In less than fifteen minutes, an unusual glow suddenly flared in the depths of the darkness.
It wasn't firelight or sunlight. It was an inky green halo, steeped in decay and brimming with destruction.
Light spilled down from the horizon, illuminating the world for ten miles in every direction and revealing the terrifying beast at the heart of the forest in all its monstrous glory.
The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord.
A colossal eye, more than thirty meters in diameter, floated in the air. Beneath it, countless tentacles spread and grew like vines from the abyss. Each one stretched five hundred meters, slowly writhing in the air.
The suckers on the tentacles opened and closed incessantly, greedily devouring the Soul Power drifting through the world.
The inky green vertical pupil at the center of the eye narrowed slightly, locking onto the young man in white as he walked out of the forest.
The mental pressure blanketing the area surged threefold in an instant.
Xu Yanli's steps faltered ever so slightly. Then he continued on as before, seemingly unaffected.
For the first time, a look of surprise appeared in the vertical pupil.
It hadn't expected anyone to actually break through its mental domain and reach it.
Yet the young man before it was barely in his twenties. Dressed in a plain white robe with a Jade Fan tucked at his waist, he looked as relaxed as if he'd come out to enjoy a springtime stroll.
The vertical pupil narrowed slightly.
The next moment, twenty tentacles moved at once. They weren't launching a surprise attack; they were sealing off every direction.
The tentacles plunged into the earth, forming a tight cage twenty meters around him. Droplets of slime fell to the ground, sizzling as they corroded enormous pits into the earth.
An old,