Kunlun Mountains, Death Valley.
Wind and snow swept like blades, slashing through the heavens.
An enormous rift stretched for a hundred li across the snowfield. Pungent sulfur fumes and violent, dark-red currents spewed from its bottomless depths.
At the edge of the rift, the thirty-meter-tall Silverback Giant Ape, the hundred-meter-long Black-Scaled Giant Python, and the Azure Demon Bird with its fifty-meter wingspan all lay prostrate on the freezing rocks. These were the three Core Formation great demons whose surveillance footage had once shocked the world.
Their enormous heads pressed firmly against the ground, their bodies trembling uncontrollably. None dared utter even a whimper.
A dull rumble rose from beneath the abyss.
It sounded like a heart that had slumbered for countless ages beginning to beat again.
Thump!
Thump!
The snowy mountains within a hundred li began to shake violently, countless avalanches pouring down their ridges.
The next instant, a dazzling dark-gold pillar of light erupted from the deepest reaches of the rift. It instantly pierced the thick clouds, staining the sky above the Kunlun Mountains dark gold.
Ten figures slowly rose within the pillar.
They wielded no magic treasures and made no unnecessary movements. Relying on nothing but the strength of their bodies, they stepped through empty air, walking out of the abyss one pace at a time.
Overwhelming demonic power spread outward like a tangible force. Wherever it passed, the swirling snow instantly evaporated, creating an eerie vacuum within a ten-li radius.
All ten were humanoid.
The outer six included both men and women. Some had a single horn on their foreheads; others bore azure scales on their cheeks. Six terrifying waves of early Nascent Soul pressure tore mercilessly through the surrounding air.
The inner three, two men and one woman, kept their auras more restrained. Yet even the