Seeing the Black Armored Five-Horned Dragon behave so strangely, the Crimson Flame Vermilion Bird froze. He hurriedly released his divine sense, and when he clearly saw the distant scene, he too was greatly shocked. Spreading his wings, he burst into blazing flames, and his enormous demon body flashed away.
"They've already arrived, so what's the rush?" the Netherworld Demon Dragon Spider muttered. His demonic body trembled as well, and more than a dozen claws tore open the void. His figure vanished in an instant.
When the three Great Sages of the Demon Race appeared high in the sky, tens of thousands of miles above, all three fixed their gazes upon the land before them and remained silent for a long while.
Beneath the three Great Sages lay an abyss spanning a million miles, a full ten thousand zhang deep. Snowflakes drifted within it as well, yet strangely, the snowy scene in the abyss differed from that on the surrounding land. At the bottom lay only a thin layer of snow. In many places, perhaps due to geothermal heat, blue-black soil was exposed beneath the already pitch-black night sky. Yet the blue-black soil seemed to contain a layer of phosphorescence, still glimmering in the night. The abyss was so vast that its edges could not be seen at a glance, and the layers of flickering light resembled shimmering ripples upon water.
"How could this happen?" Only after a long while did the Netherworld Demon Dragon Spider speak in a low voice. "The Qijing Demon Realm seemed to be an inland sea, didn't it? How did it... turn into an abyss?"
"The seawater is gone, so naturally it became an abyss," the Crimson Flame Vermilion Bird answered quietly, an ominous feeling rising in his heart.
The Netherworld Demon Dragon Spider exclaimed, "How