Chapter 669 - 266: The Final Battle! Reunion with Ye Wujiang

They were translucent creatures, like jellyfish, floating in mid-air.

But within them, faces contorted in utter agony were imprisoned...

There were also monsters with insectoid limbs, yet topped with the heads of infants. They scuttled across the ground at high speed, letting out an eerie, cackling laugh...

Indescribable!

Incomprehensible!

Merely looking at these things was enough to instantly shatter the spirit of anyone with a weak will!

"BLEGH..."

The door to the conference room was quietly pushed open.

Mu Qingyin had just returned to the conference room. She took one look, and her face went deathly pale. Unable to stop herself, she clapped a hand over her mouth and began to dry heave.

"What... what the fuck... are those things?!"

Even a hardened general like Sun Lie felt his scalp tingle as goosebumps erupted all over his skin.

The scene before him was utterly beyond his comprehension.

This wasn’t a battle. This was a terrifying phantasm... from the deepest pits of hell!

Hou Guanghe let out a sigh.

His eyes revealed a deep-seated dread, along with a sense of pity that no one else noticed.

"This is a projection of the Dark Domain, created by Yui Hanyi."

"The Dark Domain?"

Zhu Mingyi swallowed hard. He had never heard the term before.

Hou Guanghe leaned back in his chair, his gaze seeming to pierce through the screen and into some forbidden realm.

"The universe is vast, and the worlds within it are countless."

"But it is completely different from the Celestial Abyss First through Ninth Worlds."

"The Dark Domain is an unknown realm about which we know very little, even now."

"Back at the dawn of the Martial Era, we recorded a very small number of lucky—or perhaps unlucky—individuals who awakened a Spirit capable of connecting to the Dark Domain."

"But without exception, every single one of them died."

Hou Guanghe’s voice grew somber.

"Once their Spirit went out of control, it would tear open a rift in our reality—a rift leading to the Dark Domain."

"Each time one of these rifts appeared, it was a terrible cataclysm for our world."

"Countless forms of corruption, abominations, and monsters we cannot comprehend would pour out from that gate."

"To this day, we have no effective means of exploring the Dark Domain to determine what kind of plane it is. However, based on the fragments of intel our predecessors bought with their lives..."

He paused before delivering a conclusion that horrified everyone.

"The scale of that world, and its level of danger... are likely on par with any of the Celestial Abyss Great Worlds in our understanding!"

A deathly silence fell over the conference room.

The Celestial Abyss First through Ninth Worlds are collectively known as the Celestial Abyss Great World.

They were a great mountain pressing down on all of humanity on Blue Star, the source of an endless war.

And now, Hou Guanghe was saying that another, equally terrifying world existed?

"Then... Yui Hanyi..."

Hou Guanghe’s gaze returned to the solitary figure on the screen, his tone impossibly complex.

"He is the only person we know of who awakened a Spirit connected to the Dark Domain and didn’t lose control, didn’t die... and who even, to some extent, managed to master it."

"The essence of his Spirit, Spiritual Night Filling the Heavens, is that it opened a door inside his body—a permanent gate to the Dark Domain."

"We can’t imagine what an eight-year-old boy went through. On the day of his Spiritual Awakening, he watched his family get devoured by monsters that poured from that gate. Then he himself was dragged into that hell, where he struggled alone for six long years."

"The price he paid was his sense of pain, taste, and smell... and the most important thing for a human being: his emotions."

"He can’t feel joy or sorrow. He simply exists, like a precision machine, carrying out the duty he has set for himself."

"He isn’t a monster. Quite the opposite..." Hou Guanghe sighed softly, his aged voice tinged with a hint of reverence.

"He is a lonely Gatekeeper."

"He has sealed that world-destroying gate, along with the endless horrors behind it, entirely within his own frail body."

"He isn’t fighting. He’s just... surviving."

"And now..."

Hou Guanghe gazed at the domain on the screen, now swarming with innumerable, indescribable beings, and slowly closed his eyes.

"It seems... for the first time, he has willingly opened that gate in front of others."