Abyss Core Layer.
Everyone stared at the System Light Screen.
On the screen, a pair of pale, pupil-less eyes stared straight at the speck of dust the Abyss had become. Neither the Chaos Qi Current—violent enough to tear an ordinary universe's Dominator apart—nor the layers of space collapsing and reforming could obscure it.
At that moment, everyone in the Core Layer felt their scalp prickle.
Huang Yan, the Big Black Fish, hung in midair. A ring of his black-and-white scales flared outward.
He had no hair to stand on end.
But every scale on his body stood upright, a sight more frightening than raised hackles.
"Boss, he found us!"
Huang Yan kept his voice low. Even his gills were trembling.
With a sweep of his fin, he pulled a mass of dim Death Kingdom Law from his body. It hung before him like a cold black moon.
"Kill him!"
"That thing's too damn strange!"
"He reached the First Step in three years and can see through our Silent Camouflage. We can't let him live!"
Gu Shan ran a hand over his bald head. One by one, the Path-Severing Divine Patterns across his body lit up.
The patterns moved slowly beneath his skin like red-hot cracks.
"Old Huang's right."
"We're hiding inside someone else's Freshman Great Universe."
"Those Old Freaks plowing through everything out there may have quieted down, but who knows if they've really left?"
"If that little thing makes a fuss and leaks even the faintest trace, those Old Freaks will follow it straight back here!"
Xuan Jiu said nothing.
He had never cared for pointless talk.
He drew the Black Sword half an inch.
Clang.
A faint sword chime rang through the hall.
Sword intent steeped in utter annihilation had already locked onto the Pale Little Man's location