Then-
"BOOOOM!!!!" A heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar erupted skyward in an instant. The entire world shook with the explosion, and the ground within a thousand miles violently collapsed and burst apart as a staggering blaze of golden light shot into the sky...
"Rumble!" The whole world seemed to be exploding...
Even ten thousand miles away, that astonishing golden light could be seen shooting skyward. Golden radiance whirled madly across the heavens, countless golden threads racing and sweeping in every direction... A pillar of light pierced the firmament, blasting an enormous hole through the sky and scattering the boundless clouds in surging waves...
The land for hundreds of thousands of miles around seemed to tremble violently...
"Awooo! Awooo! Awooo!"
"Rumble...!" Demon Beasts in every direction felt that terrifying shock and fled in panic...
At long last...
Only after a quarter of an hour did it subside...
Then-
An immense pit, a thousand miles across and so dark its bottom could not be seen, had appeared in the ground...
Everything around it was empty, without a soul in sight...
Only rings of spatial ripples continued to shudder and twist, occasionally shaking loose thin Spatial Rifts that crackled and quivered...
Meanwhile...
Tens of thousands of miles away...
"Hmph! You were asking for death!" Li Xiaoya toyed with a green-glowing Demon Core, tossing it up and down in his hand. Within it was the likeness of a miniature One-Horned Wood Beast, imprisoned by countless golden runes and no longer moving... Li Xiaoya snorted repeatedly in disdain as he muttered. The One-Horned Wood Beast had tried to escape, but he certainly would not let it off so easily...
"But..." Spiritual light flashed over Li Xiaoya's hand, and he put the Demon Core into his Storage Ring. A hesitant look crossed his face, and he pondered gravely.