Luo Ye's departure did not stir much of a reaction in Seven Luminaries Mo Yi Heaven. Not only did Shen Ming's group, who were at odds with him, think that he had merely entered the cosmic domain once more to investigate the latest changes in the Boundary Breaking Prison, even the Demon Claws who supported him believed the same. None of them thought that Luo Ye, who had finally become the Devil Master of this world, would so easily abandon his greatest asset.
Shen Ming, whose horizons fell far short of Luo Ye's, even deliberately guided Luo Ye into leaving. Ignorant of Yuanshi Tianzun's strength, he had no idea what this signified. Having never witnessed the changes in the Boundary Breaking Prison himself, he could not sense the oppressive aura of the thing either...
In the 18,898,731st year, based on the black shadow Yuanshi Tianzun had brought back, the Heavenly Enlightenment Saint Master finally researched something useful. They uncovered the traits and transformations of the unknown gas and reached a conclusion.
This was a gas with extremely potent corrosive and Spirit Devouring traits. The black shadows derived from its transformations possessed no intelligence at their core and were more like forcibly fabricated puppet-machines. Every black shadow was precisely controlled by That One who had been sealed away. Because returning to the Boundary Breaking Prison was the smoothest route, they appeared to flee back to it with such speed that it was difficult for anyone to even perceive the black shadows' escape velocity.
For puppets entirely without spiritual bodies, it was perfectly normal that even someone with perception as powerful as Yuanshi Tianzun's could not discern their paths of movement from them, because the target of observation had been wrong from the start...
The information uncovered by the Heavenly Enlightenment Saint