Just as Lin Dong had guessed, a great mountain towered deep within the Alien Continent.
At its foot, roars rose and fell as beast kings from every region gathered alongside mutated plants such as man-eating flowers and demon vines. All had evolved to an extremely advanced stage and developed intelligence.
The Otherworlders took all manner of forms, their auras savage, like a gathering of rampaging demons.
Naturally, the newly ascended Parasitic Mother Empress was among them. They gazed up at the mountain ahead with reverence and devotion.
Yet strangely, amid the mountain's crisscrossing ravines, cracks in its solid rock face formed a human face.
This was the ruler of the Alien Continent, worshipped as a deity and also known as the "Mountain God."
Even the native creatures, whose lineages stretched back thousands or tens of thousands of years, did not know where the Mountain God had come from or what had evolved into it.
From the moment they developed intelligence, the Mountain God had stood upon this land, witnessing vast changes as the ages passed.
Any race that angered it would inevitably suffer punishment. The heavens crumbled and the earth split, as though scoured by a natural disaster, until that race was utterly destroyed.
"Lord Mountain God, a member of the Undead Race has appeared on the edge of the continent. He is powerful, and the previous Parasitic Mother Empress died at his hands," the newly ascended Parasitic Mother Empress reported.
The mountain ahead trembled and rumbled, transmitting signals only the Otherworlders could understand.
It had long known of the undead's arrival, so it had sent the Azure Wolf Clan to probe him, hoping to put him in his place and see how he responded.
"Azure Wolf King, what happened to the subordinates you sent?"
"My lord, our clan's subordinates