Crack, crack.
Before anyone could breathe a sigh of relief, the vast sheets of white ice shattered in an instant.
The countless dark creatures frozen within them also broke free of their restraints in the blink of an eye, dissolving into black vapor and falling away.
"How could this happen?" Lin Hanshuang was utterly taken aback.
"No, they can't be contained! Once these dark creatures are restrained, they self-destruct!" Bright Emperor quickly noticed the anomaly. Pressing his palms together, he began to chant, and a vast, majestic voice gradually spread across heaven and earth.
Lines of obscure language rang out like thunder, deafening and earth-shaking.
Towering figures whose faces could not be seen emerged between heaven and earth, their bodies glittering with golden light and radiating supreme majesty.
The black vapor that had blanketed heaven and earth was just about to spread further when layer after layer of dense golden light blocked it. As Bright Emperor's chanting continued, the black vapor began to tremble violently, as though enduring some immense agony.
"It's working!" Mysterious Yellow Immortal Emperor was overjoyed.
The others present were likewise invigorated.
As a result, the boundless black vapor was temporarily frozen in place, its movements becoming increasingly sluggish. Originally, once this black vapor scattered, it would return to the Abyss and condense into even more dark monsters.
But now that Bright Emperor had acted, the black vapor immediately fell into disarray.
Yet as time dragged on, Bright Emperor gradually furrowed his brow, as though bearing tremendous pressure.
The sharp-eyed among them noticed that, at some unknown point, more areas of the enormous Abyss had begun to boil, and black vapor was emerging faster... Regions that had originally seemed somewhat deathly still now appeared to have come back to life, growing active.
"Gurgle, gurgle..."
Black bubbles surfaced