From behind her came a soft murmur unlike Yao Wan's, instantly drawing everyone's attention.
This voice... someone else?
Before anyone could react, a somewhat unfamiliar graceful figure passed between Yao Wan and Xiao Yan from behind Yao Wan. After a brief moment of stunned disbelief, Zi Yan could not help widening her eyes slightly, an expression of surprise and confusion appearing on her face.
Clearly, Zi Yan's memory was not so poor that she had forgotten this face, so distinctly different from Yao Wan's yet carrying a natural air of nobility.
Yet what was happening before her still left her somewhat stunned and caught off guard.
Compared with Zi Yan's momentary surprise, however, the Demon Spirit Race vanguard's expression was undoubtedly far more dramatic.
"E-Earthly Supreme?!"
The Demon Spirit Race vanguard's terrified, bewildered murmur echoed between heaven and earth, and even its intense unwillingness now seemed pale and powerless.
Given the Demon Spirit Race vanguard's knowledge of the Great Thousand World, it naturally understood what Earthly Supreme-level combat power meant for a lower plane.
With the Demon Spirit Race's strength and cultivation, they could still muster some confidence in dealing with even a Ninth-grade Supreme. But before an Earthly Supreme, it was an insurmountable chasm.
The difference between the two was as vast as the clouds and mud.
"Phew... It really is all so familiar and yet so strange."
Paying no heed to the Demon Spirit Race vanguard's shock and panic, the Yao Emperor murmured instinctively.
"Since things have already come this far, it is about time for you to be on your way."
With Xiao Yan's final judgment, beneath the pressure that seemed to dominate heaven and earth in an instant, the Demon Spirit Race vanguard's body began to blaze uncontrollably. In the end, it turned to ashes and