The black net of the Nine Palaces Grid dragged the two of them relentlessly toward the Abyss Rift.
This net had been forged through the sacrifice of countless members of the Abyss Army and nine Quasi-Gods. Even divine beings could not break free of it.
Everything had come to light. The Abyss had known that, with the Divine Realm standing in its way, it could not destroy the Douluo Continent, yet it had invaded anyway, deploying all nine Emperors. Its targets had never been the Douluo Continent, but the prodigies born upon it.
In this era, the Douluo Continent had produced far too many prodigies.
The Abyssal Sage King had ordered the Sage Emperor to deploy the Nine Palaces Grid, originally intending to catch all those prodigies in one net. He had simply never expected Jiang Hai to rise from nowhere and slaughter almost every Emperor single-handedly.
Yet the Abyssal Sage King had still achieved his goal. Jiang Hai's terrifying talent had been right before his eyes all along. As long as he devoured Jiang Hai, he could not only break through to the God King realm, but perhaps climb even higher.
When that happened, the Divine Realm, bereft of a God King, would no longer be able to stop him. It could only be devoured.
The Sage Emperor, the wise man of the Abyss, had known the entire plan from the beginning-or perhaps he had devised it himself. Once the Abyssal Sage King became a God King and devoured the Douluo God Realm, he could naturally resurrect everyone.
The Longhorn Beetle Emperor was the Abyssal Sage King's mount, and he knew this too, so he had gone willingly to his death. Apart from those two, no one else had known, including the Devil Emperor, the Blaze Emperor, and the