"First, I should deal with the threat before me."
Qin Yan gathered his thoughts and looked at the crimson whip shadows overhead, then murmured.
"Dark Vault Scepter—Spirit Weapon Skill—Hand of the Dark Abyss!"
As Qin Yan's words fell, the halo at the top of the scepter began to spin, faster and faster, like a rotating black hole that radiated a profound and mysterious aura.
A pitch-black tentacle then slowly extended from within the halo. At first, it was only several yards thick, but once it fully emerged, its complete form stretched an astonishing hundred yards long.
The tentacle's main body consisted of two parts—the front half was a giant palm as black as ink, its five fingers clearly defined, each as thick as a pillar holding up the heavens. A slowly rotating Darkness Rune was inscribed upon its palm;
the latter half was a long, powerful black limb resembling a colossal arm.
The entire tentacle slowly writhed through the air, emanating a terrifying abyssal aura, as though it could drag anything it grasped into eternal darkness.
The instant the tentacle appeared, an overwhelming pressure of Darkness Force swept across the battlefield!
Black light surged from the Hand of the Dark Abyss and spread in every direction.
The whip shadows attacking the Dark Emperor Golden Body shattered like paper beneath the impact of the Darkness Force, turning into scattered flecks of rosy light that dissipated.
Then, the tentacle spread its five fingers, and a Darkness Rune condensed in the center of its palm!
The rune was entirely black, twisting and winding like tadpoles or vines as it slowly rotated in the palm.
As the Darkness Rune flowed, a Dark Laser abruptly shot out from the Dark Tentacle!
The laser was black as ink and as thin as a finger, yet it