At dawn, warm sunlight tinged with pale red spilled across the mountains and rivers of the Underworld Continent. Many little animals that had slept through the night were just waking from their dreams.
Yet this was destined to be no ordinary day.
At some point, hurricanes began to howl through the sky, driving vast clouds, each as large as a mountain, swiftly across the heavens.
BOOM!
Suddenly, a deafening crash rang out between heaven and earth. The entire Underworld Continent trembled, and with a soft rustle, dry yellow leaves fluttered down from the trees.
"What happened?"
The cultivators across the Underworld Continent were startled by the sudden crash. One by one, they soared into the air and looked around.
"What's that?"
A cultivator cried out and pointed abruptly at the sky.
A mighty Yellow River, hundreds of billions of miles long, came sweeping across from a distant, boundless realm at an almost unbelievable speed. Vast and surging, stretching beyond sight, it pierced the sky above the entire Underworld Continent in an instant.
RUMBLE!
The endless river water churned through the void. Its turbid waves surged like mountains, their momentum shaking the heavens as all of creation trembled.
In the blink of an eye, the sky above the entire Underworld Continent had become a yellow ocean.
At first glance, it seemed as though the land lay below and the ocean above, an utterly bizarre sight.
All the cultivators of the Underworld Continent stared, dumbfounded, at this shocking scene.
What was going on?
Screee!
But the changes were not over. As everyone stood there in a daze, countless piercing shrieks suddenly rang out from the yellow ocean.
One after another, black figures emerged from the ocean, baring their claws and fangs, their eyes gleaming with murderous light.
"Those are vengeful spirits! They're