Thud, thud, thud!
As the Taishang Limitless Yuan Shi Auspicious Cloud descended over him, Meng Qi's vision turned pitch-black, and he lost all contact with the outside world. The only sound in his ears and mind was a heartbeat pounding like a drum, at once distant and near. At first, he thought it was his own. Then he realized it belonged to another living being—one inside his body!
Thud, thud, thud!
The moment that realization surfaced, he felt a savage, monstrous force swell abruptly, shattering the nascent multiverse within him and staining his flesh with another will. In the blink of an eye, every defense and every strength he possessed was broken. His Spiritual Sense could no longer detect the existence of his body. The Sea of Consciousness, filled with scattered memory fragments like flecks of golden scales, rose into turbulent waves without a breath of wind. One figure after another, clad in black robes and tall crowns, surfaced within it, coalescing into a dark-red, chaotic vortex that claimed this realm for itself.
Meng Qi's consciousness grew hazy. In the last of his vision, the tranquil Sea of Consciousness turned dark red from its edges inward. All the memory fragments beat a hasty retreat, until at last they were squeezed together into a tiny, translucent golden sphere, like glazed glass.
His Spiritual Sense struggled to unleash the Limitless Seal, Open Heaven Seal, Dao Spreads Across the Universe, Only I Am Supreme, and other divine abilities. But they were all as flimsy as paper, crumbling beneath the terrifying erosion of the Eastern Emperor's remaining flesh and blood, unable to protect him. The little golden sphere soon turned dark red as well, falling into chaos and mutating into something frenzied.
Aah!
A scream burst forth. Veins, dark red and almost black, pierced