The colossal rift outside the world was glaringly obvious, and even more bizarrely,
when a giant blood-red eye appeared within the rift, the minds of all intelligent life on the planet naturally conjured the scene in the sky.
Regardless of whether you looked up, regardless of your strength.
At this moment, you were seen by it.
Flesh and soul froze in unison, under the monster's gaze, the life on this planet seemed on the verge of mutating into something even more grotesque.
Wuu...
Suddenly, a mournful cry echoed in everyone's ears.
The strange sight of the blood-red eye hanging high in the sky gradually blurred amidst this lament.
The impending metamorphosis of the people was also interrupted.
Humans, having temporarily escaped disaster, clutched their heads and collapsed to the ground in pain.
They dared not look, dared not listen, dared not think.
In that fleeting moment, they knew very clearly that they had almost slipped beyond the bounds of reason.
Within Starfire City, those empowered by the Legion's might looked at each other with lingering fear.
"What was that just now? Is it a new enemy?"
"Did the City Lord tell us to bow our heads so we could fight it?"
Various speculations circulated among the crowd. Though filled with terror and curiosity, not a single person defied Chen Luo's command to look up.
However, in other parts of the world, this might not have been the case.
On the South Asian subcontinent, in that populous nation second only to Dayan,
on the European continent, in the precarious refuge of several united maritime nations,
Black Africa, the Americas, Antarctica,
across the globe, people, drawn by some unknown temptation, once again raised their heads to the sky,
and in the instant they gazed upon the colossal eye, forbidden knowledge of blood and shadow poured into their minds without reservation.
Higher existences, merely by observing, brought forth power.
But the price of this power was not something mortals could bear.
In the remaining pockets of humanity, these upturned faces, under the horrified gazes of others, gradually transformed into a different form.
Blood seemed to come alive, piercing their skin, binding their flesh and bones.
These monstrous forms, roaring sounds incomprehensible to humans, lunged at the normal humans around them.
Blood flowed freely once more in the remnants of human lands...
....
Within Starfire City,
Su Xiao, who had already rushed into the City Lord's mansion, looked with a grave expression at a similarly serious Hu Tao:
"You sensed it too, right? That mournful cry just now..."
Hu Tao, cradling the two frightened sisters, nodded at Su Xiao:
"If it weren't for that mournful cry interrupting..."
"It would have taken only a few seconds for ordinary people to lose their human form. While Legion warriors are stronger, they wouldn't have been able to hold out for long."
"That mournful cry can be said to have saved everyone in this world."
"But that mournful cry, if my senses are correct..."
Hu Tao's gaze, filled with sadness, fell upon the earth beneath her.
And in the sky above,
the boy riding the dragon, upon hearing the mournful cry, felt his rage reach its zenith.
"This is the world's lament!"
The world's lament allowed humanity to survive the first wave of impact.
And this cry also completely ignited the nameless fire in Chen Luo's heart.
He raised his head, staring intently at the giant blood-red eye in the sky.
Information carrying terrifying corrupting power flowed into Chen Luo's mind the moment he looked.
But a pair of wings of light and darkness quietly unfurled behind Chen Luo.
The half-wing, representing light and purification, fluttered slightly, and its potent purifying power instantly dispelled this forbidden contamination.
However, this contamination was merely a byproduct of its gaze.
Every moment Chen Luo met the monster's stare, he had to expend power to resist this erosion.
Between heaven and earth, this lone dragon-riding youth attracted the blood-red eye's attention.
In its field of vision, they were so conspicuous.
And that youth, it recognized him at a glance.
He was the player who had killed Lang Yuan, the human who had destroyed its avatar.
In the sky, dense human eyes, along with the sky-obscuring colossal eye in the central rift, all turned towards Chen Luo.
The corrupting power instantly surged severalfold. The world under the gaze of these bizarre eyes seemed to be tinged with a sinister dark red hue.
Even new blood-colored eyeballs, spawned by the colossal eye's gaze, emerged.
It was corrupting the entire world!
"Pfft!"
A mouthful of reversed blood suddenly spurted from Chen Luo's mouth. The blood, which should have been crimson, turned dark red the moment it left his body.
Even as Chen Luo watched in fury, this pool of dark red reversed blood, before it even hit the ground, transformed into a grotesque blood-red eye.
The eye, filled with malice, gazed at Chen Luo, and a near-cursed whisper echoed in his ear:
"Found... you..."
"Heh... heh..."
Thousands of golden-red flame spears, from the void in all directions, instantly thrust towards this bizarre blood-red eye!
Boom!!!!
In an instant, a deafening roar accompanied by terrifying light and heat illuminated the night sky of the entire Day an.
Facing the explosive gale, Chen Luo wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and gave the blood-red eye in the sky the middle finger:
"Screw you!"
"Haven't seen you for months, and you grandson miss grandpa this much?"
The moment they made contact, Chen Luo recognized the other party.
This was the "Dark Demon Lord" who had revived the wolf king into Lang Yuan. After Chen Luo killed Lang Yuan, it had even infiltrated Chen Luo's sea of consciousness with an avatar, intending to subtly control Chen Luo.
However, after Chen Luo saw through it, that power-less intent was completely annihilated by Chen Luo.
And after fighting numerous enemies and truly entering the Domain, Chen Luo understood more and more how extraordinary this monster called "Dark Demon Lord" was.
Xiao Yue had clearly told Chen Luo that she was forcefully pulled back and revived by the Dark Demon Lord after she had died.
As someone who had entered the Soul Vortex and been revived by the system, even now, Chen Luo still couldn't grasp that power that transcended life and death.
But the monster before him had truly achieved control over life and death.
Chen Luo's heart sank bit by bit, but the enemy's power did not mean he would cease to resist.
Chen Luo's gaze, with a hint of contempt, fell upon the colossal eye in the sky:
"You were sneakily trying to corrupt my consciousness back then, and now you finally dare to show your true face?"
"Come on, I could kill your avatar once before, and now I can kill you again!"
The Dark Demon Lord's eye suddenly turned icy cold.
It gazed at Chen Luo, who dared to offend it, and spoke no more, as if looking at a dead man.
Buzz!!
A streak of dark red, piercing through the still exploding massive flames, shot rapidly towards Chen Luo.
The unharmed dark red eye, while flying, instantly transformed into a blood-red maw filled with spiral teeth, and fiercely lunged to bite Chen Luo!