Myth Beyond Heaven

"Who are you? Why don't you show yourself?" The machete man shouted and tightened the grasp on his machete. The opponent could hide from his Spiritual Sense. It was clear this person was extremely powerful.

"Here you go." As the voice fell, a black figure gradually appeared a few meters away ahead of the machete man. This person was dressed in black from head to toe, making it difficult to see his features.

The scarred man and the other twelve people grabbed their weapons, staring at the black figure vigilantly. When the black figure appeared, everyone immediately recalled the piece of information about the mysterious black figure… Perhaps this was the one?

"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Yin Xichen. I am here to harvest some sacrifices." The black figure, Yin Xichen, said with a playful smile. The gaze he looked at the Red Skull pirates was as if he was looking at a group of ants.

"Do you know who we are?" The machete man asked sternly while secretly sending a signal to his comrades.

"I don't know. A group of ants, I guess?" Yin Xichen curled his lips. He glanced at the young woman and said. "Oh? What a nice girl. It seems this trip is not in vain. Although your level hasn't met those girls' standard, it's better than nothing."

"Now!" The machete man's aura suddenly exploded, and all the pirates behind him instantly reappeared around Yin Xichen while launching their best offensive strikes on the latter.

Standing under massive pressure from all directions, Yin Xichen shook his head in disappointment. "That's it?"

With a leisurely posture, Yin Xichen raised his right hand up and made a grasping gesture. The surrounding space trembled, and a few spatial cracks instantly appeared behind the Red Skull pirates.

RIIIP!!

Several black lights shot out from the cracks and mercilessly shredded everyone around Yin Xichen into countless pieces. Blood splashed everywhere, including internal organs.

The machete man was petrified on the spot. He had forgotten entirely to launch his attack. As the group leader, he was aware of his comrades' strength. Even though a Saint would have a hard time dealing with them at once. Yet, this Yin Xichen could simply eradicate them with a single move.

"M-monster!" The machete man uttered in horror, and the next moment, his head exploded into pieces, leaving a headless body behind.

The young woman trembled in fright. Her face was colorless. She had never seen such a brutal scene before in her entire life.

Yin Xichen clicked his tongue. "Tsk! So weak?" He turned to look at the young woman and slowly walked toward her. Each step of him seemed to leak death's smell, causing the woman to shiver nonstop.

A moment later, Yin Xichen had arrived before the woman. He gently lifted her chin and said softly. "Am I that scary?"

Seeing the woman's pale face, Yin Xichen chuckled and said. "Don't be afraid. You won't feel any pain."

As his voice fell, the woman's pupils enlarged in shock as she clearly perceived her vitality was leaking out of her body. Her young face gradually turned older bit by bit. Wrinkles appeared, and her hair became white. In a blink of an eye, she had become a bag of bone without a single trace of lifeforce left.

Yin Xichen licked his lips and lit up a black fire to burn the woman's lifeless body into ashes. "The taste is not bad. Thank you for the meal."

He turned around and looked in the island's center direction with a grin underneath his black veil. "There are many quality sacrifices here. Jiejiejie. I love it."

As his voice fell, a spatial crack appeared behind him, and he was sucked into it, disappearing from the place.

***

"There is a divine cave around two hundred meters ahead. We had investigated it many times but couldn't find anything particularly. Do you want to take a look at it, Senior Brother Yun?" Xue Qianqian suddenly brought this up while everyone kept running toward the island's center.

"Divine cave? Since no one could find anything, who came up with the name?" Yun Lintian asked in puzzlement.

"It was our senior sister. She was the first to discover this cave and found a piece of Divine Stone. We believe this place used to be a divine being's abode. However, nothing could be seen again afterward." Tong Mi'er answered.

An idea flashed across Yun Lintian's mind. Perhaps it was another "divine being abode" like he saw in the Water Cave back then?

"Let's take a look at it. We have to pass it, anyway." Yun Lintian made a decision and let Xue Qianqian lead the way to the so-called divine cave.

While traveling, they didn't forget to harvest some rare plants along the way. Yun Lintian only took one stalk of them since he could multiply it in the Land of Beyond Heaven later and gave the rest to everyone.

A while later, everyone had arrived in front of a relatively hidden cave with some mosses and grasses covering the entrance.

The first thing Yun Lintian did was to scan the vicinity with his Eyes of Heaven. The result was pretty much the same as before. He didn't find anything unusual here, which meant there was no formation or a single living being here.

"It seems no one has come here for a long time." Xue Qianqian looked at the cave entrance. She could see that this place hadn't been touched for years.

"Let me go." Yun Lintian took a step forward and lit a small fireball before throwing it onto the mosses and grasses. The cave entrance was cleared the next moment, revealing a wide passage behind it.

Yun Lintian didn't say anything further and walked into the cave with everyone following behind.

The moment Yun Lintian stepped into the cave, his intuition told him there was something wrong with this place. However, his Eyes of Heaven still couldn't find anything here, which confused him greatly.

"Big Brother Yun, I perceive a trace of a profound beast here… No, it should be a divine-rank profound beast. But I believe it has already gone." Linlin sniffed around as she sent a sound transmission to Yun Lintian.

"A divine-rank profound beast?" Yun Lintian was taken aback… What the hell was this island?