At the same time.
Just as Su Changsheng advanced to Yao Emperor and the Black Tortoise Grand Formation was utterly broken.
Deep within the Black Tortoise Grand Formation, inside the secret hall where Zhou Hu King resided.
He was listening to Old Tortoise White Mountain's report.
"Black Mountain Yao King naturally agreed to cooperate, but with the Azure Yao Emperor bearing down so menacingly, he fears that even our combined strength will not be enough to oppose him."
The old turtle narrowed his eyes slightly. A faint azure flame flickered and vanished as he spoke softly.
"No matter!"
"As long as he is willing to cooperate with us, with the power of the Black Tide, even if..."
Before Zhou Hu King could finish, he suddenly stopped, freezing on the spot.
The next instant.
Pfft!
Black liquid sprayed from his seven orifices. Countless maggot-like substances then emerged all over his body, mixed with twisted human faces that were difficult to distinguish.
He resembled an aggregate of human thoughts.
As these filthy things poured out, his aura immediately withered, as though he had been gravely wounded.
"Cough, cough! Damn it!"
"How dare you destroy my foundation!"
Zhou Hu King roared, his voice piercingly wretched, filled with panic and unease.
"No!"
He cried out again.
The black chains that had originally imprisoned him began pulling outward, little by little. Gradually, a strange, pitch-black, tumor-like thing was forcibly dragged out of his chest.
The tumor resembled a human heart, but three twisted human faces grew on its surface.
One greedy, one hateful, one deluded.
The Three Poisons of Greed, Hatred, and Delusion!
As it continued beating, an incomparably uncanny, dangerous aura instantly filled the entire hall. Every beat released streams of intensely corrosive black air.
Where those currents passed, black crystals actually condensed out