Central Sacred Peak.
Nether light rippled like water as it shone down, revealing the cultivators' souls and true spirits. Boundless stretches of nether earth flickered in and out of sight within the lamplight.
The lamp was black throughout, covered in golden patterns and shrouded in a plain white gauze curtain. A yellow flame burned dimly within it, possessing the marvels of measuring heaven and earth, determining the cosmos, and illuminating the Gloomy Netherworld.
Beneath its light emerged an enormous yellow-mud mouth, grotesque yet strangely natural.
Countless sinister teeth like black jade filled it, stacked in interlocking rings. An upright, pale, spectral eye rose from its throat, a speck of Mysterious Yellow light serving as its pupil as it surveyed its surroundings.
At first glance, the thing seemed utterly sinister. Yet upon closer inspection, its Dao resonance seemed perfectly natural, its mysteries extraordinary.
This thing had formed from the golden nature of [Righteous Order]. The might it displayed was enough to make even great Divine Ability wielders retreat. An ordinary Purple Mansion cultivator who fell into its grasp would have no chance to resist.
Even the Netherworld's ox-headed underworld officer had been swallowed alive in a single bite. What chance did the cultivators below stand?
The transformation had come too quickly, exceeding even the expectations of the Netherworld, the Song Clan, and the Immortal Sects. The Nether Lamp had already drifted down. Those once-lofty Divine Ability wielders were now livestock awaiting slaughter, unable even to escape.
Streaks of golden light came from beyond the Grotto-Heaven. The [Dipper Pivot Supreme Punishment Seal] unleashed its might, hurtling through the air and straight inside. Ten thousand dazzling bolts of divine thunder shot out, like hot iron plunging into cold water, blasting a breach through the entire Grotto-Heaven.
The upright eye within the Nether Lamp