"Aaaah!"
At one corner of the Fortress, three devils with the strength of Third-Turn True Devil Kings touched the water. Their bodies began to rot. They struggled in agony and a strange, overwhelming pleasure, then became part of the water in just Three Breaths.
"Damn it!"
The Bewitching Butterfly True Demon King roared. Her pink poisonous mist was useless against the water. Instead, the water swallowed and transformed it.
The Six-Eyed True Demon King opened all six eyes wide and finally saw what lay beyond the rift.
It was not a handful of people rushing out.
It was a Formation stretching across the Void!
Seawater from the Red Sea was pouring through the Formation into the Abyss of Annihilation without end!
"It's a Formation! Someone set up a Water-Drawing Grand Array inside the Heaven and Earth Origin Space!"
The Six-Eyed True Demon King howled, "Get in there and destroy its nodes!"
But the Abyss of Annihilation had already descended into chaos.
Red water spread like a plague. Devils fell in swathes, screaming as they fled.
In one of the Abyss of Annihilation's Ancient Forbidden Grounds stood the Immortal-Locking Platform.
It was a black Stone Platform suspended in the Void, with Stone Pillars rising from its surface.
A Cultivator was chained to each Stone Pillar. Some were Heaven-Stealers captured after entering the Abyss of Annihilation; others had been taken prisoner during the Second Heaven-Extermination War.
Chained to the central Stone Pillar was Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang.
Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang had been captured during the Second Heaven-Extermination War.
His head hung low, his white hair loose around him. Nine Immortal-Binding Chains pierced his limbs, torso, and skull. Runes flickered along the chains, draining his Cultivation and Dao fruit every moment.
More than seventy million years had passed since the last Heaven-Extermination War. His