In the blink of an eye, the world changed drastically. The void twisted and shattered like a mirror, and countless eyes appeared out of thin air, densely embedded in the air, as if the entire space was covered by cold, lifeless pupils.
They were large or small, hollow or engorged, each pair exuding a chilling obsession that did not belong to the living, like a gaze that had crawled out of an endless abyss, silently locking onto Ye Changge.
This startled Ye Changge slightly. She raised an eyebrow, but there was no fear in her eyes. Instead, a hint of mockery flashed across them.
He slowly closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, a fifth eye appeared on his forehead—deep and mysterious, seemingly able to see through Samsara and glimpse the Origin life and death.
The Five-Pupil Divine Eyes are legendary forbidden eyes, which can only be opened by those whose bloodlines of ancient Gods and Devils and demons have been awakened. Their power can burn the Heavenly Destruction the earth, and their might can suppress the souls of all beings.
In an instant, the world lost its color.
An indescribable sense of oppression erupted from his eyes, like an ancient behemoth awakening, its aura sweeping across the land like a tidal wave.
The air was crushed into nothingness, and space collapsed inch by inch. The eyes that appeared out of nowhere, upon contact with the light of the divine gaze, Annihilation like ice and snow meeting the sun. They didn't even have time to utter a mournful cry before turning into dust and disappearing.
"What?! You... you actually possess the Five-Pupil Divine Eyes?!" A horrified voice boomed in the void, coming from the unknown being.
Its form was indistinct, pieced together from the remnants of countless dead souls, yet it trembled violently with fear.
In the ancient texts it knew, the Five-Pupil Divine Eyes was an existence that transcended the Law; even in its own Nether Realm, it existed only in Yu Jin legends.
Now, this has actually happened to a seemingly ordinary Human Race, completely overturning its understanding of the cosmic order.
"I see." Ye Changge sneered, his voice as indifferent as the wind. "You are nothing but phantom life forms condensed from the resentment of the dead, clinging to life by devouring remnant souls."
Even if they once lived, they are now nothing more than a group of lonely ghosts teetering on the edge of life and death.
Before he finished speaking, his Five-Pupil Divine Eyes flickered again, and an invisible ripple spread out from the depths of his pupils, like the first ray of light at the beginning of the universe, yet containing the Power of Annihilation to end all things.
Wherever it passed, space collapsed, time stood still, and the eyes of the dead who had not yet reacted, along with the consciousness behind them, all turned into nothingness.
Screams rose and fell, so shrill they were enough to tear one's mind apart.
"No! What kind of power is this? How is this possible... Human Race, spare me! I don't want to disappear!" A remnant soul knelt in the void, pleading, its voice filled with endless regret and fear.
However, all that responded to him was an even more piercing light of Annihilation.
Just as the final wailing abruptly ceased, from behind the layers of barriers of the world of the dead, a furious roar suddenly shattered the heavens—
" Human Race, how dare you!"
Accompanying the roar was a blood-red lightning bolt, as thick as a mountain, carrying the power to destroy the world, tearing through layers of spatial barriers, and striking straight at Ye Changge's crown!
That was no ordinary lightning, but " Soul-Devouring Tribulation Lightning " refined from the essence of countless vengeful souls. A single strike could annihilate the soul and spirit of Mahayana cultivator.
However, faced with this Heavenly Destruction attack, Ye Changge simply raised his right hand and snapped his fingers.
"Buzz--"
A golden ripple spread from the fingertip, seemingly gentle, yet it froze and disintegrated the lightning the instant it touched it, ultimately erasing it from existence along with the roaring lord hidden behind the barrier, as if it had never been born.
Immediately afterwards, he released his vast and boundless soul power, which permeated every corner of this world like a tidal wave.
Finally, the truth came to light—this was not the real Underworld, but a false world woven from the obsessions of countless dead, maintained by devouring wandering souls, like a malignant tumor parasitizing the cracks of reality.
"Such a world should not exist between heaven and earth." Ye Changge coldly, raising his hand and pushing out a palm.
Before the palm strike even arrived, the heavens and earth trembled.
The sky above the world of the dead shattered like glass, the cracks spreading for billions of miles; mountains and rivers melted in a wail, the black earth turned to ashes; even the mournful cries echoing in the air were torn apart by the palm strike, returning to silence.
He hovered in the void, his Five-Pupil Divine Eyes reflecting the collapse of the entire world. Countless remnant souls struggled and burned in the golden light, eventually turning into specks of starlight and disappearing with the wind.
But right there on these ruins, space itself twisted once more—
A new world is slowly emerging.
"Human, is this all the strength you have?" A voice, eerily calm, drifted across the land, Wushi or end, its location impossible to pinpoint.
It was as if, this time, the real opponent had only just made its appearance.