Sizzle! Sizzle!
After Zhou Tong shifted his attention away from the passage in the void, the Dark Matter on his body continued to vanish bit by bit, while his aura grew increasingly terrifying.
The darkness gradually dispersed. By the end, once all the Dark Matter had been completely exhausted, Zhou Tong's Sixth Secret Realm—Gu's True Self—took effect, and an unfathomably profound radiance flowed into his body.
The passage Zhou Tong had sensed earlier gradually blurred, then vanished bit by bit, never to be seen again.
"This feeling... could this passage be connected to the Gate of Potential within me?" Zhou Tong suddenly froze. Only as the darkness dispersed did he truly realize where the endless stream of Dark Matter within his body had come from.
"The passage is connected to the Gate of Potential, opening a back door for it? So this is how my Dark Matter came about!"
Zhou Tong carefully sensed it. He felt that the light emanating from Gu's True Self had completely sealed the back door of the Gate of Potential, preventing Dark Matter from entering his body.
With the darkness gone, Zhou Tong finally relaxed completely. It was as though he had been cleansed of all impurity, his entire body blooming with unprecedented immortal light.
That immortal light was incomparably terrifying. Brilliant Great Dao symbols, dense and innumerable, guarded him from all sides.
Moreover, a faint, nearly imperceptible glimmer appeared amid the immortal light on the surface of his body. It was a radiance beyond the level of an Immortal King, enough to ensure Zhou Tong remained indestructible through countless tribulations.
"The light of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor... I never expected that after creating the Sixth Secret Realm, I would produce such a thing. I'm afraid only after I completely cultivate the Ten Fiends' True Selves