Ancient runes gradually dissolved under the corrosion of the liquid formed from the Fallen Source Pill.
Those runes, which had existed for countless tens of thousands of years and carried the final sealing power of an Earth Sovereign, melted away piece by piece beneath that dark gold viscous liquid, like thin ice beneath the blazing sun.
Hissing white smoke continuously rose, while the light flowing across the runes grew dimmer and dimmer until it finally went out completely.
Long Qingyue and the others held their breath as they watched, not daring to make a sound.
In no more than a dozen breaths, the seemingly indestructible rune seal before them slowly tore apart.
Immediately afterward, the enormous Stone Door, over a dozen zhang tall, let out a deep, prolonged rumble as it slowly slid open to both sides.
The moment the Stone Door opened, an ancient, primordial aura surged out like a tidal wave.
That aura was far too ancient, like a prehistoric giant beast imprisoned for countless tens of thousands of years finally breaking free from its cage, carrying an overbearing, unreasonable desolation and brutality.
The pressure contained within that aura instantly stiffened the bodies of many Dragon Battle Palace members, as though their limbs and bones had all frozen solid.
That ancient aura was mixed with a tragic desolation, as if it sought to drag them back to that ancient battlefield to witness the earth-shattering bloody war between the Extraterritorial Evil Race and the Great Thousand World's experts, and behold the tragic grandeur of Earth Sovereign after Earth Sovereign falling one by one.
Some of the weaker leaders turned deathly pale, cold sweat streaming down their foreheads as their bodies stiffened so completely that they could not even move a finger.
Yet Lin Ming remained calm, not even furrowing