Surrounded and Beaten!

"Heavenly Demon fiend! It is the Heavenly Demon fiend named in the decree!"

Terrified screams rose and fell across the battlefield.

A trapped beast still fought, yet even its last sliver of hope for escape had been cruelly stripped away.

As the elders of the ten clans desperately entangled their enemies, their fearful gazes repeatedly darted toward the torrent of sunlight, looking out into the depths of space beyond the sky.

That was right—it!

It sat enthroned in deep space, its sunlight shining everywhere.

Sunlight that could purify corruption, sunlight powerful enough to rival divine might!

They could not even glimpse its true face beyond that blinding sunlight.

This was the true Heavenly Demon fiend!

Yet now that the target of their mission had appeared, not a single one of them could rejoice...

And it was not only the elders of the ten clans.

Within the dazzling torrent, the wildly dancing tentacles had curled into a ball, while the bloodlight that had previously surged outward withdrew in unison, condensing into layer upon layer of blood-red turtle shells.

Yet beneath the scouring of hundreds of millions of torrents of sunlight—

Crack, crack, crack~~

The ten nested turtle shells were shattering layer by layer.

Even the Island Guardian Treasures at the source of the bloodlight were beginning to crack.

"Heavenly Demon fiend!"

Xue Xing's already pallid face turned even whiter. His lips trembled as his gaze pierced through the bloodlight shell toward the source of the countless torrents.

But all he saw was light!

He could see nothing!

The true Heavenly Demon fiend was right before him, yet he could see nothing!

"Heavenly Demon fiend, you forced my hand!"

A savage look crossed Xue Xing's face. He suddenly opened his mouth wide and bit off one of his tentacles, swallowing it together with the "blood grass" at its tip.

Not just the blood grass—his sharp fangs flashed coldly as his jaws opened and closed again and again.

All ten tentacles snapped off, and the ten Island Guardian Treasures were swallowed into his belly.

Whoosh!

With its source gone, the bloodlight turtle shell shattered in an instant, and sunlight poured down.

Yet Xue Xing was not drowned in the radiance.

"So... the Divine Son... my lord... offering..."

Chaotic mutterings came in broken fragments.

Flesh buds writhed and grew across his pallid face, filled with madness and disorder. Not a trace of reason remained.

Thick bloodlight spilled from his body, swelling into a sphere in an instant. Against the scouring sunlight, it expanded at terrifying speed...

Buzz!

The void trembled.

A scarlet sun, brandishing hundreds of millions of tentacles, crawled out from the dazzling torrent and cut off the sunlight!

"A ninth-rank Divine Son!"

In an instant—

Zheng Zicheng, Peng Xinghan, Lu Bing...

Every chief disciple and every Moya Island clan elder turned solemn.

Meanwhile, the elders of the ten clans, already trapped in despair amidst the encirclement, all had their eyes light up.

An upper-ranked divine kin!

The reason the Blood Rot Clan was an upper-ranked divine kin was that they had received the Divine Lord's favor. At every rank, they possessed a "Divine Son"!

The Grand Elder was a Divine Son!

And regardless of strength, every Divine Son had the ability to draw closer to the Divine Lord!

That bloody sun was precisely the form of the Flesh Demon God!

And now, Xue Xing had clearly swallowed the treasures of the ten islands, truly abandoned himself, and drawn closer to the Divine Lord!

For a moment, countless eyes gleamed as they gazed upward at the bloody sun rising against the sunlight, and hope rose in their hearts with it...

"You scraps of evil gods, how dare you swallow my treasures!!!"

A furious roar suddenly came from deep space beyond the sky.

Even faster than the roar were... blue-white suns!

Their blazing radiance was dazzling beyond measure!

The blue-white suns streaked through the starry sky like meteors, densely packed and countless.

All of them smashed toward... the bloody sun!

"Spit them out for me!!!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Tentacles flew everywhere, bloodlight scattered, and the rising bloody sun suffered a savage beating. In an instant, it swayed precariously, enormous wounds splitting across its surface.

The hope in the elders of the ten clans' eyes shattered along with it.

Their eyes went blank as they watched Island Guardian Treasure after Island Guardian Treasure burst out from the scarlet wounds.

It really... spat them out!

Boom!

In less than an instant, all ten Island Guardian Treasures had been vomited out.

The battered bloody sun was smashed to pieces under the repeated collisions of the blue-white suns!

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The elders of the ten clans stood frozen in place, each with eyes wide open, unable to regain their senses for a long time.

The Grand Elder had abandoned himself, drawn closer to the Divine Lord, and transformed into a bloody sun.

And then...

The bloody sun was gone?!

Just as everyone found it impossible to believe, hundreds of millions of blue-white flames suddenly extended from the myriad suns, swallowing toward them like invading giant pythons...

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Wherever the flaming giant pythons passed, faces had only just begun to show terror before they turned to ashes.

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Sheng Tian, who had also been standing there in a daze, suddenly came back to his senses and shouted anxiously:

"Leave survivors!!!"

Yet there was no need for him to say it.

The blue-white flames had already scattered once more, transforming into chains that bound the remaining ten ninth-rank alien races, each with a different form.

But the chains had barely finished binding them.

Bang! Bang! Bang!...

Ten consecutive explosions rang out as the ten ninth-rank alien races suddenly exploded from within, turning into drifting ashes.

Deep within the Return Sea, Blood Rot Island.

Among flowers and grass formed from tentacles atop blood-red rock formations, elders from the hundred clans stood with anticipation in their eyes, their gazes fixed tightly upon the blood-red Bone Tree at the center.

No matter what, this was a surprise assault against the human race, a grand feat of destroying an entire Heavenly Demon island!

At this moment, even though they all had their own schemes, they hoped Xue Xing would succeed.

Whoosh!

A cold wind blew past, making a tinkling sound.

Jade tablets hung among the branches and leaves of the Bone Tree, swaying in the wind.

Xie Sen stood amid the crowd, his gaze wandering over the Soul Tablets one by one before looking around at the expectant elders of the various clans. The unease in his heart only grew stronger.

At this very moment, it was just like that moment back then.

It was too similar. The scene before him was far too much like that encounter a thousand years ago!

Even this feeling of waiting was so eerily alike!

The more Xie Sen thought about it, the more afraid he became. He looked toward Xue Yan, whose hand rested upon the tree trunk, and could not help asking:

"Elder Xue Yan, since the Alliance Leader sent word that they had already begun acting, why has no news returned after so long?"

"Ignorant junior, you again!"

Xue Yan glared at him and rebuked him angrily:

"What do you mean, 'after so long'? How much time has even passed? Do you think this is slicing melons and chopping vegetables?"

"On the other side stands a Heavenly Demon!"

"You are in the ancestral land—do you even understand what a Heavenly Demon means?"

I do not understand?!

The corner of Xie Sen's mouth twitched into a bitter smile as he said softly:

"Elder Xue Yan, I..."

"No need to say more!"

Xue Yan cut him off roughly. He shot a fierce glare at this junior who was disrupting morale, then faced several similarly doubtful gazes and revealed a confident smile.

"When fighting a Heavenly Demon, naturally one cannot afford distraction. It is perfectly normal for news to be delayed."

"Rest assured, everything is within the Grand Elder's plan!"

The moment his words fell—

Crack! Crack! Crack!...

The sound of ice splitting suddenly erupted, instantly drawing gaze after gaze.

Among the Bone Tree's branches and leaves, jade tablets cracked open with glaring blood-red fissures, shattered, and fell...