At Heavenly Court headquarters, the top brass who knew about the plan to release prisoners had splitting headaches at this very moment.
No matter how they thought about it, they could not understand:
"We merely opened a few hundred holes in the exotic treasure defense line, let the forbidden zone's Black Tide in, and released a prisoner from one special site."
"How did Continental Prison end up gone?"
"What the hell happened?"
They wanted to seal off the news.
However, it was simply impossible.
The continent had been plowed over and over by the Heaven-Connecting Path, leaving magma and fissures everywhere.
All the seals had been destroyed.
The surviving prisoners, as if driven mad, rushed out of the continent and fled in all directions.
Many of the War Beasts from the Mythological Era that had been sealed away possessed little intelligence.
They pounced upon the nearest continents, opened their gluttonous maws, and frantically devoured everything containing energy to restore themselves.
Free Overlords, Rebels of Heaven, prison guards fleeing in fear of punishment, out-of-control experimental subjects... all were fleeing in every direction.
There were also powerhouses slightly weaker than Cang Shen, who acted with utter abandon, forcibly seizing one prosperous continent after another, gathering resources and restoring their condition.
Even worse were the prisoners who had no martial virtue, launching sneak attacks, destroying continental defense lines one after another, and unleashing the forbidden zone's Black Tide to sweep across the continents and throw everything into chaos.
For a time:
Throughout the territories governed by the Heavenly Court, beacon smoke soared into the sky everywhere, and war erupted on all sides.
In merely two or three days, numerous major organizations and powerful factions received the latest news:
The Heavenly Court's prison continent had been destroyed; many terrifying prisoners had escaped.
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