Liang Zhaohuang and the others escorted the 'Heavenly Fire Altar' onward. Xiao Yuanmei sat atop the altar, working her arts, while a vast cloud of heavenly fire spread over ten thousand li, scattering great sheets of fiery rain that set the wild forest below ablaze.
Within the 'Thousand Ape Wild Forest,' ape cries, beast roars, birdcalls, and the hisses of snakes and insects mingled into utter chaos.
Great numbers of demonic beasts, snakes, insects, and even demonic plants screamed and wailed as the rampaging fire rain and heavenly flames consumed them, fleeing in panic in every direction.
From the depths of the wild forest came the roars of demon kings, issuing orders and directing the fleeing Demon Race, trying to restore order.
Yet before the blazing, violent, all-consuming heavenly fire—before the threat of life and death—the fleeing demons, beasts, snakes, insects, rats, and ants had no mind to heed the commands of the demon kings deep in the forest. They only fled for their lives, and the chaos grew ever worse.
Boom! Boom, rumble...
Thunderous roars rang out simultaneously from the forest earth and the sky.
The woods below shook as torrents and waves burst from the ground like black dragons tearing through the earth, crisscrossing in all directions as they tried to extinguish the heavenly fire burning around them.
Meanwhile, great swathes of black cloud drifted swiftly from the depths of the forest. Water vapor saturated those clouds, and lightning flashed in and out of existence within them—they were rain clouds summoned by demon kings.
Bearing torrential rain, the storm clouds crashed directly into the heavenly fire clouds summoned by Liu Province's side.
Water and fire collided in the heavens, setting off booming explosions.
Even the laws of water and fire were operating and erupting at full force, eroding,