"Death, has it fallen?"
"Why do I still sense the aura of Destruction, could it be that Destruction has finally devoured Death?"
"Not good, they have awakened prematurely, I must hurry!"
Waves of soul transmission fluctuated within the slabs of afterglow.
The lingering scent of fear from the fall of high beings was unmistakable.
This sensation, like the bright sun in the darkness of night, disquieted every entity that had just partly awakened.
Whether it was an issue with this Life Planet that led to the death of Death, or the Master of Destruction had devoured Death to further perfect its dimensional laws, it posed a massive threat to these surviving remnants of souls who had yet to escape.
As part of the Blood Moon System—a group that either strayed from the path, survived defeat, or could not resist corrosion, forcibly losing their physical bodies to persist—caution was the sole principle that had kept them alive to this day.
They had already achieved beyond Fifth Rank, and though merely residual souls, they could survive for thousands of years.
The mere harvesting of a Life Planet.
It wasn’t worth the risk.
As the souls from the Exotic Realm sobered slightly, they didn’t hesitate a moment. They immediately activated their origin power, enveloping their prisons and protective shells, transforming into streaks of rainbow light, tearing through space toward the Moon..
This activity left many forces, who kept these slabs of afterglow captive, stunned.
Among them were the shocked.
The angrily bewildered.
And a few paranoid ones were fearful.
They suspected these slabs had consciousness.
Their appearance on Mercury, serving as everyone’s trump card and source of Meme Weapons, was probably problematic!
But no matter what these people thought.
The fact was that the slabs had flown away.
Their various protective measures were ineffective against these slabs, which seemed as though the rainbow light they transformed into was merely a projection in the Material Realm, while their true forms had entered another dimension, unbound by any physical restraint or interference..
With the departure of the slabs.
One barrier after another slowly failed.
The Dream Clan, at last, was free.
An immense figure, with feet upon a cosmic river that pierced unknown regions, struggled against the flow, following an insubstantial thread toward a hidden multilayered crystalline structure within the cracks.
The cosmic river consisted of innumerable dots of light.
But large stretches of it were engulfed in pitch-black nothingness.
And it was fleeting, present only in a very small area.
Compared to the river of nothingness, the immense figure was like a small fish in the Yangtze or Yellow River, quite inconspicuous.
Immense, only in relation to the specks of light.
Within the river, each step against the current demanded a great deal of energy.
Just as the thread of nothingness in its vision began to solidify.
Beams of rainbow light broke through the darkness beneath the river, materializing above it and madly rushing toward a direction with minute holes.
This sudden change incensed the immense figure.
All these delicious morsels, how had they all escaped!
First, a Fourth Rank had disappeared without a trace, suspected of being stealthily consumed, and now these dormant delicacies had deviated from their ordained paths and suddenly awakened, seeking to flee back near the dimensional rift!
The feeling of losing control over the course they were meant to follow stirred rage and unease in this figure.
What on earth was happening?
This figure, in fact, was none other than Long, who had killed Dean not long ago and had come in search of that entity who had stolen its food!
As the heart ponders, echoes respond.
As Long harbored this thought, the streaks of rainbow light seemed to perceive the phantom river above the dark void, as well as the immense figure traversing the current.
These transcender residual souls, like prey spotting a natural predator, nearly dropped dead on the spot.
"Master of Destruction Sudan!"
"It’s the nearly perfected Sudan of the dimensional laws!"
"Dammit, no wonder our descent was so smooth, it’s a trap, this is a trap!"
"Run, the descent this time is a trap, run!"
A slew of rainbow lights, already moving at breakneck speed, now became utterly frantic. Their surfaces appeared to blaze with blood flames, preventing the figure in the river from coming any closer, bursting into an imperceptible fissure, and disappearing.
A massive beastly paw descended into the Spirit Realm dimension, landing squarely at the fissure’s location, but a step too late.
Long furiously departed the river of void, arriving in the Spirit Realm, roaring in boundless rage!
All the food it had prepared in advance had escaped!
Terrifying waves reverberated throughout the dimension of the Spirit Realm, tearing open countless ripples in the void’s darkness.
Long fully revealed its consciousness manifestation.
It resembled a monstrous Beastman with half a head missing as if gnawed away, covered in dense, pitch-black fur, its right arm mutilated, leaving only its left, which dragged to its ankles.
Besides its racial form differing from that of Mercury’s humans, Long appeared very clean.
But upon a closer look, one would discover its damaged half-skull teeming with countless tiny parasites crazily wriggling and nibbling at its brain.