On the northern battlefield, corpses were already scattered everywhere.
The fate of the demon legion went without saying. Even the nine Greater Demons had their battlefield divided by the Worships of the Tian Hun Empire. Three of them were even gang-beaten by all the Worships of the Tian Hun Empire.
In the end, at the cost of losing one Worship from the Tian Hun Empire, these three separated Greater Demons were thoroughly slain.
As for the other six Greater Demons, they were bludgeoned into a bloody pulp alive by Du Busi, dead beyond dead.
Currently, only Wu Jie remained as the sole demon on the northern battlefield.
Boom—
Just as Xiong Jun was repelled by Wu Jie, Du Busi's mountain-heavy fist fiercely swung out, colliding with Wu Jie's great dark halberd. Demonic lightning raged, causing the surrounding space to distort violently. Under the joint assault—rather, the revolving attacks—of Xiong Jun and Du Busi, Wu Jie's body was already trembling from exhaustion.
During this period, Du Busi and Xiong Jun weren't feeling well either. The dark energy attached to each of Wu Jie's attacks was extremely dense, full of corrosiveness and penetrative power, causing their bodies to erupt with continuous dark aura. Du Busi felt this the most profoundly.
At this moment, when Du Busi temporarily separated after yet another clash with Wu Jie, Wu Jie found an opportunity. The bat wings on his back suddenly spread open, and his entire person turned into a bolt of lightning, wanting to escape!
This demon monarch, who had long wanted to create a chance to escape, knew very well that he couldn't go on like this. Facing the combined assault of one with Limit Douluo combat power and a true Limit Douluo, coupled with the plane's rejection, the ensuing battle would only become increasingly disadvantageous for him. If he didn't flee, he would sooner or later die here.
Thus, the moment Xiong Jun was repelled and Du Busi was blasted away by him, the already-prepared Wu Jie directly turned into lightning to flee. He had no choice; the Evil Soul Master who had opened the Demon Gate was already dead, so he had to find other demons to regroup with.
"You want to leave? Where are you going!"
Just as Du Busi's voice fell, an Worship below, who had long since set up a Class 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonball and was waiting for an opportunity to help, fired a cannonball over. Its speed was so fierce that it was unavoidable.
Boom—
The moment it exploded, Wu Jie only felt his lightning-transformed body was about to be torn apart. A heatwave surpassing his own demonic lightning surged from all directions, and even the surrounding energy was compressed at this moment, forcing him to reappear.
But the moment he reappeared, what greeted him were streaks of dark green fist shadows, covering the sky like a meteor shower.
In his annoyance, Wu Jie hurriedly turned around. Purple-black lightning snakes continuously surged around his body, shooting straight towards Du Busi in a concentrated barrage.
But right at the moment Du Busi was defending, Hum—
Heaven and earth seemed to wail in grief, the void seemed to be torn apart, and the atmosphere had shattered. Filling the firmament, apart from the cleaved boundless void, was only a single dark gold giant claw!
"Roar—"
Sky-Tearing Claw!
Xiong Jun, after being repelled by Wu Jie just now, had been accumulating his power. It wasn't until now that he unleashed his all-out strike!
Wu Jie turned pale with fright, bringing his great dark halberd across the sky to block.
Clang—
The collision between the Terror Claw and the great halberd let out a boom. At the same time, within this, there was also a faint, almost imperceptible wail.
Right at this moment when Wu Jie found it hard to split his attention, two Class 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonballs dragging tail flames actually struck straight at his two wings. At the same time, Du Busi had appeared behind him at some unknown time, and his ninth 100,000-year soul ring was already shining at this moment!
Boom— x3
Accompanied by three violent explosions, Crack—
A shattering sound followed.
The great dark halberd was cleaved into several pieces by Xiong Jun's Sky-Tearing Claw, while Wu Jie was smashed into the center of a giant crater. The grand horn on his head symbolizing his status as a demon monarch had already snapped, his wings had vanished without a trace, and white bones were visible to the naked eye in the wounds on his back. Most of the scales covering his body had shattered, and purplish-gold blood seeped out from all over him. His aura had already weakened to the extreme.
Now, only a precarious purple-black energy shield remained, serving as his final dignity. However, when a massive figure enveloped him, profound despair descended along with it.
"I..."
Opening his mouth in terror, Wu Jie clearly wanted to beg for mercy.
But he had just opened his mouth when,
"What are you babbling about? Go to hell!"
Swish—
The Dark Gold Terror Claw rose and fell, and the shield directly shattered.
Accompanying it was Wu Jie's massive head.
On the eastern battlefield at the same time, a dark sword qi from an unknown source pierced through the void. Striking from afar, it heavily injured Balekan, who was still running amok. Then, a massive Taotie appeared in the sky, swallowing him into its belly in one gulp, sealing and suppressing him.
In the west, Rex was even confined by an invisible void. Then, doors of void opened one after another, surrounding him. In the next second, a sword qi resembling a hanging galaxy thrust out from the void doors, turning him into a sieve in less than half a moment.
As for those demon legions and the nine Greater Demons, it went without saying—they were directly sought out by the Ice Bear King Xiaobai, Huo Yuhao, Wu Feng, and the others. In one-on-one duels, they died incredibly cleanly.
Perhaps, apart from Chen Junting's battlefield in the central zone, the direction handled by the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was the fastest to finish the extermination.
Currently, only the final south remained.
Under the attacks of three ferocious beasts, Sea Dragon Douluo, and the few remaining Worships of the Star Luo Empire, they had barely managed to entangle the nine Greater Demons' joint attacks at the very beginning.
But as time passed, even with Bi Ji's healing, the Star Luo Worships still fell one after another. Now, only the last one remained, making the entire situation perilous.
Even Kong Deming was only barely holding on against the demon monarch Jie Kai. To be precise, he could only defend passively.
[When exactly will the reinforcements arrive!?]
At this time, Jie Kai swung his giant hammer, striking down again like a falling meteor! But as Kong Deming held the Silver Moon Divine Light Cover, causing an intense burst of silver light to suddenly bloom, a silver moon abruptly rose into the sky. The light cover and the silver moon reflected each other's brilliance, forcibly halting Jie Kai's fierce offensive.
"Bastard!"
Seeing his attack blocked again, Jie Kai was furious!
Not this again!
Deflected again by the power of space by this inexplicable thing!
And then forcibly dragging him down here!
"What kind of skill is hiding in this turtle shell?!"
Kong Deming didn't speak, only waving his hand to make the Silver Moon Divine Light Cover envelop Jie Kai with an even larger coverage area this time, covering this area and locking down space over a wide range.
All he had to do was wait for reinforcements.
Anyway, it was agreed from the start that their battlefield route was the weakest, and all they could do was one word: "Delay!"
However, just as Kong Deming finished locking down the wide-range space, and Jie Kai was trying to find a way to break it open, suddenly, the two of them—including Bi Ji and the others, as well as the nine Greater Demons—all looked in a certain direction with a sense of feeling.
But before they could see clearly, "Hum—"
A sword cry reached their ears, and at the same time,
Crack—
"Ah—"
Accompanied by the shattering of the space locked down by the Silver Moon Divine Light Cover, a mournful scream followed closely from Jie Kai's mouth.
When Kong Deming and the others looked over, half of Jie Kai's head had been sliced off at some unknown point, looking incredibly miserable.
And in the sky above at this moment, Chen Junting had appeared there at some unknown time. Clearly, that sword strike just now was his handiwork.
Just as Jie Kai was still in a state of confusion mixed with terror, in less than a blink of an eye, Chen Junting had already arrived in front of him. In his blurry vision, he could faintly see Chen Junting reaching out a hand to grab him, but he was unable to move.
Then, Swish, swish, swish
While grabbing the already unconscious Jie Kai with one hand, Chen Junting slashed out another nine swords, and the nine Greater Demons' heads fell to the ground.
"It's solved just like that?"
Seeing himself and the others fighting to the death, and then seeing Chen Junting effortlessly end it all upon his arrival, Kong Deming's pupils trembled, feeling something called "unprecedented disbelief."
"Over? It's still early."
After freezing and sealing Jie Kai using the same method, Chen Junting casually waved his hand, tearing open a spatial rift and throwing him into it. After doing all this, he looked at Kong Deming.
"You shouldn't have forgotten what I told you."
Recalling Chen Junting's night intrusion into the Offering Hall yesterday, and the matters discussed overnight with him and Meng Hongchen, Kong Deming shook his head. On this trip, their Sun Moon Empire absolutely could not fall behind.
"I haven't."
"Then you should know that this is just an appetizer."
Saying so, Chen Junting shifted his gaze away. "You should return to the Sun Moon Empire and continue making preparations. It won't be long before we have to launch a world war to counterattack the Demonic Plane."
Ignoring whatever Kong Deming was thinking, anyway, after Chen Junting saw that Bi Ji and the others were fine, and had even healed the surviving Star Luo Empire Worships, Chen Junting took the opportunity to tear open space, preparing to send them on their way.
Of course, he wouldn't leave out Kong Deming either.
After they had all left, Chen Junting probed the array patterns in this area, destroying them using the same method.
After confirming that the array patterns here could no longer draw energy, Chen Junting turned and left, rushing to the other three battlefields. After confirming their battles were over, he used the same method to send away the Soul Masters who hadn't evacuated yet, and then did the same to their areas.
Although he had already confirmed that the vengeful spirits, blood, negative energy resulting from the slaughter, and even the dark energy from the deaths of the demon legions—a vast majority of them had been extracted. Even from the perspective of balancing quantity and quality, this was basically equivalent to a blood sacrifice... of roughly the energy of one and a half Sun Moon Empires, enough to support the Demon Empress in taking the final step to Level 100.
But by doing this, he could at least deprive the Demon Empress of a backup plan.
"I just don't know when she'll break through. And also..."
Chen Junting stood on this bloody ruin. "This time, we can't let them choose the battlefield. We must take the initiative."
Suddenly, his thoughts paused.
It seemed that the entire Douluo Plane had more than two continents.
In that case...
Let's do just that!
With Old Gu's current level, he could probably achieve that step.
But before that, him fighting a god-level entity alone might not be safe. He had to find a way to enhance his foundation.
At the thought of this, Chen Junting disappeared from the spot.
...
In an abyss where all perception was shielded, the ground covered in dried blood had already filled this entire grand array!
"Zhongli Wu" was guarding the side with an ugly expression, while the Demon Empress sat cross-legged in the center of the grand array, continuously absorbing power.
Suddenly, the operation of the grand array came to an abrupt halt.
This stop directly caused "Zhongli Wu's" expression to change drastically. "Not only were they all wiped out, but even the grand array was discovered!?"
As a creature of the Demonic Plane, "Zhongli Wu" naturally had a connection with the five great demon monarchs. But as he guarded here, and the five great demon monarchs lost contact one by one, he realized the situation was bad. Even when he saw that in the Blood River God-Slaying Grand Array, apart from human souls, those transmitted actually included demonic souls, that bad feeling directly became reality.
But even so, "Zhongli Wu" still restrained himself and did not act.
As long as the Demon Empress became a god and took the opportunity to recklessly plunder life energy for the Demonic Plane, then their sacrifices would all be worth it!
All it took was tens of millions of people,
A sacrifice of tens of millions of living souls and blood!
This way, the Blood River God-Slaying Grand Array could meet the prerequisite conditions. Furthermore, as long as the dead people or demons were more numerous and stronger, allowing the Demon Empress to use all those souls, blood, and energy to strengthen herself until the array completely couldn't bear it, then the Demon Empress, as the array's master, could successfully become a god!
This was the method researched by Lord Holy Emperor,
It absolutely could not be wrong!
Therefore, what made "Zhongli Wu" anxious now was whether this amount was enough. Because he hadn't calculated carefully while guarding. But if the amount wasn't enough, then everything would fall short!
But in the end, "Zhongli Wu's" prayers seemed to have worked. The Demon Empress suddenly opened her eyes at this moment, and then slowly raised her hands from both sides of her body. They were covered in dark purple demonic patterns, and a dazzling dark purple light lit up from her hands.
This scene made "Zhongli Wu" overjoyed!
"It worked!"
At this moment, the Demon Empress seemed to have fallen into a peculiar state. Without the slightest hesitation, she murmured, "Borrow the power of heaven to seal the firmament. Borrow the power of earth to connect with destruction."
A low voice sounded word by word. And right during her chant, the massive array beneath her feet, centered on the altar, rapidly extended outward, transforming into large swathes of dark purple light and shadows. The entire abyss seemed to come alive, and the cries of countless vengeful spirits echoed mournfully throughout the underground.
"Rumble—" The earth began to rumble.
The altar beneath the Demon Empress's feet lit up with circles of light and shadow. Gradually, the lights overlapped, presenting as rings of light. And above this abyss, it suddenly turned gloomy. Immediately after, a dark purple beam of light also shot into the sky at this moment!
At the same time, a demonic pattern suddenly lit up, bestowing upon the Demon Empress, protecting her.
After all, the Blood River God-Slaying Grand Array was not so easy to complete. Even after completion, due to the influence of heavenly wrath, countless crises would appear during the forming process. Only with numerous experts guarding the array was there a true possibility of success.
And right now, although there were no experts...
Of course, "Zhongli Wu" counted as one.
But it wasn't enough.
Therefore, the Holy Emperor's power could only descend across the plane through the demonic patterns to make up for this condition.
"It worked!"
Seeing this, "Zhongli Wu" was overjoyed!
This way, they could blind the Plane Lord and the God Realm, and their plane, acting as the oriole behind the mantis, could recklessly devour life energy!
However, what "Zhongli Wu" didn't know was that before their operation even began, the gods had already been watching without relaxation. Now, no matter what they did, they couldn't blind the eyes of the gods.
At this moment, the gods... No!
To be precise, it should be that the experts of the major forces on the Douluo Plane had all made their decision. Using themselves as bait, they were fishing for this big fish from the Demonic Plane that had come knocking at their door.
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