At the summit of the firmament, an immense cauldron, ancient and weathered, hovered in the void.
With three legs and two handles, it seemed to bear all the myriad Daos of heaven and earth since the dawn of creation.
At its mouth, hundreds of millions of strands of mysterious yellow mother qi poured down like an inverted waterfall of stars.
Each strand was heavy enough to crush a primordial mountain range stretching tens of thousands of miles.
They completely froze the space within a hundred thousand miles into an absolute forbidden domain of vacuum.
Inside the Qi of All Things' Mother Cauldron, a mass of hazy gray flame blazed fiercely.
This flame transcended the mortal world, formless and without appearance. It was called chaos true flame!
It was kindled from the purest chaos origin within Ye Tian, capable of burning even the laws of nothingness to ash and scorching warped holes into the passage of time itself.
"Aaaaah!"
From deep within the cauldron came an unending succession of agonized screams, so chilling they made one's hair stand on end.
The sound was steeped in boundless venom, despair, and terror, as though hundreds of millions of vengeful ghosts were writhing and struggling in the boiling oil cauldrons of the eighteen layers of hell.
The Deity's Malice, which had once tried to possess Ye Tian and had taken shape from the undying obsession left behind by the fallen Fallen Heaven God Sovereign, was now undergoing the cruelest refinement imaginable.
Under the merciless devouring of the chaos true flame, the Deity's Malice, once enormous as a primordial demon mountain, had been reduced to this.
His quasi-emperor demon body, formed from endless deathly energy and killing intent, had long since been burned into shattered fragments.
The black resentment capable of corrupting a God King's