At the same time.
While Su Changsheng sorted himself out, completely crushed another pitfall within his body, swept everything belonging to his predecessor onto the rubbish heap, and felt light with his burdens gone.
Deep within the Black Mountain Range.
Inside an enormous hollow mountain, countless mutant insects were digging away at something day and night.
The entire mountain had visibly been eaten hollow, extending an unknown number of meters underground. Like an abyss, it exuded an aura of darkness.
At the deepest point underground, amid those seething insect swarms, an enormous, bizarre creature wreathed in black vapor suddenly raised its head.
At its abrupt movement, the surrounding insect swarms surged away as though frightened, exposing a vast clearing moments later.
Countless white bones lay exposed.
Some had purely yao forms, some were half-humanoid, and there were even human skeletons.
As for that enormous, bizarre creature, it resembled a turtle, but was pitch-black throughout and over a hundred meters across, like a small black mountain.
Stranger still, within its turtle-shell-like backbone lay a completely naked, blood-red individual shaped like a human.
Every limb and bone of this blood-red "human" seemed to ooze blood, endlessly pouring it into the turtle beneath.
No, that was wrong.
More precisely, it was continuously drawing blood from the turtle. The flow was simply so slow that it looked as though blood were seeping outward instead.
"Did you sense it?"
"The fluctuations of Authority over Life and Death."
"It seems another of our companions has reversed life and death, begun gathering human nature, and is gradually returning."
"What joyous news. Another delicious dish for us."
The blood-colored figure drank the surging blood, seemingly talking to himself.
Only after a deathly silence did the enormous black figure beneath him speak hoarsely. "I truly regret releasing you with