The copper basin toppled onto the floor.
Warm water spilled out, splashing Lin Qingzhu's skirt.
She collapsed onto the cold stone slabs, clamping both hands over her mouth and forcibly swallowing the scream that nearly burst from her throat.
It was too uncanny.
On Zhou Xuan's Right Arm, a strand of pure black energy slowly drifted, seeping bit by bit into the Dark Gold Explorer mark.
That was "Nothingness."
It was a force of annihilation that could easily corrode even a Longevity Realm powerhouse's Dao Fruit and erase every law.
The Explorer mark, meanwhile, represented the origin source of the Supreme One Immortal Court.
Yet these two utterly opposing powers showed no sign of repelling each other. Instead, they intertwined.
Dark Gold and pure black light flickered in turns, radiating a terrifying fluctuation that made their scalps prickle.
The moment that fluctuation appeared, hurried footsteps sounded outside the secret chamber.
The heavy stone door was shoved open.
Emperor Jiang Wu rushed in first, followed closely by the Alliance Leader, Old Ancestor Xuanming, and Old Ancestor Cangwu.
The four Longevity Realm powerhouses had been meditating outside the door, regulating their breathing and restoring their origin sources, which had been ravaged in battle.
Now, sensing a fluctuation powerful enough to threaten their lives, they rushed inside without a thought for their injuries.
Emperor Jiang Wu stopped three paces from the bed, his gaze locked on Zhou Xuan's Right Arm.
The instant Old Ancestor Xuanming saw the intertwined black energy clearly, he recoiled a full step, slamming his back into the stone wall.
"That's... that thing has come out!" Old Ancestor Xuanming pointed at Zhou Xuan's arm, his voice distorted by undisguised panic.
He had been tormented by this thing for tens of thousands of years. No one knew its horrors better than