The Land of Darkness.
The darkness seemed to grow denser. A force darker than darkness itself invaded this space.
In an instant, several of Silent One's disciples felt inexplicably restless. It was as if they had been cut off and isolated, trapped inside a cage of darkness.
"Senior Brother, you're here."
Zhi Zhe turned and looked in a certain direction. With a light wave of his hand, the darkness spreading around him seemed to freeze.
A Dark Being emerged from the thick darkness. His entire body seemed to be made of darkness, his gaze swallowing everything.
Dark One!
He had come too.
"What... exactly is going on?"
Dark One spoke in a low voice. "Why did that one suddenly make a move?!"
Zhi Zhe said:
"I set a trap, and that one... fell for it."
His words seemed to carry tremendous excitement and anticipation.
"Fell for it?"
Dark One was puzzled.
"Exactly... Last time, when someone connected to him planted an Immortal Seed, he sacrificed his own Immortal Dao Origin to awaken the Immortal Soil!"
"So I pressed him further, and now, just as expected... he brought out the Saintly Dao Origin too, restoring the Saintly Soil's vitality."
Zhi Zhe couldn't help smiling as he said:
"Senior Brother, don't you think this is the perfect opportunity?"
"With the source destroyed and the universe burned, if he sat back and did nothing, we could do nothing to him. But he can't bear to see the ants of this world suffer, so he brought back the Immortal Dao, the Saintly Dao, and the rest..."
"By doing this, he's destroying his own defenses. Once his origins are spent, will he still be himself? He'll be nothing more than an Eminent One in this universe."
"By then, we might not even need to use