"Everyone, be careful. There's something here!"
His voice was low and grave.
Before his words had faded—
Boom!
The calm sea suddenly exploded.
A pitch-black shadow shot out of the water, so fast that even Divine Sense could barely track it.
It did not attack Fang Chen. Instead, it lunged straight at a weak point in the Silver-White Light Screen, opened its enormous maw, and bit down hard.
Crack!
Silver-White Law Fragments flew in every direction as it tore a massive hole through the weak point.
It was no Crack. A piece had been bitten clean away, leaving jagged edges like a wound torn open by a wild beast.
Fang Chen's pupils contracted sharply.
"It's devouring the Barrier's energy!"
His voice shook with barely suppressed horror.
The pitch-black shadow was a Void Beast.
A Void Beast.
A mutant species of Chaos, it fed on space and Laws.
Void Beasts were exceedingly rare. Each was born in the deepest reaches of Void Turbulence and possessed the terrifying Talent to devour all Spatial Structure and the power of Laws.
This Void Beast was not particularly large, only about a hundred zhang long. It resembled a scaleless Flood Dragon, black from head to tail, its mirror-smooth skin reflecting the faint gray-white glow of the Sea of Laws.
Its head was triangular and eyeless. An enormous Mouthpart took up half its head, lined with dense rows of sharp teeth. Every tooth looked like black crystal and gleamed with a chilling light.
Its body was long and supple, its limbs short but powerful. Its claws were sharp as hooks, while its tail was like a black whip, split into three at the tip. With each gentle sway, it scored fine cracks through the Void.
Most striking was the layer of gray-white mist swirling around it.