"Chirp!"
A Golden Crow's cry pierced the cosmos, shaking the void for hundreds of millions of miles until it collapsed in layer after layer.
The heavens changed color, and the earth trembled violently.
Across a territory trillions of miles wide, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was crumbling.
"Whoosh!"
Boundless demonic aura swept in from an immeasurable distance.
Vast and majestic, it carried an overbearing force capable of incinerating all things.
It spread wildly, stretching for hundreds of millions, trillions, then quadrillions of feet.
In moments, the Shore of the East Sea was completely shrouded beneath that vast demonic aura.
"Rumble!"
The heavens roared, and another strange phenomenon appeared!
From the highest heavens, a golden pillar of light plunged down, reaching from sky to earth.
Within it, a phantom of the Sun Star appeared, tens of thousands of trillions of feet across.
The phantom was surrounded by terrifying Sun True Fire, illuminating every corner of the eastern Prehistoric World.
As the Sun True Fire surged, the void twisted and shattered beneath its heat. Even time itself seemed to catch fire.
"Whoosh!"
The next moment, a figure wrapped in dazzling golden light descended, standing in the void above the East Sea Plain.
The golden light was so blinding that even Quasi saints couldn't make out the figure's appearance.
"Break for me!"
Facing that peerless, dazzling light, Taibai, Sui Ren Shi, and the others frantically roused their Blood Qi.
But to their shock, the Blood Qi throughout their bodies seemed frozen. They couldn't move so much as a fingertip.
"Who is that?!"
"That pressure is beyond anything a Demon Saint could possess!"
"The Golden Crow's cry, the phantom of the Sun Star, Sun True Fire... Could it be Demon Emperor Dijun?!"
"No way!"
"Demon Emperor Dijun is the supreme ruler of the Demon Clan. Why would he personally come to the Shore of the East Sea just to deal with the Postnatal Human Race?"
"It has to be Demon Emperor Dijun!"
"Who else but Demon Emperor Dijun could draw upon the Sun Star's origin and wield such overwhelming imperial pressure?"
"It's over! The Human Race is doomed!"
"That's Demon Emperor Dijun!"
"Even a Demon Saint is nothing but a slightly larger ant before Demon Emperor Dijun. How could the Human Race possibly stand against him?"
"Taibai of the Human Race used his peak Daluo strength to hold off two early-stage Quasi saints. That alone was a miracle."
"But against Demon Emperor Dijun, that strength is nowhere near enough to protect the Human Race!"
"Will Saint Nuwa step in to protect the Human Race?"
"Are you stupid? Demon Emperor Dijun should be listening to the Path of a Sage at Wa Huang Palace right now."
"Gasp!"
"If Saint Nuwa were willing to protect the Human Race, Demon Emperor Dijun couldn't have come to the Shore of the East Sea!"
"It's over. It's truly over!"
"Without a Sage to protect them, and with Demon Emperor Dijun here in person, the Human Race can't escape annihilation!"
The Great Divine Powers from the Ten Thousand Races watching from afar erupted in commotion, unable to contain their cries of alarm.
"The Human Race defies Heaven's will, dares to challenge the Demon Clan's authority, and slaughters its Demon Saints."
"I am Demon Emperor Dijun. I sentence the Human Race to death!"
At that moment, the figure shrouded in golden light spoke slowly. His voice held not a trace of emotion, only an unquestionable arrogance.
As soon as the words fell, countless strange phenomena appeared between heaven and earth.
Sun True Fire surged from the phantom of the Sun Star, transforming into a rain of flames that poured down upon the Human Race's forces along the Shore of the East Sea.
Sun True Fire was one of the Ten Great Innate Divine Fires. It could incinerate souls and burn through laws.
Wherever the Sun True Fire passed, the void twisted and collapsed, while the earth cracked and crumbled beneath the heat.
Once the Sun True Fire fell in full, countless members of the Human Race along the Shore of the East Sea would be reduced to ashes.
"His Majesty the Demon Emperor is mighty!"
"The Human Race defied Heaven's will. They deserve to die!"
"You Human Race ants dared to challenge the Demon Clan's authority. This is what you get!"
"The Demon Clan's authority must not be challenged!"
At the sight, the surviving Demon Clan army erupted into a frenzy.
Dijun, wrapped in golden light, paid no attention to whether anyone among the Human Race could resist the phantom of the Sun Star. He merely looked up toward Wa Huang Palace.
Unless Saint Nuwa was willing to intervene, the Human Race would be wiped out today.
The phantom of the Sun Star continued to descend, and the Sun True Fire grew ever more intense.
Once it came within a million feet of the Shore of the East Sea, there would be no turning back.
The Taichu Liangyi Arrays in the four Human King Cities burst into brilliant light, desperately holding back the phantom of the Sun Star.
The grand array, powerful enough to withstand a late-stage Quasi saint, quickly cracked and began to teeter on the brink of collapse.
Seeing the Human Race's innate grand array about to break, Dijun breathed a sigh of relief.
Saint Nuwa had tacitly approved this. Nothing could change what happened today.
The Postnatal Human Race might be able to oppose two early-stage Quasi saint Demon Saints, but Dijun didn't take them seriously.
At this critical moment, a soft voice suddenly rang out between heaven and earth.
It wasn't loud. It sounded as though someone were whispering into everyone's ear.
"That's impossible!"
Demon Emperor Dijun's expression changed drastically, and he cried out in shock.
The phantom of the Sun Star sealed off heaven and earth, even binding space and the laws.
Any sound should have been suppressed and crushed.
The Great Divine Powers of the Ten Thousand Races and the surviving Demon Clan army were stunned as well.
The phantom of the Sun Star was so close to falling far enough to destroy the Human Race completely.
Yet it seemed to have met an irresistible obstruction and couldn't descend another inch.
As everyone stared in bewilderment,
a towering pillar of Blood Qi Smoke instantly extinguished the endless Sun True Fire and pierced through heaven and earth.
Then the Blood Qi Smoke surged, transforming into a Martial Dao Dharma Image tens of thousands of trillions of feet tall.
"Boom!"
The Martial Dao Dharma Image raised a hand, and violent Imperial Dao Laws swept forth.
There was no earth-shattering collision, only silent domination.
The Sun True Fire that had blotted out the sky was extinguished.
The endless rain of falling solar flames evaporated.
Even the terrifying phantom of the Sun Star was crushed by the Imperial Dao Laws like a paper cutout.
"That's impossible!"
Even Dijun, still wrapped in golden light, cried out in shock as an irresistible force revealed his true form.
"Whoosh!"
With no time to think, Dijun rapidly formed hand seals, and demonic power surged wildly around him.
The top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Hetu Luoshu appeared in the sky, drawing upon the power of the Primordial Starry Sky.
In an instant, an endless starry sky spread across the heavens, radiating immeasurable starlight and barely holding back the terrifying Imperial Dao Laws.
But Dijun's expression was grim.
The pressure of a Dharma Image alone had forced him, the Demon Emperor, to bring out a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure to protect himself.
If the Human Race survived today, his dignity as Demon Emperor would be utterly destroyed!
"My heavens! What is that?!"
"A Martial Dao Dharma Image tens of thousands of trillions of feet tall crushed the phantom of the Sun Star and extinguished the Sun True Fire with nothing but Blood Qi?"
"That's terrifying!"
"With power like that, could a Sage have intervened?"
"Must be!"
"Who but a Sage could wield power enough to crush the Demon Emperor?"
"It has to be a Sage. That's Demon Emperor Dijun, and he had to use Hetu Luoshu just to defend himself."
"But that was clearly the power of Blood Qi. It doesn't seem like a Sage's method."
"To suppress Demon Emperor Dijun with Blood Qi, the one stationed at the Human Ancestral Hall must be no weaker than him!"
"It can't be a powerful member of the Human Race. It must be a Sage's method. That's Demon Emperor Dijun!"
"Unless it's a method left behind by a Sage to protect the Human Race, I refuse to believe the Human Race could do this on their own!"
"It absolutely can't be a powerful member of the Human Race!"
The cries of alarm from the Great Divine Powers of the Ten Thousand Races echoed throughout heaven and earth.
Only Dijun's expression was grave. He knew all too well that it definitely wasn't a Sage who had intervened.
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