"Zhang Chen, you comprehended nothingness, and your insight even surpassed mine. Perhaps this had something to do with you being a so-called 'human.' My body has completely merged with yours. From now on, there will only be Zhang Chen in this world, and no longer me. I hope that in this lifetime, you can erase Azathoth from this world. The process will be exceedingly difficult, so you must hold fast to your true heart on this path."
The world of consciousness dissipated. Zhang Chen comprehended nothingness and set foot upon a brand-new path.
However, when he returned to his physical body, he was no longer on the second floor of the black pyramid. Instead, he had fallen into an underground world of boundless darkness.
At that moment, he was lying facedown on the ground. Tomie's limbs had been torn apart, her head severed, while gray-black fluid continuously flowed through the surroundings and into her body.
The source of that gray-black fluid was precisely the mass of chaotic origin Zhang Chen had seen in the initial mural.
"Buzz! Buzz!"
White-haired Zhang Chen swung down the serrated blade fused with his right arm. The space before him was crushed layer by layer, and the spherical creature floating above Tomie's head, with black tentacles drifting from it, was nearly pulverized. Tomie was immediately drawn into Zhang Chen's body.
Through Tomie's memories, Zhang Chen already knew what had happened earlier. If Tomie had not done everything in her power to save him, then before his consciousness returned to his body, both his flesh and soul would have fallen into the other party's hands.
The annihilation of a small mass of chaotic creatures was merely the beginning. The entire underground world began to tremble faintly. Gray-black tentacles grew from within the floor one after another,