Eighth Heaven, Myriad Dao Source Sea.
This was a strange expanse of void suspended between Chaos and order, where stars lay like grains of sand and galaxies streamed like ribbons of silk. Countless ancient powers had put down roots here.
Eighth Heaven was the backbone of the Emperor Realm. Anyone who could establish themselves here had to be at least in the Emperor Lord realm. Only a mid-Emperor Lord could claim dominion over a region, while Late Emperor Lords were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns—supreme beings whose might shook entire domains.
Within the Soul-Slaying Hall's Bloodcloud Mountains, three life-soul heavenly lamps, fueled by the souls of living beings and burning for tens of thousands of years, went out completely on the same day.
The disciple guarding the soul hall collapsed, his face drained of blood, then scrambled and crawled into the Soul-Slaying Underworld Hall, where the hall master cultivated in seclusion.
"Hall Master! Disaster! The life-soul lamps of Venerable Heaven-Severing, Venerable Soul-Slaying, and Venerable Life-Extinguishing... have all gone out!"
The news exploded among the Soul-Slaying Hall's upper ranks like icy water dropped into boiling oil!
The master of the Soul-Slaying Hall, Emperor Lord Hun Tian, stood at the peak of the mid-Emperor Lord stage. An Evil Path titan infamous throughout Eighth Heaven, he possessed transcendent mastery of the soul dao and was known as the "Lord of Ten Thousand Souls."
His skeletal, withered hand slowly clenched. Even the void in his palm shattered, unable to withstand his fury.
"Heaven-Severing, Soul-Slaying, Life-Extinguishing... Three traveled together, and all three perished."
Emperor Lord Hun Tian's voice sounded like the wailing of a cold wind from the Nine Hells. "The lower realm's Fourth Heaven... Lin Feng..."
He neither roared nor flew into a frenzy. Only the ghostly green soul flames flickering