While Tang Changsheng was still absorbing his gains in the Death Divine Kingdom, the world outside had descended into chaos.
Twenty or thirty True Immortals, each at least as powerful as a Deity of Feeble Divine Power, had slipped in, along with Deities of Medium Divine Power. Once they set their minds to destruction, the damage they could do was staggering.
For a time, beacon fires rose everywhere, and chaos spread across the land. Squad after squad of Divine Soldiers dispatched from the Divine Kingdom failed to put out the fires. Many squads led by Divine Attendants even vanished outright.
This was far from normal. The Divine Kingdom sent down two doppelgangers of Medium Divine Power, intending to crush the trouble beneath them like Mount Tai.
Instead, both doppelgangers were surrounded and destroyed. Even their Divine Cores were seized.
That shook the entire Divine Kingdom. No one dared dismiss the turmoil in the world below again.
The Divine Kingdom mobilized its armies, and numerous Deities sent down doppelgangers. Even the monster troops they had bred were deployed in full to hunt down the troublemakers.
Yet by then, the troublemakers seemed to have vanished. They left not a trace, as though they had never appeared at all!
Unwilling to let the matter rest, the Purple Dusk Demons unleashed every monster troop they had, determined to turn the whole world upside down if that was what it took to find a trace of them.
But after days of searching, they found nothing.
Then a nest of Wyverns discovered a mysterious Heavenly Pit deep in the mountains.
The Heavenly Pit appeared to be new. A great swath of ground in a valley had collapsed, leaving a hole of unfathomable depth.
The Wyverns that found it sensed danger in the hole and dared not