Upon hearing this, Lu Li's gaze briefly went vacant. Then he nodded sharply and charged into the underground palace.
Rumble!
A deafening boom erupted. Black Mountain, where the Chen Family resided, suddenly shook violently, as though the entire world had trembled with it.
A fierce shockwave spread from the center of Black Mountain, carrying a storm of shattered rocks and dust as it rapidly swept in every direction.
Amid the thunderous roar, Black Mountain's massive body began to disintegrate. Its sturdy stone was shattered into countless fragments, like a fortress struck by a giant and instantly collapsing into ruin.
The peak split apart and the mountain crumbled. An enormous black shadow formed in the air, radiating intense black rays in all directions.
Some uninvolved living beings standing at the edge of the sky were struck by a shock beyond words.
As Black Mountain was blasted apart, those ghostly shadows gradually dispersed amid the black rays, scattering into the wind like a dream.
In less than the time it took for an incense stick to burn, corpses littered the Nethershadow Ghost Domain. Arcs of spell light shot into the heavens, while all the black-clad figures slowly vanished into the boundless darkness without lingering any longer.
Countless ghostly figures beneath Black Mountain had died gruesome deaths, their eyes still wide open. Terror and disbelief remained in their pupils, as though they could not understand why the heavens and earth contained cultivators so powerful.
Yet only moments later.
Ripples suddenly spread through the distant void. An even more powerful aura gradually condensed from the emptiness, as Dao Power of heaven and earth frantically gathered toward it.
A massive black teleportation gate silently took shape, and boundless, terrifying pressure surged from within.
The gate slowly opened. A dark vortex rose from its center, as