"Victory..." A shadow crossed Zhou Tong's face.
Though he had won, he was not particularly thrilled.
He turned to look at the arm that had been pierced through. Black blood still flowed from the wound, preventing it from healing. That pitch-black power was even spreading little by little.
More than that, Zhou Tong had the illusion that the arm contaminated by the black blood no longer belonged to him. Some force seemed to be trying to tear it away from his body, even giving birth to an entirely new life.
"So it really is Dark Matter!" Zhou Tong sat down cross-legged and circulated his power. Immortal Qi surged within him as he gradually forced the pitch-black blood out of his body.
He remained seated there for a full half month before finally expelling all the Dark Matter from his body.
"Phew!!"
Only after the last wisp of Dark Matter left his body did he let out a breath.
"What terrifying Dark Matter. Just this little contamination took me half a month to force out!" Zhou Tong held a Jade Cauldron in his palm, and the Dark Matter he had expelled was sealed inside it.
"Right, judging by the current timeline, this can only be considered the Dark Era." Zhou Tong thought to himself. "The creatures Ye Fan and the others dealt with in the original story were also beings contaminated by Dark Matter."
Black Blood, Gray Mist, and White Fiend were several of the most terrifying Inauspicious Matters. The person—or perhaps some force—behind them had these substances take turns ruling heaven and earth in order to achieve some purpose.
The Dark Era began in the time of the Corpse Immortal Emperor. He had been contaminated by the Black Blood from Above High Heaven, thus beginning the long Dark Era. Even