I will burn books and slay gods.

Huo Zhen looked at the monster in front of him, and at his son's head, which was on the monster's body.

Huo Zhen wasn't the only one who witnessed this scene; everyone saw it, and everyone was shocked.

They simply couldn't believe that the demon feasting on the creature was actually their young master.

"Son, is it still you?"

Huo Zhen asked softly.

"it's me."

"Father."

Huo Zhen listened to the Nightmare Beast's reply, but in its next words, Huo Zhen realized completely that his son would never come back.

"I'm so hungry, can I eat you?"

Upon hearing this, Huo Zhen was taken aback for a moment, then looked at the Nightmare Beast with those loving fatherly eyes once again.

"Old man, stop looking at me with that disgusting gaze, I'm about to throw up."

The Nightmare Beast spoke with a smile, and even put the severed limb to its mouth in front of Huo Zhen, and began to devour it.

Upon witnessing this scene, Huo Zhen ruthlessly drew his sword from his waist and loudly commanded.

"This monster before you is no longer your young master. Follow my lead and slay it!"

Upon hearing Huo Zhen's order, the soldiers shouted again, "Kill!"

Huo Zhen stared at the creature before him, which consisted only of a head resembling his son's, with the rest being the body of a demon. He couldn't believe it was real.

Because Huo Zhen was not yet able to perfectly control the Hellfire bestowed upon him by the blueprint, he could only attach the Hellfire to the sword he was currently holding.

In an instant, the sword that had been shining with a silver-white blade transformed into a burning flame with a deep blue color.

When Huo Zhen's sword transformed into a form imbued with hellfire, this scene was witnessed by the Nightmare Beast.

The moment it saw the flames, the Nightmare Beast's face contorted into a ferocious expression.

"So you're a Night Watcher too!"

"I just killed one of the Night Watchers, and now another one has appeared."

"You people really aren't afraid of death!"

At this moment, Huo Zhen was completely unaware of what the demon beast in front of him was muttering.

Instead, he shouted to boost morale: "All soldiers, follow me and kill this monster!"

The Nightmare Beast stared intently at the soldier before it and the sword radiating hellfire.

Before the soldiers even reached the Nightmare Beast, time seemed to stand still for a moment. In slow motion, it could be seen that almost all the soldiers were still in shock.

The soldiers in the front row had already had their heads separated from their bodies, and they could even see their own bodies as they continued to charge forward.

Three seconds later, Huo Zhen's warhorse had just taken its first step.

At this moment, almost all of his soldiers had been beheaded, leaving him as the lone commander, still sitting on his warhorse.

Before Huo Zhen could react, the Nightmare Beast teleported to Huo Zhen's warhorse. Startled, the warhorse immediately reared up.

With a single slap, the Nightmare Beast smashed the warhorse's head to pieces on the spot!

Huo Zhen, on the other hand, fell directly off his warhorse and landed heavily on the ground.

The Nightmare Beast did not attack Huo Zhen at this moment, but just watched Huo Zhen and stood up from the ground again.

His eyes swept over everything around him—his own army, his own warhorses—now all headless, only corpses lying on the ground.

Before Huo Zhen could even react, his warhorse's head exploded just before it hit the ground!

At this moment, Huo Zhen probably truly understood just how powerful the monster his army was facing.

However, if one only realizes this at this point, it will be too late.

At this moment, Huo Zhen watched as his army was so cruelly slaughtered by the monster in front of him, and his anger reached its peak!

In an instant, the hellfire bestowed upon Huo Zhen filled his entire body, completely enveloping him.

Huo Zhen also felt the hellfire clinging to his body, giving him an unprecedented surge of energy.

The Nightmare Beast simply watched Huo Zhen silently, without making any defensive moves.

As Huo Zhen gathered strength in his feet, he instantly gripped his sword, which was imbued with hellfire, and swung it at the Nightmare Beast!

"Snapped!"

The sound of the sword was crisp and clear. Huo Zhen found that the hilt of the sword in his hand was completely still in the air. No matter how hard he tried, he could not see the sword move even a little.

As Huo Zhen slowly raised his head, he was shocked to find that the sword hilt he was holding tightly in his hand, and the blade he was swinging, was being directly grasped by the demon in front of him.

Even though the sword was still burning with raging hellfire, it didn't harm him in the slightest.

"Is that all the strength you've got?"

"You're not even worthy of me using even a fraction of my power."

"You're still far from it. You don't even have the same level of pressure as that little guy."

"Okay, that's enough talking."

"You can go die now."

With a powerful clench of its hand gripping the sword, the Nightmare Beast shattered the sword into pieces.

After crushing Huo Zhen's sword to pieces, the Nightmare Beast clenched its fists together, gathered its strength, and swung out!

It was only then that Huo Zhen realized just how pathetic he was; he felt death coming from the monster's fist.

As the Nightmare Beast unleashed its punch, only half of the sword remained, which Huo Zhen used to block it in front of him. At that moment, time seemed to slow down.

Huo Zhen saw the power of that punch; it was so strong that it distorted the air around the fist.

"boom!"

Like a cannon shot, it struck the short sword in front of Huo Zhen.

"Whoosh—"

In an instant, Huo Zhen flew out like a bullet, crashing into dozens of houses and buildings before finally stopping when he hit the city wall.

At this moment, Huo Zhen had already fainted and his eyes rolled back.

The Nightmare Beast was astonished by the power of its punch; it hadn't expected it to be so strong!

Then, he grabbed the corpse from the ground and began to eat it again.

"It seems that consuming these corpses will be enough to restore my strength to its peak!"

Just as the Nightmare Beast was still feasting, it suddenly sensed a powerful aura approaching it.

Even the Nightmare Beast couldn't detect that aura. Only after sensing it did it realize, to its astonishment, that the person had already arrived beside it.

"Are you the embodiment of that pill?"

When the Nightmare Beast heard about the pill from this person, it knew that the person was the one who brought it back to this world.

"good."

"Exactly."

"And who are you?"

"The Nightmare Beast questioned."

The Nightmare Beast looked at the human in front of it, but the energy it emitted made it no match for the human at present.

"My name is Blueprint."