Within the Boundless Mystery, the battlefield remained fierce and murky, while Lady Fate continued her manipulations from the shadows.
Tang Qi, meanwhile, was completely immersed in that peculiar book.
He was now reading the third page, which still bore an incomparably clear illustration that could even convey an aura.
The creature revealed this time was still abnormally terrifying.
It was a gigantic "eel," black in color yet constantly secreting blood-like mucus. Its slick, sinuous body coiled around an unknown planet, its cold and evil Divinity Aura pouring forth without restraint.
Most life-forms below the Demigod Level would be corrupted the moment they observed or gazed upon it, becoming its crazed Fanatic Believers and slaves.
Like the Son of Decay, this giant eel was extraordinarily close to the rank of a god. It seemed that, upon encountering some opportunity, it could ascend to godhood.
"Blood Eel God. Like the Son of Decay and the Son of Death, it had no nickname appropriate for a newborn. Yet it was luckier than both, because it was not devoured by its mother. After Ispatranie gave birth to it, she entered a brief period of weakness. Seizing that opening, it slipped into an abyssal universe within the Boundless Mystery and has not been seen since."
"It possessed an exceptionally terrifying Divine Being form. Its father was an unknown Powerful Deity. The Divine Authority known to have been bestowed upon this child, the Blood Eel, included 'Fear,' 'Devouring,' and 'Deep Sea.'"
"Blood Eel possessed considerable intelligence even while within the Goddess's womb. Thus, it sensed its mother's malice in advance and, at the instant of its birth, turned back and bit the Goddess's Womb. That was the true reason it was able to escape."
"Of course, it utterly enraged the Goddess and has remained hidden in