Beyond the realms, in the chaos at the heart of the Ninefold Nether Demon Abyss.
Chaotic currents rampaged across the heavens. Shattered fragments of the void sliced through the Demon Emperor's already devastated domain like countless peerless blades.
The earthshaking battle between emperors, which had lasted a full day and night, finally drew to a slow close.
Yet the lingering force of slaughter, the tremors of the emperor Dao, and the fractures in the Great Dao remained unsettled throughout the world. Above the demon abyss stretching hundreds of millions of miles, the netherdark demonic energy that had once been black as ink and never dispersed was now utterly scoured, purified, and dissolved by brilliant Hongmeng golden light. The annihilating killing intent that had oppressed the land for untold ages and shrouded the outer realms was crushed layer by layer beneath the vast, orthodox Dao resonance of the era, dispelled and reduced to nothing.
As far as the eye could see, the Ninefold Nether Demon Abyss, which had once dominated the outer realms, cowed the heavens, and endured for a million years, had lost all its former grandeur.
Ruin scarred everything. Broken walls littered the land, mountains and rivers lay shattered, and earth veins had snapped apart.
The Demon Emperor's once orderly, vast domain, crowded with demon palaces and surging with killing intent, was now nearly half destroyed. All four war zones to the east, west, south, and north had fallen. Great swaths of boundless demon soil collapsed, sank, and vanished, becoming barren, deathly still wastelands of chaos. Countless Demon Emperor halls, Demon Venerable palaces, demon general estates, and demon soldier camps that had stood for ages crashed down beneath the crushing Hongmeng Emperor-Subduing Formation, pulverized to dust.
Countless fractures in the Great Dao covered the ground. The deepest pierced the