Black Eye, Lord of the Ruins of Return
The Law Technique looked incredibly powerful, and Fang Hexuan couldn't resist his curiosity.
Li Yunjing said, "It's a Divine Ability I comprehended, not..."
Before he could finish speaking, Li Yunjing's expression suddenly changed. "This is bad! The Void Divine Treasury can't refine that great demon, that great demon is going to..."
Before he could finish speaking, a violent tremor suddenly resounded from the void.
Visible ripples spread outwards, and at the same time, a heart-pounding wave appeared.
At this moment, within the Void Divine Treasury, the Great Demon is frantically attacking the spatial barrier, with black demonic energy constantly leaking out from the gaps in the divine treasury.
"Oh no! It's about to break out!" Li Yunjing's expression changed drastically, and he quickly circulated his Law Power to reinforce the divine storage space.
However, his current power is too weak. Without the support of the crystal's power, his strength has returned to the Nascent Soul Perfection, which is not enough to suppress the Devil Master for long.
"Yunjing, let me help you." Upon seeing this, Fang Hexuan immediately stepped forward and placed his hand on Li Yunjing's shoulder.
A gentle yet powerful spiritual energy surged into Li Yunjing's body, helping him to strengthen his divine treasure space.
Xie Zheng and Lu Xian, disregarding their injuries, unleashed their last bit of Law Power to help Li Yunjing stabilize the divine treasure space.
With the help of the three, the tremors gradually subsided, and the great demon stopped causing trouble.
After carefully assessing the situation, Li Yunjing said to Fang Hexuan and the others, "It's alright. With the help of Grandmaster Fang and the others, we can stabilize the situation for now, but it won't last long."
"What do we do then?" Xie Zheng withdrew his hand and asked anxiously, "Are we just supposed to watch it come out again? If it comes out again, we're doomed!"
The Grandmaster Qingyun remained silent for a moment, his gaze becoming extremely solemn. "It seems we can only continue exploring this Myriad Spirits Ruins of Return to see if there is any way to deal with it."
Although this Myriad Spirits Ruins of Return is fraught with danger, it must also hold many fortuitous opportunity. If we can find just one of fortuitous opportunity, perhaps we can resolve this trouble.
"Grandmaster Fang is right," Li Yunjing nodded in agreement.
Just then, a powerful aura suddenly swept over them, causing all four of them to stop their hearts from beating for a few beats.
This aura was icy and deathly, filled with the scent of destruction, and was hundreds or thousands of times more powerful than the aura of a great demon.
Even a tiny leak caused the entire world of Myriad Spirits Ruins of Return to tremble.
The four men were deathly pale; they could clearly sense that aura was slowly awakening.
Li Yunjing could even sense that within the Void Divine Treasury's Treasury, the great demon, upon sensing this aura, actually stopped its attack and trembled with fear.
"It's awake... it's finally awake..." The Great Demon's voice echoed from the Divine Treasury, carrying a sense of relief and despair, "So much time has passed, the Core of the Ruins of Return is finally about to awaken... you and I are doomed!"
"The Core of the Ruins of Return?" Fang Hexuan's expression changed drastically. "What is that?"
No one answered him. Li Yunjing and the others didn't know, and the great demon also remained silent.
Just then, the entire Myriad Spirits Ruins of Return suddenly began to shake violently.
The earth cracked, the sky collapsed, and countless black fissures appeared between heaven and earth.
An indescribable, terrifying power erupted from the depths of the earth, shrouding the entire secret realm in a deathly darkness.
But in the darkness, a white beam of light suddenly shot out, soaring straight into the sky.
Immediately afterwards, a cold, emotionless voice echoed in every corner of the entire Myriad Spirits Ruins of Return:
The seal has been broken.
"The Ruins of Return Reopen."
"All living things are nourishment."
Li Yunjing suddenly looked up and saw an enormous eye slowly emerging from the top of the white pillar of light in the sky.
That eye had no pupil, no whites, and was entirely black, like the deepest abyss.
It coldly surveyed the earth, as if looking at a group of insignificant ants.
Fang Hexuan and the others also looked up at the sky, and were equally shocked by that eye.
At the same time, a message emerged in the minds of all four of them.
"Lord of the Ruins of Return!"
Indeed, all four of them seemed to have been forcibly given a piece of information.
The information clearly told the four that the owner of that eye was the Lord of the Ruins of Return.
"From this moment forward, you are the Lord of the Ruins of Return, and the entire Myriad Spirits Ruins of Return will be under your sole control..."
But at that moment, a voice rang in Li Yunjing's mind.
The voice was incredibly seductive, making it impossible not to believe it.
Li Yunjing's eyes gradually lost focus, as if he had been completely seduced by the voice.
"Yunjing!" Fang Hexuan sensed something was wrong, stepped forward, and pressed his blood-stained hand heavily on Li Yunjing's shoulder.
At the same time, the dim purple vertical eye between his brows forced open again, and the Divine Firmament Divine Lightning crackled all around him.
As one of the most powerful and yang-type divine thunders, the Divine Firmament Divine Lightning is remarkably effective against this kind of bewitching power.
Li Yunjing also woke up at this moment, a look of lingering fear flashing in his eyes.
He was almost bewitched just now, but fortunately the bewitching power wasn't strong, and Fang Hexuan intervened in time.
"Thank you very much, Grandmaster Fang." Li Yunjing looked at Fang Hexuan gratefully.
Just as Fang Hexuan was about to speak, the black eye in the sky without pupils slowly rotated and finally fixed its gaze on Li Yunjing.
A cold, indifferent, and emotionless gaze swept across, as if examining an object about to be returned to its place.
"The Core of the Ruins of Return... has finally found a suitable container."
The emotionless voice rang out again, this time not as a deafening roar, but directly in the minds of the four, carrying an irresistible majesty.
As its voice fell, thick, ink-like Power of the Ruins of Return surged from the black cracks in the ground. Wherever it passed, rocks turned to ashes, Spirit Plant vanished into nothingness, and even space itself was corroded into tiny black holes.
"What exactly is this thing?" Li Yunjing gritted his teeth and activated the Void Divine Treasury with all his might to resist the Power of the Ruins of Return.
He could clearly sense that the great demon within the Divine Treasury was currently in a strange state of frenzy. It no longer attacked the spatial barrier, but instead lay prostrate deep within the Divine Treasury, letting out a devout roar at the black eye in the sky.
"He is the Lord of the Ruins of Return, and also the embodiment of the Myriad Spirits Ruins of Return."
At this moment, the great demon suddenly spoke.
"Millions of years ago, a being was born in the Black-Yellow Realm who lived by devouring the origin of the world. This being was the Lord of the Ruins of Return."
It devoured the core of the Black-Yellow Realm, turning the entire world into ruins.
Even the High Antiquity sages, despite their utmost efforts, could not kill it. They could only seal its soul within the polluted core of the world— the Core of the Ruins of Return —and then use the remnants of the entire Black-Yellow Realm, combined with the power of the Myriad Spirits Ruins of Return, to create this cage.
"I am merely a wisp of demonic thought that split off from the Lord of the Ruins of Return, responsible for guarding the seal and preventing anyone from accidentally destroying it. The place you saw earlier, filled with Spirit Plant, is a life barrier left behind by the Sages of High Antiquity, using the life energy of endless Spirit Plant to suppress the power of the Core of the Ruins of Return."
"That sound just now..." Li Yunjing's heart sank.
"It's the whisper of the Lord of the Ruins of Return's soul." The Great Demon's voice grew increasingly frenzied. "It can sense all living beings that approach the Core of the Ruins of Return, especially those with special powers. Your Void Divine Treasury can devour everything, making it the vessel it desires most. It wants you to mistakenly believe you are the Lord of the Ruins of Return, and to willingly open your Treasury to let it possess your body."