Chapter 5831

The final word had barely fallen when the pool erupted, hurling gouts of clotted red and shredded wraiths skyward.

Boom!

Fragments of anguished spirits shrieked as they rained down like a grotesque storm.

A towering figure, wrapped in roiling black miasma and the stench of slaughtered souls, floated upward from the broken pool and settled in mid-air. It was Soul Devourer.

He stood now, his aura nothing like the broken husk Jared had faced on level nine.

There was still a threadbare weakness at the core of his soul, yet the tide of demonic essence rolling off him dwarfed Mordain and every foe Jared had met before.

The laws swirling around his cloak brushed a realm beyond the Heavenly Immortal threshold, hinting at some secret tier above.