At the same time, in the region where the Outer Realm Border Star Sea met the Order Star Sea, countless monitoring formations lit up with gray haloes beneath the roiling demonic energy.
Some Third Realm Star Gods responsible for recording matters in the vicinity immediately relayed the detected spiritual energy fluctuation to the rear. In less than a quarter hour, the news reached Twin Star City.
This main city of the Outer Realm Border was now completely surrounded by demonic energy. Refining formations stretched as far as the eye could see throughout the surrounding Ecological Zones, while dense cracks hung in the void.
Outer Realm energy, like thick black tides, continuously poured from the void cracks. This energy was not merely demonic energy, but was mixed with shattered, distorted spiritual matter. The instant it left the cracks, it reacted violently with the rules of the Order Star Sea, erupting in piercing shrieks.
Tens of thousands of refining formations were arranged in rings, each constructed from pitch-black hardened metal and covered in gray runes. Whenever Outer Realm energy flowed through them, these runes lit with faint haloes, like countless greedy mouths tearing apart and breaking down the energy.
The buildings in the Ecological Zones around Twin Star City were distributed in a honeycomb pattern. Every unit was equipped with devices that refined demonic energy a second time. Very little cultivable energy remained in this refined demonic energy. These devices had been built to ensure that the common people would not be affected. The demonic energy refined a second time would alter the people's bodies through the five elements, making them more suited to cultivation—though suited to cultivating demonic energy, of course.
In the Ecological Zones beyond Twin Star City, vast tracts of black farmland stood in neat rows. Irrigation systems carrying