Giant Sang towered into the heavens.
Black clouds, like an enormous continent, surged and coiled around the canopy, filling the entire world within sight.
Black roses grew rampant. Between their thorns, blood-red and snow-white blossoms burst into bloom, looking like splashes of blood and heaps of human bones piled among rolling, ink-dark burial mounds.
Pei Ling was dazed for a moment. By the time he came to, he had appeared near an unimaginably enormous mulberry tree.
Its branches stretched straight into the clouds. A pair of eyes stared out from every patch of rough bark, countless pupils all fixed on him.
At the sight, Pei Ling's heart stirred. He had seen this Giant Sang once before!
Back when he had left Outer Sky Island and the five successors of the righteous and demonic paths had faced off, You Su Fen had suddenly appeared. This Giant Sang had been the most striking sight on the island, standing at its very center, its majestic, magnificent canopy covering the entire island, yet imbued with an indescribable eeriness.
He did not know why, but despite having been in You Su Fen for so long this time, he had only now seen the true form of this Giant Sang...
His thoughts raced. Pei Ling immediately stepped forward and saluted. "Junior Pei Ling pays his respects to Senior Gui Sang."
Gui Sang stared silently at Pei Ling for a long while before speaking, his voice like thunder. "I never imagined that a mere Return to Void cultivator could go so far!"
As he spoke, a cluster of Giant Sang's leaves stirred slightly. A chill aura mingled with vitality shot out in an instant and sank into Pei Ling's brow.
A lifelike scene appeared before Pei Ling's eyes: a pitch-black seed, like an eyeball, fell into a