Endless pitch-blackness spread out, the deep void like a black curtain, thick enough that it could not be dissolved.
In an extremely distant region, faint, hazy specks of light could barely be seen dotting the darkness.
Such an environment was incomparably harsh. This deep void seemed to conceal endless terrors.
Suddenly, a Golden Rosy Cloud tore through the ink-black darkness and sped through the deep void.
It ignored the darkness. The light it emitted even illuminated the ink-black region, revealing its form. Though exceptionally empty, it was clearly a vast space whose breadth could not be known.
A closer look revealed that within the Golden Rosy Cloud was a bronze umbrella carrying an ancient aura. It was none other than Spirit Mountain's Ksitigarbha Umbrella.
Following a faint, almost imperceptible sensation, it had already left the Nine Provinces and entered this boundless deep void.
Its goal was clear. It even knew that ahead lay the battlefield between the Dark Forest and the Nine Provinces.
In truth, this stretch of deep void had long been explored by both the Nine Provinces and the Dark Forest, and served as the borderland of each.
Ordinary people entering the forbidden lands through this deep void all used teleportation arrays, lest they lose their way. But an existence at the Ksitigarbha Umbrella's level faced no such restrictions.
Suddenly, Five-Colored Divine Radiance flashed ahead, and a multicolored scroll appeared within the ink-black deep void.
The multicolored scroll hung before the Ksitigarbha Umbrella and slowly unfurled. It was immensely vast, as though it could easily cover an entire province.
Looking again at the Ksitigarbha Umbrella, it was not small at all. It blotted out the heavens and covered the sun, like a massive mountain spanning heaven and earth.
"Heavenly Net!"
"You mean to stop me!"
A vast voice