Source of the Netherworld?

Jiang Liu's thoughts raced, and the Divine Sea slowly began to seethe. A miniature figure resembling Jiang Liu appeared out of thin air above the Divine Sea.

This was another application of spiritual power that Jiang Liu had learned while comprehending the Compendium of Qi Refinement: the transformation of spiritual power into a physical form.

This miniature spiritual manifestation of Jiang Liu conjured a small blade in his hand and began hacking, stroke after stroke, at the threads wrapped around the Divine Sea.

After a long while, the little figure finally severed one thread.

The instant one thread was cut, Jiang Liu felt the vitality energy imprisoning him loosen slightly.

Though maintaining the spiritual manifestation consumed an enormous amount of energy, Jiang Liu had no choice but to keep it in existence for the sake of freeing himself. Waving the small blade in its hand, it continued hacking away.

When the spiritual manifestation severed three threads, Jiang Liu, who had been dragged downward all this time, finally came to a stop.

It was not that the threads had stopped pulling him downward. They had already dragged him all the way to the bottom.

At this moment, Jiang Liu could still feel that his entire body was rigid, utterly unable to move.

However, the vitality energy within him could finally begin circulating slowly, and the temperature of his body gradually started to return.

Jiang Liu had no attention to spare for anything else. He focused entirely on the spiritual manifestation in his Divine Sea, urging it to swing its blade faster.

Not far from Jiang Liu's body, an enormous pitch-black opening spread wide. It resembled a gigantic mouth opening up, as if it wanted to swallow everything around it.

The light in this place had apparently been swallowed by it as