The Divine Sea stretched boundlessly, as crimson as ever.
Before her spiritual projection dissipated completely, the Undying Bird Beast Sovereign used her final moments to illuminate the path ahead for Nine Nether.
Nine Nether engraved those words in her heart, then found a relatively calm stretch of sea and entered seclusion to refine the drop of Undying Bird essence blood within her, formally embarking on the long road toward becoming a true Undying Bird.
Mu Chen, meanwhile, had already descended to the bottom of the Divine Sea.
The pressure here was overwhelming, and the essence blood was so viscous it seemed solid. Even an ordinary Earthly Sovereign would likely have struggled to move a single step.
For Mu Chen, however, it was like a fish returning to water.
He sat cross-legged amid the deepest darkness and crimson, his eyes closed and every pore on his body open.
"Humm-"
The Chaos Dao Diagram silently unfurled behind him, revolving slowly.
The Guixu Dao Flame transformed into countless imperceptibly fine threads of pale fire that wreathed his body.
Though his Double Pupils were closed, chaos seemed to arise and perish in their depths, reflecting the surging torrents of essence blood outside.
The Divine Sea began to boil.
An unimaginably enormous vortex slowly formed around Mu Chen!
At first, it was merely a ripple. Then it expanded until almost half the Divine Sea was faintly being drawn along by its power!
Endless essence blood from super divine beasts was voraciously sucked into the vortex, becoming thick, blood-red torrents that surged into Mu Chen's body.
He swallowed heaven and earth like a whale!
As vast quantities of essence blood entered his body, the Myriad Spirits Indestructible Body Scripture began circulating at its utmost limit of its own accord.
His bones rang clearly like clashing jade,