Before long, the void rippled faintly. The Chaos City Lord, the Lord of Darkness, and Lord Huang Jian appeared one after another in the Giant Axe Founder's Miniature Universe. Together with Giant Axe's divine power avatar, the four foremost beings of the Human Race turned their gazes toward the figure seated quietly on the continent below.
As time passed, their expressions gradually grew intent, then solemn, and finally filled with astonishment they could no longer conceal.
The change was especially pronounced on the Lord of Darkness's face, which normally seemed frozen in ice for ten thousand years.
Even when he had heard that Hu Yanbo had become a Top Universe Overlord, his expression had barely changed.
"This..." The Lord of Darkness's throat went a little dry.
Why does it feel as though he's taking this secret technique apart from the inside out for me to see? the Lord of Darkness thought.
He was watching a Universe Venerable peel apart his Strongest Secret Technique layer by layer, almost as though dissecting it-a technique he had poured endless effort into creating, combining his ultimate insights into souls, darkness, and spacetime.
The ingenious ideas he took such pride in, the deeply concealed connections between laws-all became clearly visible beneath Hu Yanbo's threads of law, with nowhere left to hide.
It was an extraordinarily peculiar feeling.
It was like a master fashion designer watching someone perfectly dismantle his proudest creation, an intricately structured formal gown, working out the shape of every panel and how each seam was sewn without consulting the design, using only the finished garment. Even the hidden stitching he had so cleverly devised had been uncovered.
Even another Universe Master proficient in the soul path could not have broken it down like this simply by observing it!
Thus, despite his cold,