After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

Everyone was stunned by this sudden turn of events.

No one expected that what was wrapped in that black spiritual light was not some treasure, but the remains of an unknown creature exuding evil energy.

As that eye, scale, claw, horn, and tail gathered in the center of the circular hall, they subtly showed a tendency to merge!

At the same time, a cloud of black smoke rose from it and quickly filled the entire hall.

Everyone present felt a bone-chilling cold throughout their bodies, and their outward-extended spiritual senses felt as if they were being pricked by needles, causing unbearable pain. In great alarm, they hurriedly withdrew their spiritual senses, but it was too late.

Some of their divine consciousness seemed to be torn apart and disappeared without a trace, as if it were mercilessly devoured by the black energy.

At the same time, a strange killing intent surged in the hearts of everyone present. Several Foundation Establishment cultivators were shocked and quickly suppressed it.

The burly man at the ninth level of Qi Refining had a ferocious expression, with veins bulging on his forehead.

The young man at the third level of Qi Refining had bloodshot eyes, let out a mad roar, and turned to rush towards a passage that had not yet flown out of the black light.

The incident happened so suddenly that before the woman surnamed Ling could stop it, the young man had already disappeared into the depths of the passage.

Strangely, Huo Yu seemed unaffected by the black aura; apart from the sudden drop in temperature, he did not feel anything unusual.

Long Yucheng, who had the lowest cultivation level here, initially had bloodshot eyes, just like the young man who had gone mad.

However, just before he was about to lose control, Huo Yu's spiritual power stimulated him, causing him to fall into a deep sleep. He was lying on the ground, unconscious.

As the black aura grew thicker, everyone understood that this was no treasure at all, but rather a demonic monster about to be born.

The middle-aged Taoist from the Divine Sword Sect was the first to attack the severed limb fragments at the center of the black aura.

With a slap of his right hand, a huge golden flying sword shot out, its blade covered in countless runes that made anyone who looked at it feel dizzy.

The middle-aged Taoist activated his sword technique, and in an instant, two enormous golden sword beams pierced through the dense black mist, slashing towards the gradually merging limbs.

The black mist seemed to be afraid of the golden sword energy and took the initiative to avoid its sharpness.

The two sword energies flew unimpeded to the fused remains of the limbs, but the next second, something unexpected happened!

The eyeballs in the mass of severed limbs suddenly turned to the middle-aged Taoist priest and let out a cold snort.

In an instant, the two golden sword energies dissipated.

Even the middle-aged Taoist seemed to be attacked by some invisible force, taking several steps back, coughing up a mouthful of blood, and roaring:

What are you all standing there for?

Everyone was shocked and took action, trying to stop the transformation before the mass of limbs completely merged.

However, at this moment, another change occurred. The burly man from Beast Taming Valley, who had been corrupted by the black energy, roared and joined the battle. But his target was not the black energy, but the cultivator from the Divine Sword Sect!

Although the Divine Sword Sect cultivator was injured, he remained vigilant towards everyone in the area.

The moment the burly man from Beast Taming Valley launched his sneak attack, he spotted him and, in a moment of alarm, intervened to deflect the attack.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the burly man's hands had transformed into sharp claws, he had wings growing from his back, a king-shaped pattern on his head, and bloodshot eyes. Clearly, he had fallen into madness, just like the young man from the Qiongshan Sect before him.

After the madman merged with the giant tiger, he actually possessed a cultivation level close to the late Foundation Establishment stage, and was in no way inferior to the cultivators of the Divine Sword Sect in battle.

On the other side, the woman surnamed Ling had no time to pay attention to the internal strife between the two, and instead focused all her efforts on attacking the mass of severed limbs in the black mist.

Its attack methods are bizarre; it simultaneously controls several mechanical puppets.

Those mechanical puppets were all at the seventh level of Qi Refining. Some used water, some used fire, and they worked together seamlessly. Together, they were able to fight against cultivators in the early stages of Foundation Establishment.

However, the attack method of the mass of severed limbs was even more bizarre. Before anyone could see its attack trajectory, the three leading mechanical puppets were directly cut in half at the waist.

The woman surnamed Ling's eyes sharpened. She manipulated the four mechanical puppets that were protecting her from behind to step forward and fill the gap. At the same time, she took out six more mechanical puppets from her storage bag and threw them out as well.

Huo Yu showed no mercy at this moment, his attack method was simple and brutal, he just made fireballs.

Those fireballs seemed no different from those released by fire-attribute mechanical puppets, but the mass of severed limbs was wary of them and did not directly defeat them. Instead, it used the mechanical puppets it had killed to block their attack, and then swallowed them with dense black energy.

After absorbing Huo Yu's fireball, the black aura seemed to thin out slightly.

The woman surnamed Ling quickly noticed the black energy's fear of Huo Yu and exclaimed with delight:

"Senior Brother Yu, I'll cover you. You attack that evil creature with all your might!"

However, Huo Yu glanced coldly at the woman surnamed Ling, then withdrew his hand and stood aside, watching coldly.

Because they were wary of Huo Yu, the group of severed limbs did not attack him, but instead focused all their efforts on attacking the woman surnamed Ling.

The woman surnamed Ling was terrified and angrily cursed:

"Senior Brother Yu, what do you mean by this!"

The attack from that mass of severed limbs was too bizarre; one by one, the Qi-refining puppets in her hands were disintegrated.

The woman surnamed Ling kept throwing out new puppets to replenish her supply, but she still couldn't withstand the increasingly dense attacks.

With gritted teeth, a ruthless glint flashed in her eyes. She took out a fiery red shuttle from her storage bag, threw it upwards, and simultaneously detonated the cores of all the mechanical puppets!

All the mechanical puppets, whether they were still functional or shattered by the strange eyeball, self-destructed under the control of the woman surnamed Ling's divine sense, and the resulting massive waves of spiritual energy swept across the entire hall!

At the same time, the fiery red shuttle shimmered with light and emitted a thin, light red veil that enveloped the woman surnamed Ling, ensuring her safety during the puppet's self-destruction.

Meanwhile, the middle-aged Taoist from the Divine Sword Sect, who was engaged in a fierce battle with the berserk Beast Taming Valley giant, also retreated rapidly, throwing out a small white jade shield.

With a single touch, the palm-sized white jade shield instantly grew to the height of a person, protecting the middle-aged Taoist behind him.

The burly man from Beast Taming Valley seemed oblivious, taking no defensive measures and relentlessly unleashing his killing moves at the Divine Sword Sect cultivator.

Amidst the powerful shockwave of the dozen or so puppets exploding simultaneously, half of the burly man's body rapidly turned to charcoal, yet he seemed oblivious, focusing solely on attacking the Divine Sword Sect cultivators.

The charred half of the body quickly grew new flesh and blood to cover it, making it look extremely horrifying for a moment.

Huo Yu had already seen that the woman surnamed Ling had a backup plan, and he summoned a fire barrier to protect himself and Long Yucheng behind him, so that they were not affected by the puppet's self-destruction at all.

Instead, the mass of severed limbs seemed to have been severely injured. The black aura that had surrounded it dissipated, revealing its eyes that coldly stared at the woman surnamed Ling.

Just then, a familiar rumble and tremor came from the passage that the young man at the third level of Qi Refining had rushed into in his madness. Then, a black light shot out from it and disappeared into the pile of limbs before anyone could stop it.

In an instant, the entire circular hall was filled with a surge of black energy! Almost simultaneously, the pearls embedded in the ceiling of the hall all burst forth with dazzling light, as if it were broad daylight!

In an instant, the entire hall was divided into two completely different parts—the black mist inside was so thick you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, while the outside of the black mist was so bright you couldn't open your eyes!

After the white light dissipated, what appeared before everyone was a naked black-haired youth and a huge dragon shadow made of lightning!