Zhao Hai's enormous beast pupils abruptly contracted as he stared fixedly at the violently distorting azure barrier ahead.
Whatever had stirred a resonance in his own origin just now should have been the real presence within this Primordial Beginning Baleful Mine!
Rumble!
The earth veins at the bottom of the ten-thousand-mile sinkhole shook ever more violently.
The gray-black Sha Qi spilling out surged like a flood bursting through a dam, squeezing the azure screen until it groaned under the strain. The entire Gobi Desert trembled along with it.
High overhead, the wills of the three Golden Immortals, who had been secretly exchanging glances, instantly withdrew.
"The earth-vein tide has come early. There's no need to wait. Open the mine!"
The Immortal Court's Golden Immortal, dressed in purple-and-gold immortal robes, barked coldly and flicked his right sleeve. An ancient, palm-sized jade token covered in intricate star patterns shot through the air.
"Very well."
The elderly Golden Immortal of the Loose Immortal Alliance and the Ferocious Beast Alliance's Golden Immortal atop the black cloud did not hesitate. Both turned their hands over and sent out ancient tokens of similar design.
The three tokens collided with a boom directly above the sinkhole, assembling into a complete disc.
Hum-!
A brilliant pillar of light a hundred zhang thick shot straight down from the disc's center, striking the violently twisting azure barrier below with pinpoint accuracy.
The anticipated sight of the entire formation being withdrawn did not appear.
The azure screen covering the sinkhole, which spanned tens of thousands of miles, merely rippled like water. Then its very center slowly collapsed inward, opening a circular gap barely a hundred zhang across.
Hiss-!
The instant the circular opening took shape, the gray-black Sha Qi pent up at the sinkhole's surface seemed to find an outlet. It