Second Level

John fully recovered his expended essence Qi before proceeding forwards. The Corpse King's power was quite shocking, and he was only a King. The Emperors were even more powerful, and John wanted to be sure that he had enough power to cut them down.

He inspected his beast blood essence reserves. They were growing lower, due to his incredible breakthrough earlier.

'I probably have about thirty minutes at most using my Immortal Asura Transformation Art before I run out of blood essence. I need to be careful how I use it.'

John shook such thoughts from his head and proceeded towards the monolith in the distance. They reached it before long, finding no trouble along the way. John thought this was quite odd, but didn't give it much more thought.

As they finally approached the pitch-black monolith, the two of them realized it was much larger than initially expected. The monolith stretched over a mile high into the sky, and was a hundred yards wide and long.