The True Immortals and Yang Spirits answered one after another, then returned to their assigned Cave Abodes.
Each Cave Abode occupied a node of the Earth Veins. Together, they formed the Heavenly Realm's great defensive array.
Boom...
A javelin-like Divine Artifact struck the Heavenly Realm's defensive array, raising a sheet of lightning. The Purple Dusk Demon had begun his counterattack...
Meanwhile, Tang Changsheng descended into this world. His first impression was that the entire world was hostile to him, trying to drive him out.
Countless strands of Heavenly Secrets seemed ready to form chains and bind him fast.
"The Heavenly Secrets Law of this world is powerful indeed. To think it could resist us so fiercely..."
Under such conditions, even a True Immortal could wield less than half his abilities.
If Yang Spirits descended into this world with them, they would probably be unable to wield even thirty percent of their power.
Fortunately, the Nightmare Shell had its own space, complete with a self-contained order.
Anyone looking out from it now would have seen countless bolts of lightning striking down upon it.
The Nightmare Shell trembled and gave off a faint glow. Countless runes flowed across its surface, and every bolt that touched the light was extinguished at once.
After a Taiyi Immortal had personally performed Ritual Refinement on it, the Nightmare Shell's defenses had grown stronger by an untold measure. Countless bolts fell, yet not one harmed it in the slightest.
Guided by the Nightmare Shell's consciousness, it kept breaking free of this world's Heavenly Secrets Law, shaking off its restraints and attacks as it descended.
But that seemed only to enrage Heaven and Earth further. The lightning grew denser, twisting like chains in an attempt to bind the Nightmare Shell.
Sensing the laws of the outside world pressing