Ye Chen's heart suddenly skipped a beat when he saw the black cavern, which looked like an eye, spanning tens of thousands of feet.
Even though the surface of this black cavern seemed unremarkable, Ye Chen couldn't help but feel a sense of extreme fear in his heart.
It felt as if something horrifically terrifying was hidden within this black cavern! Something he could absolutely not withstand!
It wasn't just Ye Chen.
When the "Sea of Taboo" underwent a drastic change, the Sovereigns of the Extreme Spirit Clan, who flew alongside Ye Chen to the edge of the Sea of Taboo hovering in the Void Heaven, felt an inexplicable terror upon seeing the black cavern at the seabed's great chasm, which also resembled an eye.
Not even the most powerful Nine-Star Elder Sovereign, Sovereign Tian Jue, was an exception!
"What exactly is this black cavern? How can it be hidden in the seabed depths of the 'Sea of Taboo'?" exclaimed a Sovereign of the Extreme Spirit Clan in horror.
This black cavern, spanning tens of thousands of feet and resembling an eye, was so mysterious that it captured all the attention of everyone present. They had no time to look again at the eighteen layers of secret caves that exploded from the fissure like a giant tower.
They didn't have any more time to spare.
Immediately after the eighteen-layered, giant tower-like secret cave was blasted out, exposing the black cavern, a formidable burst of dense black gas erupted from within. Following it, an Exotic Beast over two hundred meters long rushed out of the black cavern!
Although slightly over two hundred meters long, this Exotic Beast was already colossal compared to the people like Ye Chen, yet it seemed small in comparison to the tens of thousands of feet wide black cavern.
Moreover, had not Ye Chen and the others witnessed thousand-foot-tall gigantic beasts before?
Logically, this sudden appearance of a two-hundred-meter-long Exotic Beast should not have terrified Ye Chen and the others so much.
Yet in reality, it was completely different!
The instant this two-hundred-meter-long Exotic Beast emerged, Ye Chen had an intuition that there was something absolutely not of this universe about this beast, possibly far exceeding anything he had ever seen from a Divine Master Realm expert!
Ye Chen had a premonition that this Exotic Beast, merely with its breath, could definitely annihilate a Divine Master Realm powerhouse!
And beside Ye Chen, at the moment Sovereign Tian Jue saw this Exotic Beast, his face turned utterly pale!
"Starry... Starry Sky Demon?!" Sovereign Tian Jue couldn't help but exclaim in astonishment.
Sovereign Tian Jue was the Nine-Star Elder Sovereign of the Extreme Spirit Clan, one of the five Supreme Clans of the True Spirit Divine Kingdom. He had heard about the appearance of the "Starry Sky Demon."
The "Starry Sky Demon," he heard, resembled a rat in form, with a body as black as ink, yet peculiarly adorned with three golden horns on its head. Moreover, it's said that this "Starry Sky Demon" has eight pairs, totaling sixteen eyes scattered all over its head.
Such a peculiar appearance was deeply engraved in Sovereign Tian Jue's memory.
Even though he had never seen a "Starry Sky Demon," such documentation he would never forget.
And now, this Exotic Beast, which suddenly rushed out from the seabed's black cavern, looked precisely like a rat, with an entirely black body, three golden horns on its head, and a total of sixteen eyes.
The appearance was exactly as described for the "Starry Sky Demon"!
"Starry Sky Demon?!" Hearing Sovereign Tian Jue's voice, Ye Chen's heart also trembled.
He directed his gaze straight towards the Exotic Beast, which had just leaped out of the black cavern, seemingly still adapting to the new environment.
If this Exotic Beast is indeed the so-called "Starry Sky Demon," reputedly more terrifying than the "Demon Polluted Beast" and feared even by the strong of the Cosmic Sea, it would all make sense.
Only a terrifying Exotic Beast like the "Starry Sky Demon" could exponentially increase the number of Demon Polluted Beasts in a "Domain of Demon Pollution" and trigger such a dramatic change in both the Extreme Spirit Martial Land and the Sea of Taboo, turning both domains into an inaccessible Dark World!
"If this Exotic Beast really is a 'Starry Sky Demon'…"
"What level of combat power does it possess?!"
Rumor has it that each 'Starry Sky Demon' is extraordinarily strong, with the most powerful even comparable to the top-ranking Star Lord Realm experts in the Cosmic Sea, not at all weaker. Even though the strongest 'Starry Sky Demons' rarely appear in an ordinary universe, even those that aren't the strongest are certainly not entities that the Sovereign Realm of our universe can contend with! Not even the Divine Masters can handle them!"
"With it appearing here, how should we respond?!"
As Ye Chen's mind and spirit raced with thoughts, and as the Sovereigns of the Extreme Spirit Clan realized that this suddenly emerging Exotic Beast might just be the legendary "Starry Sky Demon," rumored to be countless times more dreadful than the "Demon Polluted Beast," the Exotic Beast over two hundred meters long, which just burst from the seabed black cavern, made a sudden turn with the front of its sixteen eyes, directly staring at Ye Chen and those on the Void Heaven shore.
In an instant, Ye Chen, Sovereign Tian Jue, Sovereign Lei Xuan, and everyone felt a power completely binding them in the void!
This binding power even made Ye Chen feel as if all his abilities were thoroughly restricted, utterly unable to break free!
And the higher-ranking Sovereigns of the Extreme Spirit Clan, like Sovereign Tian Jue and Sovereign Lei Xuan, equally couldn't break free, as despairing thoughts arose in their hearts; 'Could it be that we are all destined to fall here?!'
However, what gave Ye Chen and the others a glimmer of hope was that this just-appeared Exotic Beast seemingly did not have an immediate intention to kill them. After binding them, it directly looked towards the Sea of Taboo, now completely covered by black and red water waves.
Then, something astonishing happened that left Ye Chen and the others speechless.
This Exotic Beast opened its mouth and began devouring toward the Sea of Taboo. An endless rush of black and red water waves wildly surged into the Exotic Beast's mouth.
As the black and red waves rushed in, the Exotic Beast over two hundred meters long grew larger and larger, transforming from hundreds of meters to thousands of feet, then to tens of thousands of feet, until it eventually became a terrifying giant beast, standing as if it continually stretched from the sea surface to the Polar Heaven!
Only then did this colossal beast stop growing.
But its actions didn't cease; it continued opening its mouth to swallow the Sea of Taboo.
Ye Chen saw the entire Sea of Taboo seemingly being consumed as if it were food; whether it was the water below or the soil, everything flooded into the giant beast's mouth like torrents. As the Sea of Taboo shattered and poured in, the three golden horns on the giant beast's head became brighter and brighter, while the entire Sea of Taboo grew darker and more desolate. In the end, the original outline of the Sea of Taboo that Ye Chen could see had entirely disappeared. What was left was a world completely shrouded in darkness!
In the endless darkness, only this terrifying giant beast stood towering within!
It seemed to be the destroyer of the world, devouring everything and turning all into void!
When the entire Sea of Taboo was completely devoured, the forward eyes among the sixteen eyes of the towering giant beast turned, once again fixing their gaze on Ye Chen, the others, and the shores.
Ye Chen knew that the next step for this terrifying Exotic Beast would most likely be to kill them and then devour the entire Extreme Spirit Martial Land and Extreme Spirit Sea!
At this moment, something even more unexpected happened to Ye Chen.
Since appearing at Lord Yan's divine statue and helping Ye Chen absorb the "Infusion of Divine Light," the peculiar rune that had brought him to the Sea of Taboo had disappeared. Now, at this moment, it reappeared in Ye Chen's perception!