Lord Zenom looked at the remaining disciples seated before him. With a casual wave of his hand, space rippled, and all of them disappeared.
The next instant, they reappeared before the entrance to the Third Forbidden Dimensional Space.
Without hesitation, Lord Zenom tossed them inside.
His indifferent voice echoed through the air.
"Find the disciple from the Sky Hybrid Sect."
"Kill him."
"Whoever brings me his head shall be rewarded."
The moment his words fell, he vanished without another trace.
These disciples all belonged to the Bloody Sect, and hidden among them was a genuine God Emperor.
Meanwhile, Solanky slowly opened his eyes after completely comprehending the ancient scroll of magic and perfectly integrating it into his bloodline.
He lowered his head and glanced at his wristband.
The only information displayed was the location of the dimensional space he had entered.
Every other signal had been completely blocked.
He frowned slightly.
"So..."
"Why is this place called the Dark Entity Realm?"
He formed a series of magical seals with both hands before gently exhaling.
The instant his breath left his body, his spiritual awareness expanded in every direction.
Everything within a radius of five kilometers instantly came under his perception.
A smile appeared on his face.
"So this is why magicians possess such incredible awareness."
"They fuse their magic with their spiritual energy, allowing them to distinguish every spiritual fluctuation around them."
With his eyes closed, every movement within the five-kilometer radius unfolded clearly inside his mind as he continued descending from the sky.
Suddenly...
A sinister aura brushed past him.
His eyes snapped open.
He was slightly startled.
That dreadful presence had originated from something waiting silently on the ground, almost as though it had anticipated his arrival.
Without hesitation, Solanky formed another series of seals.
"Devouring Black Hole Technique."
This was one of the supreme techniques he had inherited from Elena's blood essence.
The surrounding spiritual energies immediately surged toward him like rivers flowing into an endless abyss.
At the same time, black-silver armor spread across his back, forming a magnificent pair of wings.
With a powerful flap, Solanky shot across the sky at astonishing speed, avoiding the terrifying existence below.
As the Devouring Black Hole Technique continued absorbing countless forms of energy, Solanky felt every part of his body becoming saturated.
Far ahead, he noticed a towering mountain with a secluded cave carved into its side.
He immediately decided to refine the absorbed energy there.
Upon entering the cave, Solanky expanded his newly acquired spiritual perception.
His magical awareness, now twice as powerful as that of a Two-Star Elementary Magician, instantly swept through the surroundings.
After confirming that none of the creatures inside posed any threat, he sat down cross-legged.
With several quick seals, he erected a magical barrier around himself before beginning his cultivation.
Not long afterward, the black-silver wings behind his back began vibrating intensely.
Solanky's eyes widened.
He knew exactly what that reaction meant.
Whenever the armor behaved like this, it indicated the presence of something nearby capable of further strengthening the treasure fused with his body.
He continued refining the absorbed energies.
Sixty percent was successfully assimilated into his cultivation.
The remaining forty percent flowed naturally into the muscles of his back and into the enormous wings behind him.
Slowly rising to his feet, Solanky spread the wings wide.
Then he descended the mountain at breathtaking speed.
When he reached the foot of the mountain, an astonishing sight greeted him.
Countless corpses littered the land.
Some of the fallen creatures had once possessed power comparable to God of Gods.
Their gigantic bodies lay scattered across the battlefield.
Solanky immediately activated his Eye Observation Technique.
He quickly discovered that although the consciousness of every corpse had vanished, their Spiritual Life Cores remained perfectly intact.
He calmly recited an unfamiliar incantation before raising a single finger.
The next moment, more than fifty Spiritual Life Cores flew out from the corpses.
Instead of moving toward him directly, they first disappeared into another layer of space before reappearing neatly inside his storage ring.
A satisfied smile appeared on Solanky's face.
"Elena's blood truly is extraordinary."
"It allows me to perform magic that defies the very world."
Far away...
Lord Zenom sat quietly inside a secluded cave hidden behind a massive waterfall somewhere within the Lower Realm.
In his hands rested a transparent crystal sphere.
The sphere remained connected to the hidden seal he had secretly planted on Solanky, allowing him to observe everything occurring within the Dark Entity Realm.
Suddenly, his expression changed dramatically.
"Impossible!"
"How has his magic already reached the World-Defying level?"
"He..."
"He completely mastered the scroll..."
His eyes narrowed.
"I only hope he doesn't discover the seal I placed on him too soon."
"I still need him to explore the hidden regions of that sinister space."
After gathering the Spiritual Life Cores, Solanky returned to the cave atop the mountain.
He sent a strand of spiritual awareness into his storage ring to inspect his harvest.
What he found greatly surprised him.
Out of the fifty Spiritual Life Cores...
Thirty-five belonged to God of Gods.
Fourteen belonged to God Emperors.
Only one originated from a High-Level God.
After examining them, Solanky removed two God Emperor Spiritual Life Cores.
He intended to activate his full-body armor.
However...
Nothing happened.
The armor refused to manifest.
Although surprised, Solanky did not dwell on it.
He assumed the remaining twenty percent of absorbed energy stored within the wings on his back was somehow interfering with the armor's activation.
Putting the matter aside, he once again descended the mountain.
Soon, he returned to the battlefield where he had harvested the Spiritual Life Cores.
Looking around, he muttered,
"It would be foolish to become greedy in a place like this."
His spiritual awareness had already detected many more Spiritual Life Cores comparable to those he had just collected.
Even so, he deliberately ignored them.
Passing through the sea of corpses, Solanky eventually arrived before an enormous lake.
Its size rivaled the seas found on countless planets of the Lower Realm.
He activated his Eye Observation Technique.
Yet strangely...
He could see absolutely nothing beneath its dark surface.
Curiosity got the better of him.
He stepped closer.
Slowly crouching, he reached out to touch the water.
The instant his fingers made contact...
A pitch-black hand suddenly shot out from beneath the surface.
It tightly seized his wrist.
Before Solanky could react, he was violently dragged into the lake.
Beneath the water...
Everything was swallowed by endless darkness.
Thick black mist drifted through the water in every direction.
As Solanky continued sinking deeper, an ancient voice echoed throughout the abyss.
"The greedy..."
"...shall lose everything they gained through greed."
"They shall be stripped of all they struggled to obtain..."
"...because they allowed greed to overcome them."
Far away, Lord Zenom watched everything unfold through the crystal sphere.
A delighted smile spread across his face.
"He passed."
"He resisted the temptation to collect every Spiritual Life Core."
"He didn't allow greed to cloud his judgment."
Meanwhile, Solanky was dragged deeper toward the lake bed.
In the far distance, he suddenly saw an enormous humanoid figure sitting motionless upon the bottom of the lake.
The gigantic corpse radiated an ancient and terrifying aura.
Lord Zenom's breathing became heavy.
"An Ancient Devil-God..."
"The strongest existence beneath those who possess Source Bodies."
"They stand on the same level as the Primordial Ancient Dragons."
"I've truly struck fortune this time."
At that exact moment, a mysterious seal on Solanky's right hand began glowing brilliantly.
Suddenly, a gigantic hand emerged from another dimension.
Without hesitation, it grabbed the corpse of the Ancient Devil-God.
The hand disappeared just as quickly, taking both the corpse and the glowing seal with it.
Lord Zenom instantly vanished from the cave behind the waterfall.
The next moment, he appeared inside a vast world of his own creation.
The world itself rivaled several star fields of the Lower Realm in size.
With a single step, he arrived before an enormous castle completely isolated from the outside universe.
Inside the castle, he released the corpse of the Ancient Devil-God.
Immediately, he began forming countless seals.
The process of repossessing the corpse had officially begun.
Far beneath the lake, Solanky's expression darkened.
He finally understood everything.
Lord Zenom had merely used him to retrieve the corpse of the Ancient Devil-God.
After obtaining what he wanted, he had abandoned Solanky without the slightest intention of rescuing him.
Still trapped by the shadowy hand, Solanky continued sinking deeper into the endless abyss.
He instinctively glanced at his wristband.
There was still...
No signal.