With the black spirits' main cruiser—and the black spirit king within—destroyed, there was no reason for Zhang Lie to remain on this ruined world. He returned to the palace on the multicolored dragon's back, then flew off into the distance.

At the heart of another ruined world was a huge pyramid. If the black spirits' main cruiser was the size of a small city, then the black pyramid that stood at the heart of the world was the size of a province.

The immense pyramid had been constructed in the center of a number of dead worlds, and was surrounded by a large number of black pyramids—like a sun and the planets that orbited it. These pyramids were what the other nine superior worlds feared, and which they had dedicated enormous amounts of resources toward to barricade them a...