Purgatory, Fifth Realm.
On the Nameless Shattered Land, Pang Jian wore an ink-black robe, still deeply pondering the mysteries within it.
Immersing his divine consciousness within, his awareness wandered through twenty-six demon domains, comprehending the peculiarities of their stars and observing the movements of living beings and demon gods.
The robe had originally been connected to thirty-six demon domains, and every strand of strange wonder it displayed corresponded to one of those thirty-six demon domains.
Yet in reality, the demon domains it could still connect to had already been reduced by ten.
Before Demon Heaven fell, when he was still a Sovereign, the demon domains controlled by the Devil Race and demon gods beyond the heavens had been at their most numerous.
That had been the Devil Race's golden age.
After Demon Heaven died in the Ancient Demon Realm, slain by the Black Phoenix, the outer-realm heavenly demons began to decline, and ten demon domains belonging to that race fell one after another.
Even so, the remaining twenty-six demon domains still left Pang Jian deeply shaken.
A demon domain was a starfield ablaze with countless stars, containing numerous worlds.
Any star inhabited by living beings and saturated with demonic essence power was a world, possessing complete laws of heaven and earth, along with countless mountains, rivers, and kingdoms.
A demon domain contained as few as several dozen stars, and as many as over a hundred.
Altogether, the twenty-six demon domains contained more than two thousand stars.
The myriad Devil Race members living in those stellar worlds, along with non-Devil Race clans that worshipped demon gods—their countless negative emotions, malicious thoughts, and wicked intentions could all be gathered by this robe.
With the robe draped over himself, Pang Jian merely needed a thought to enter one of the demon domains corresponding