That arrow-swift devilish energy raced away from the Blood Puppet True Demon, threading through the iron-gray sky.
The distant pack of Demonic Beasts, piled atop one another as they gnawed on stellar wreckage, had already shrunk from a pointed mountain into a low hill.
The Devil World was always dim and heavy, as though even the air bore a burden.
Yet this wisp of devilish energy skipped lightly through the air, nimble as a bird in flight. It turned sharply several times in an instant, using its trailing wake as lines to sketch a complex and mysterious Northern Dipper star chart.
The pattern outlined by the devilish energy nearly blended into the surrounding darkness beneath the Devil World's Celestial Vault, making its details difficult to discern.
It was like an unfurled drawing, drifting freely through the air.
Then, in the next instant, a change occurred. It was as if an invisible hand had picked up the star chart and given it a casual shake—
Rustle.
An exceedingly faint, tiny sound, like paper trembling.
As that sound fell, the design on the paper rose upright. The star chart transformed into dark mist, and an ancient gate engraved with the stars of the cosmos stood where it had been.
To suit the environment of the Devil World, it was not dazzling and gave off no radiant light.
It remained the dark hue traced by devilish energy, but dim stars wandered ceaselessly within the oval engraving at the center of the gate.
In the entire Devil World today, there was likely only one being capable of recognizing it.
This was the "Gate of Myriad Cosmic Wonders," passed down by the ancient Dragon Emperor Yuanhong, created through the ancient Mystic Star Chart Construction method.
Back then, to trick Jiang Wang into his scheme, the