This thousand-eyed Evil God had no awareness whatsoever of its own situation. Its eight scale-armored limbs flailed about, seemingly without a care, while all around it, invisible "tentacles"—some icy, some sinister, some scorching—swiftly swam through the void, as if they could pierce its body and read its mind.
Meng Qi gathered his consciousness, perception, and everything else into the intent of chaos, enacting something close to the true Limitless and concealing every trace of himself. Only Cause of All Fruits continued to operate silently. It existed freely and eternally, as constant in heaven and earth as the Dao. It was the "natural" of guiding principles and the Dao following its "natural course." Without actively probing for it, it was exceedingly difficult to detect.
"Black Heavenly Emperor's gaze from the past... the Blood Demon's sensation of plunder and slaughter... the Devil Lord, profound, dark, and subtle... the Seven Kills of this world, whose killing intent can sever all... Nine Chaos Heavenly Venerable, mad with destruction... the filth of icy death..." Meng Qi was like a pure point, relying on Cause of All Fruits to distinguish those invisible "tentacles."
Just as the probing "tentacles" were about to reach this flesh-and-blood demonic body, the filth of icy death suddenly spread out, billowing into illusory mist that knocked away the other five "tentacles," asserting its dominion.
This was the Evil God seeded with filth by Ghost Emperor Xuanming!
Over the years, the other old monsters had all done more or less the same thing, planting many of their own in the Red Mountain Range. Now that they understood the "anomaly" belonged to Ghost Emperor Xuanming, they were unwilling to clash with Him right away and let someone else reap the benefits, so they withdrew their probing "tentacles" of perception.
Only Nine Chaos Heavenly Venerable