Hun Tiandi raised the Tou She Ancient God Jade with one hand and slammed the other toward the ground below. As his palm descended, an enormous energy handprint thousands of zhang wide took shape in the blink of an eye, then crashed heavily into the earth.
Dust billowed. Under that strike, a massive pit thousands of zhang wide appeared in the ground. The magma beneath the Black Corner Region had never been particularly deep, and with such a gigantic crater, the flow of magma could already be faintly seen.
The magma broke through the thin layer of earth at the bottom of the pit and surged out. Driven by the pressure underground, the erupting magma spread toward other parts of the Black Corner Region.
Since Gu He was nearby when Hun Tiandi summoned the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, Gu Yuan did not make a move. He merely retreated to one side and watched Hun Tiandi's actions.
As the magma flowed out, Hun Tiandi rapidly formed seals with both hands. Rings of power rippled out from the Ancient Jade and sank into the surging magma. As the halos entered, ripples began to spread across the magma, and wave after wave rose. As the light on the Ancient Jade's surface grew increasingly dazzling, a huge vortex formed atop the magma, as though something was about to emerge from within.
Suddenly, Hun Tiandi, who had been controlling the Tou She Ancient God Jade, abruptly withdrew his hands and drifted back to one side.
Gu He and Gu Yuan narrowed their eyes and looked toward the magma's surface, only to see the vortex suddenly expand more than tenfold.
As the vortex grew, enormous pillars of magma shot up from the sea of magma.
Faced with the sudden magma fire pillars, all three sides acted