My Vertical Strength Hadn't Improved, but My Horizontal Strength Had Broken Through the Heavens!

It was no wonder everything in the Bone Burial Ground was white.

The so-called Underground World...

Was actually inside a skull!

And the ninth layer of Soul Suppression was the Nether Shadow conjured from the entire skull of the Bone Burial Ground.

What kind of enormous creature would it take to have a skull with that much space inside?

It was even larger than all of Cloud Sea City.

Was it really a creature from Blue Star?

But as shocking as all that was...

None of it was why Chen Ming still hadn't come to his senses.

The real reason was that after establishing a faint mental connection with the Pitch-Black Tower...

He'd understood what this thing was actually for.

"Bone Demon..."

He murmured to himself.

"Chen Ming, what's wrong?"

Qin Zhixue walked over, her eyes filled with a hint of confusion as she looked at the dazed Chen Ming.

The next second, she saw a faint blue glow flicker in Chen Ming's left eye.

An eerie halo lit up in his pupil, a wisp of ghostly flame wavering within.

The Nether Eye appeared!

"Hmm? Brother Chen, is this the legendary-grade equipment you got?"

"Damn, that looks so cool!"

Sun Yang saw this and immediately looked intrigued.

The equipment was called the Nether Eye.

So when he saw Chen Ming like this, Sun Yang naturally guessed it was that legendary-grade equipment.

But in the next second...

Without warning—

A dark, misty "gate" abruptly appeared before them.

The gate stood two meters tall beside Chen Ming.

Wisp after wisp of mist curled around it, and mysterious pale-gold runes were etched across its surface.

"What the heck is that?"

Sun Yang blinked.

Without a sound, the gate slowly swung open.

Beyond it was dark as ink, as if it connected to a