Beyond the realms, chaos seethed beneath towering black miasma, and boundless annihilation reigned.
The remnants of the dark Emperor Shadow, spanning hundreds of millions of stretches of void, passed through a fissure in the barriers of the myriad heavens and retreated fully into this forbidden land, where endless destruction was born and countless epochs lay buried. Compared with his invasion of the myriad heavens and confrontation with Lin Feng, his spectral form had grown even dimmer. The annihilation Dao resonance around him churned in disorder, while the lingering Primordial Chaos Dao Patterns in his palm burned without cease. This wound to his origin had been left by the palm strike of Lin Feng, the Emperor Lord of the new epoch. It was also the first time since time immemorial that he had been wounded and driven back by a cultivator of the myriad heavens.
Endless pitch-black outer realm demonic energy surged into his body like a raging tide, repairing his shattered phantom and disordered origin. Yet the wound rooted deep within his Dao fruit refused to heal. The primordial power of the new chaos epoch inherently possessed the ultimate properties of purification, suppression, and the destruction of darkness, precisely countering the outer realm nirvana great Dao he had cultivated throughout his life. This was an innate suppression on the level of epochs, not something mere repairs to his origin could erase.
"A mere newly ascended Emperor Lord, who founded a new epoch for ants, actually wounded my Dao fruit, shattered my might, and slew four of my devil generals!"
His low roar, cold, savage, and brimming with endless killing intent, shook the entire expanse of outer realm chaos. Not a trace of contempt or indifference remained in Emperor Shadow's hollow black eyes. Only the deepest chill, wariness, and towering murderous