The undead have descended upon the world? I possess a sword that can cleave the heavens once more!

Outside the base, the light screen of the teleportation portal was still flowing, with the halo at the edge flickering.

Old Wei stood two steps to the side of the door, looking up at the dark cloud pressing down in the sky, his pupils contracting slightly.

"This is a domain!!! The opponent is at the eleventh level?!"

With that thought, he abruptly turned to look at the silver-white figure in the center of the battlefield: "Oh no, Xiao You is in danger!!!"

He instinctively took a step forward, but then stopped himself.

He glanced back at the still-circulating portal behind him, raised his hand and gestured in a certain direction on the city wall, palm down, making two quick cuts—this was the command to close the portal.

But after he finished making the gesture, the position on the other side where he was supposed to receive the order remained empty.

Zhu Yuanzhi wasn't there!

Old Wei frowned deeply: "What is Zhu Yuanzhi doing! Where is he?!"

But he soon found out.

Before the words were even finished, a figure emerged from the light screen of the portal behind them.

It was Zhu Yuanzhi. He stepped out of the stronghold, his clothes fluttering backward due to the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the door.

Without pausing, he rushed to Old Wei's side, shouting, "Old Wei! Quick! Back to the base!"

It was Zhu Yuanzhi, who was not on the city wall.

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhi emerge from the stronghold, Old Wei's brows furrowed even more, and his voice turned stern: "Zhu Yuanzhi! What did I tell you?!"

"You dare disobey orders?!"

Hearing Wei Lao's stern reprimand, Zhu Yuanzhi couldn't care less about anything else.

He immediately stepped forward and grabbed Elder Wei's arm: "Elder Wei, there's a Domain-level being on the other side! Let's go back to the base!"

Old Wei stood there without moving.

He shook his head, his gaze still fixed on the distant silver giant, and softened his tone slightly: "Go back first and continue to be in charge of the arrangements within the base."

Seeing Wei Lao's resolute expression, Zhu Yuanzhi realized something. He took out his sanity spray from his pocket and sprayed Wei Lao with it.

Then he grabbed Old Wei's arm and yanked him forcefully towards the portal: "Quick, let's get back to the base, Old Wei!"

Despite being surrounded by a refreshing mist, Old Wei remained completely still. His lips twitched slightly, but his voice was as calm as ever: "...I wasn't controlled by that ability to influence my emotions. I'm perfectly calm right now!"

Zhu Yuanzhi frowned, somewhat puzzled, and said, "Elder Wei! You should know that under the current circumstances, returning to the stronghold and activating the city-protecting ritual is the safest strategy, right?"

Old Wei nodded: "Of course I know."

After saying that, Elder Wei suddenly added, "Remember to close the portal, then proceed as planned!"

Just as Zhu Yuanzhi was still wondering what those words meant, Old Wei had already turned to the side.

He took a half step to the side with his left foot, lowered his center of gravity, and raised his right leg—then kicked Zhu Yuanzhi in the side waist.

The force wasn't great, but the angle was clever; Zhu Yuanzhi was pushed backward as if he had been pushed into the portal's light screen.

The instant his body disappeared into the light curtain, Old Wei had already turned around, his gaze returning to the silver-white figure in the distance.

Old Wei stood there, his hands hanging at his sides, the wind blowing his gray hair back slightly:

"I promised to cover for them!"

"And I want to see it with my own eyes."

"Can he create a miracle?"

"Just like last time in Lanhe City!"

. . .

In the middle of the battlefield, Wu You didn't rush to activate his Quanji Domain and engage in a direct clash with his opponent.

This was the first time he had encountered an opponent with a domain, and also the first time he had witnessed what a domain unleashed by a corpse species looked like.

The layer of grayish-white dust was still falling from mid-air, densely filling every inch of space within the domain.

He didn't act rashly. Instead, he unleashed his silver-white sword energy to harvest the low-level corpses while taking in all the changes around him out of the corner of his eye.

He was carefully observing this so-called "Seven Evils and Six Evil Domains"!

"The seven evils and six wickednesses sound like they're related to the seven emotions and six desires."

"Besides affecting the seven emotions, do those ashes in the air serve any other purpose?"

"Seven emotions and six desires—we only have seven emotions now, so what about the six desires?"

Wu You swung his sword while pondering.

The massive black cloud above was slowly churning. Two giant eyes formed from black smoke narrowed slightly, their gaze sweeping over the silver-white giant before finally settling on the low-level corpses that had been cleaved by sword energy.

"Still wasting resources cleaning up those low-level trash."

"Is this a last-ditch effort by those who know they are no match for the enemy, to make a final contribution to this human settlement?"

It paused for a moment.

"but--"

"Isn't this behavior incredibly disrespectful to me?!"

The dark clouds suddenly surged up, like a pot of hot oil being stirred.

A giant hand formed from black clouds emerged from the bottom of the clouds, its five fingers spread wide, and slammed straight down towards the head of the silver-white giant.

Wu You noticed it.

The silver giant took a step to the left, and the black cloud-like hand grazed his shoulder as it landed on the ground, creating a shallow crater, but without stirring up any gravel—the black smoke disappeared after landing, like water seeping into sand.

But this is just the beginning.

After the first one came the second, the third, and the fourth. The black cloud-like giant hands fell from the sky like raindrops, coming from different directions and angles. Some grabbed from the front, some attacked from behind, and some came down with both hands at the same time, like swatting insects.

The silver-white giant darted and weaved among those giant hands, its figure passing through the gaps in the attacks. Sometimes it would sidestep to avoid one palm strike, and sometimes it would take a half step back to dodge another. Occasionally, it would flip up its jet-black longsword to block those attacks that it could not avoid.

But just after one wave of attacks from the giant black clouds, the massive black clouds in the sky will once again condense into a group of enormous black cloud hands that will attack him!

Wu You could only start dodging and weaving through the dense black cloud hands once again, avoiding them all.

But soon, a new batch of giant black cloud hands took shape again!

While dodging, Wu You thought rapidly: such a powerful attack must have taken a lot of energy, but the power of those black cloud hands wasn't too outrageous; at least it hadn't forced him to use too much of his strength. So why was the opponent continuing this seemingly fruitless waste of energy?

As another wave of He Yun's massive hands descended, Wu You dodged the third one to the side and suddenly noticed a detail: during his dodge, he passed through several pieces of gray-white dust floating in the air. After those dust pieces touched the silver-white phantom's arm, they silently dissolved, just like before.

In the instant of dissolving, the distracting thoughts suppressed by the Clear Sword Heart on the lake of the mind collectively surged upwards.

Wu You narrowed his eyes.

He realized the true purpose behind the attacks he had been receiving with the giant black cloud hand!

The attack wasn't intended to harm him, but rather to force him to keep moving!

Because during the movement, he would inevitably come into contact with the constantly flying dust in the air!

Upon contact with the dust, his emotions and desires would be rapidly amplified!

At this moment, the sword light of the Clear Sword Heart flashed on the lake of the heart more rapidly than before, but the speed at which those distracting thoughts rose up was almost catching up with the frequency of the sword light falling!

Realizing this, Wu You stopped moving at high speed and instead raised his black longsword, slashing it in front of him—

The sword tip traced a perfect circle, and a silvery-white streak of light followed its trajectory, unfolding in the void and connecting to form a complete circle.

This is the Tianji Hengshi Sword, one of the Seven Luminaries Swords of the Star Pivot!

The sword technique is primarily defensive; the sword circle rotates like a star track, which can deflect the force of incoming attacks.

Under the Tianji Hengshi Sword, a circular silver-white barrier immediately formed around Wu You.

All the gray-white dust particles that drifted toward Wu You would be strangely met with an opposing force when they came into contact with the silver-white barrier, and then drift away in the opposite direction!

The dark clouds above remained silent for a moment. Then, their two black, smoky eyes flickered, a mocking warmth rising in their gaze: "Oh?"

"You've realized it now?"

"Unfortunately, it's too late!"

"You've just absorbed far too much of the Seven Nightmare Embers!"

"Right now, do you feel yourself being consumed by evil desires, suffering unbearable pain? Are you even struggling to think clearly?"

Faced with that mocking and sarcastic voice, Wu You did not respond, but instead tried his best to think of a way to deal with the situation.

But to the lustful corpses that had transformed into black clouds, this scene was silence, tacit agreement!

A huge, twisted smile appeared on the giant face in the center of the black cloud, then the voice suddenly rose, filling the entire battlefield like a surging tide:

"Hahaha!"

"Ecstasy, rage, suffocation, delusions, grief, terror, nightmares—!"

"They will gradually erode your mind! They may even completely replace your primary personality!"