Fang Yi's spear arced through the air like a meteor before stabbing into the black eye at the top of the pyramid. Fang Yi deactivated the frozen world of gray, and the eye continued shooting out its purple laser—but a peak-grade armament-type soulshard was now embedded in its opening.

The laser exploded, causing a purple explosion at the top of the pyramid.

Fang Yi smiled as the pyramid began to flash with red light, as though some alert had begun to sound. Black smoke poured out of the pyramid and rose into the sky. Fang Yi recognized this smoke as the same smoke that had emerged from the corpses of the black spirits.

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