Chapter 160: A Reverend’s Death

Lu Zheng watched on as the tribulation continued for many days. Different disasters struck that Lu Zheng was already speechless.

He could tell that the two men were Venerables but even when he was at his prime, he could only last a few seconds against this tribulation.

~So this is the difference between Venerables and pseudo Reverends~

Time passed on and the scene changed. This time, it showed Reverend Spectral Demon.

He was standing at the very end of space and seemed frozen in fear. His face was pale and sweat beads had formed on his body.

Sitting before him was a beast bigger than any that Lu Zheng had ever seen.

It would be an understatement to say that this beast was larger than all of the space in Western Plains.

Lu Zheng had never seen a creature like it before. It had hundreds of eyes all of which were closed and thousands of hands, each hundreds of times larger than Devil Lord Edu Shashou.

Lu Zheng only gazed at it for a second before his eyeballs imploded, blinding him. He was too weak to even gaze at the beast.

His eyes regenerated and when he could see again, the beast was holding the two Venerables that were with Reverend Spectral Demon.

The two Venerables were pseudo Reverends and wielded unbelievable strength. Yet, they could not even resist the beast as it put them in its mouth, chewing them.

Even Reverend Spectral Demon was too scared to move.

The beast stretched a clawed hand towards Reverend Spectral Demon and pulled him. Immediately, his Immortal Soul was pulled out of his body.

Reverend Spectral Demon willed himself to move despite the great pressure of the beast and resolutely severed his Immortal Soul.

The beast did not seem to care and swallowed a part of Reverend Spectral Demon's Immortal Soul as the man escaped into the distance.

Lu Zheng did not dare gaze at the beast and watched slowly as the scene changed for the last time.

The space was extremely dark but Lu Zheng could still see. Reverend Spectral Demon sat on the ground, his handsome visage ruined with blood and sweat.

Twelve souls formed from his Immortal Soul, each resembling him greatly. Lu Zheng knew they were the split souls that would be First and the others later.

Reverend Spectral Demon stared at Lu Zheng and said: "This is how all Reverends died. That beast is manipulating Heaven's will to control the world and myriad lifeforms. All of fate is predetermined by it. It will soon wake up and when it does, all life shall perish. Before it does, strengthen yourself and kill it. It is the only way, you have my support"

Space broke into millions of fragments as a clawed hand grabbed Reverend Spectral Demon, pulling him into the darkness beyond.

Lu Zheng shivered as he was forcefully ejected from the space. His body twitched as he coughed up blood. In all his life, he had never seen such a thing.

"The way… Reverends… died" Lu Zheng was stunned by Reverend Spectral Demon's last words.

He already knew that the death of Reverends was the greatest mystery of the world.

Nobody knew how they died and when. They simply just disappeared from the world and a new era would be born.

From Reverend Spectral Demon's words, the beast would destroy all of life when it awakens unless it is stopped. However, Lu Zheng had watched how a Reverend had been unable to even resist it. He could not think of any strength that could stop such a being.

The terrifying image of the beast was ingrained in Lu Zheng's sub consciousness that even if he was reborn thousands of time, he could never forget it. The existence of the beast meant the termination of all life.

Lu Zheng clenched his fists. He simply could not accept having his own destiny predetermined for him.

"It is simple, the only way to destroy the beast is to become stronger. My own strength is all that matters"

Lu Zheng did not believe in leaving his own wellbeing in the hands of others. His own strength was the most important factor.

Others would become mortally traumatized after witnessing the sight of a Reverend being devoured whole but Lu Zheng wasn't. In fact, it motivated him to become stronger. That was the only way he could avoid such a fate.

A stream of information entered Lu Zheng's mind causing him to gasp in shock: "This is Reverend Spectral Demon's inheritance!"

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