The Forbidden Land.
For tens of millions of years, this region the gods regarded as taboo had known only the traces of passing wind and an atmosphere of silence.
But today, the foundations of the entire Forbidden Land suddenly collapsed.
Like an awakening behemoth, the earth heaved violently from within, then abruptly caved in.
The entire barren plain began to tremble violently. Rocks and white earth sealed away for countless ages shattered amid the tremors.
At the center of the Forbidden Land, the tower that had stood for who knew how long was now splitting with cracks, giving off fine, brittle snaps.
Then the tower began to tilt at its base before crashing down with a bang.
Its body struck the ground, throwing up a wave of dust hundreds of zhang high.
Not only that, but the entire expanse of earth beneath the tower split open as well.
An enormous fissure spread out beneath the tower's ruins, as though someone wielding a heavenly god's blade had cleaved the land in two.
The ground on either side of the fissure kept collapsing. Deep within the abyss was pitch-black darkness that even light could not penetrate. Only an ever-louder rumbling surged up from that darkness, layer upon layer.
As though something were brewing.
Then a dragon's cry rang out from the deepest depths underground.
The dragon's roar sounded filled with nothing but venomous resentment.
Like the refusal to submit after countless ages of imprisonment, the hatred of being stripped of freedom.
The moment it sounded, the air for a thousand li around warped, and countless Cursed Spirits placed in the region by the barrier stopped moving in unison.
Because of a Binding Vow, these powerful Cursed Spirits had been completely stripped of intelligence, leaving only instinct.
Yet even instinct told them that