Entering the Belly and Devouring

"Looks like this is the place!" Yomi gazed at the stone palace in the center of the underground complex from afar, excitement gleaming in his eyes.

He slowly crossed the stone bridge before him toward the barrier. Beneath the bridge stood countless towering stone statues, silently motionless like terracotta warriors. At a rough estimate, there were around a hundred thousand of them. These were the undead army created by Moryo. They looked like ordinary stone statues, but were actually immortal puppets made from undead souls and rock. Not only were they difficult to destroy, they also possessed no negative emotions, making them the ideal army. Since Moryo had been sealed away, they had all fallen dormant.

Yomi quickly crossed the stone bridge and arrived before the barrier. This barrier existed to isolate Moryo's aura within, so it had little defensive power. Yomi passed through it with ease and stopped before the gates of the stone palace.

Complex patterns were carved into the palace gates—a sealing array meant to imprison Moryo's soul. Yomi pressed his right hand against the center of the array, channeling chakra into it while chanting a strange incantation.

The chant was naturally not some kind of magic. He was communicating with Moryo inside the seal, using Moryo's own power to break the seal from both within and without.

As Yomi finished his chant, the array on the stone gates gradually began to shine with purple light. Cracks soon spread across the entire gate, and it finally collapsed.

The moment the seal was lifted, a vast and evil aura burst out from within the stone palace, whipping Yomi's robes loudly in the wind.

"Who is it that has awakened me?"

A deep, sinister voice came from within the dark stone palace. Looking inside, a massive phantom shaped like