Grayish-white permafrost fragments floated soundlessly in the vacuum.
Stepping out of the portal, Chen Xiao was instantly enveloped by the Kuiper Belt's near-absolute-zero silence. He stood steadily at the edge of a crater, beneath his boots a layer of frigid dry ice and silicate crust that had accumulated for countless millennia.
There was no air, no sound for his vocal cords to produce—only the dull vibration transmitted through his foot bones as they struck the hard ground.
The ice-blue Dimension Core in his chest no longer concealed itself in the slightest after completely leaving the suppression range of the three Sanctums.
Thump!
The dull impact traveled from his sternum to the top of his skull.
The portion of Mephisto's origin that had been forcibly torn away, together with the massive spatial node pulled from Demon City, clawed wildly along the energy pathways in his chest like two starving beasts trapped in an iron cage.
Black-red molten filth transformed into countless twisted, wailing demonic phantoms that rampaged within the core.
The deathly, freezing ground split with a crack around Chen Xiao's feet, web-like fissures spreading for dozens of miles in every direction.
More than that, countless vicious curses were frantically seeping outward through the node. Unable to do anything to Chen Xiao, the filthy sulfurous death aura burrowed deep into the planet's core like maggots clinging to bone. The dwarf planet's entire gravitational field twisted violently as high-dimensional energy intertwined with Abyssal filth, threatening to burst this silent celestial body apart at any moment.
"On my turf, even an Abyssal Demon God has to obediently serve as firewood."
Chen Xiao sneered inwardly.
Since he no longer needed to worry about the surroundings, he might as well feed it without restraint.
He abruptly clasped both hands before him, opening every pore across