At the same time.
All around the stronghold, dark clouds pressed down upon the city, and from all directions, waves of powerful auras surged forth. In the sky, the crimson phantom of a colossal city tore open a fissure and emerged across the heavens. At the city's summit, a blood-armored fiend's evil qi soared to the skies.
Blood Prison Ghost King, descends!
While Lu Chenzhou and the others were secretly hunting the Ape King, the Blood Prison Ghost King and the Six-Headed Great Demon King led their elite troops, gathering over forty Fifth Realm and nearly two hundred Fourth Realm Demon King and Ghost King powerhouses, commanding their great army to press toward the border.
The black clouds blanketed the sky, and within them, tens of thousands of terrifying, bizarre ghosts gathered. Their life force fields intertwined, forming a storm of yin energy—a bone-chilling yin wind whistled and howled, accompanied by the wails of ghosts and wolves alike.