Beneath the deep sea lay a deathly still darkness.
Huo Yuhao sat cross-legged on a massive reef on the seabed, his Soul Power roaring through his meridians like boiling lava.
The immense energy from the Evil Emperor's Soul Ring and the Water and Fire Dragon Kings' Soul Bones surged like wild horses freed of their reins, battering the barrier of the cultivation realm he had deliberately suppressed, sending muffled rumbles through his body.
"In ancient times, there was a strange beast named Desolate. It had a single eye. When that eye opened, desolation spread for ten thousand miles, eroding life as though the years themselves were passing."
Everything about the Desolate Demon Eye flashed rapidly through Huo Yuhao's mind.
It was an exceedingly pure killing technique, the Desolate Hall's strongest martial art apart from the Great Desolation Scripture.
He took out the Evil Emperor's eyeball-shaped External Soul Bone and began rapidly absorbing it.
Desolate, the Evil Emperor, an eyeball-shaped External Soul Bone, and immense Soul Power he could no longer suppress.
This was simply the perfect opportunity to cultivate the Desolate Demon Eye.
A wisp of black energy swept out of the Martial Scripture and swiftly merged into the External Soul Bone Huo Yuhao was fusing with.
After that wisp of black energy merged in, Huo Yuhao's mind suddenly grew hazy. Then he felt the stars wheel and the heavens shift around him.
At that moment, he seemed to be standing not on the seabed, but on a vast, level plain.
The plain stretched beyond sight, the sky and earth seeming to meet in a single line.
An aura of primordial wilderness, carrying the weathered weight of ancient ages, rose between heaven and earth.
Under Huo Yuhao's gaze, the distant earth suddenly trembled and split open into an enormous fissure.