The Untamed: Tales of the Void Abyss and the Coming-of-Age Ceremony Scandal

“Thud! Thud! Thud!”

The muffled pounding is like a heavy hammer, striking the hearts of every Lotus Pier disciple. A massive black coffin hangs suspended in midair, its blood-red talismans blazing brightly. A dense, inky miasma of death and resentment seeps from the cracks in the coffin, quickly blackening the night sky around it. Under the corrosive influence of the miasma, the protective barrier around the pier emits a grating hiss. Its light flickers violently, as if it might shatter at any moment.

“What kind of devilish thing is that?!” A-Ling’s face is deathly pale. He grips Suihua so tightly that his palm is slick with cold sweat. The aura emanating from the coffin fills him with instinctive fear, as though he is facing not a dead thing, but a primeval beast from the depths of the underworld.

“It’s a ‘Corpse King’... no, something even more terrifying!” A-Xian staggers into the courtyard, supported by two disciples. He stares intently at the coffin, his expression grave and disbelieving. “They really managed to create one! Using the blood and resentment of countless living beings as a catalyst, they forcibly refined a highly skilled cultivator into a ‘malice puppet.’ It retains some of its former cultivation and combat instincts, but loses all reason and knows only killing! This thing was made to break defensive formations!”

“A malice puppet?” A-Ling draws in a sharp breath. “Then the protective formation...”

“Boom!”

Before A-Xian can finish speaking, the black coffin suddenly explodes! Amid a storm of flying splinters, a tall figure slowly rises...