A subterranean tremor tore through the deep mud of the Great Mire Basin, shaking the petrified roots of the ancient cypress trees.
The stagnant water of the sulfur pools suddenly receded, pulled downward into yawning fissures that opened across the clay floor.
BOOM!
A massive series of black basalt stepped ziggurats breached the swamp bed, rising seventy feet into the yellow mist.
Cascading waterfalls of green muck and black slime poured over the ancient stone steps, draining the surrounding lakes into deep underground caverns.
The long buried tomb of the Hundred Venom Sovereign had finally unsealed its outer gates, exposing its ancient basalt walls to the open sky.
Three miles to the north, near the edge of the newly formed stone causeway, Su Rou leaned against a mossy boulder.
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