I Am Loaded with Passive Skills

Even the faint murmurs among the saints atop Sacred Mountain Gui Zhe, which carried a trace of interest, ceased all at once.

"Stop!"

Qiu Gu suddenly shouted, his hands and feet turning icy cold.

Qin Duan couldn't defeat him?

Whoever came was this powerful?

Regardless, weren't they all demi-saints climbing the sacred mountain together, seeking merit? At critical moments like this, they had to stand united, sharing life and death...

"This saint commands you to stop!"

Seeing that the orange figure had no intention of even looking at him, Qiu Gu grew furious, golden light erupting from his entire body.

Without waiting for the opinion of Emperor Ai Cangsheng, he directly flew down the mountainside in retreat.

...

"Retreat."

When Feng Zhongzui heard this soft murmur...

Sizzle!

He immediately drew his spiritual sword, performing an unstable Space-Time Transition that carried him a full thousand miles out of the battlefield.

From afar, he stood high in the sky, still shaken, holding his mirror up:

"I feel like something huge is coming... The orange senior told me to retreat. Is the Sacred Mountain going to explode?"

Before he finished his sentence, it happened.

The orange senior, who had severed Qin Duan's arm, suddenly thrust a claw forward, puncturing Qin Duan's chest like it was crushing his heart.

"Ugh!"

Even then, Qin Duan seemed to remain semi-conscious, letting out only a faint groan.

"How dare you?!"

Qiu Gu roared in anger as he rushed forward, his hands poised to summon the Golden Fate Dragon, his golden holy bone becoming evident.

The orange figure tilted his head slightly.

"Buzz!"

It was as if an airflow swept through the void.

In the next instant, with a deafening boom, the backlash of holy power burst around Qiu Gu, causing his entire body to crack open from the inside out.

"The eyes!"

"It's the eyes again!"

Feng Zhongzui screamed in terror.

Just like Qin Duan, it only took a single look from the orange figure. Qiu Gu's left eye filled with a gray flower seal, the Three Flowers spiraling into his pupil.

In an instant, his consciousness too was overtaken!

The explosion didn't come directly from the orange figure. It was purely because Qiu Gu's interrupted spiritual technique sent holy power surging back through his body, causing it to detonate!

"What kind of spiritual technique is this?"

Feng Zhongzui clutched his head with one hand, screaming hysterically.

A technique that didn't require seals, could make demi-saints succumb in an instant, and lasted so long in control...

Did such an evil technique truly exist in this world?

And it didn't even seem like the orange senior had expended any energy!

...

"The Five Decays of Heaven and Man?!"

On the plaza, Zhong Yuanzi, his explosives-laden hair standing on end, involuntarily trembled when he heard Xi inadvertently utter the name after summoning back his ghost spirit.

What's the issue?

This was a question everyone would've asked before the orange figure—no, the Five Decays of Heaven and Man—acted.

But now, it seemed the question was no longer necessary.

"Ai Cangsheng, support me!"

Zhong Yuanzi seemed to know something, and without waiting for Xi to deliver the full intelligence, unfolded the Great Path Map of space beneath his feet and prepared to dash forward.

"But the orange senior... no, the Five Decays of Heaven and Man is faster!" Feng Zhongzui stammered in disbelief.

From the reflection in the Dao Imparting Mirror, as the words "Five Decays of Heaven and Man" echoed across the plaza, it turned its head instantly.

Its right hand retracted from the blood-red chest, pressing near its abdomen's energy center.

The back of its left hand carried its right hand's two fingers upward to its chest, as Path Principles surged and churned around its figure.

"Shu Mingju."

Feng Zhongzui heard the words distantly.

At the summit of the Holy Mountain, Zhong Yuanzi, who hadn't yet launched his attack, suddenly froze upright.

Both hands were pressed tightly to either side of his thighs, his head lifted high as though punished to stand still.

No!

His wild, explosive mane had been suppressed into a straight, elongated form.

He appeared trapped within an intangible, narrow, confining coffin!

"Ai! Cang! Sheng!"

Zhong Yuanzi's voice eked out with great difficulty, his expression contorting in horror. "Don't let him... stay on the Sacred Mountain!"

...

"Come!"

The Five Decays of Heaven and Man gripped Qin Duan's head with its right hand.

Its left hand extended, and in the pause after mastering Zhong Yuanzi, briefly summoned Qiu Gu as well.

Clutching the heads of two demi-saints, it didn't crush them with forceful violence, as everyone had expected.

Instead, it appeared to gently soothe these unwilling souls by brushing their eyes closed.

As its palms slid from their faces, the figure softly whispered to the two lifeless, puppet-like demi-saints:

"Return to me, my avatars."

A sudden chill ran down Feng Zhongzui's spine. In the next instant, what happened was even more horrifying.

Before their very eyes, the two demi-saints under the hand of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man began to chant along:

"Return... my... avatars..."

"Return... to me... avatars..."

Boom! Boom! Boom!

From distant lands, three brilliant bursts of holy light erupted, carving a triad of trajectories through the sky.

Feng Zhongzui, holding up the Dao Imparting Mirror to capture these strange events, murmured in disbelief:

"What's going on?"

"So, the orange... no, the Five Decays senior, he commanded them to summon their demi-saint incarnations?"

"And they actually obeyed?"

Feng Zhongzui paused mid-sentence, suddenly perplexed:

"But why?"

"Why summon their demi-saint incarnations? Wouldn't Qin and Qiu just become even stronger?"

"Could it be that the orange senior plans to fight... one, two, three... five? Fight one against five?"

"Ah!"

Suddenly struck by a realization, Feng Zhongzui shrieked before his expression turned utterly terrified: "No, I was just being sarcastic—does he *really* intend to 'pull them out by the roots'?"

...

BOOM!!!

As the three streaks of holy light hurtled closer from afar, a resonant crack sounded at the peak of the Sacred Mountain.

The vibrations rippled down from the Evil Sin Bow's quaking string.

Everyone assumed at this moment that the Five Decays of Heaven and Man would abandon the dual saints to focus entirely on resisting the Arrow of Evil Sin Bow.

Yet it retained its grip on the saints, even as its body expanded to a colossal height of a thousand feet.

The sinister arrow—the Arrow of Evil Sin Bow—wasn't the "Broken Wing Arrow," but it still pierced through the now-enlarged Five Decays of Heaven and Man's chest with a thunderous roar.

Its force shattered half its body but failed to obliterate it entirely.

The Five Decays of Heaven and Man shrank again to mortal proportions, returning to its original form.

"It..."

"It grew larger just to..."

"...endure the arrow directly?!"

Feng Zhongzui gaped, utterly incapable of commentary.

At this moment, the Five Decays of Heaven and Man formed seals again. This time, without hesitation, it dragged its hands as though pulling a sheet from behind to the front.

"Darkness Descent!"

Pitch-black night enveloped the world!

The light vanished entirely, leaving no trace, plunging everything into impenetrable darkness.

"Crunch, gnaw..."

From within the darkness came fragmented, grating sounds, like wild beasts feasting...