River of Oblivion Traveler

The scene before him was a little surreal.

A sealed-off fragment of the [Old Ruler] was hurling abuse at the Spirit King.

The indescribable lord of the Void Universe that Lu Yao had imagined... instantly lost its mystique.

The Feathered Ones he had come into contact with, whether it was Amer, the Feathered One Scholar who had created Xilijili Si, Lahab, the hunter who hunted the Creation Machine, or even that mysterious "good luck to you," had all maintained a restrained dignity.

Instead, the [Old Ruler] at their source displayed a crude, straightforward kind of brutality.

Curse him for me! Curse him well, and I'll tip you!

This made Lu Yao sigh. Sure enough, at their core, everyone was just a makeshift troupe.

After calming down, he noticed something suspicious: there was no way to confirm what was going on with Eastern Emperor Jun's rising stats.

So Lu Yao activated the [Arbiter], clicked [Law Break], and selected Eastern Emperor Jun and the surrounding area. The displayed cost reached 1.01 million Psionic Energy.

Something was off.

Lu Yao clicked to invalidate the nearby laws. Eastern Emperor Jun suddenly froze, and a sweating-like-mad expression appeared on the bird-headed mecha. "Lord Yao, I lost control just now... The [Old Ruler] was dragging me inward. No, it was more like it was trying to devour me, or assimilate me."

"It is occupying my body. I can feel it. This body is about to be sucked into the boundary wall by it..."

"The cursing was just a surface appearance and a disguise. It wants to eat me and replenish itself!"

"Thank goodness you acted! That was close!"

Lu Yao looked toward the Sea of Breathing Soil.

That was what I thought.

If all it took here to gain stats was to flame the Spirit King,