At the edge of Cage Sea, Lu Ye stood with saber in hand, his gaze grave, tinged with restrained pain.
At this moment, his Soul Sea churned with raging waves. Even with Jinyao wielding the Soul Suppressing Bell to hold the fort within, she could not quell the anomaly.
Cold sweat broke out on Lu Ye's back, soaking his clothes.
With his current foundation, supplemented by the might of the Soul Suppressing Bell, True Saints could no longer pose much of a threat to him through the soul.
Yet in that instant just now, when the pitch-black tentacle swept out from the Volcanic Crater, Lu Ye had felt a soul impact even more powerful and concentrated than that of a True Saint.
Had Jinyao not wielded the Soul Suppressing Bell to guard his Soul Sea, even if Lu Ye had survived, he would not have escaped unscathed.
Even now, his soul was still reeling.
The pitch-black tentacle stretched across the sea, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws. Yet at some point, a black chain had wound itself around its surface!
That chain was almost no different from the one Lu Ye had seen before. It had clearly been left behind by the Dragon and Phoenix Ancestors.
The chain suddenly tightened. Amid a rattling clamor, the wildly struggling black tentacle was dragged back.
The restrictions of the Origin Realm had vanished after the Three Realms became one, granting the True Saints the freedom to move about. But on Abyss Island, the restriction sealing Abyss still remained!
So long as this restriction endured, Abyss would find it difficult to break free from its cage.
"Kya!" A strange cry rang out, piercing straight into the depths of every heart. In that instant, all living beings across the Origin Realm, regardless of cultivation