The World Sea was deep and dark, without light or direction.
Chu Mo's face was pale. As time passed, the aura locked onto him gradually grew indistinct.
"The distance is growing!"
His thoughts raced as he silently weighed his options:
The low-tier ghostfolk within the Nether Capital's Golden Vault were almost entirely spent. Now his pills were exhausted and his magical power depleted. He might as well...
Just then, another Death-Declaring Edict descended upon him from afar.
Chu Mo's eyes flashed. Rather than dodge, he even shattered the Golden Vault himself, letting death come all the more thoroughly.
Boom!
His body instantly exploded into ashes, scattering into the void.
[Health bar: 0%] [You have died] [Yin-Yang Jade -1. Remaining: two] [You will revive in 30 seconds]
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the distant void.
Xi Sang stood amid the turbulent currents of the World Sea. His imperial robes remained unchanged, but his body had inexplicably become somewhat more transparent, and a trace of weakness showed in his aura.
"Dead...?"
He frowned slightly. That edict seemed to have struck his opponent without being evaded. The man should have been dead beyond all doubt.
With a thought, Xi Sang shifted straight toward that location.
A few breaths later, he stopped in an empty expanse of void.
There was nothing before him.
No corpse, no aura, and none of his shed remains.
Though he had known that even if anything remained, the World Sea's phase positions would sweep it elsewhere, Xi Sang still could not resist coming to investigate in person.
Because, from beginning to end, he had never sensed the Ink Seal's aura.
"Damn it! What exactly did that thief do?"
Xi Sang's expression grew uglier. The longer he remained away from Eternal Night, the more noticeably his power declined. Even his