Li Yue had spent only another ninety years in seclusion when his eyes abruptly snapped open.
Shock showed in his eyes as he listened to that boundless, indifferent, merciless, and utterly supreme voice.
"War mode..."
"A three-versus-three war, with the victors fighting again?"
He drew a deep breath.
This had come far too suddenly.
Rumble—!
His gaze abruptly turned toward the depths of the Endless Darkness.
That was its deepest region, the lair of the fallen life!
Even with his previous strength, he had never explored it.
After all, investigating these fallen beings mattered far less to him than increasing his own strength.
According to Gray Valley and Qian Bao's conjectures, the lair of the fallen life should contain either a Transcender who had fallen from the Sinful Heaven or the corpse of a Transcender from the Sinful Heaven.
He had no reason to go looking for trouble with a Transcender.
But now—
He saw a pair of terrifying, dark-purple eyes suddenly light up in those deepest depths.
Those eyes were immense and utterly distorted, carrying an unimaginably evil aura.
Li Yue frowned.
Even viewed from an enormous distance, those dark-purple eyes made him uncomfortable. The madness and distortion within them seemed capable of assimilating anyone who met their gaze.
Is this the "Mother of All" the fallen beings spoke of?
He murmured inwardly.
Of course—
That was not the main point.
At that moment, an enormous rift appeared within the lair of the fallen life.
A distorted, dark-purple figure stood within that enormous rift, bracing it open with both hands to keep it from closing.
And that distorted, dark-purple figure was the owner of the eyes he had just seen!
Chains formed from the three thousand origin great daos covered the figure densely, stretched taut.
Li Yue's expression turned