Rumble—!!!
The Finality Titan's foot, vast enough to crush a galaxy, hung in midair, held up by the supreme power of Chu Tian's All Beings Share the Dao. Yet just as everyone thought he had stopped that world-ending stomp, a bone-chilling tearing sound came from the titan's boundless chest.
Crack... rrrip...
Before the horrified eyes of the Myriad Worlds Allied Forces, a fissure tens of thousands of zhang long slowly split the titan's chest. Deep within lay no flesh, only endless, churning Jiemie Black Mist. At its center, a figure appeared, bound fast by countless black blood vessels.
When Chu Tian saw the figure's face, his gold-and-black eyes contracted sharply. His heart felt as though a hand forged from ten-thousand-year-old ice had seized it.
He was a towering man with his eyes tightly shut. The left half of his body radiated dazzling golden imperial dragon qi—the bearing of the Human Emperor, familiar and revered by all beings across the myriad worlds. But the right half had been utterly swallowed and assimilated by ink-black Jiemie Black Mist. Black demonic markings writhed like living things beneath the skin of his right cheek.
This was no illusion, nor was he a puppet the Tribulation Lord had fashioned from black mist!
Hum—! The flawless Human Emperor Dao within Chu Tian resonated as never before. It was an absolute pull, a cry of grief rising from the source of his bloodline and the farthest reaches of his Dao!
That resonance cruelly shattered the last shred of hope in Chu Tian's heart.
The towering figure imprisoned within the Finality Titan's chest, half his body turned demonic, was none other than the true body of the Primordial Human Emperor, who had once subdued the Epoch Outer Sea alone!!!
"How could this be..." Within the formation below, Chu