The Dark Plane, White Bone Island.
With the Divine Jade Bone structure serving as a wick, a pitch-black bloom of karmic fire blazed fiercely.
Through the flames, one could glimpse the Heavenly Demon Realm, where trillions upon trillions of heavenly demons writhed in a dense mass, leaving not the slightest gap.
Heavenly demons were the Desire Realm, and the Desire Realm was heavenly demons.
The heavenly demons devoured, reproduced, and returned to the Dark Plane to digest the mental energy they had consumed.
The karmic fire grew ever deeper in color, its dim radiance spreading like a curtain, darker even than the surrounding Dimensional Mist, like a terrifying black hole that devoured everything.
"Woooo!!"
The heavenly demons constructed a Desire Realm that made wizards succumb, yet they themselves had never escaped that same mire.
Mental fluctuations spread, turning into mournful sounds that echoed through the void, like the wailing of undead ghosts, yet several shades deeper.
Their numbers increased exponentially, strengthening the Dark Plane's foundations. Only through this ebb and flow could it gradually make up for its innate disadvantage against the Elemental Plane.
Elemental and dark were like the two sides of a coin. By all rights, the two planes should have formed a perfectly balanced scale, but the Elemental Plane was actually richer in resources. The reason lay in living beings.
Heaven and earth had no independent consciousness. Or rather, living beings were what people called the consciousness of heaven and earth, and the wills of intelligent beings were the weights that tipped the scale.
"..."
At that moment, Yuan, Yin Ming, the Mother of All Snakes, and Wuxiang Watson had gathered.
Yuan had not manifested. The other three sat around the black bonfire, observing the Heavenly Demon Descent in real time through the heavenly demon realm consciousness.