Chapter 83: The Demonic Dao
Heiyu's patience had run out.
With a surge of anger, he released his Stellar Realm aura, letting its full force blanket the area.
The effect was immediate and devastating.
Liu Yue felt it first—a crushing weight on her chest, as if an invisible stone pressed down on her. Her breathing became labored, each breath a desperate struggle. As the edges of her vision began to blur, she managed only a weak whisper: "V-ven..." before her legs gave out.
The pressure of Heiyu's Stellar Realm qi transformed the landscape. Grass bent low as if caught in a hurricane, trees creaked under the strain, and the lake's surface churned violently.
Liu Yue's consciousness faded just as she saw something impossible - the hooded figure standing perfectly still, as though completely immune to pressure that would have killed any mortal instantly.
"What-" Heiyu started to speak, but his words died in his throat as the figure slowly turned.
Red eyes blazed in the darkness of the hood, illuminating a face that made Heiyu's blood run cold. The skin was a mess of burns and scars, twisted into patterns that seemed to slither as though they were alive. But it wasn't the disfigurement that made Heiyu's knees go weak - it was the aura that suddenly rolled off the figure.
It was like standing at the edge of an abyss that had somehow caught fire. Waves of pure malevolence washed over him, carrying echoes of screams that had never quite faded. This... this was the kind of power he'd felt from the highest elders of the Blood Moon Sect, the ones even other demonic cultivators feared.