I had fallen completely into an Intent Realm.
It was like the trial my grandmaster had left on Mount Heng.
I looked up at the enormous, unnatural red Great Fiend Eye above me. It was eerily strange. Its eyeball shifted slightly, and an invisible pressure spread out.
In that instant, my whole body went rigid.
I stared up at it in shock and murmured without thinking,
"The Great Fiend Eye..."
The moment I spoke, its pupil dilated and the entire eyeball shuddered.
In an instant, countless black tentacles shot out from behind the Great Fiend Eye.
Silent and seething with hatred, they surged toward me from every direction.
I tried to stop feeding the Four Misfortune Qi into the stele and wake from its Intent Realm.
But I found I could no longer control it.
The Great Fiend Eye's tentacles came at me from every direction with a barrage of whooshes.
I raised a hand, trying to gather my supreme yang True Qi and scatter them.
Only then did I realize that in this Intent Realm, I was an ordinary person. I couldn't channel qi, nor could I wake from it at will.
"Damn it!"
I retreated as fast as I could...
But I couldn't outrun those black tentacles.
In the blink of an eye, they stabbed at me from every direction.
There was no way to dodge.
In an instant, pain pierced my entire body.
The tentacles punched through my body, even my head, bursting out through my eyes and mouth...
They pinned me in place, then kept swaying and writhing.
At that moment, I felt hatred beyond anything I had ever known.
I also saw strange, chaotic images.
They overlapped in layers, too blurred to make out individually.
But in every image, countless tentacles and streams of black