Deep beneath the boundless, heavy yellow sands.
Within the gaps of dark, pitch-black rock layers, a thread of violent, crazed demonic soul aura churned and surged madly.
Duo Feng's soul, which had lain dormant in silence for so long, was now at the final juncture of revival.
Invisible demonic voices echoed wantonly through the void deep underground, carrying endless madness and killing intent.
"Excellent. I'm reviving—I'm about to be completely reborn!"
"Once I return to this world, not a single one of you prodigies on the field will escape!"
"This will be my final madness!"
Duo Feng's soul cheered and leaped about in the dark underground, its crazed laughter exploding in wave after wave.
After fleeing here earlier, knowing it could not escape, it had simply devoured the souls of the three Rebirth Demons on Giant Salt Star.
From then on, its soul, which had originally been outside Giant Salt Star, successfully transferred and took root beneath this desert stratum.
As the thousand-year cycle reached its perfect conclusion, the shackles on its physical body completely crumbled.
The reconstruction of its body steadily reached completion. Its divine soul and flesh were reviving in tandem; only one final instant remained before it could burst from the earth.
As the trial territory continued to shrink, the area available for movement across Giant Salt Star was compressed further and further.
The remaining hundred-plus top participating prodigies were forced to gather in this central desert region.
Countless powerful experts clustered densely together and naturally all converged near the surface above Duo Feng's revival point.
No one stood far from another. Their auras interwove in confrontation, and the atmosphere of a great battle was ready to erupt at the slightest touch.
Above the surface where yellow sand rolled and surged.
A biting gale howled past, sweeping