Yet—
What truly drove the countless cultivators of the Great Desolate Realm deeper into despair was this!
Just as they struggled in terror against the backlash of the Immortal Opportunity—
Suddenly!
Rumble!
The entire Great Desolate Realm began to shake violently.
The tremor did not come from the earth!
It came from the very foundation of the world!
It was as though an invisible hand had seized the heavens and earth and was shaking them madly!
The sun and moon lost their light!
The heavens and earth sank into gloom!
Though it was midday, the sun overhead dimmed inch by inch!
As if something were devouring it, bite by bite!
Waves of suffocating pressure swept in from the four corners of the world!
Ancient!
Deathly still!
Decaying!
Savage!
As though they came from a dark abyss older than the ages!
"Wh-what is this?"
"Why has the sky gone dark?"
"Why is the earth shaking?"
Countless living beings looked up in terror!
And then—
They saw the most horrifying sight of their lives!
There, before their eyes—
At the four corners of the Great Desolate Realm, pitch-black rifts tore open with a roar!
From within those rifts—
Enormous Dark Forbidden Zones, vast beyond imagination, slowly descended!!
Beyond the Eastern Wilderness!
An ancient dark city floating above the nine heavens broke through the void and slowly pressed down!
No one knew how many millions of miles the city spanned!
The walls were hung with the withered bones of ancient powerhouses, each skeleton larger than a mountain!
Black mist billowed over the battlements, and the wails of countless resentful souls could be faintly heard within it!
The sheer force of its descent made countless beings across the Eastern Wilderness buckle at the knees and fall to the ground!
"A Dark Forbidden Zone! It's