Old Chief and the other Luminaries could not understand how such a creature could exist.0

If their suspicions were correct, then Lu Yin posed a far greater threat to their megaverse than even the High Seraph.1

Lu Yin no longer needed to bother hiding anything. Since Yong Heng had threatened to expose Lu Yin’s ability to Possess other creatures, then there was no point in staying secretive.0

There was no need for him to conceal that he could devour consciousness. There were no longer any threats to him in the Consciousness Megaverse, and the conscients had already all gone into hiding. It seemed that they were instinctively avoiding Lu Yin.4

It was better to use his consciousness to push away Yue Ya’s manifested thought and interrupt his monitoring.0

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Dark-red ridges undulated across the plain. In total, there were seven of them, arranged in a perfect circle. From a distance they resembled low hills more than true mountains. Any cultivator could scale each one in a single breath, and even an ordinary person could climb them in a few days’ time.0

These seven ridges were in fact the seven summits of Deathmound, formally comprised of three mountain-mass clusters which combined to yield exactly seven peaks. Although none of the individual ridges was especially tall, every cultivator knew to avoid Deathmound entirely. No one dared to cross those seven peaks. To all who understood its reputation,...1