The Black-Eyed Elder!

The Ancient Dragon Ape's foot continued downward, stepping straight onto Tang Hao's body.

Rumble.

The entire ground shook violently.

The deep pit sank dozens of meters farther down.

Tang Hao's body was pinned firmly into the bedrock underground.

Eighty percent of the bones in his body had broken.

His meridians were completely destroyed.

The radiance of his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring dimmed completely.

Douluo Continent.

"Dad!"

Tang San frantically kowtowed on the training ground, tears and snot mingling together.

The father he took such pride in was the Clear Sky Douluo who had once driven back three great Spirit Hall experts with a single hammer strike.

Now a Demonic Beast had trampled him into the ground, his fate unknown.

The Pope's Palace, Spirit City.

Bibi Dong watched the scene on the screen in silence.

Qian Daoliu stood beside her and drew a deep breath.

"Tang Hao lost."

"There was never any doubt about his defeat."

"The most extreme physical attack on Douluo Continent didn't even qualify to break through defenses in that world."

The image in the sky suddenly flickered slightly.

A small split-screen window appeared in the lower right corner.

[Switching to the perspective of Number Two Explorer, Spirit Hall's young master, Qian Renxue.]

[Martial Universe location: Great Desolation Commandery, interior space of the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet.]

The image gradually cleared.

Qian Renxue wore a magnificent golden gown, the six angel wings on her back fully spread.

She was inside an enormous enclosed space filled with ancient runes.

All around her stood desiccated corpses radiating terrifying pressure.

Even the weakest of these corpses had reached the Creation Realm in life.

The moment Qian Renxue landed.

More than a dozen desiccated corpses around her opened their hollow eyes.

The ancient baleful aura within them erupted instantly, locking straight onto Qian Renxue in their midst.

Qian Renxue turned deathly pale and immediately drew the Angel Holy Sword.

Just then, the desiccated corpse at the very front raised its withered arm and swept a black blade of baleful aura toward Qian Renxue.

In midair, the black blade of baleful aura bore straight down on Qian Renxue's face.

Qian Renxue gripped the Angel Holy Sword in both hands, unleashing all the sacred Soul Power within her.

"Angel's protection!"

Her six wings folded together, forming a golden, sacred defensive barrier before her.

Bang!

The black blade slashed into the golden barrier.

There was not the slightest stalemate.

The sacred defense Qian Renxue took such pride in shattered outright.

The remaining force of the black blade struck her chest.

Qian Renxue spat out a large mouthful of blood and flew backward.

She crashed through three thick stone walls in succession and fell straight into an enormous ancient main hall.

Qian Renxue struggled up from the ground.

She raised her head, and the object at the center of the main hall immediately caught her eye.

An ancient Jade Slip radiating dazzling light floated in midair at the very center of the main hall.

Extremely dense, pure Heaven and Earth Energy swirled around the Jade Slip.

The level of this energy completely surpassed the so-called divine power of Douluo Continent.

Intense longing flashed in Qian Renxue's eyes.

As long as she obtained this Jade Slip, she would definitely be able to survive in this cruel world and even gain tremendous power.

Ignoring the sharp pain in her chest, she forcibly channeled her Soul Power, beat her six wings, and flew toward the Jade Slip in midair.

Her palm was less than half a foot from the Jade Slip.

Hum.

A transparent shield of Yuan Power suddenly sprang from the Jade Slip's surface.

Qian Renxue's fingers touched the shield.

A powerful repulsive force erupted immediately.

An emotionless mechanical voice rang out inside the ancient hall.

"No Yuan Power fluctuations within the body."

"Spiritual Power undeveloped."

"Aptitude assessment: extremely poor. Unqualified to receive the inheritance."

The repulsive force struck Qian Renxue's body.

Qian Renxue screamed and fell straight out of the air, slamming heavily onto the hard stone floor.

Her golden gown was covered in dust, her golden hair disheveled.

The pride of Spirit Hall's young master was utterly shattered by that icy repulsive force.

She did not even qualify to approach this treasure.

Douluo Continent.

The Pope's Palace, Spirit City.

Qian Daoliu watched the screen, his hands gripping the armrests of his chair tightly.

"Angel Divine Power was actually judged to be extremely poor aptitude?"

He could not accept this fact.

Qian Renxue had possessed level-twenty Innate Full Soul Power, a genius rarely seen on Douluo Continent in ten thousand years.

Yet under that ancient ruin's assessment mechanism, she could not even meet the most basic threshold.

Bibi Dong watched Qian Renxue's bedraggled figure without a trace of mockery in her eyes.

She had felt that world's harsh rules.

Without cultivating Yuan Power, one would forever remain at the very bottom of that world's food chain.

Inside the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet.

Qian Renxue lay on the ground, preparing to rise.

Just then.

The Yuan Power fluctuations emanating from the Jade Slip triggered a resonance in the formation beneath the main hall.

An enormous black fissure suddenly split open across the main hall's hard stone floor.

An extremely viscous, strange energy, pure black in color, slowly seeped out of the fissure.

The instant this black energy appeared.

The previously abundant Heaven and Earth Energy inside the main hall was forcibly assimilated and contaminated.

A trace of this black energy touched the six angel wings on Qian Renxue's back.

The sacred golden feathers instantly turned black.

Qian Renxue felt a sharp pain that reached straight into her soul, and the Soul Power within her began draining uncontrollably.

She retreated in terror.

Above the sky screen, the golden text began jumping wildly, its lettering turning blood-red.

[Warning: extremely dangerous energy detected!]

[The ultimate antagonistic faction of the Martial Universe: Otherworldly Demons!]

[Background information: Otherworldly Demons are a species from the outer regions beyond the Great Thousand World.]

[Their sole purpose in existing is to invade and destroy one plane after another, devouring Plane Embryos.]

[Otherworldly Demon Qi possesses extremely powerful assimilative and contaminating properties. Ordinary Yuan Power dies upon contact.]

[The Great Desolate Ancient Tablet is actually a super formation used by the ancient Great Desolate Sect to seal Otherworldly Demons!]

Douluo Continent.

Slaughter City.

Tang Chen watched the introduction to the Otherworldly Demons on the sky screen, his body trembling violently.

The Asura Divine Power within him actually recoiled when faced with the viscous Otherworldly Demon Qi on the screen.

Inside the Pope's Palace.

Bibi Dong's face was deathly pale.

She had been inheriting the Rakshasa Godhood and considered herself the wielder of the world's most evil power.

But now, as she looked at that viscous black Otherworldly Demon Qi.

She discovered that the Rakshasa God's evil was not worth mentioning before this Otherworldly Demon Qi, which sought to destroy entire planes.

"A species that destroys planes..."

Bibi Dong's voice trembled.

"The humans of that world are actually fighting monsters like these?"

Inside the main hall of the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet.

More and more viscous black Otherworldly Demon Qi emerged.

After the ancient desiccated corpses Qian Renxue had awakened came into contact with the Otherworldly Demon Qi.

Their shriveled bodies rapidly swelled, black scales and bone spikes growing across their surfaces.

They were completely reduced to Demon Corpses controlled by Otherworldly Demon Qi.

More than a dozen Demon Corpses radiating Creation Realm auras turned their heads, scarlet light shining in their hollow eye sockets.

They locked straight onto Qian Renxue, who was trembling in the corner.

Qian Renxue held the Angel Holy Sword in both hands.

Under the suppression of the Otherworldly Demon Qi, the sacred radiance on its blade had dwindled to an extremely faint halo.

The Demon Corpse at the very front opened its mouth full of sharp teeth.

It let out a low growl.

Then the Demon Corpse pushed off with its legs and lunged straight toward Qian Renxue to kill her.

The Demon Corpse's claws thrust straight toward Qian Renxue's throat.

Its sharp black nails were only half an inch from her fair skin.

The Soul Power within Qian Renxue ran completely dry.

Under the corrosion of the Otherworldly Demon Qi, the Angel Holy Sword in her hands lost all its light, and its blade broke into more than a dozen fragments that fell to the ground.

Qian Renxue closed her eyes.

Spirit Hall's young master, the genius with level-twenty Innate Full Soul Power.

Inside this ancient hall filled with Otherworldly Demon Qi, she faced the countdown to her death.

At the very instant the black nails were about to pierce Qian Renxue's throat.

An aged sigh came from the deepest part of the hall.

The sigh was not loud.

But the instant it sounded, the violent, highly contaminating black Otherworldly Demon Qi inside the main hall stopped spreading.

The dozen or so Demon Corpses lunging toward Qian Renxue all froze in place.

They remained in their attacking postures, unable to move another fraction forward.

The space ahead in the main hall twisted.

An old man dressed in coarse gray-black linen appeared out of thin air before Qian Renxue.

The old man's figure was stooped.

His eyes were his most striking feature.

His eyes were pure black, without a trace of white, and unfathomably deep.

[Martial Universe figure: guardian of the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet, the Black-Eyed Elder.]

[Status: a remnant soul left behind by the ancient Great Desolate Sect.]

[Strength: in life, he was a Peak Reincarnation Stage expert who had passed the Reincarnation Tribulation!]

The golden text beneath the sky screen refreshed.

The Black-Eyed Elder did not so much as glance at Qian Renxue.

He raised his withered finger and gently pointed at the dozen or so Demon Corpses ahead.

There were no tremendous energy fluctuations whatsoever.

Nor were there any dazzling displays of light and shadow.

Those dozen or so Demon Corpses, exuding the aura of the Creation Realm and thoroughly assimilated by Otherworldly Demon Qi-

Under that single gesture of the Black-Eyed Elder's finger, their bodies turned straight into the finest powder.

Grayish-white powder fell to the ground.

The Black-Eyed Elder turned his hand over and pressed his palm downward.

The glowing Jade Slip suspended in midair in the main hall descended directly, hovering above the back of his hand.

An exceedingly ancient, pure suppressive force emanated from the Jade Slip.

Under the force of that suppression, the black fissure in the hall's floor began forcibly closing.

The viscous Otherworldly Demon Qi that had seeped out was forcibly suppressed by that power, all of it retreating deep underground.

The fissure closed completely.

The floor became level again.

Peace returned to the hall, with only Qian Renxue's heavy breathing echoing through it.

Only after finishing all this did the Black-Eyed Elder turn to look at Qian Renxue, who lay sprawled on the floor.

His pitch-black gaze swept over the six angel wings on her back.

"A crude energy system."

The Black-Eyed Elder's voice held no inflection.

"You have neither opened a Niwan Palace within your body nor condensed a Yuan Core."

"This power you call Divine Power has an extremely impure origin. It cannot withstand the corrosion of Otherworldly Demon Qi at all."

"The Great Desolate Ancient Tablet is no place for you."

The Black-Eyed Elder swept his sleeve.

A gentle surge of Yuan Power enveloped Qian Renxue's body.

A passage split open in the space ahead of the hall.

Lifted by that Yuan Power, Qian Renxue's body was sent straight into the spatial passage.

The spatial passage closed.

Qian Renxue was teleported straight out of the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet's internal space.

Douluo Continent.

Spirit City, the Pope's Palace.

Qian Daoliu's legs buckled, and he fell straight to his knees before the Angel God Statue.

He gasped for breath, the back of his clothes completely soaked in cold sweat.

"She was saved..."

Qian Daoliu's voice carried an overwhelming sense of having survived a catastrophe.

Yet his eyes were filled with devastation.

The remnant soul called the Black-Eyed Elder had deeply wounded him with his appraisal of Angel Divine Power.

Crude.

Impure in origin.

That was how a top expert of that world regarded Douluo Continent's supreme Angel Divine Power.

Bibi Dong sat on her throne, her fingers digging into the armrests.

"A remnant soul that has been dead for who knows how many years."

"With a casual gesture of his finger, he instantly killed over a dozen Creation Realm Demon Corpses."

Bibi Dong stared fixedly at the Black-Eyed Elder's retreating figure on the screen.

"An expert at the Peak Reincarnation Stage..."

"The upper limit of that world's martial power simply has no end."

In that world, the gods of Douluo Continent probably would not even qualify to serve as menial workers.

The scene on the sky screen shifted.

Qian Renxue's viewpoint was temporarily paused.

[Switching you to the perspective of Number Five Explorer, the million-year soul beast, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.]

The image lit up again, revealing a boundless black ocean.

The seawater was an exceedingly deep, inky black.

Fierce winds raged over the sea, and towering waves dozens of zhang high rolled ceaselessly.

This was a vast region beyond the Great Yan Dynasty.

[Martial Universe location: Chaotic Demon Sea.]

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's enormous body floated in the black seawater.

He was over two hundred meters long.

He was the undisputed overlord of Douluo Continent's oceans, possessing a million years of cultivation and standing only one step away from godhood.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King sensed the dense Heaven and Earth Energy in the Chaotic Demon Sea.

An intensely excited gleam flashed in his single eye.

"The energy here is over a hundred times purer than on Douluo Continent!"

"As long as I devour the creatures here, I'll definitely break through that final step and become a god!"

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King opened his enormous maw.

He let out a thunderous roar.

The terrifying pressure of a million-year soul beast spread straight through the surrounding waters.

He tried to use this to proclaim his status as the new overlord of these waters.

His roar echoed across the sea.

Under the impact of his pressure, enormous whirlpools formed in the surrounding seawater.

Sea God Island.

Bo Saixi watched the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King on the screen, her brows tightly furrowed.

"Far too arrogant."

"Chaotic Demon Sea. The name alone makes it clear that this is no benign place."

"Releasing his aura so recklessly will definitely attract terrifying creatures from that world."

Bo Saixi's judgment was extremely accurate.

Less than half an incense stick's worth of time after the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King released his pressure-

An enormous shadow suddenly appeared in the inky-black seawater beneath him.

That shadow spanned over ten thousand meters.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's enormous two-hundred-meter body was utterly insignificant before that shadow.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King noticed the disturbance below.

He lowered his head, a trace of wariness appearing in his single eye.

He immediately mobilized the energy within his body, preparing to unleash a lightning attack.

The seawater below churned violently.

An abyssal maw bristling with countless sharp fangs burst straight out of the sea.

The maw was over a thousand meters in diameter.

Seawater poured furiously through the gaps between its fangs.

[Martial Universe Demonic Beast: Deep Sea Sky-Swallowing Beast.]

[Cultivation: life profound realm perfection!]