At that same moment.
Deep in the snowbound Changbai Mountain Hinterland, at the bottom of the vast abyss where Chen Lin had once removed the supreme treasure Ten-Thousand-Fathom Peak, which later became the blood-tempering Trial Grounds for tens of thousands.
With Ten-Thousand-Fathom Peak gone from the seal's core for five years, the geological strain over those years, and the nourishment of qi and blood seeping down from countless cultivation students who had died in battle, the ancient bedrock, thick as a city wall, finally gave a mournful groan that day.
Crack...
A black fissure ten li long spread straight from the valley floor to the summit of a snowy peak!
In an instant, seven foul-smelling black pillars shot skyward, staining the swirling snow black and gray.
The auras of colossal demons, powerful enough to reach the limits of half-step Deity Transformation and even faintly bearing the embryonic forms of laws, swept along the wind like a tsunami, ravaging all of East China!
As great sections of rock collapsed, an enormous creature hundreds of meters long, covered in long gray-black scales, smashed through the ice and slowly climbed onto the sheer cliff.
It had a dragon's head and horns, but three venomous, spike-covered tails trailed behind it. Huge blood-red eyes atop its head continually opened and closed, radiating the immense draconic pressure of early Deity Transformation.
Six other great demon kings, equally massive and hideously ferocious in appearance, leaped out of the black winds and landed beside the great demonic dragon.
"Hahahaha! Thirty thousand years! This great sage has finally seen daylight again!"
"The laws of heaven and earth are complete, and there's so much qi and blood here it's enough to drive anyone mad! Big Brother, let's fight our way out and devour this whole world!"
The six demon kings