Gurgle... gurgle... gurgle... gurgle...
The entire Yellow Springs World was filled with a powerful, hollow rumbling.
"What's that sound?"
Everyone wondered the same thing.
The blazing dark dragon coiled atop Iron Encirclement Mountain, slowly transforming back into human form.
—Gu Qingshan.
He plucked a sword, gold as if jade, from the void and pointed it into the air.
"Don't resist."
He spoke aloud.
In an instant, the phantom shadow of a world descended upon the Yellow Springs World, overlapped with it, then swiftly departed, vanishing into nothingness.
The process lasted only a brief moment. Yet Fei Yue, Xiao Die, Ferocious Demon Tower Master, the Demon Dragon, and even the gods covering the mountain all vanished without a trace.
Only Skeleton Woman and Gu Qingshan remained.
"What happened?" Skeleton Woman asked quietly.
"It wants to feast, but it's afraid of eating the dead on my side," Gu Qingshan said.
Skeleton Woman's gaze blazed as she looked toward the enormous blood-red pillar towering between heaven and earth.
"So the being from the Holy Realm... was hungry after all..."
She murmured.
At that moment, she finally understood.
The gurgling that had resounded throughout the world had come from the belly of the True Demon of the Holy Realm.
Suddenly, the shadow atop the blood-red pillar disappeared.
A series of frenzied chewing sounds rang out through the void.
Across the entire Yellow Springs World, monsters vanished in vast swathes, as if something had erased them.
No matter what kind of monster they were, or what armor and weapons they wore, they were dragged into the void with all their gear and disappeared.
Skeleton Woman watched for a moment, then said, "With a True Demon here, I have nothing left to worry about."
She raised her head and gazed at the magnificent, glittering field of