Inside Heavenly Abyss City.
Ai Wen, the Alchemy master, sensed the fluctuations of Life Origin through the Pill Soul Scroll. His voice trembled. "His Life Origin is surging violently, as if it's being set alight, Freezing, torn apart, and stitched back together all at once. Th-this is beyond anything the Pill Dao can explain."
Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang's face darkened. His fists clenched until his knuckles turned white. What he sensed was not power, but Law-level pain seeping from that battle—pain that made the soul shudder.
As Fang Chen fought desperately against the destructive force of the Stellar Annihilation Blast, the Myriad Resentment Soul-Eroding Tide seized its chance.
It made no sound, but the boundless tide of shadowy pus suddenly writhed faster. From the seven orifices of the tormented ghostly face at its center flowed a pure essence of grudges, thick as tar.
The essence did not spread outward. Instead, like something alive, it seeped silently along the subtle, intricate threads of emotion running through the shadowy tide and all of space.
The threads slipped past Fang Chen's outward-flowing Sword Intent and the Immortal Light shielding his body. Like consummate assassins, they entered through the cracks between emotion and memory.
Fang Chen was wholly focused on resisting destruction on the physical and Law levels. Even the immensely powerful Immortal-Veiling Umbrella could not avoid a faint fluctuation born of his intense pain. That tiny fluctuation opened the door to the shadowy threads.
They were not physical things, but condensations of extreme negative emotions mixed with the Soul-Corroding Law unique to the Soul-Eroding Tide.
The moment they entered Fang Chen's Sea of Consciousness, they scattered into countless pieces. Like billions of black seeds, they took root in the fertile soil of his memories and emotions.
Boom!
Fang Chen's mind was instantly drowned in