It was late at night.
At that moment.
From the region where Small Mountain Village lay, a shadow suddenly emerged. It shot forth at a speed beyond all else, quickly spreading across the entire Kaiyuan Continent!
Three thousand continents in an instant!
In that moment, beneath the shadow's shroud, the three thousand continents instantly fell into a certain hidden state, beyond all further probing.
Countless living beings carried on, utterly unaware that anything had changed between heaven and earth.
But the gazes cast over from the other continents of the Taboo World were instantly filled with alarm.
Youzhou, high in the depths of the sky, was awash with rippling water.
"Thunder Emperor's authority... has dimmed. It's vanished completely. He's dead!"
A clear, hazy voice spoke, excitement and anticipation impossible to conceal:
"The entire Kaiyuan Continent has been shrouded in the shadow of darkness. Even I can no longer probe it. That means... darkness has descended upon the Kaiyuan Continent!"
"Sure enough, Thunder Emperor was destroyed by darkness... Next, we'll see whether he can be reborn from the dark seed..."
Wanmu Continent.
The two energies of black and yellow gathered and shifted as a voice murmured:
"Thunder Emperor is gone."
"I hope he survives... Only then will our path have been proven true."
Gengyuan Continent.
A golden eye was filled with solemnity.
"Before the darkness, Thunder Emperor's demise was silent and without a trace..."
"Just as expected. Faced with darkness, even a great enemy is no more than an ant... To survive is the greatest of wishes..."
"The Parasitic Path... Heh. It seems we have to take it, whether we want to or not..."
A pitch-black place, its location unknown.
In the thick darkness, a black secret eye kept opening and closing, as if anxiously waiting for something.
Yet from