Beneath a decaying sky, above dark red earth, an enormous gateway hung over the wilderness. It resembled two cold, pitch-black coffin lids, half open and half closed. Beyond the gap lay nothingness, yet it exuded a terrifying Death Intent that seemed to have extinguished countless worlds.
Within it, one could dimly glimpse the endings of magnificent eras and hear the suffering of all living beings.
Even moonlight struggled to penetrate this land. The air teemed with faint, maddened, chaotic murmurs, while black-and-red substances resembling embers drifted in every direction, carrying an aura that filled all living creatures with revulsion, fear, and rejection.
A group of inhuman creatures stood on the ground.
A naked human body with three heads, six hands, and a tail of finger bones over ten meters long; a humanoid with scarlet skin covered in tumors that pulsed with every breath; a three-meter-tall creature resembling a goat standing upright, its entire body covered in constantly writhing purple-skinned tentacles...
All manner of deformed, bizarre, indescribable beings stood here, facing the gateway as though on a pilgrimage. They had fallen into slumber in this posture, seemingly to preserve their power from decay.
These creatures were divided into several camps, the smaller ones numbering dozens and the larger ones hundreds.
Not far from them lay an even more horrifying sight. Naked human corpses, entwined with countless snakes, had been pieced together into the shape of an enormous python, winding for dozens of meters.
The large and small snakes constantly crawling over it made one's scalp crawl.
A two-meter-tall man with dark, wet, slippery skin stood before the python, flicking out a forked tongue from time to time. He carefully inserted the limbs of powerful individuals, rich in spiritual power, into various places, making the python look increasingly alive.
Its eyes were