As this terrifying being muttered to himself, several others on the same level awakened one after another, and an extraordinarily terrifying roar suddenly erupted throughout the Soul River.
It sounded like ten million demonic beasts roaring together, and like hundreds of millions of gods and ghosts wailing in unison, shaking heaven and earth.
Countless points of soul light shot into the sky from the river, packed so densely that they blotted out the sky and sun.
At this moment, time descended into chaos, the order of past and present was overturned, and the threads of cause and effect reversed.
"Someone is throwing the ages into turmoil?! Attend me!"
"My lord!"
As soon as the words fell, many monsters appeared, quietly awaiting orders.
The creature at the very front had a mantis-like body, but its legs were bizarre beyond measure.
Some were thick as elephant legs, others had structures as sharp as eagle talons, and still others bore sharp toes like tiger paws. Most astonishing of all, two human arms covered in red hair were mixed in among them.
Its abdomen was even more nauseating, densely covered in corpses, all of them half-body remnants. Crimson drops of blood were still dripping from some.
Its lower body was disgusting to the extreme, while its upper body was even more revolting.
It was like a rotting corpse that had soaked in sewage for ten thousand years, its hair disheveled, occasionally revealing a pair of bulging eyes with no whites, only pitch-black pupils.
Holes covered its entire body, and white maggots could be seen burrowing in and out of them, writhing incessantly.
It was not just this monster; those behind it were equally deformed and terrifying.
Not one had a normal form. Every last one looked strange and grotesque.
They seemed to have been