The aura of a Nine Revolutions Dou Venerate at the peak surged and roiled within Lin Chen like a raging tide.
He sat cross-legged above the City of Sin, with the still Blood Sea slowly revolving beneath him, having devoured every living soul in the city.
He raced against time to consolidate his cultivation and digest the unimaginably vast energy.
He made the life force and Soul Origin of Old Man Soul Fiend and countless criminals entirely his own.
The Blood Sea grew ever deeper, its reach even extending beyond the city limits.
It shrouded the surrounding barren hills beneath a swath of dark red.
The phantoms of eighteen Blood God Children rose and sank within the Blood Sea, each one exuding an aura on par with a Seven or Eight Revolutions Dou Venerate.
Like a loyal guard, they surrounded their sovereign.
Yet this brief tranquility did not last long.
Roughly half a day later, in the distant sky beyond the City of Sin, space shattered inch by inch without warning, like fragile glass!
A colossal spatial rift stretching tens of thousands of zhang was forcibly torn open.
An aura far more vast and terrifying than Old Man Soul Fiend's, bearing the true majesty of a "Saint," descended upon this world with a thunderous roar, like an ancient beast awakening from slumber!
"Who... killed Hun Sha? Who destroyed my domain?!"
A cold, aged voice, brimming with boundless rage and killing intent, boomed from within the spatial rift like rolling thunder.
Wherever the voice passed, even the surging Blood Sea seemed to still for an instant.
The next moment, a blurred figure stepped out of the spatial rift.
The newcomer wore a dark robe embroidered with strange, twisted runes that seemed to devour the light.
His face was gaunt, his eye