Endless blood-red light reflected across the sky, while Fengdu's crimson glow shone upon slumbering souls.
As the Great Emperor spoken of by the surviving jailers awakened, the entirety of Hell began to shake. His aura devoured heaven and earth, the world trembled, and scarlet meteors fell from the firmament.
The falling stars scraped against the atmosphere and blazed with light. Trailing crimson lines of fire, they filled the sky, howling as they broke through the dark clouds and crashed into the earth with deafening roars, like rolling heavenly thunder.
Shockwaves hammered the air, turning everything between heaven and earth into blurred ripples. Black smoke rose from warped heat currents, and the land instantly became a molten purgatory.
Fengdu, too, became a sea of fire in an instant. From within the ruins, a figure slowly emerged.
Flames licked at His body, while lava battered His shell.
All surviving jailers knelt with their foreheads to the ground, not daring to look upon this being's face.
He raised His right hand and gave a light sweep to the right. Scorching heat and fierce winds incinerated the seas, fire clouds and ash blotted out the heavens, stars fell from the sky, Hell's abyss opened, mountains collapsed and the earth surged—a scene of apocalypse.
The fierce wind surged forward, shattering Yhwach's Great Holy Bow arrows one after another. The powerful shockwaves spread through the air, making Yhwach's body sway as his long black cloak flapped in disarray.
"So this is the Lord of Hell..."
Yhwach stared gravely at the opponent before him. Though he was a Heroic Spirit, he still possessed his own thoughts and knew that this was the enemy he had originally intended to deal with after the New World was established during his lifetime.
He simply had not expected the legendary Lord