The instant it snapped.
A muffled boom sounded deep in the darkness.
The entire Eye of Eternity shook violently.
In the darkness, a pair of eyes slowly opened.
Vast beyond measure.
Without pupils.
Filled with nothing but pure, lofty malice.
"An anomaly..."
The voice was immense and hollow. It exploded through the darkness, sending Zhou Xuan's blood and qi churning.
Zhou Xuan raised his head and met those eyes.
He clenched his fist, compressing the three-colored laws desperately over his knuckles.
"Anomaly, my ass." Zhou Xuan sneered. "Today, I'm the fucking law here."
Zhou Xuan walked forward.
The starlight broke off, and darkness pressed in from every direction.
With every step, his bones groaned-the dull sound of something about to give.
There was no wind. No sound at all.
But there was something inside his head.
Despair, the end, nothingness. This wasn't an attack of laws. Thoughts were being forced straight into his sea of consciousness. It didn't destroy his divine soul; it rewrote his thinking.
"All things are empty."
"Struggling is futile."
"Return to final annihilation."
Zhou Xuan's steps slowed for half a beat. His gaze went unfocused for an instant.
Deep in his sea of consciousness, the slaughter law erupted. Crimson sword intent swirled into a storm, shredding those foreign intrusions clean away. Light returned to Zhou Xuan's eyes, and his mouth twisted.
"Quit chanting scriptures in my fucking head."
He quickened his steps.
In the deepest darkness, a speck of golden light appeared.
A heart. It was made of glazed glass, with dark-gold blood flowing inside. Every beat carried an indescribable air of antiquity. The Supreme One's Heart.
Black chains wrapped the heart, dense and crisscrossing, clamping it tight. Their other ends pierced the nothingness overhead, stretching beyond sight.
Zhou Xuan looked up.
Above him, the enormous,