After Qin Heng returned to the Douluo Continent, he took no further action.
He lived in the rear courtyard of the Martial Soul Main Hall in the Ming Capital, drinking tea and reading every day. Occasionally, he guided Ye Guyi and Yu Mengdi in their cultivation. Life was easy and unhurried.
Electrolux was busy reshaping the Reincarnation Law in the Demon Plane. Every few days, he sent word through the passage between planes to report his progress.
The Ice Empress spent all day glued to the Snow Empress's side. She seemed to wish she could turn herself into an ornament hanging from the Snow Empress, leaving Qin Heng shaking his head.
That calm lasted about two months.
One morning two months later, Qin Heng was drinking tea in the courtyard pavilion when he suddenly sensed an unusual ripple in the energy between heaven and earth.
He set down his cup. His divine sense spread like a tide, covering the entire Douluo Continent in an instant.
Then he saw the ground split open on a plain in the southern Star Luo Empire, deep within the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
A bottomless fissure gaped like a beast's blood-soaked maw, and thick, purplish-black mist poured from its depths.
Wherever the mist passed, plants withered, soil rotted, and even the air grew thick and suffocating.
The Teleportation Passage to the Abyss Plane had opened.
Then Abyss Passages opened one after another in the northern Heaven Dou Empire, the western Dou Ling Empire, and the central Star Luo Empire.
Purplish-black mist spread across the land like a plague, leaving devastation in its wake.
Abyss Passages appeared in the Sun Moon Empire as well.
Three opened at once outside the Ming Capital: one in its outskirts, one at the edge of the Evil Demon Forest, and one