Sunlight bathed an empty, boundless expanse of ocean, making its surface shimmer with enchanting golden radiance... Far away on the horizon, gray-light runes slowly circulated, and a barrier of spiritual light flickered in and out of sight...
Yet in the middle of the ocean...
On a vast island, an imposing, metallic building thousands of yards tall stood at its center, glittering with gold-and-silver light. The whole structure resembled a mountain of gold and silver...
The building looked like a demon beast with its enormous Blood-Mouth Maw thrown wide. Two horns, thousands of yards long, rose from its head like towering spires. A long tongue extended from its gaping mouth, forming a broad square supported beneath by immense pillars. The sight was breathtaking...
More enormous pillars and pagodas stood across the island, though they were somewhat damaged...
However.
A thousand miles beyond the island lay a gray light barrier. Outside it, the seawater also looked clear enough to see straight through, with nothing unusual in sight...
Suddenly!
With a hum!, astonishing ripples of gray light spread from one point on the barrier. Amid a series of popping sounds, gray portals rippled open within it, and streaks of escaping light shot out...
There!
The first to emerge was Blood Demon Baleful Intent. He stopped in midair, followed by the five other Mighty One Stage cultivators accompanying him... All of them hovered in the void...
"What astonishing spiritual qi!" Once Blood Demon Baleful Intent stopped, he stared in shock at the enormous gold-and-silver metallic building in the distance and exclaimed under his breath. Then he hurriedly told the others, "Be careful. That Purple-Horn Race fellow is over there..." His fingers darted through a series of hand seals before he pointed sharply toward the distant island and shouted, "Go!"
With a hum!, a streak