Inside the room, Chen Yan sat cross-legged in meditation, his eyes slowly opening.
Golden-red light flowed over him like a gentle stream, merging with the aura of life and death.
The aura of life and death was a key. How that key was used depended on what it was combined with.
Chen Yan devoted himself to cultivation, comprehension, and breaking the limits of thought.
The next instant, Chen Yan's eyes narrowed slightly as he sensed boundless danger approaching.
The aura of life and death probed into the endless rhythms of the rules.
Chen Yan seemed to see a terrifying being covered from head to toe in black tentacles.
Amid endless darkness, its black tentacles writhed and churned like living things, while viscous fluid dripped from them with a sizzling sound.
Terrifying malice wrapped around the power of the rules, blanketing a thousand-mile radius around Chen Yan in an instant.
It had once been a member of the Human Race, but now it had long since become an Ancient God Beast embodying ultimate evil.
Just sensing it sent countless broken, twisted murmurs burrowing into the depths of Chen Yan's mind like rats.
Chen Yan's eyes narrowed. Bathed in golden-red light, he tried to withstand the boundless malice spilling from this terrifying being.
With a heavy gaze, Chen Yan glanced at the True Martial Power clone he had made beside him.
He sighed inwardly. Even though he had used [Rotbane - Holy Will Bewilderment] to influence Li Li and delay her arrival by at least a day,
his third Self Universe still hadn't completed its cycle of reincarnation or produced new aura of life and death.
The third Self Universe of the True Martial path contained Chen Yan's entirely new understanding of the Martial Dao, surpassing the first two by far.
So