The Demon Well trembled without cease, but it could not break through the Sky Tablet's seal. The brilliant light within the well grew dimmer and dimmer until, with a final flash, it vanished into the depths.
The enormous Sky Tablet blazed as it shook. At that moment, the images carved upon it seemed to come fully alive, as though they had gained lives of their own.
Amid a deafening roar, the images on the Sky Tablet flew free of its surface.
The Savage Dragon, the divine figure, the Blood Sea, the Dead City, and the Pure Land intertwined into a curtain of light. It descended over the Demon Well and sealed it beneath them.
That day, towering waves surged through the waters around Dragon Island.
The entire sea seemed to boil, and the whole island trembled faintly.
On the island, trees thrashed wildly and leaves flew. Savage beasts howled as they ran, fierce birds shrieked, and the Dead City shook violently, bursting with eerie light that shot into the sky.
On Dragon Island, a mountain peak that had lain dormant for years suddenly billowed with vast black mist. A dark iron seal soared into the sky.
It sped toward the Dead City, leaving a dazzling streak of eerie light across the sky.
Just then, from a mountain range that had lain in ruins for countless ages, a divine halberd erupted with dazzling light. It shot out of the shattered remains and slashed down toward the ancient tablet in the Dead City.
Then Buddha's ritual implement atop the Dead City's gate tower rang out with a mighty peal, like a great bell.
Its sound filled heaven and earth as it blazed with blinding light and struck the ancient tablet deep within the Ancient City. The Sky Tablet shook violently.
Buddha's ritual