Chapter 5931

Just after they left—about the time it takes an incense stick to burn—the void above the valley twisted subtly, and three figures clad in pitch-black soul armor emerged in silence.

At the front stood a middle-aged man with a grim, somber face. He looked down at the now-empty valley, sensing the lingering fluctuations of battle in the air, and frowned deeply.

“What a powerful surge of resentment… and there’s also a strange aura—one that makes the soul tremble.”

He raised his hand and grasped at the air. A wisp of gray energy was stripped from the surroundings and hovered above his palm. It looked ordinary, yet carried a faint intent to devour and annihilate everything.

The man probed it with his soul power—

Suddenly, the gray wisp surged violently, swallowing nearly half of his soul power in an instant.

“Pfft!”