The Third Epoch.
Earth.
Dong~ Dong~ Dong~
Across the ancient, untamed land, melodious, majestic bell tolls suddenly rang out.
They were like the murmuring of an emperor from the Primordial Era, calm yet still carrying an air of authority.
The bell tolls drifted across the land, echoed through the sky, and wound across the oceans.
They resounded in the hearts of countless members of the Demon Race, like a magnificent hymn.
Countless members of the Demon Race raised their heads and gazed into the distance.
In the sky toward Zhou Mountain, a Brass Great Bell rose, blazing with golden radiance.
The bell was engraved with birds and beasts, flowers, birds, fish, and insects; mountains and rivers, oceans and plateaus; the Great Sun and the Starsea, and soaring Golden Crows.
At a single glance, every member of the Demon Race felt the same thing.
How noble and precious!
On Zhou Mountain.
The ministers and soldiers of the Demon Race Imperial Court came out of the palaces, looking up in wonder at the peerless divine bell in the sky.
Thirty thousand years ago, they had learned that a sentient great bell had flown out of the Demon Emperor's place of seclusion and been entrusted to Tai Shang Lao Jun for refinement.
Now, was it complete?
Above the Eight Views Palace.
Tai Shang Lao Jun gazed in satisfaction at his masterpiece high in the sky.
"I took nine rare divine materials from the Primordial Era, mixed them with divine iron and immortal copper, and then placed this bell in my refining furnace for thirty thousand years! I pounded Chaos into a single whole and borrowed the five energies to serve as its sinews and blood."
"Then I refined it with the Demon Emperor's Essence Blood to lay the foundation for its intelligence!"
"Today,