The Peerless War King Awakens!

``` [You noticed.]

[The gray current was even more excited now than when it had devoured the Bone Emperor, even more excited than when it had devoured the Bizarre Ancestor.]

[It had sensed prey: a mass of pitch-black Origin lodged deep within the War King's soul.]

[That Origin was of extraordinary quality. It was no Quasi Immortal Sovereign's dregs, no Immortal Emperor's dying embers, but a Source Imprint planted by the Bizarre Emperor himself.]

[Its purity was more than a full tier above You Shi and the Bone Emperor combined.]

[The Source of the Weird sensed the threat. Intense black light erupted from the Peerless War King's right eye. Both its white and pupil vanished, leaving only boundless, ink-black darkness.]

[It began to fight back with all its might.]

[Black veins spread from his right eye across his face, then down his neck, shoulder, and entire right arm.]

[The Peerless War King's body shook violently. An enraged roar tore from his throat.]

[It was not his voice. The Source of the Weird was using his vocal cords to unleash a beast's howl, shrill and sinister, filled with the fear of death.]

[The surrounding rock walls could not withstand the impact of their combined spiritual pressure. They collapsed outward for more than ten zhang, centered on the two of you, as rubble pattered down.]

[Then the Void Power began to devour it.]

[It wrapped around the pitch-black Origin like a gray snake coiling around its prey, tightening slowly and steadily.]

[The Source of the Weird tried to resist. It unleashed an even stronger wave of corruption, seeking to erode the Void Power in turn.]

[But that wisp of gray energy did not belong to this universe's system of laws. The corruption and erosion the Source of the Weird prized meant nothing