Teetering, Yet Never Falling

"Worthy of the foremost Demon Venerable of the Age of Mythology. Such power!"

As he spoke, the Corpse Emperor joined the Skeleton Emperor, the Ghost Emperor, and the two Netherworld Soil Sacred Spirit Emperors.

Under their combined control, Immortal Dao Runes danced across the Kunlun Immortal Bell, sending tremors through the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland.

Who could have imagined that, after countless ages, the Netherworld Soil within the Underworld would give birth to two Sacred Spirit Emperors?

Outside, the Light-Dark Supreme and more than a dozen Dark Supremes controlled the formation diagram.

Inside, the Corpse Emperor and four other Supremes of the Underworld wielded the Kunlun Immortal Bell and attacked Li Ming together.

Under the five Dark Supremes' control, the Kunlun Immortal Bell erupted with dazzling immortal light. Its terrifying Immortal Dao aura shook the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

It was as though a True Immortal had descended.

Even Li Ming was startled at the sight of the Kunlun Immortal Bell.

By his reckoning, the bell should have been in the Undying Heavenly Emperor's hands at this point.

Why, then, was it in the Underworld?

Could the Undying Heavenly Emperor or the Undying Daoist, pulling the strings from behind the scenes, have lent it to the Dark Supremes of the Underworld?

The Underworld truly was powerful now.

Besides these five Dark Supremes, it had Yama Emperor, the Prison-Suppressing Emperor, Source God, and Source Ghost. Other nameless Supremes might even be hiding there.

Li Ming could sense at least ten more Dark Supremes in the Underworld.

Clearly, they had no intention of emerging just yet.

The Underworld's forces were far greater now than they had been in Ye Fan's era in the original story.

As the battle raged, Li Ming was surprised to see four more Dark Supremes emerge from the