After Xuan Zi entered the Abyssal Passage, his body continued to plummet downwards, with pitch darkness surrounding him and only the sound of the wind whistling in his ears.
Right at that moment, a dense flurry of wing-flapping sounds suddenly came from all directions.
Xuan Zi looked closely and saw countless dark shadows surging out from the darkness, pouncing fiercely towards the direction where he was.
Those dark shadows were not large, completely pitch-black, with sharp claws at the ends of their limbs—they were shockingly Four-Clawed Bats.
Xuan Zi's pupils suddenly constricted, not expecting that it was these things again. These things were just a group of cannon fodder; back then, he had personally caught and killed a Four-Clawed Bat with the combat power of a Spirit King. Now that there were so many here, he was not afraid in the slightest.
Xuan Zi immediately let out an angry shout, and the Spirit Power within his body erupted instantly. Fortunately, he had now recovered one arm, and his combat power had recovered a little more. Moreover, he possessed the power of devouring. Right now, he was terrifyingly strong.
Xuan Zi suddenly raised and opened his mouth, and a strong yellow light burst out, followed by a terrifying suction force that directly enveloped all the Four-Clawed Bats pouncing towards him.
"Devour!"
Those bats let out sharp screeches, desperately flapping their wings trying to escape, but the suction force was too strong. After struggling twice in mid-air, their bodies were wrapped by that yellow light and flew towards Xuan Zi's direction.
Those Four-Clawed Bats turned into clusters of gray energy, all sinking into Xuan Zi's body.
Xuan Zi's eyes were bloodred, and the evil aura all over his body lingered for a long time.
The strength of the surrounding Four-Clawed Bats was not considered very strong, only between the level of a Spirit Ancestor and a Spirit King. Originally, they were not much of a threat to Xuan Zi.
Furthermore, now that he had awakened the true devouring talent of the Taotie Divine Ox, these low-level Abyssal Creatures had absolutely no possibility of escaping in front of Xuan Zi, who was displaying the power of devouring.
Every time he absorbed a Four-Clawed Bat, Xuan Zi could feel the power within his body growing fuller by a fraction.
That feeling was quite wonderful, and every cell in his body was cheering and leaping. While devouring, complex emotions surged in Xuan Zi's heart.
His heart truly felt some regret: why hadn't this ability of his awakened a bit earlier?
If this devouring talent had already awakened when the Abyssal Creatures first descended upon Shrek Academy, how great would that have been.
At that time, the sky full of Four-Clawed Bats came overwhelmingly, and the entire Shrek Academy fell into a state of chaos.
If he, Xuan Zi, had appeared with this posture back then, appearing in front of everyone with the identity of a savior, turning all those bats into his own power, how glorious that would have been.
With the number of those Abyssal Creatures, he could completely push his strength to the level of a 99th-Rank Limit Douluo.
If he truly had that power back then, how would that brat Bei Bei dare to make a move against him?
That kid wouldn't even be able to touch a single finger of his, let alone tear off that arm of his.
His Rank would not have fallen from the 98th Rank to the 78th Rank, and all those subsequent humiliating encounters would not have happened either.
Thinking of this, the hatred in Xuan Zi's heart swelled to the brim once more.
He hated Bei Bei, hated that Shrek Academy in the Sky, hated Lin Feng, hated Zhao Chen, and hated everyone who had caused him to fall to his current state.
He clenched his teeth tightly, making a clicking sound, and his bloodred eyes were filled with a tyrannical light.
This thoroughly terrible World, he must destroy it.
Just as these thoughts were surging in Xuan Zi's heart, the surrounding Four-Clawed Bats had already been mostly devoured by him.
After those bats were devoured, new ones did not continue to spawn; their life energy had all been absorbed by Xuan Zi and could not regenerate.
Feeling the life energy continuously pouring into his body, Xuan Zi couldn't help but burst out laughing.
That laughter echoed in the dark passage, carrying a nearly frantic gratification.
His body began to heat up, and a warm current surged from the Dantian to all parts of his limbs and bones.
Under the infusion of life energy, that broken arm actually began to grow rapidly, and soon took complete shape.
Xuan Zi raised his hands to look, and both arms were back.
Not only that, but he could also feel that his Spirit Power had now returned to the 80th-Rank level.
Although it was still a far cry from the 98th Rank of his Peak period, at least he was no longer that good-for-nothing who was inferior even to a Spirit Saint.
And now his Eighth Spirit Ability could also be used; previously, because of insufficient Spirit Power, there was no way to support the use of his eighth Spirit Ring.
This kind of experience was not something anyone could experience. What he had to do next was to continue devouring, and then become stronger.
Xuan Zi completely failed to notice that the color of his eighth Spirit Ring was a bit wrong. Although they were all black, there were still some differences. Right at this moment, his body suddenly underwent a strange transformation.
A wave of intense pain came from deep within his bone marrow, as if something was frantically tearing apart inside his body.
His bones emitted a crackling bursting sound, and his figure began to swell and deform out of control.
His body rapidly grew taller and larger, a layer of coarse and hard hair surfaced on his skin, the shape of his head was also twisting, his features gradually blurred, and replaced by a ferocious beast's head.
That pair of eyes shifted from his face to his armpits, two rows of tiger teeth protruded from his mouth, and a pair of huge, curved ox horns grew on top of his head, each several meters long.
Xuan Zi turned into a monster with the body of a sheep, eyes in its armpits, tiger teeth and human claws, and a pair of huge ox horns on its head.
At this time, when those eight Spirit Rings on his body—two yellow, two purple, and four black—came into contact with that pair of huge ox horns, they all vanished.
Xuan Zi lowered his head, looking at his body that had completely deviated from the category of human beings, feeling the surging bestial power within his body.
He couldn't feel any panic at all; instead, he burst out laughing, his voice full of madness.
"I'm no longer human!"
"Since this World cannot accommodate me, then I will live on in this appearance! Even if I become a monster, I must take revenge! I must also make those people pay the price!"
"From now on, I am their greatest nightmare!"
He suddenly turned his head, looking at the even thicker darkness deep within the passage.
He could perceive that over there, even more life auras were surging—Four-Clawed Bats, Six-Clawed Bats, and even more powerful Abyssal Creatures.
Xuan Zi took a step, and his huge body rushed towards the darkness.
He began to frantically devour the surrounding Four-Clawed Bats and Six-Clawed Bats, turning away no one. As long as it was alive, as long as it carried life energy, he swallowed it all in one bite.
The aura on his body climbed step by step. As long as he ate, he could become stronger. For Xuan Zi, this was undoubtedly the best way to grow stronger.
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