Beyond distant dimensions lay a vast world.
Countless nations stood within this world, and countless living beings multiplied, struggled, cultivated, and played out their joys and sorrows, partings and reunions.
At the pinnacle of every living being's understanding, and at the very source of their fear, were the terrifying beings known as "Heart Demons."
They were undying and indestructible, roaming the cracks between reality and illusion. Feeding on living beings' most intense emotions and desires, they ruled from this world's shadows.
"Awooo-!"
In one corner of the world, an expansive black continent suddenly began to shake.
Before the billions of living beings upon it could react, they were annihilated in an instant. Their flesh and souls became the purest "emotional dust," which the continent greedily absorbed.
Then the entire continent slowly rose. Eight bladed legs gleaming with a dark, cold light pierced out from deep within its crust. It was no continent, but the physical shell of an unimaginably enormous "Heart Demon"!
It was precisely the black-armored creature Hu Yanbo had annihilated with a thought within Infinite Space.
Its eight bladed legs supported its body, while countless blood-red eyes on its carapace frantically opened and closed, revealing humanlike fear and rage.
"The Eleventh Tribulation was actually this terrifying?!" The Will Star that had crushed down upon it echoed through its consciousness. Merely remembering it made its core tremble.
"He completely crushed all the mental power I projected there with just one strike?!"
The gulf between them was far too great.
It was like a sandcastle facing a tsunami, without even the right to struggle.
Fear soaked its consciousness like ice water, but an even fiercer rage followed.
It had realized an even crueler truth-that mysterious space had already closed its doors to it.
Without the "Thousand Tribulations" trials, it could