The alarm had barely stopped, and before anyone could breathe a sigh of relief, the shadows of the Immortal and Mortal Realms suddenly began to twist and distort violently again. In the blink of an eye, those once-normal shadows transformed into all manner of savage, terrifying monsters. They pounced at the group with bared fangs and claws, letting out bloodcurdling howls.
To their horror, everyone realized that the Shadow Mutation Demon had descended once more, and it appeared even stronger than before. Not only were these shadow monsters numerous, but they were also enormous, each radiating an evil aura that made it hard to breathe.
The Shadow Mutation Demon looked like a dense Dark Vortex, constantly devouring the surrounding shadows. As it fed, the shadow monsters grew increasingly powerful, their bodies becoming ever more warped and twisted, like demons crawling out from the depths of hell.
Faced with such a terrifying enemy, the group had no power to fight back. The sound waves released by the Divine Bell vanished into the Dark Vortex like mud sinking into the sea, swallowed without a trace; even the divine sword that had once been unstoppable was tightly entangled by countless shadow monsters, making it impossible to swing.
The inheritors and the old man were frantic as they searched everywhere for a solution. Then they discovered a bead at the center of the Dark Vortex, radiating an evil light. This bead seemed to be the core of the entire Dark Vortex, and all the shadow monsters circled around it.
Seeing this, the Divine Bell did not hesitate. It exhausted the last trace of its spiritual power and released a powerful Purifying Sound Wave. Like lightning, the sound wave shot straight toward the bead. Everywhere it passed, the Dark Vortex was temporarily suppressed, and the