After an earth-shattering rumble, the once-prosperous city was instantly reduced to ruins, smoke intertwining with a primordial immortal aura, rising skyward.
A massive palace, pitch-black with veins of dark gold, slowly emerged from the earth, its towering height piercing the clouds, as if challenging the heavens themselves. The surface of the palace was covered with battered cracks and ancient runes, radiating a suffocating, heavy pressure—like a prehistoric beast that had lain dormant for tens of millions of years, now suddenly awakened.
But that wasn't all.
Encircling the palace was an ancient immortal aura, wholly distinct from the ordinary kind—at a glance, its color resembled deep ink, sometimes coalescing into phantom images of ancient divine beasts circling above the palace, sometimes transforming into the clash of swords echoing across the sky!
