At the very moment Lu Yuan stepped through the hatch of the Interstellar Spaceship, in another distant part of the Underground World...
Ten thousand meters beneath the sea, the pitch-black pressure weighed down like mountains of stone, cloaking the entire seabed in a deathly stillness.
At the bottom of the deep blue sea, five Beast Emperors stood silently, their terrifying auras making heaven and earth tremble.
They were Mo Qiu, Shuang Zheng, Yan Chi, Xuan Ao, and Tu Xiao.
The five Beast Emperors fixed their gazes on the enormous egg at the center of the seabed. It was pitch-black all over, its surface wrapped in five streaks of patterning: green, gold, scarlet, black, and yellow!
At that moment, brilliant light poured from it without end. The glow grew ever stronger, illuminating the pitch-black depths like daylight. Even the heavy seawater boiled beneath it, churning into towering waves.
Mo Qiu raised his enormous dragon head slightly. Ecstatic light blazed in his ink-black eyes. With a gentle sweep of his massive claw, he stirred up currents tens of thousands of meters high, and his deep roar resounded through the entire seabed. "Hahaha, wonderful! At last, the Overlord is about to be born! Once the Overlord has fully descended, it'll be time for us to counterattack human territory!"
Frost shook from Shuang Zheng's body, and his ferocious aura swept in every direction. His piercing howl brimmed with bone-deep hatred. "Humans destroyed our home and killed our kin, slaughtering countless tribes of our ferocious-beast brethren. This hatred can never be shared under the same sky. They must pay for it in blood!"
"Exactly!" Flames surged around Yan Chi, instantly vaporizing the surrounding seawater into white mist. His scarlet eyes remained fixed on the enormous egg as he ground his teeth. "Damn Xiao Chengjun! He's