"Run! The Saint Ancestor is going to eat us!"
"Get out of the Demon Realm! Head for the passage to the Primordial Wilderness!"
The surviving Demon Race cultivators went utterly mad. All discipline and ferocity vanished in that instant as they fled wildly in every direction, wailing for their fathers and mothers.
Yet before the Heavenly Dao's mighty power over an entire Great Thousand World, their escape seemed so laughable, so hopeless.
The demonic tubes descending from the heavens grew ever denser, forming an inescapable net of death that mercilessly harvested the life of every living being in the Demon Realm.
Hundreds of millions of Demon Race cultivators were sucked dry in swathes. The land of the entire Highest Demon Realm dried up and collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye. Mountains and rivers turned to lifeless ash, and even the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was drained to the last drop!
More terrifying still, several especially thick, crimson demonic tubes flickering with eerie demonic light changed direction, locking directly onto the three Heavenly Dao Level Demon Ancestors and the hundred-odd surviving Hunyuan Demon Sovereigns!
"Mercy, Saint Ancestor!"
The Myriad Tribulations Demon Ancestor was scared out of his wits and frantically drove the Myriad Tribulations Cauldron to defend himself.
But the demonic tube ignored the supreme-grade demonic artifact's defenses. With a wet stab, it cleanly pierced the Myriad Tribulations Cauldron and plunged savagely into the Myriad Tribulations Demon Ancestor's chest!
"Aaaaaargh!"
The Myriad Tribulations Demon Ancestor let out a heart-rending scream. His thirty-thousand-meter demonic body convulsed violently as the Heavenly Dao Origin Essence within him was frantically drawn away like floodwaters through an opened sluice.
"Saint Ancestor... we guarded this realm for you for countless epochs... and you actually..."
His once deathly pale face rapidly shriveled and