Starry Sky!

"Phoenix body, dark divine power, rebirth."

Pang Lin wavered in Thunder Prison.

Her accumulation over tens of millions of years had long been enough for her to undergo nirvanic rebirth.

Yet she had delayed starting anew, delayed becoming that Black Phoenix that looked down upon all beneath heaven, only because she intended to take a new path.

"But if you are about to die, or..."

With her head tilted up, she watched Pang Jian be stripped of every artifact, then sent by Ling Yun's power out of that God King skull, where he appeared before the two Sovereigns, Fuya and Luo Hongyan.

She knew that Pang Jian was in a desperate situation. Without outside intervention, it would be difficult for him to break free.

"Ling Yun, Fuya, Luo Hongyan!"

The cold darkness in her eyes seemed to pass through Thunder Prison's Heavenly Ban and fall upon the starry sky above.

A moment later, a phoenix cry suddenly tore out from Purgatory's Seventh Realm.

The cry did not spread beyond the Seventh Realm, yet demon gods such as the Mystic Turtle, Black Dragon King, Yuan Qi, Rock Bear, and Ice-Armored Eel Dragon all heard it.

Ancient Demon Realm.

Upon a star shrouded in boundless darkness stood an enormous black stone archway.

From the other side of the archway came a sudden, chilling phoenix cry.

Near that black stone archway had gathered high-ranking demon gods of the Ancient Demon Race: golden giant elephants, silver-scaled giant serpents, pangolins, Vermilion Bird divine fowl, and more.

Streams of near-tangible demon energy rose like pillars into the sky, piercing through the darkness-veiled star and stabbing into the frigid void.

Demon gods from every corner of the Ancient Demon Realm, along with many ninth-level Demon Kings, gazed at the starry sky from within their respective domains