In the snap of a finger, the radiance of the border hell flashed and vanished.
What followed was the roar stirred up by boundless crimson, waves spreading outward!
Within flames that seemed to set the abyss alight, everything was dyed in the colors of destruction.
A straight fissure extended forward from before the Solar Ship, plunging deep into the distant crust, nearly piercing the earth and rising into the sky.
Everything along its path had been completely vaporized.
The sole exception was the stubborn outline at the center of the complex ritual.
Like iron and stone, it glowed a scorching red.
In that brief instant, the long process of transforming its body once more—one could call it evolution—had been compressed into a moment, reaching the limits of this body!
It was merely instinct.
At that moment, as the fissure spread, the iron-like outline abruptly turned to ash.
All that remained was a huge, shattered skeleton.
Within the charred bones, flesh wriggled and gathered into the shape of an eye. It turned, blinked once, and faintly revealed a number branded upon its sclera—3.
It was the controller and nurturer of the Sea of Blood!
And now, the Nurturer had been burned to nothing. No matter how countless streams of blood wriggled and clung to the skeleton, they could never restore it.
It simply broke apart bit by bit and vanished without a trace.
"Huai Shi..."
Amid a hoarse growl, that scarlet eye rolled into the blood.
Then, within the darkness gathered from scarlet, another eye opened—so immense, like a burning star.
Then came a second, a third, a fourth... until at last, countless eyes slowly emerged alongside a terrifying outline capable of swallowing the entire Blood River.
Like maddened stars rising from the abyss.
Every one of them stared fixedly at