Outside Chengtian Prefecture!
Above Soul Valley, a demonic body stood suspended in the void, hundreds of zhang tall, with five eyes and a blood-red horn crowning its head. Its skin was dark purple, covered in overlapping, palm-sized demonic scales as rough as ancient tree bark, and bloodlight as thick as mist coiled around its entire body.
The moment the demonic body solidified, its terrifying, savage might spread unchecked.
Across a thousand li, the earth shook and cracked without end. Bottomless fissures spread in every direction, rivers and valleys ruptured and changed course, and towering mountains all around collapsed with a thunderous roar, sending broken rocks tumbling down. It was as though the world itself were about to end.
Even Chengtian Prefecture City, hundreds of li away, instantly descended into panic.
More than ten million commoners and martial artists were enveloped by this demonic might from the abyss. Most collapsed to the ground, their legs giving way. Children wailed incessantly, wares from roadside stalls crashed to the ground, and the streets were a chaos of squawking chickens, barking dogs, and terrified people.
Even martial artists at the Xiantian Realm and above felt their blood freeze beneath that terrifying demonic might. Their true qi circulated sluggishly, and they dared not even entertain the thought of attacking. They could only stare toward Soul Valley, their faces deathly pale.
"It's over! The Demon Emperor has descended, and that senior still hasn't broken through!"
More than a hundred li away, even Beigong Mo and the others, powerful as they were at the grandmaster realm and grandmaster realm's higher stage, could no longer remain suspended in the void beneath that terrifying demonic might. One after another, they landed on the mountains, their faces pale.
As they gazed at the Demon Emperor's terrifying body and the tiny