The Lower Realm, Hong Region!
Back when the Heavenly Gods and sect masters of the Upper Realm descended to harvest Venerables and divine spirit elixirs, the Ancient Female Double-Pupil, egged on by Xiao Tian, had taken up the Ruyi Jingu Bang and pierced the heavens, killing to her heart's content. She had pushed her combat strength to its absolute limit. With only entry-level cultivation in the self-slaying enlightenment realm, she had used the Chaos Third Killing Array left behind by the Female Kunpeng to slaughter three Heavenly Venerables of the escape one realm.
Afterward, she had traveled through the Eight Regions, harvesting the Heavenly Gods, void dao realm sect masters, and enlightenment realm patriarchs who had descended as divine elixirs, saving many Sacrificial Spirits who had painstakingly cultivated into Pseudo-Gods.
Later, Kunpeng Son had used the Immortal-Passing Jade Talisman left by the Willow Deity to seal heaven and earth. In the process, he had slaughtered some divine fire realm cultivators who had slipped down from the Upper Realm and hidden themselves away, preparing to stir up trouble.
By now, half a year had passed.
Some surviving Venerables finally could no longer sit still and had begun wreaking havoc again. In a hundred-thousand-li stretch of swampland in the Hong Region, black mist billowed, thick with yin energy and the aura of death. The creatures living here were all vicious beasts.
Who could have imagined that eight Venerables would appear in this very swamp today? They carefully took out a black gold altar. Without speaking to one another, they activated it to enlarge it, then each took a corner of the octagonal altar and inspected it closely, checking its various symbols for flaws.
The black gold altar was utterly sinister, pitch-black from top to bottom. A single glance made it seem capable