The entire Great Xia Dynasty fell into a brief tremor.
That Heaven and Earth Seal, which had existed for thousands of years, appeared before the eyes of the world for the first time.
Above the firmament, spiderweb-like cracks emerged out of nowhere.
Terrifying power continuously seeped through every crack.
That incomparably terrifying power carried the sinister Killing Intent of demonic beasts.
Wherever it passed, the boundless clouds were stained an eerie blend of purple-gold and cyan-blue.
The air began to fill with the salty fishy stench of evaporated seawater and the scorched heat of burning flames.
Suddenly, above the sea beyond the Great Xia Dynasty, the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor's demon eyes contracted as it stared fixedly at the ever-expanding black shadow within the dynasty.
As a demonic beast that had lived for over a hundred thousand years, its perception of danger was sharp to the extreme.
"Damn it!"
The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor suddenly roared in fury, Golden Feather Sacred Flame surging wildly around its body. "It's the immortal artifact in that woman's hands!"
The black shadow grew larger and larger, ultimately transforming into a gigantic cauldron, black as an abyss, suspended at the center of the Great Xia Dynasty's sky.
The cauldron instantly bloomed with ten thousand zhang of black radiance. Rather than spreading outward, that black light contracted inward like a vortex, forming a black hole that devoured all things!
The instant the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron fully awakened, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within ten thousand li of the Great Xia Dynasty frantically converged upon it.
The nine black bird patterns on the cauldron seemed to come alive, constantly swimming about as they gave crisp, resonant cries.
Every wave of sound that spread out slowed the expansion of those sealing cracks by another fraction.
"Feather