Dragon Sleep Space vanished.
The divine power waves contained within the dragon bones' final collapse spread out, sweeping across the entire icefield.
Like the remnants of a bomb's explosion exhausting their final strength to win a sliver of life for all things, the powerful zombies on the black seabed beneath the dragon bones were instantly reduced to ashes. The power gradually weakened toward the outskirts; within a hundred li, every zombie was annihilated. To the entire icefield, this was no different from a cup of water poured onto a cartload of burning firewood. Fortunately, the divine power waves continued spreading, covering the whole icefield!
Countless ice-and-snow monsters across the icefield howled in unison!
The vast number of zombie bodies swept by the waves changed. They were suppressed by some unknown force, and many things were gone...
The corpse poison on the zombies was gone.
The dragon had slept beneath the North Sea, suppressing calamity. At its final moment, its bones exhausted every last scrap of divine power to win a sliver of life for all living things—not merely for humankind, but for birds, beasts, trees, flowers, grasses, even insects. If the Sea of Corpses swept across the world, the one that would suffer most would still be this Heaven and Earth.
Beneath the ice, on the seabed, countless motionless corpses abruptly opened their eyes. More and more murky dark-red eyeballs appeared in the pitch-black depths, until they formed a sea of red. The seawater surged. They awakened, revived...
The Ancient Bell at the Stone Pavilion atop Shenhua Mountain's snowy peak boomed.
The deep, resonant bell echoed through every peak and ravine of Shenhua Mountain. Birds and beasts fled, accumulated snow slid down, and the toll thundered within the hearts of every Chunyang Palace cultivator. Old and young cultivators alike emerged