Rumble!
As the Bronze Ancient Gate swung fully open.
A terrifying surge of power from the ages of the Primordial Era erupted like a volcano that had stored its fury for hundreds of millions of years.
Endless black water poured wildly from behind the gate, a fusion of Lunar Yin True Water and the origin of the corpse dao.
Wherever it passed, space froze into black crystals.
Then, beneath the terrifying pressure, those crystals shattered into dust.
Within that rolling black tide, an enormous creature swam forth.
It was so vast that it resembled a moving continent.
Its entire body was covered in scales harder than black gold, each engraved with natural dao patterns that shimmered with a cold, eerie luster.
Neither quite fish nor quite bird, its spine wound like a mountain range, and its fins hung like clouds draping from the heavens. With one gentle sweep, they cleaved this stretch of heaven and earth.
The Primordial Corpse Kun!
This was a savage creature that had battled True Dragons and devoured gods during the Immortal Ancient Epoch.
After being steeped in primordial death qi for endless ages, it had long since undergone a sinister transformation.
Splash!
The Corpse Kun burst through the gate and hovered above the Corpse Sea.
Immediately afterward, a teeth-grating series of explosive cracks rang out from its bones.
Laws were reassembling, and its flesh was changing.
Shrouded in black mist that filled the sky, its immense body, which blotted out the sun, rapidly shrank as endless essence gathered toward its center.
A moment later, the black mist dispersed.
A tall, imposing humanoid figure stood proudly beneath the heavens.
It was a man clad in heavy black-gold armor, his face as pale as paper, without a trace of blood.
His eyes had no whites, only two