With the final formation of the "World-Purifying Demon-Sealing Great Array," that array imprint with the Green Lotus imprint as core was deeply branded at the depths of heaven and earth's laws, beginning to continuously purify and seal the Demonic Lord's final concept residual echo. This fundamental change was like establishing an eternal purification barrier at the source of a polluted river. Its influence immediately spread rapidly from the Demon Palace's grand hall as center, like ripples, toward the entire region polluted by demonic energy.
Inside the Demon Palace's grand hall, the originally remaining, subtle demonic energy originating from the earth veins and building itself, like being thrown into a purification furnace, let out a few final fine "sizzling" sounds, then completely dissipated, transformed by the array's power into pure spiritual energy. The air became fresher than ever before, carrying the moistness and sweetness of a forest after rain. Even the light seemed much brighter, shining on those pillars and walls that had been purified clean, reflecting a warm luster.
But this change was far from over.
**Ten Thousand Poison Swamp, Demonic Army Camp.**
The moment the "World-Purifying Demon-Sealing Great Array" stabilized, those countless demon beasts originally surging like tides, constantly attacking the Thorny Great Wall defense line, whether low-level skeleton demon soldiers or powerful demon beast commanders, their movements all froze simultaneously! The crimson or dark green lights in their eye sockets flickered violently like candles in the wind, dimming and brightening, then... completely extinguished!
Losing the support of the Demonic Lord origin power and drive of its will, these demon beasts condensed from demonic energy or transformed by erosion, like puppets with their strings cut, stiffened in place in patches, then their bodies began to rapidly disintegrate and weather, transforming into wisps of black smoke, yet under the action of that invisible purification power in the air, rapidly dissipated, restored to the most basic heaven and earth energy.
In the demonic army camp, those camps and fortifications constructed from demonic energy also began to rapidly melt and collapse like snow sculptures in sunlight, issuing continuous booming sounds. The dense demonic energy clouds that couldn't disperse, losing their source, like rootless duckweed, began to slowly scatter and thin under the breeze's blowing.
**Above the Thorny Great Wall.**
The allied cultivators who were fighting bloody battles, already exhausted, suddenly felt the pressure lighten. The demonic beast army ahead surging like a black tide without end, actually stopped attacking in an instant, then fell and dissipated in patches like harvested wheat! The ear-piercing demonic beast roars and spell booming sounds abruptly stopped, and the battlefield fell into eerie silence.
"What's happening? The demon beasts... are disappearing?!" A blood-covered human general leaned on his broken longsword, looking ahead in disbelief.
"Quick, look at the sky!" A demon warrior pointed at the sky exclaiming.
Everyone looked up.
They saw that pitch-black demonic cloud shrouding the Ten Thousand Poison Swamp for a hundred years, thick as if eternal night, now rolling and retreating at a visible speed! The cloud layer became thinner and thinner, even revealing long-unseen, brilliant golden sunlight at the edges!
One ray, two rays... finally, like a sharp sword splitting the darkness, ten thousand feet of golden light pierced through the cloud layer, pouring down without reservation, illuminating this land shrouded in haze for a hundred years!
Wherever the sunlight reached, remaining demonic energy like meeting its nemesis, made "sizzling" sounds, rapidly melting away. Polluted blood water began to settle, revealing the black cracked land below eroded by demonic energy. Some extremely tenacious swamp plant sprouts carrying some vitality actually struggled to poke their heads out from the scorched earth, greedily absorbing this long-lost sunlight and pure spiritual energy.
Warmth, light, hope... all kinds of feelings long forgotten returned to every allied cultivator's heart.
"We won... we won?!" Someone asked with a trembling voice, seemingly unable to believe everything before their eyes.
"It's Senior Brother Tang! It must be Senior Brother Tang and the others who succeeded! The Demonic Lord has been eliminated!" The Qingxu Temple disciples were the first to react, issuing earth-shaking cheers!
These cheers were like sparks starting a prairie fire, rapidly igniting the entire Thorny Great Wall! The wild joy of surviving calamity, the grief of losing comrades, the excitement of finally winning after a hundred years of resistance... various complex emotions intertwined, transforming into ear-shattering sound waves, rising to the sky!
**Inside the Demon Palace's Grand Hall.**
Xiao Qi and the others also sensed the drastic changes outside. Although deep underground, they could clearly perceive that gloomy demonic might covering heaven and earth had dissipated, replaced by an unprecedented clarity and peace.
Mu Xue walked to Liu Yun's side who was carefully placed in a corner by Zhao Tiezhu, feeling her weak but stabilized life force, a relieved gentleness appearing on her cool face. She raised her hand, mobilizing the rich vitality spiritual energy around, slowly injecting it into Liu Yun's body, helping stabilize her injuries.
Crown Prince Ao Qin felt the pure water elemental power in the air, a trace of pleasure flashing in his dragon pupils. His damaged dragon body recovered even faster in this environment.
Zhao Tiezhu grinned his big mouth, wanting to smile, but then thinking of the sacrificed Xu Zhan and heavily injured Liu Yun, finally transforming into a heavy sigh, forcefully patting the equally weak Second Senior Brother's puppet shell beside him (almost breaking it apart).
The rabbit spirit emerged from somewhere unknown, jumped onto Xiao Qi's shoulder, intimately rubbing his cheek, its ruby-like eyes full of dependence and joy.
Xiao Qi stood in place, deeply breathing in this incomparably pure air. Sunlight seemed to penetrate through layers of rock walls, warmly shining on him. He gazed in the direction his father had dissipated, silently saying in his heart:
"Father, do you see? The sky... has brightened."
The demonic scourge that had shrouded the world for a hundred years, at this point, finally came to an end.
Heaven and earth cleared, righteous energy eternally exists.