After Li Yi returned to Wushen Sect, he immediately went into seclusion to recover from his injuries. It took a full hundred years for him to heal completely.
If Great Emperor Tun Tian hadn't pressed him so hard, driving him to desperation, Li Yi wouldn't have been willing to activate the Indestructible Mark. Its power was simply too great; even after advancing to Sovereign, his mind could barely withstand it.
Over the past hundred years, the Eternal World had fallen into even greater ruin, nearly reaching a point of utter darkness. Now, aside from the territories controlled by the Hong Huang Clan, the Holy Clan, and the Dark Cage, almost everywhere else had become a wasteland, beset by storms of destruction and spreading Space Rifts.
The number of living beings across the Eternal World had fallen by half.
But Li Yi had no mind to concern himself with any of that. He was preoccupied with the faint, elusive connection he had felt ever since proving himself as a Sovereign. He sensed that through this connection, he could uncover the veil concealing everything.
While recovering, he hadn't had time to pay it any heed. Now that he was free, he immediately began searching for that connection.
Li Yi closed his eyes and focused his thoughts. In an instant, two enormous pairs of eyes appeared in his sea of consciousness: one silver-white and cold, the other dark and merciless.
"Hmm?" He glanced at the dark eyes in surprise. The silver-white ones naturally belonged to his Main Body, but who did the dark ones belong to? A Demonic Shadow surfaced in his mind, and he began to form a vague guess. With a thought, Li Yi sent his awareness toward the black eyes.
"Boom!"
In an instant, Li Yi's figure appeared in a