Deep within the Northern Sky Prison, ruins stretched far and wide.
Nearly all eighteen levels of the prison had been blasted through, connecting top to bottom and collapsing into an enormous pit. Countless demons crawled out between cracks and shattered stones, packed so densely they surged like a tide.
Among them were no few sixth-tier Great Demons concealing their auras and lurking in the shadows. They watched this chaotic place with cold eyes, in no hurry to reveal themselves, as though waiting for their true prey.
Unlike the lower-tier demons charging recklessly about, these sixth-tier demons were unnaturally quiet, like pairs of eyes in the netherworld silently watching the upheaval throughout the prison.
"Roar-"
A streak of sword light suddenly cleaved out, cutting a fourth-tier demon ahead into seven or eight pieces. Its momentum unspent, it wheeled around in a sweeping slash and took off the heads of another swath of lower-tier demons.
The sword light was icy and fierce. Flesh and blood flew wherever it passed, and the demons' primordial spirits were seized by it as well.
"The holy maiden gets treated with courtesy wherever she goes. It's been ages since I had a chance to fight."
The speaker had a face like polished jade and held a magical sword. He was none other than the Azure Void Sword Immortal.
His eyes brimmed with interest as he laughed. "My hands were itching!"
He drew back his blade and looked at the prisoners surging toward them like a tide, his gaze blazing and his fighting spirit high.
The three travelers were Xiao Minghuan, holy maiden of the Thousand Mechanisms Demon Sect, Goodman Bloodpine, and the Azure Void Sword Immortal.
After parting with Gu Rui at the Demon Fighting Arena, they had intended to head straight out, only to encounter the