This was a desolate Great Universe. No living beings remained within it, and eternal silence reigned.
By all rights, a Great Yu like this should have been battered to ruin by the Boundary Sea. Yet this universe was strange.
Though it had fallen into deathly stillness, it endured forever, unchanged through several eras.
The waters of the Boundary Sea could not erode it, nor could the power of time scour it away.
Some power seemed to suppress this place, preventing all outside forces from disturbing it and keeping it forever unchanged.
In one corner of this universe floated a Remnant Corpse.
This Remnant Corpse had only one leg and one arm. Its hair hung in a tangle like withered yellow weeds, and its face was aged.
"You, too!"
Meng Chuan's voice exploded through the universe, startling its only living being.
The Remnant Corpse snapped its eyes open. Two savage beams of black light shot from them and pierced the universe.
He was still alive. He was no corpse at all.
"You disturb my slumber. You court death." The battered figure spoke, and his heart began beating again. Signs of life appeared in his body.
His open eyes held nothing but cold indifference.
He looked toward Meng Chuan and the others, their battle reflected in his eyes.
His sole arm rose and pointed in one direction. Something deep within the Dark Land stirred, as did something deep within the Boundary Sea.
Boom!
Darkness burst apart, and ten thousand waves rose across the Boundary Sea.
An arm flew out from the depths of the Black-and-White Land, crossed an endless distance, and joined the elder's body.
Deep in the Boundary Sea, a leg also emerged, crossed the boundary wall, and joined his body.
The elder stood, clad in a tattered black robe.
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