The elders and Peak Masters watching the ultimate battle in the Cangwu Small World through the Golden-Eyed Heavenly Mirror all showed traces of astonishment on their otherwise placid faces when they sensed the Darkness Force around Qin Yan suddenly surge.
"That is one percent Darkness Essence!"
An old man with white hair and beard, a faint True Emperor aura circulating around him, was the first to speak, his voice carrying a hint of disbelief.
"This boy has received an incredible opportunity to possess such a quantity of Darkness Essence."
"If those old geezers from the Darkness Temple learned that an East Academy disciple of the Mystic Sanctuary possessed such a quantity of Darkness Essence within his body, their expressions would surely be quite a sight."
"..."
These elders were all True Kings or even True Emperors. With their sharp discernment, they naturally saw at once that Qin Yan's sudden increase in strength was not a breakthrough in cultivation, but the result of fusing Darkness Essence.
At the same time, they secretly envied him.
One percent of a Supreme Dao Essence was an exceedingly rare cultivation resource even for existences at their level.
On the battlefield, Qin Yan quietly sensed the changes within himself.
He discovered that his spiritual power realm had not improved in the slightest due to the fusion of that one percent Darkness Essence. It remained at 639 hertz, still Peak Mid-Stage Rank 8.
Yet his degree of control over the Darkness Force underwent a heaven-shaking transformation at that moment.
The feeling was incredibly profound, as though he himself had become the source of the darkness Rule.
The omnipresent Darkness Force between heaven and earth no longer required him to actively draw it in and absorb it. Instead, it continuously surged toward him of its own accord,