The rumble from the village was like a peal of rolling thunder and the surging of boiling magma underground. The noise, mixed with an unknown tremor, instantly alarmed Hathaway.
"The seal!" Hathaway dashed to the window. "How could this be?"
Hao Ren followed quickly. Looking through the slender window, he could indeed see the entire village. But in this parallel universe, the location of the village was a circle of huge boulders, which surrounded a seemingly bottomless pit. Hao Ren could not see what was in the pit. But a beam of light, dark-red, was spurting out of the pit into the sky above, disturbing the thick clouds over the hole.
Master Mohabben, who was sitting on the chair like a living dead, suddenly got to his feet. As he stood up, his bones squeaked as if they were going to fall apart. The old demon hunter raised his right hand, pointed in the direction of the village, and croaked, "The boundary has already opened..."
