The Unforeseen Calamity

Ever since the battle to seize the demon, Xia Zimo had lost two of her protective Golden Feathers to save her life. Xia Xingguang, far away across countless reaches of the starry sky, was utterly shaken. She rallied her forces, gathered thousands upon thousands of great demons from the Endless Snow Domain, and amassed their demonic essence. In a starry canyon, they opened a Stellar Tunnel and used immense magical power to seek out Xia Zimo's aura.

At first, everything proceeded according to plan. But just as Xia Xingguang urged the great demons to gather their demonic essence and open the Stellar Tunnel, this strange power of space and time activated the Dark Mountain inside the Void Heaven Divine Palace. The Dark Mountain's spatial power flared, transporting Xue Zihan and Qiu Wa away.

The power that transported Xue Zihan and Qiu Wa collided with the spatial power of the Stellar Tunnel. As a result, Xia Xingguang's first attempt to open the tunnel failed.

Opening a Stellar Tunnel was no easy feat. Even with Xia Xingguang's cultivation and Qi Tian Hall's resources, it required a vast expenditure to make one.

After the first attempt failed, Xia Xingguang had planned to pause and let the great demons catch their breath and recover their strength.

But then Xia Zimo's death stirred a bloodline connection within her. Boundless worry swept over her, and the ruler of the Endless Snow Domain went completely mad.

Xia Xingguang poured all of Qi Tian Hall's resources into the effort and rallied the demons once more. She even took the field herself, laying down a great formation in the starry sky and using a thousand high-grade Spirit Stones to gather spiritual energy. In the end, she paid with a severe loss of cultivation and was even forced to reveal