Standing in the middle of the six-pointed array, Jiang Chen was completely stunned at this moment!
His martial soul was actually… a zombie!
In that instant, countless thoughts flashed through his mind.
Was it because he cultivated the Heavenly Corpse Transformation that this zombie martial soul was formed?
Or was it because of this zombie martial soul that the Heavenly Corpse Transformation technique appeared in his mind?
He had no answer to the truth.
Fortunately, the thick black mist surrounding the zombie martial soul did not spread outward. Otherwise, fearfully, almost everyone in Holy Soul Village would have been infected with corpse poison.
Such dense toxin, very few people could resist it, especially since most of the villagers were ordinary people.
He tried to recall the zombie martial soul with his mind, but found it had no effect at all.
The zombie martial soul kept throwing its head back and roaring silently toward the sky. Although no sound came out, Jiang Chen could clearly feel an overwhelming hatred and unwillingness emanating from it.
Outside the door, the villagers stared at Jiang Chen with frightened eyes, murmuring among themselves:
"Such an evil martial soul… he really is a disaster!"
At that moment, a sudden, deafening boom came from the completely cloudless sky.
The entire sky abruptly darkened.
Black clouds pressed down like lead, heavy and oppressive, as if they would collapse at any moment. Countless water-bucket-thick lightning bolts shuttled through the churning black clouds. The rumbling thunder was so loud it felt like it would shatter people's eardrums.
"Everyone, leave this place immediately!" A majestic and furious shout rang out, momentarily overpowering the thunder and resounding clearly in everyone's ears.
Tang San looked up in confusion. He felt the voice sounded somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it before.
Old Jack reacted, anxiously leading the crowd away while constantly looking back with worry at Jiang Chen inside the Spirit Hall building.
The black clouds pressed lower and lower, and the lightning within became even more terrifying. The villagers had never seen such lightning before, purple, black, red, and even golden, incomparably strange.
But the one who felt it most intensely was Tang Hao.
Ordinary villagers only felt immense pressure, but he sensed a thick killing intent.
With a strong premonition, he knew that if that terrifying lightning struck him, he would most likely be reduced to ashes in an instant!
Fortunately, the heavenly lightning was not targeting him, but the dazed child standing inside.
Su Yuntao stumbled out in a sorry state, his face filled with undisguised terror. Together with the villagers of Holy Soul Village, he stood far away.
"Lord Su Yuntao, what in the world is happening?" Old Jack asked with a trembling voice.
Su Yuntao kept shaking his head. This scene had nearly scared him to death. His legs were still soft, trembling nonstop.
Just now, inside the room, under that roaring thunder, he had almost fallen to his knees. At that moment, he felt a strong sense of impending death and had barely managed to escape with all his strength.
"Lord Su Yuntao, you are the strongest! Please, you have to save little Chen!" Old Jack shouted anxiously.
"Shut up!" Su Yuntao roared.
Go back in there? That would be suicide!
At this moment, the villagers were already overwhelmed by immense fear and began to speak recklessly.
"He must be an abandoned child of heaven. Even the heavens want to punish him now."
"Awakening a martial soul can actually bring down heavenly wrath. I hope it doesn't destroy our Holy Soul Village."
"Even if he survives, we absolutely cannot let him stay in the village anymore. Otherwise, sooner or later, he will bring death to all of us!"
Why was Jiang Chen standing there in a daze without running?
Because he discovered he couldn't move at all.
At this moment, the entire Holy Soul Village seemed to have turned into night. In the darkness, lightning flashed from time to time. The explosive sound of the terrifying thunder nearly shattered his eardrums.
He felt that the heavenly lightning had locked onto him.
He couldn't understand; he was just awakening a martial soul. Why did it provoke such terrifying heavenly lightning? It really felt as if it were the will of heaven itself, wanting to obliterate him.
Even for a zombie… There was no need for heaven and earth to be so intolerant the moment it appeared, right?
At that moment, Jiang Chen suddenly sensed another kind of power emerging from the body of the zombie martial soul behind him.
This power was opposite to corpse poison. It radiated incomparably violent fluctuations, and that terrifying aura made even Jiang Chen's soul tremble.
He vaguely felt that this power was supremely yang and supremely rigid, seeming very similar to the aura of the heavenly lightning above.
While he was still pondering, the lightning in the sky suddenly converged together, forming a single multicolored thunderbolt. From within the terrifying vortex formed by the black clouds, it came crashing down toward the wooden house below.
"Ahhh!"
Countless people screamed in terror and collapsed to the ground.
Tang Hao stood beside Tang San, his resolute face grave as iron. The vast soul power within his body surged, ready at any moment to wrap up Tang San and flee.
Just as the multicolored heavenly thunder was about to strike down—
From inside the wooden house, a similarly thick golden bolt of lightning suddenly shot out, rising to meet the multicolored thunder!
BOOM—!!
High in the sky, the two thunderbolts collided. The explosion sounded as if the heavens themselves were splitting apart.
At the point of impact, light blazed brilliantly, like a small sun. The entire dark world was illuminated as bright as day.
An incomparably oppressive aura lingered in everyone's hearts.
Su Yuntao wanted to flee several times, but his legs had already gone completely soft. Under this heavenly might, he could not resist at all.
The small sun formed by the collision of the two thunderbolts radiated terrifying fluctuations. Tang Hao did not doubt that if he were standing there, he wouldn't last even a single breath before being reduced to nothing.
Suddenly, the small sun disappeared.
The multicolored heavenly thunder was sent flying backward, disappearing back into the leaden clouds.
The golden thunder also returned to the wooden house and merged back into the zombie martial soul, vanishing completely.
Except for Tang Hao and his son, and Su Yuntao, everyone else had collapsed to the ground.
Fortunately, the black clouds in the sky began to fade. In the blink of an eye, they mysteriously vanished into thin air, as if they had never existed.
Many people rubbed their eyes in disbelief, still filled with lingering fear, feeling as though they had survived a great calamity.
"Little Chen!" Old Jack shouted and staggered toward the building.
Although he usually feared Jiang Chen a little, he had long treated him as his own grandson. How could he not be worried?
"Let's go take a look," Tang Hao said.
His large, thick hand rested on the back of Tang San's head as the two walked toward the wooden house.
Su Yuntao's expression flickered between light and dark. After carefully sensing for a moment, he gritted his teeth and finally followed.
The danger seemed to have passed, and besides… his livelihood was still inside.
He had to see exactly what kind of martial soul could cause such a huge commotion during awakening.
None of the other villagers dared to approach. Their eyes still carried terror as they watched the wooden house from far away.
Inside the room, Jiang Chen's martial soul had already disappeared, and his body regained its ability to move.
Cold sweat had soaked the back of his shirt. The experience just now had truly been soul-shaking; he felt as though he had walked past the gates of hell.
The six black stones on the ground had turned into powder. Su Yuntao looked at them with heartache.
He took out a notebook and said irritably, "Kid, what exactly is your martial soul?"
Jiang Chen was silent for a moment, then did not hide it:
"My martial soul is called… Zombie."