The illusions created by this demonic music were incomparably terrifying; even invincible Saints might not be able to withstand them.
Unfortunately, protected by the World Tree's barriers, Xia Ping was not deceived in the slightest.
"Break for me!"
Xia Ping circulated the mana within his body and activated the World Tree, setting the world barriers in all directions into motion as they bloomed with boundless green radiance.
In a single instant, this power shattered countless illusions, as though it had utterly pulverized the laws of those musical notes. One illusory world after another completely collapsed, turning to dust.
At that moment, the seventeen-thousandth step returned to its original appearance. All around stood the steps of a great mountain, soaring into the clouds, desolate and ancient beyond measure.
Beside the steps stood a terrifying demon more than a hundred meters tall, emanating the aura of the Invincible Realm. Its Abyssal Demonic Qi had practically condensed into substance, seeming to corrode even the laws of space into Abyssal laws. It was Abyssal Demonic Qi darker than darkness itself; a mere trace of it touching someone seemed enough to plunge their soul into total depravity.
Without a doubt, this was a demigod-level Abyss Demon. Even in the Abyss World, it stood at the apex of countless demons, known as a Demon King and commanding hundreds of millions of demons.
"Even Abyss Demons once entered the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm—and climbed to the seventeen-thousandth step?!"
Seeing this dead Abyss Demon, Xia Ping was immensely astonished. He had never expected to find traces of an Abyss Demon within the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm—and a demigod-level demon at that.
It had even died here in utter silence, without a single record of it in history.
Undoubtedly, for this demigod-level demon to have climbed to