Hun Zhan awoke.
More precisely, Hun Zhan's true self awareness revived instinctively under the scouring of countless martyring wills to battle and the stimulation of the Lord of Rot's Demon God power.
The defiant skeleton, ablaze with crimson fire, slowly raised his head. Scarlet flames surged like wildfire in his hollow eye sockets as he gazed up at the shattered sky and the Great Evil Moon hanging high above.
An overbearing battle intent erupted from his bones, piercing the sky and spanning tens of thousands of miles.
Violent power of war swept across mountains and rivers like an ocean bursting its banks, shaking the earth until ravines churned and rivers rolled backward into the heavens.
Hun Zhan was still no more than a broken body, yet the might leaking from the wisp of true self awareness that had just taken control of it already possessed the terrifying power to shake heaven and earth.
An imperious aura that scorned all things and looked down upon heaven and earth erupted around him.
The Dark Tide demonic energy released by the Lord of Rot's projection steadily recoiled, unable to spread any farther downward.
The next instant, space twisted around Hun Zhan's broken body.
Blood-colored mist surged upward. Boundless mountains of corpses and seas of blood appeared out of thin air, spreading around him.
Countless gods and demons slaughtering one another throughout the ages, billions of races locked in bloody battle-scenes of carnage flowed through the sea of blood.
Hun Zhan's own "war domain" manifested. Every law within it gave way to the power of war.
The black fog burned and dissolved the moment it touched the killing flames filling the sky. His five skeletal fingers gently closed, and the war domain thundered and shook. Countless blood-colored silhouettes raised their weapons, their murderous might