Liang Chen's gaze swept over the girl for a quick second, giving her a closer inspection from up close. Now that he was closer to her he managed to realize that she exuded an aura somewhat similar to Chen Dairong from the Sealing God sect, the time around her was somewhat chaotic and disorderly. Of course, this didn't mean that she also cultivated the laws of time, it simply meant that she had spent quite a bit of time within an array that sped up time within it.

He didn't know how long she had spent inside such an array, but he found her manner of speaking odd, a bit too childish for someone that should be around 20. But no matter how long she had spent in one such array, just the fact that she could spend so much time in such an array meant that she should have a rather high status somewhere. But if she really did have such a high status that she could utilize a time-acceleration array, why would she consider the Primordial Immortal realm so grand and scary?

Liang Chen had a few questions about this girl, but he only let his gaze roam over her for a second before it turned towards the marauders around them. His golden pupils swept over them, the multi-colored lightning flickering within them causing the hearts of a few of the marauders to nearly stop on instinct. The corners of Liang Chen's mouth curved up very faintly, his left arm rising as his finger pointed out.

"Glad. Yes, I'm glad. I'm glad that you people are as you are. I feel like the people I've faced lately have all been so gray and strange, with only a select few of them being truly evil. But you guys? You are scum, nicely vile and simple, a true blight upon life itself. It won't leave behind even the slightest aftertaste if I murder the whole lot of you. So come, the heavens have stayed silent for too long, let me deliver unto you what they should have long ago."

The veins in and around Liang Chen's eyes bulged slightly as he spoke, his eyes turning a bit bloodshot as a result. When he used his poison to inspect the situation within the castle, the things he saw left him filled with disgust and wrath. Young and old, men and women, abused and violated, tortured and terrorized. He even saw a young boy who looked no older than eight or nine, he was in the middle of being ravaged by four marauders of perverse taste, one of the marauders had even taken a large bite out of his back, swallowing the flesh, blood, and skin with glee.

Liang Chen had seen evil people and vile monsters before, but seeing something like this brought him right back to the first time he acted on his impulses back in the Mystic's Hidden Realm. It was when he used his poison to infiltrate the Second Cloud Palace that Liu Daning was living in. Back then he had seen similarly vile scenes, although they were a bit tamer back then, and just like back then, he was filled with boundless rage when he saw it. These weren't people, they were a plague upon existence, living proof that the heavens were either dead or evil, they were part of the reason behind Liang Chen's existence.

Liang Chen was quite a bit weaker back then, yet he was still able to make the Second Cloud Palace flood with a tide of blood. But there would be no tide of blood today, today there would just be death and lightning, the wrath of the heavens incarnate.

Liang Chen's body pulsated with power for a quick second, a glimmering brown bolt of lightning shooting out from the tip of his outstretched finger. The lightning shot right past Yi Xue and straight through all the marauders in front of Liang Chen, it continued on unabated and tore a hole straight through the grand spire serving as the centerpiece of the stone castle. The bolt of lightning suddenly expanded when it pierced through the spire, arcing out into several hundred other lightning bolts and decimating the entire tower. The tower collapsed and turned into rubble, tearing down a section of the castle as it fell.

Of the 19 marauders surrounding him and Yi Xue, four were killed immediately by the lightning, their skin sizzling and crackling, almost turning into charcoal due to the intense heat of Liang Chen's fused lightning. But the remaining 15 marauders also fell over strangely after the lightning bolt that was Liang Chen's wrath shot out. Some of them turned as pale as paper as all life left them and they collapsed like lifeless dolls, the law of death silently taking what they had wasted.

But the last four that died were a bit different, their eyes were filled with unspeakable horror for a few seconds before they fell over and died. They had just reached the early stage of the Soaring Immortal realm or the late stage of the Heaven's Gate realm, they were unable to block Liang Chen's Qi and he was thus able to infiltrate their brains with it. The law of time ate away at small portions of their brain so that Liang Chen could conserve some Qi, but it still resulted in them feeling like they had experienced several decades in the span of a few seconds, their brains and heart eventually simply shutting down.

In the span of a mere three seconds, all the marauders present had lost their lives. And throughout the entire process, the only action Liang Chen had taken was to raise his left hand and point out. And only half a second after the marauders lost their lives, the castle that used to be their headquarters exploded. A loud hissing sound carrying the faint undertones of a roar rocked the asteroid that the castle stood on, massive black fangs rising out from the castle and tearing it apart from the inside.

Yumao shot out from the minuscule rubble that remained of the castle, almost 100 people of varying ages tied to his body through strings of materialized darkness. And stuck between his teeth was the ragged body of the man who used to be the leader of these marauders, the silvery-brown metal armor covering his body torn apart like paper by Yumao's sharp teeth. Yumao and Liang Chen were freaks of nature, only the strongest early stage Primordial Immortals would be able to fight against them at their current level.

Yi Xue was utterly dumbfounded when she saw the scene, her still shattered right elbow already having dropped to hanging limply at her side, she had seemingly undone whatever she did to move it earlier. Her gaze moved between Liang Chen and the winged serpent that was Yumao, her eyes quickly starting to burn with the light of hope, as well as hidden undertones of fiery anger. She immediately dropped to her knees and lowered her head, her forehead smashing against the earth as she kowtowed to Liang Chen.

"I am Yi Xue, Please please please accept me as your disciple! Please please, I beg of you!"