Below the eye on the book’s cover, there was now a large dark-colored crystal. Upon closer inspection, it was made up of countless minuscule particles. The strange thing was that the fist-sized crystal felt multi-dimensional in Qianye’s perception, with each crystalline granule linked to his flesh, blood, and solidified dark golden blood energy.

Even in the inheritance from the River of Blood, Qianye had never heard of the dark golden energy solidifying, let alone other types. Then again, the knowledge he had obtained up to this point was at the level of a vice-duke. Perhaps he would gain more in the future.

The Book of Darkness flipped open when he willed it. It would seem the transformed book could be opened.

The first page depicted a pair of eyes, each side giving off a very different feeling to the observer. One of them was blue and the other, red—they were the Eye of Control and the Eye of Destruction respectively. The two eyes weren’t exactly symmetrical, as though there were two more eyes that weren’t visible at the moment.

After the title page, came...