Spirit Realm Bell Tower hung alone and deathly silent in a dark void, like a silent tombstone standing at the apex of Corpus Space. As the Demon Hunter strongholds of the Order fell into flames one after another along the front line, flashes representing the collapse of energy nodes occasionally lit up in the distant darkness. The strange tower merely remained silent in the dark, as though the Saints inside had completely stopped paying attention to what was happening on the front line.
It was a building utterly unlike the other ruins in Corpus Space. Though it had clearly also originated from the Founding Star, its twisted shape clashed completely with those elegant, magnificent temples. The Spirit Realm Bell Tower looked like a pile of building blocks thrown together at random. A huge assortment of inexplicable geometrical forms had been stacked into the shape of a tower. If it had not been floating in this bizarre space, it would have been nearly impossible to believe that such a building could stand normally on the ground. Hao Ren was astonished not only by the tower's size and peculiar appearance; his attention was even more captivated by the strange state of its surface.
Large patches of darkness covered the Spirit Realm Bell Tower—not ordinary shadows, but the purest black, utterly devoid of impurities. The black was so deep that the naked eye could not make out any details in the covered areas. All that could be seen were abrupt, paper-cut-like black outlines emerging against the backdrop of starlight. These vast expanses of black substance covered nearly two-thirds of the Spirit Realm Bell Tower's surface, making the already bizarre tower look even more gloomy and terrifying.
The moment Hao Ren saw the black "substance" covering the Spirit Realm Bell Tower, an inexplicable chill