Demon Emperor Daochen had reached his limit. His body kept swelling, stretched by the energy within him, and felt as though it would explode.
Left with no choice, Daochen could only let his body grow without restraint, doubling, then tripling in size, until he could fully control the energy within him.
The Gate of Realms within his body was gradually burst apart by this expansion and began to dissipate.
Watching the Gate of Realms grow ever thinner, Daochen knew victory was within sight.
When a clear, crisp shattering sound rang out in his heart, every cell in his body finally broke through its limit.
At last, his body slowly absorbed the energy within him.
His immense body rapidly began to wither. Though he was still a giant, he had become painfully thin.
His eyes were bloodshot as he looked around, frantically absorbing all the energy around him.
By then, he had thrown caution to the winds. He no longer distinguished between chaos energy, sage power, or spiritual power; any energy that could benefit his body was absorbed like mad.
Only then did Demon Emperor Daochen discover that this world concealed many, many other kinds of energy.
As he absorbed sage power and the power of chaos, he discovered that the Phantom Worms also held a special kind of power within them.
Daochen called it phantom force.
This phantom force helped the worms turn incorporeal and hide within space.
While the Demon Emperor frantically strengthened himself, he also began absorbing this phantom force.
Gradually, he discovered an ability of his own.
Like those Phantom Worms, he too began to fade into intangibility.
The sensation was extraordinarily strange, as though he had vanished from this world.
Yet he still truly, tangibly existed.
At the same time, the way he saw the entire