It was a formidable deity clad in black, shrouded deep within boundless dusky lightning.
He stood amid an endless storm of time and space, yet he seemed to be taking a leisurely stroll through his own garden.
His gaze fell upon the Profound Cavern Realm, seemingly piercing through the many laws of heaven and earth deep within it. Slowly, he raised a hand as though confirming something. A moment later, a faint smile appeared on his face.
He had once again sensed the connection deep within the Profound Cavern Realm. A gateway linking the two worlds was about to open.
The wedge he had driven in was working once more.
Profound Cavern Realm.
Beyond the nine Heavenly Pillar Divine Lands lay a vast continent.
This continent was called Myriad Spirits Province. Far removed from the nine Divine Lands, it was a savage wilderness filled everywhere with dense demonic spiritual aura.
This was a paradise of the Demon Race, and one of its few remaining territories.
Before a massive spirit mountain, streaks of black-robed figures hurried busily across the mountain ridges.
This was one of the Demon Race's sacred sites in Myriad Spirits Province—Sky Eye Mountain.
It was also the domain of one of the Demon Race's two remaining emperors, the Divine-Eyed Ape Emperor.
This was the sacred land of the Divine-Eyed Demon Apes.
The mountain had always permitted only beings of the demon ape lineage to cultivate here. Other demons who entered would, at best, become slaves of the Divine-Eyed Demon Ape Clan; at worst, they would become food.
Now, this magnificent spirit mountain had fallen.
Bloodstains left behind by slaughter were everywhere.
The Divine-Eyed Demon Apes, each gifted beyond measure and with foundations comparable to peak divine beasts, had all become corpses.
Even the enormous Sky Eye Ape Emperor