"Heh heh, Hongjun, Yang Mei, you two finally got what was coming to you. Did you enjoy sealing me away back then? You even tried to seal that one. Serves you right! Heh heh..."
On the broken Buzhou Mountain, a beast with hollow, pupil-less eyes stood by a cliff, gazing down at the ruined land below as it muttered to itself, sounding rather gleeful.
"Hmph. Once all my memories awaken and I regain my strength, it'll be time to settle accounts with you!"
The beast cursed furiously. With a "boom," its entire body suddenly exploded, turning into a mass of icy black mist that dissipated.
Meanwhile, far to the west of the Eastern Lands, deep beneath the mysterious Thunder Marsh, a pair of bloody giant eyes appeared and vanished. Around them, endless blood-red killing intent gathered into a lake of liquid, forcing countless golden Rule Lines to keep their distance.
Floating above the bloody giant eyes were ten incredibly ferocious beasts. Each radiated boundless killing intent, like a machine built solely for slaughter. The Ten Ferocious Beasts were fast asleep, yet the aura around them grew stronger with every passing moment, and their killing intent grew ever more intense.
The bloody giant eyes opened just a crack. Countless anguished heads appeared in their pupils, then the eyes closed again. The lake of liquid formed from killing intent gradually vanished as well, as if it had all been an illusion.
Five hundred years passed in the blink of an eye. The shockwaves from the battle that had nearly caused the entire Primordial World to collapse gradually died down, but the Main Body became a legend throughout the Primordial World. His stern face, the peerless figure who had nearly slain Hongjun and Yang Mei and fought the Heavenly Dao alone, remained