Rustle... rustle... rustle...
Gu Qingshan followed the path onward, deeper and deeper underground.
"When are you planning to kill those Chaos Spirits?"
the hand asked.
"After I find the monsters from the Inconceivable Era, I'll take them with me into battle," Gu Qingshan replied.
A door suddenly appeared ahead.
The hand snapped its fingers and said, "Aha, someone's blocking the way."
"Who?" Gu Qingshan asked.
"A particularly powerful monster. It's invited you to meet," the hand replied.
"It knows I'm here?" Gu Qingshan asked.
"Your predecessor awakened all the monsters before he died, so it's been sensing everything on the Dark Continent for a long time. It's quite powerful."
"How powerful?" Gu Qingshan asked.
"After the era it belonged to perished, the new era barely managed to defeat it. That was how it got sealed away in this chaos," the hand replied.
"All right. Looks like I have no choice but to meet it," Gu Qingshan said.
"There's no need to be too nervous. You have me, after all. As long as you don't provoke it, you should have no trouble protecting yourself."
"You're making me even more worried," Gu Qingshan said.
The door slowly swung open.
Gu Qingshan stepped inside. The space opened up before him, revealing a vast, expansive crimson plaza.
He soon reached the center of the plaza, looked up, and studied the monster.
It had a deep-blue body and a blank face, save for a long, narrow slit that glowed faintly red.
The monster had only half a body left. Shackles bound its hands and neck, suspending it high above the ground.
The red slit on its face began to pulse.
"Phew... phew... So you're the new King of Eternal Destruction. You're truly pathetic. At my peak, I could have crushed you with one hand," the