There was no tranquil little courtyard left before her eyes.
Only a suffocating expanse of pitch-black darkness.
Then the darkness surged.
Hundreds of millions of shrill howls exploded in her ears.
Through the billowing black mist, Jiang Yuechu dimly glimpsed an indescribable behemoth.
It sprawled between heaven and earth, its body stretching untold tens of millions of miles.
Dense deathly energy and baleful intent wreathed it, countless twisted faces appearing and vanishing across its body.
Great Black Heaven.
With the body as a prison, confine ten thousand demons; with the soul as a furnace, temper the Golden Body.
The behemoth slowly lowered its head, two scarlet gazes piercing through the ages.
It coldly regarded the ant that dared to spy upon its true form.
Terrifying pressure crashed down upon her.
Before it, Jiang Yuechu felt as insignificant as a candle flame in a gale.
At the same time, the remnant demon souls suppressed within the hundreds of major apertures in her body seemed to answer some summons.
They slammed madly against the walls of the apertures, roaring with venomous hatred.
A wolf's shadow flickered deep within her sea of qi, while a tiger's shadow opened its blood-filled maw.
A thunder dragon rampaged, and a white crane shrieked in fury.
Countless nameless demons gathered into a black torrent, surging upstream straight toward her spirit platform.
Meanwhile.
The sense of power coursing through her flesh soared.
Every inch of flesh grew tougher beneath the scouring of that killing intent.
Yet alongside it came the agonizing pain of a soul on the verge of shattering.
Kill.
Kill everything before you.
Make every living creature in this world part of Great Black Heaven.
The girl's reason retreated step by step beneath that wave of madness.
The clarity in her eyes was slowly replaced by