Apotheosis

The members of the Three Eyes race and the Swallow Victory race who stood nearby also saw Zen's Three Purities Stone.

Their facial expressions changed subtly as well.

They thought that Zen would amaze everyone with his outstanding performance in the Eternal Scroll Painting, and that was how things were supposed to go.

To their great surprise, his performance was by no means outstanding. Instead, his journey in the Eternal Scroll Painting was fruitless until now.

For instance, the Three Eyes race had a total of three members who entered the Eternal Scroll Painting this time. One of them was the three-eyed boy, Egan, who performed the best, while even the one who did the worst among the three of them⁠ did much better than Zen.

Still, they didn't believe that the Grandmaster of Heaven would be wrong about his evaluation of Zen. They thought that the reason behind Zen's poor performance was probably because it was his first time to enter the Eternal Scroll Painting.

In any case, it wouldn't be a big deal if Zen couldn't get to enter the Eternal Realm this time anyway.

Most of these Other Shore creatures in Stage Thirty-two of the Other Shore had failed several times. Even the mighty warriors who were already at the Eternal Realm had also entered the Eternal Scroll Painting multiple times, and some of them a dozen or even a hundred times before.

But because of Claire's and the Grandmaster of Heaven's perception of Zen, everyone began to hold high expectations of him and believed that he would pass the Eternal Scroll Painting in one attempt. They had never imagined that he would've performed so clumsily.

Meanwhile, Zen moved leisurely inside the painting.

Although he didn't know how the others fared, he knew that he had killed far too few beasts in more than two hours.

However, it wasn't his fault since only a few beasts had appeared around him.

"Eh, that is..."

Just then, he suddenly saw a dark thing rolling not far away. It wasn't until he got closer to it that he realized it was quite a big beast.

He felt slightly happy to see the beast. It seemed that he wasn't that unlucky after all.

The moment he quickly approached the beast, however, three Other Shore creatures from another direction rushed towards it.

The three Other Shore creatures moved aggressively. Two of them pinned the beast down on both sides, while the other stabbed it.

The dead beast turned into wisps of black smoke and quickly gathered around

creatures on the first page was extremely fierce. Every time the Eternal Scroll Painting opened, only one-third of the creatures were allowed to enter the second page, so that every beast mattered.

Four Other Shore creatures worked together and just killed a group of beasts in the upper left corner of the Eternal Scroll Painting. Just as they were about to hunt for more, a black shadow suddenly appeared nearby.

They got excited as soon as they saw the black shadow and decided to capture it. However, one of them felt that something was wrong. A chill ran down his spine when he saw how the beast looked like.

"That's a Worm Tapir! Run!"

The Other Shore creature who saw the beast had once been to the second page, where he saw a powerful Worm Tapir with his own eyes.

He was confused, though. Why did a Worm Tapir appear on the first page?

Of course, he had no time to know the answer.

Once the Worm Tapir had targeted its prey, its body became erratic.

Then, it appeared and disappeared from time to time.

The Worm Tapir was also a picture, but unlike the Other Shore creatures who became pictures, it could leave the Eternal Scroll Painting for a short period.

The second it jumped out of the Eternal Scroll Painting, it looked like it had disappeared when viewed from the painting.

When the Worm Tapir fell back onto the Eternal Scroll Painting, it appeared again.

While the scene played out repeatedly, the Worm Tapir tore the four Other Shore creatures into pieces. Black ink, which turned out to be those four Other Shore creatures' blood, gushed out from their mutilated limbs and flowed across the white painting.