Passing Through

That head floated in midair, its hollow black eyes still fixed on Chu Ming.

"You will come..."

The voice grew softer and more distant.

"The abyss... awaits you..."

The head exploded.

It turned into black smoke that filled the sky.

The black smoke churned through the void, roiling violently.

Amid the turbulence, a colossal, indistinct silhouette slowly emerged.

The silhouette stood a thousand zhang tall, propping up heaven and earth. It was utterly black, its surface covered in countless densely packed eyes.

Some of those eyes were open, some shut, while others rolled endlessly in their sockets.

Every single eye stared fixedly at Chu Ming.

Scarlet light shot from those eyes and fell upon Chu Ming.

Cold.

Foul.

Greedy.

Mad.

The gaze of the Abyss Great Lord.

The instant that gaze fell upon Chu Ming, the Chaos Order Dao Seed within him trembled violently.

It was not fear.

It was instinctive vigilance.

Like a hunter sensing a stronger hunter, like the alpha wolf in a pack sensing a tiger's roar in the distance.

Chu Ming raised his head and met that gaze.

His eyes were calm as an abyss.

Their stare held for a moment.

A moment later, the colossal silhouette began to fade.

Starting from its edges, it dissipated bit by bit.

The eyes closed one after another, and the scarlet rays went out one after another.

In the end, only a single eye remained.

That eye floated in the void, as large as a millstone, with Chu Ming's reflection mirrored in its pupil.

It watched Chu Ming, its gaze complex.

There was greed, madness, and wariness.

Then that eye, too, dissipated.

Only a low, deep laugh remained in the void.

The laugh was faint, so faint it was nearly inaudible.

Yet Chu Ming understood the meaning contained within