Purgatory flames scorched the heavens. Behind the thick smoke lurked figures both enormous and demonic.
In the deepest reaches of Hell, a giant that towered between heaven and earth rose to its feet. He was larger than any living being Lu Li had ever seen, even surpassing the divine planetary entities he had encountered in the One-Punch Man world.
As he rose, Hell's Gale Wind swept through the heavens with blazing fire, setting vast regions of the Living World's universe ablaze.
When he sat up, his head had already pressed against the vault of Hell itself, causing space to fracture across vast areas. Some of those cracks contained turbulent void currents, while through others, figures from the God Realm could be seen.
The collapse of space caused Hell and the God Realm to connect without the need for that gateway.
Yet the giant's awakening had not stopped. With one hand braced against the ground, he seemed intent on standing up completely, but this land of Hell clearly could not support such a colossal being.
If he fully rose, the realm of Hell would completely collapse, and the evil ghosts imprisoned through endless ages would scatter into the God Realm and the Human World's universe.
Shakyamuni, who had already escaped the alternate dimension, watched this scene with gravity and faint anxiety in his eyes. His Future Sight could see nothing concerning this giant. It was as though the other party was not a living being at all, without a soul and therefore impossible to predict.
The giant supported himself with one hand while holding up Hell's sky with the other. The world cracked on a massive scale, and all Three Realms shook violently. The tremors the people of the God Realm had felt earlier had been caused by the giant's awakening.