The tumor's true body was filled with all manner of negative power, enough to make everything wither.
But the tumor itself had been born from the Gate of Eternal Life. Though it existed like a bug in the Gate of Eternal Life, it had never transcended the Gate.
All things in the world gave rise to and countered one another. The Gate of Eternal Life might be unable to control the tumor, but the tumor still belonged to it.
That was why a Chaos One might be able to use the tumor to seize control of the Gate of Eternal Life and overturn everything.
In a sense, the tumor's relationship with the Gate of Eternal Life was not so different from an Artifact Spirit's. It was simply that the Gate rejected the tumor.
Yet in the deepest reaches of the tumor's true body, Meng Chuan sensed another hidden power.
It stood outside the Three Realms and beyond the Five Elements—a power from the Chaos Sea.
The Immortal King who had found the tumor's true body and cast it out could not detect that power. The Gate of Eternal Life, currently without a spirit, would also struggle to detect it.
But after a careful search, Meng Chuan sensed it.
"So both Hua Tiandu and the tumor's true body have been tampered with by whoever is hiding in the shadows..." Meng Chuan's gaze deepened. He had seen through the nature of the power within the tumor's true body.
All Constants turned to emptiness. Lawless and unrestrained. Ruin and destruction. Utter negativity. Endless chaos, without order or stability...
The power parasitizing the tumor's true body was strangely compatible with the tumor's nature.
Put another way, neither was anything good.
And after grasping the Profound Principles behind that power, Meng Chuan had a fair