"Boom!!"
"Clatter!!"
An earth-shaking roar erupted from deep underground, shooting into the sky as countless rocks came tumbling down...
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Ning Mozi and the others descended one after another...
Suddenly!
A dazzling light shone up from below, startling the cultivators. Once they saw what lay beneath them, they all cried out in delighted surprise...
"What is that?"
"What astonishing spiritual qi!"
"Ore?"
"What?"
"...!"
"Chitter, chitter!!"
"Whoosh!!"
"Rustle, rustle!!" Before the cultivators could enjoy their surprise for long, terrifying strange cries rang out through the earth. Countless stones and grains of sand fell, followed by those enormous ant-like insects...
"!!" The cultivators' expressions darkened, and Ning Mozi shouted, "Kill those damned things first!!"
"All right...!"
Within an enormous complex enclosed by walls hundreds of feet high, countless flying boats patrolled back and forth. Inside the walls stood massive fortresses, with countless Heavenly Demon Race cultivators busily working among them...
And at the center of this enormous city!
There stood a tower ten thousand feet high, crowned by a huge circular structure. At the center of that circular structure was a vast hall, where Xi Lanruyu was discussing something with True Person Kaxing (the Sage Elder) and the other Dark Lake cultivators. Between them lay an enormous, extraordinarily complex and profound formation diagram...
After flying for some time, Xi Lanruyu had brought True Person Kaxing (the Sage Elder) and the other Dark Lake cultivators to the fortress the Heavenly Demon Race had established in the Mystic Lake Star Realm to discuss constructing an Ascension Passage...
Then!
After listening for a while, True Person Kaxing (the Sage Elder) asked gravely, "Ah! According to what you've said, fellow Daoist, without an Ascension Passage in our lesser star realm, ascending will be much more difficult for the cultivators of