Hours earlier…
Ghastly howling accompanied the monstrous trembling inside the Netherworld City where all the corpses of the Netherworld Army were sleeping. It was a mirror image of Immortal's Peak, albeit purely black and had no light. The dead were encased in their caskets, waiting for orders.
The normally peaceful city was suddenly awoken when the faint shockwaves started. Even without Lai Mingjie's commands, the Netherworld Army tore their eyes open and stepped out of the boxes. This very movement forced Lai Mingjie to dive in without a care, taking the collective consciousness in tow.
However, the shockwaves weren't the reason why the Netherworld Army rose on its own… it was what was causing the shockwaves!
The demon gods did feel the strange convergence of energies in Heaven. Years before, the promotion of a soldier didn't scare them as he was tainted by the abyss. This time, someone with the purest energies was to rise to power. He was akin to Nuwa and her predecessors…
