The instant that grayish-white giant eye opened, time and space throughout the stomach sac were instantly drained away.
An indescribably crushing oppression, like ten thousand primordial divine mountains, slammed viciously into Chu Tian's soul.
"Buzz—!"
An irresistible devouring vortex erupted from the giant eye. Chu Tian's vision went black, and before even the thought of resistance could arise, he was forcibly sucked into that enormous eye.
At the same time, Chu Tianwang atop Divine Pass City, Chu Yueyao struggling within the stomach sac's fissure, and the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor, who had been locked onto by karma, were all dragged by this absolute law into a sea of consciousness consumed by absolute darkness.
When Chu Tian opened his eyes again, he found himself in a boundless black space.
At the center of that space, the First Human Emperor's mighty body was pierced through by nine incomparably thick chains burning with grayish-white death aura. Like nine greedy venomous snakes, one end of each chain was embedded in the Human Emperor's flesh, while the other ends connected respectively to the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor nearby and the deepest depths of this dark sea of consciousness!
"Welcome to Taiyi's grave."
A voice whose gender and emotion could not be discerned drifted eerily through the sea of consciousness.
As the voice sounded, a vague figure condensed entirely from grayish-white laws slowly emerged from the darkness. This was the lingering self-awareness of the Taiyi Realm Corpse—the Taiyi Corpse Lord!
The Corpse Lord's featureless face "looked" toward the chain-pierced First Human Emperor, its tone dripping with lofty mockery. "You think he truly is some hero who saved the world? He was merely a layer of 'merciful shell' that I voluntarily cut away back then in order to survive."
"Utter nonsense!" Chu Tianwang shouted furiously, gripping the Creation Seal