Peerless Tang Sect Top 9: Evil Emperor (800,000-Year Evil Eye Overlord)

[Peerless Tang Sect · Top Ten Powerhouse Rankings, Top 9 about to be revealed.]

Everyone's hearts leaped into their throats once more.

The tenth-ranked one had already been able to instantly kill three Titled Douluo. What kind of monster would ninth place be?

The Sky Screen no longer showed a metal laboratory. Instead, it shifted to an endless expanse of dark void.

Suddenly, an eye opened within the darkness.

It was an enormous eye beyond description.

Its pupil was a bizarre vertical slit, glowing with a dim green light. Deep within it, countless anguished souls seemed to be wailing and sinking into despair.

With just a single glance through the Sky Screen, countless low-level Soul Masters and ordinary people across the continent instantly felt dizzy and disoriented, their minds thrown into chaos.

"Ah!"

"My head! It hurts!"

On the training ground, Oscar and Ma Hongjun both groaned, their faces turning pale as they clutched their heads.

Soul Power surged around Dai Mubai's body, and only then did he barely withstand that mental assault. But his gaze at the Sky Screen was already filled with horror.

"Th-this... what is that thing? A Martial Soul?"

"It's... a Soul Beast..." Xiao Wu's voice trembled uncontrollably. Her body shuddered instinctively, gripped by a fear that came from deep within her bloodline. "So terrifying... such a terrifying Soul Beast..."

Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong abruptly rose to her feet, her eyes fixed firmly on the Sky Screen.

Her spiritual power ranked among the best on the entire continent, yet even she felt her heart tighten at that moment.

"Such powerful spiritual power..." she murmured, a grave expression appearing in her eyes for the first time.

Golden words slowly emerged upon the Sky Screen.

[Peerless Tang Sect · Top Ten Powerhouse Rankings, Top 9: Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord]

[Identity: Emperor of the Evil Eye Race, Tyrant of the Sea of Spirit]

[Cultivation: 800,000 years]

"E-eight... eight hundred thousand years?!"

"The Sky Screen must have made a mistake! How could there be an 800,000-year Soul Beast? Wasn't a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast already the limit?!"

"Madness! This world has completely gone mad!"

All he had pursued in his life was becoming a Limit Douluo and hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast ring.

Yet now, the Sky Screen was telling him that an 800,000-year monster existed in this world.

Yu Xiaogang stood behind him, his face pale as paper.

The Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul that he had studied all his life seemed so laughable and powerless before the number "800,000 years."

His so-called theories had not even figured out the most basic rules of this world.

Star Dou Great Forest, Lake of Life.

By the lakeside, the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python were both lying prostrate on the ground, their enormous bodies trembling slightly.

"Eight hundred thousand years... an emperor..." The Sky Azure Bull Python's voice was filled with reverence and fear. "Big Brother, does our Star Dou Great Forest have such an existence?"

The Titan Giant Ape replied in a deep, muffled voice, equally uneasy. "I don't know... I only know that deep within the core region, there are existences we absolutely cannot provoke... But 800,000 years... that is already beyond our imagination."

Just then, the water at the center of the Lake of Life suddenly began to churn.

A calm yet imposing voice rose from the depths of the lake, as though it echoed directly within their souls.

"That madman is actually still alive."

Da Ming and Er Ming shuddered violently and hurriedly lowered their heads even further.

It was the Lord!

At the bottom of the lake, a pair of enormous vertical pupils, more dazzling than gold, slowly opened, reflecting the Evil Eye upon the Sky Screen.

The Beast God, Di Tian.

"Tyrant of the Sea of Spirit? He is merely a pitiful creature who only knows how to toy with souls. To think he could rank ninth—looks like after ten thousand years, there are no remarkable figures left."

The scene on the Sky Screen moved.

The setting shifted to a vast plain, where an army of tens of thousands of Soul Masters stood assembled in formation, brimming with murderous momentum.

Opposite them, that enormous Evil Eye floated in the void.

"Attack!" a leading Soul Master commanded.

In an instant, thousands upon thousands of Soul Skill lights shot into the sky. Brilliant and multicolored, they converged into a torrent of energy capable of destroying heaven and earth, hurtling toward the Evil Eye.

Faced with an attack powerful enough to level an entire city, the Evil Eye made no movement at all.

It merely watched in silence.

At the instant that torrent of energy was about to touch it, its dim green vertical pupil blinked lightly.

The expressions on their faces froze. The light in their eyes rapidly faded, becoming hollow and lost.

The next second, a sudden change erupted.

One Soul Master suddenly let out a shrill scream and wildly tore at his own face with both hands.

The entire Soul Master army instantly descended into chaos.

They no longer attacked the Evil Eye. Instead, like madmen, they began attacking the comrades closest to them.

Blades pierced their companions' chests, while flames scorched the bodies of their brothers-in-arms.

Screams, wails, and crazed roars resounded through the sky.

"Kill... killing the heart..."

"This is not a battle at all! This is mental contamination! It's suppression on the level of the soul!"

What a terrifying, incomprehensible power!

Spirit Hall.

"Souls... devouring souls..."

Her second Martial Soul, the Soul-Eating Spider Emperor, needed precisely this kind of energy the most!

If... if she could obtain this Evil Eye's Soul Ring and Soul Bone...

The moment that thought appeared, it began to grow wildly in her heart, impossible to suppress any longer.

An 800,000-year Soul Ring with spiritual and soul attributes!

It would be enough to let her soar to the heavens in a single step and truly touch the threshold of godhood!

Just as the entire continent was immersed in the ultimate terror brought by this mental storm, golden words appeared on the Sky Screen once again.

[Evaluation: Within its domain, it is the only true god. All souls will ultimately return to its gaze.]

[Reward issued: Spirit Immunity Divine Light.]

[Effect: Can protect an area within a hundred li, granting immunity to all spiritual attacks for one day.]

Seeing this reward, countless powerhouses across the continent breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank goodness, thank goodness. It's a defensive reward."

"If it had rewarded some offensive method, wouldn't that have been disastrous?"

However, before they could celebrate, another line of words appeared on the Sky Screen.

[Special reminder: This reward will automatically activate when the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord awakens next.]

[Deployment location: Random.]

The discussions throughout the continent came to an abrupt halt.

Everyone's expressions froze on their faces.

The next time... it awakened?

What did that mean?

It meant that this 800,000-year monster was merely asleep right now?

And it... would awaken again?

An indescribable wave of immense panic spread across the entire Douluo Continent like a plague.

Random deployment?

What if that monster awakened right outside someone's doorstep, while the "Spirit Immunity Divine Light" was deployed a hundred thousand li away...

Just imagining that scene was enough to make one's scalp go numb.

The Sky Screen seemed to be announcing a countdown to the apocalypse.

An apocalypse that could descend at any moment, brought by an 800,000-year Soul Beast.