The pitch-black blood-soul pillar Heavenburning Emperor Lord unleashed by sacrificing himself and the remnant souls of the other Emperor Lords was like a venomous thorn piercing the myriad heavens and worlds.
It ignored layer upon layer of spatial barriers, carrying utter spite and a will to destroy as it shot unerringly toward a forbidden land somewhere in the Eighth Heaven, shrouded in endless blood clouds and mountains of white bones—the Soul-Slaying Hall.
The Eighth Heaven's laws of heaven and earth were far more stable, and its spiritual energy far richer, than those of the Seventh Heaven.
Anyone who could stand at the pinnacle of this realm had to possess at least Emperor Lord Realm cultivation. Only those at Mid-Emperor Lord could be called regional overlords and true rulers.
The Soul-Slaying Hall was an Evil Path faction in the Eighth Heaven whose very name struck terror into people's hearts. Infamous for vicious secret arts such as soul refinement and blood sacrifices, it acted without restraint and had long colluded with certain members of the Seventh Heaven's radical faction.
The pillar plunged deep into the blood clouds, entering a sinister great hall built from the skulls of countless living beings.
Upon the thrones in the great hall sat three figures whose auras were as unfathomable as abysses and as dreadful as hell.
The man on the left wore blood-red robes. His face was withered, two ghostly green flames of soul fire burned in his eye sockets, and he toyed with a string of prayer beads made from shrunken human skulls.
He was Venerable Soul-Slaying, a Mid-Emperor Lord who specialized in arts that refined and devoured souls.
The man on the right wore heavy, jet-black armor. His face lay hidden in the shadow of his helmet, revealing only a pair of cold, merciless