The Dark Flow Maze was far more complex and dangerous than the Shadow Beast Wilderness.
The instant he stepped into the cavern entrance, all light was completely stripped away, leaving only eternal darkness that seemed capable of absorbing souls.
The air was thick with moisture and even purer yet more violent and chaotic shadow energy, mixed with the musty odor of moss and the faint fishy stench of some unknown mineral.
The rocks beneath his feet were slick, while the roar of underground dark currents surged endlessly beside his ears, accompanied by unsettling rustling and hollow echoes drifting from countless forks and cracks.
The terrain here was like a gigantic maze. Its passages crisscrossed, sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, with multiple levels above and below. Many places required wading through water or climbing.
More troublesome still, this place was home to stranger and more difficult shadow creatures adapted to darkness and dampness, as well as many naturally formed areas containing deadly shadow traps or chaotic energy fields.
After entering the maze, Night Falcon did not hurry deeper. Instead, relying on his extraordinary perception and precise control over dark energy, he chose a relatively hidden fork where the energy fluctuations were exceptionally active.
He needed a relatively safe environment rich in energy to accomplish something he had planned long ago.
Unseal part of his strength and raise his surface cultivation to the Half-step Earth Sovereign level.
His true cultivation was that of an Upper Earth Sovereign, with his true body having piled up vast amounts of resources and fused them with the Darkness Ancestral Symbol Origin to forge it.
Yet, to disguise himself perfectly and avoid arousing the suspicions of the Black Heaven Ancient Clan's higher-ups, he had sealed the vast majority of his power deep within the Darkness Ancestral Symbol,