Alliance and Maneuvering, Meeting Beneath the Calamity (Part 2)

From the very beginning, Yu Ci had not been speaking with Old Crow. When dealing with a powerhouse who already held victory in the palm of his hand, how could it compare to making a deal with a gambler who had lost so badly he had to wager his life? Thus, from start to finish, Yu Ci had been doing everything he could to contact and communicate with Madam Huanyong. As for the unpleasantness between them before—who still remembered that? Old Crow's failure to completely sever contact between the inside and outside of his Heavenly Demon Void was his greatest mistake. The Heavenly Demon Void still cut off most connections between within and without, but the moment Madam Huanyong's voice entered, it proved that its sealing effect had already begun to deteriorate drastically. At the same time, surging waves of force erupted from multiple locations across the undersea mountain range. This was the reaction of the undersea earth veins drawn by the Nine Palaces Demon Domain. During the time Yu Ci and Old Crow had been confronting each other, the struggle and slaughter between fellow disciples Madam Huanyong and Supreme Good Demon Lord had already entered a white-hot stage. There was no longer any possibility of "yielding" in the contest between the two seemingly different yet fundamentally identical Divine Lord paths, Five Connects and Yuran. Through the cracks in the Heavenly Demon Void, Yu Ci caught only scattered fragments of the intricate collisions and convergence of auras, the higher-level clash of divine intent, and even the shifting transformations within the greater framework of the Heaven and Earth Law Will—at times merging to borrow the power of heaven and earth, at times severing apart to form an unfettered momentum. Yet even those scraps allowed him to truly witness the unrestrained combat