After the Sea of Purgatory was sealed away, the land gradually returned to tranquility without the interference of outside cultivators.

The 12 stone tablets still stood all around the Sea of Purgatory. However, they were all cracked in half. A skeleton was crushed beneath the ruins of the long snake stone tablet.

The black fires in its eye sockets had already dissipated. But even before it died, its mouth was open in an elated laugh.

It had played a chess game with Emperor Chu and obtained total victory in the end. This was certainly something to be proud of.

Of course, it also needed to feel gratitude towards Emperor Zhou. If not for his existence, then its plans wouldn’t have proceeded so smoothly.

Deep below the Sea of Purgatory, the gathered spirit veins still continued pouring strength towards the ‘great sun’.

The pool of soup below was calm and without fluctuations. If it weren’t for the shattered mountains and the horrifying cracks that still spread throughout the earth, no one would have thought that an immense destructive strength had arrived here from beyond the world.

Looking deeper down, delving into the astonishingly hot pool of soup, it was only here...