At that moment.
Lin En did not stop her. Instead, he projected his psychic power straight into the sky, spreading it overhead. In an instant, it materialized into dense black mist that blotted out the sky and moon. Only then did a trace of surprise stir in his heart.
His immense psychic power was so much like the black mist he could command in the Warp-pitch-black and smoke-like. He did not even need to direct or control it, because that black mist was already one with him.
But he had no time to investigate.
Almost instinctively, he merged his body into the black mist, then turned into a gigantic vortex that billowed over Hana Ye, shielding her from the Red Moon's light.
"Corruption!"
And at the very moment he gave the command.
The terrifying corruption within his projection was unleashed, filling the entire sky beneath his cover with densely packed, viscous blotches.
Ever since learning that the Red Moon possessed the same Divine Status as him, he had known that the only way to isolate her from its influence was to use power and corruption on the same level as the Red Moon. Only then could he block its all-penetrating reach and influence.
Or rather.
This had been an experiment all along.
He was gambling that it was the Red Moon's influence that had caused such a drastic change in Hana Ye, not that the King of the Red Moon had truly been reborn in her soul.
Like a bottle that held no water to begin with, she merely had the capacity to contain it. Only through an influx from outside could she accumulate it, little by little.
Darkness enveloped the sky.
And just as Lin En's immense body and black mist completely engulfed Hana Ye in that bone-chilling darkness.