In the dim room, the slanted walls bore the texture of blue-black leaves, their surfaces covered with charred spots left behind by Malice's corrosion.
Several mats woven from rotting fibers lay curled in the corner, tiny tentacle-like hyphae already sprouting along their edges.
Though the place looked crude and dilapidated, in this Evil Realm of distortion and Malice, it was already paradise.
There was no bed inside. Chen Yan sat on the floor, Malice spilling from his body like black flames.
"Status."
He murmured the word. He had to admit, Bai Ling's words had piqued his interest.
Chen Yan could enter the Evil Realm because Lord Chen had given him a wisp of Ninth Order realm insight.
Now that wisp of Ninth Order realm insight had dissipated, and Chen Yan had no way to analyze it.
But Chen Yan suspected that Lord Chen's Ninth Order insight might be the same as the Ancient God aura: what Bai Ling had called status.
If he wanted to reach the peak of the Martial Dao, status was something he had to understand, and perhaps even master.
Chen Yan began to sense his body. By now, Malice had badly corroded his flesh.
Even the power of his will could not completely purge the Malice inside him.
The Malice in the Evil Realm was anything but ordinary; it was even stronger than Eighth Order Malice.
It came directly from Fan Ni Ancient God.
Unless the Malice inside him was removed, it would continue to influence Chen Yan, gradually transforming him into some unknown, evil creature.
Chen Yan wasn't too concerned about that.
Li Zhiyi had already discovered the flaw in Breaking Realm and found a way to complete it.
It involved drawing on the marvel of Blood Brand: severing the rules.
But the complete Breaking