Lord of the Heavens's proposal immediately won everyone's support.
To personally take action and dismember a Chaos Demon God!
The thought made every mighty figure present burn with excitement.
This was not merely for research. It was also a symbol.
It symbolized the first time that Living Beings of the Primordial World had trampled a legendary Chaos Demon God beneath their feet.
For those whose Dao Hearts had just been shaken by the inner demon assault, this was the best way to rebuild their confidence.
"Agreed."
Primordial Heavenly Venerate also gave his approval.
"However, dismemberment is fine, but there must be rules."
He looked at Chen Ran.
"All spoils must still belong to the public. They will be distributed strictly according to the contribution point system you established. Anyone who dares to hide anything will find the rules of Jade Void Palace merciless."
He was warning everyone while also supporting the order Chen Ran had established.
"Of course."
Chen Ran nodded.
"All separated materials will be uniformly sealed by the alliance and placed in a Chaos Materials Repository. Anyone or any faction wishing to use them must exchange contribution points."
The rules had been set.
What came next was an unprecedented feast of slaughter.
The United Fleet approached the enormous Demon God remains once more.
This time, everyone had made thorough preparations.
The Buddhist light of the Western Teachings formed an immense golden barrier that completely enveloped the Demon God remains, constantly purifying the lingering negative psychic energy within.
Empress Nuwa brought forth the Map of Mountains and Rivers, stabilizing the surrounding chaotic Spacetime and preventing any accidents.
Then, the disciples of the Saints made their move.
"Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, rise!"
At Lord of the Heavens's command, Zhao Gongming and the immortals of the Jie Sect immediately deployed the infamous killing formation.
Four ancient swords glittering with destructive intent hung in the four directions around the Demon God remains.
Endless killing sword qi transformed into visible crimson streaks and began cutting into the Demon God's massive body.
Screech—
A piercing sound rang through the chaos.
The Immortal Slaying sword qi could cut through anything.
Yet when it struck the Demon God's skin, it was like a blade scraping across the toughest hide. It could only leave pale marks as sparks flew in every direction.
"What an absurdly tough body!"
Zhao Gongming was inwardly horrified.
This was the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation!
Yet it could not even easily cut through the creature's outer skin.
"Hmph, a bunch of useless fools!"
Guang Chengzi sneered from the side.
"Watch the Chan Sect!"
With a loud shout, he summoned the phantom of the Pangu Banner bestowed upon him by his master, Primordial Heavenly Venerate.
A sharp force capable of Creation of Heaven and Earth shot from the banner and viciously struck the Demon God corpse's neck.
Splurt!
This time, blood finally appeared.
An enormous wound deep enough to expose bone opened across the Demon God's neck.
Dark golden divine blood erupted like a waterfall.
"Collect it!"
Demon Marshal Bai Ze, who had long been waiting nearby, immediately directed the demons to use specially made containers to gather every drop of the incomparably precious divine blood.
With Guang Chengzi's breakthrough.
The Jie Sect's sword formation also found a point to focus its power.
Endless sword qi followed the wound and crazily cut inward.
The Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect also brought out their signature treasures.
The Sky-Flipping Seal, Yin Yang Mirror, Soul-Dropping Bell...
The radiance of all kinds of innate spirit treasures continuously exploded over the Demon God corpse.
This was a vast undertaking that took a long time and consumed an immense amount of Magic Power.
For forty-nine full days.
All the Immortals and Gods of the United Fleet took turns entering the fray. Whenever their Magic Power was exhausted, they replenished it with pills and Spirit Stones.
At last.
The Chaos Demon God remains, as massive as a star, was successfully dismembered into eight pieces.
Its flesh, bones, tendons, organs, and innards were cut apart by category, sealed with the most powerful restrictions, and sent to a special warehouse aboard the flagship Civilization.
At that moment, the alliance's resource reserves reached an unprecedented level of abundance.
Everyone was exhausted to the bone.
Yet every face was filled with the joy of harvest.
They had dismembered a Chaos Demon God. They had done it!
It gave them immense confidence.
However, Chen Ran could not be happy.
He had remained within Zeroing Laboratory in the City of Origin, analyzing the materials sent back in real time through the Heavenly Net.
His brow furrowed tighter and tighter.
"Something's wrong."
Looking at the mountain-sized Demon God Heart that had been extracted intact on the screen, he spoke to Taiyi Zhenren and Bai Ze beside him.
"All the data shows that this Demon God is utterly dead."
"Its divine soul and true spirit were completely annihilated beneath Pangu's divine might during the Creation of Heaven and Earth."
"Then where did that psychic contamination that nearly wiped out our entire fleet come from?"
This question also plunged Taiyi Zhenren and Bai Ze into deep thought.
Indeed.
How could something already completely dead launch that level of psychic attack?
"Unless..."
A glint of wisdom flashed through Bai Ze's eyes.
"That attack was not actively released by it."
"It was merely a... signal amplifier!"
This deduction made Chen Ran and Taiyi Zhenren's hearts tremble.
"You mean..."
"I suspect."
Bai Ze pointed at the enormous heart on the screen.
"This corpse is like a mirror."
"It can reflect—or rather, resonate with—the psychic fluctuations of some even more powerful existence."
"And that existence..."
Bai Ze did not continue.
But everyone knew whom he meant.
The strongest Chaos Demon God, imprisoned within the Solar Star!
The speculation instantly froze the air in the laboratory.
If it was true.
Would that not mean the imprisoned Demon God had become so powerful that merely a trace of leaked psychic fluctuation, reflected through a dead corpse, could contaminate the entire United Fleet?
That fact was more despairing than every discovery before it.
Just then.
A human scientist responsible for deciphering the Demon God's origin runes suddenly cried out.
"Executor! Look!"
"At the core of this heart, we found a residual mark that does not belong to this Demon God!"
Chen Ran immediately switched the display.
On the blood vessel wall at the deepest part of the Demon God Heart.
An extremely faint golden mark, yet one filled with supreme majesty, was giving off its final radiance.
The shape of that mark...
Was a Three-legged Golden Crow!
"This is... His Majesty Di Jun's aura!"
Bai Ze's voice trembled.
Xihe and Lu Ya were also alerted and instantly appeared in the laboratory.
The moment Xihe saw that mark, tears streamed from her eyes.
Lu Ya directly fell to his knees and burst into sobs.
"Father Emperor!"
It truly was the final mark left behind by Demon Emperor Dijun.
It was like a coordinate, and even more like a key.
Under its guidance.
Chen Ran's Heavenly Net System successfully extracted from the Demon God Heart's chaotic mass of energy information an extremely secret record that had been sealed away for countless ages and should have vanished forever with Di Jun's death.
When Chen Ran saw the contents of that information clearly.
His pupils suddenly contracted.
It was neither a cultivation technique nor a final message.
It was a list.
A list of traitors personally recorded by Demon Emperor Dijun before the Witch-Demon Cataclysm!
One familiar name after another was listed on it.
There were members of the demon race, the witch race, the Chan Sect, and the Jie Sect...
There were even high-ranking members of the dragon and phoenix races!
During the Witch-Demon Cataclysm, all of these people had secretly accepted "gifts" from a mysterious existence and gained increased power.
The price they paid was betraying their own races at critical moments, stirring up even greater conflicts, and making the catastrophe that swept across the Primordial World even bloodier and more impossible to end.
And at the very end of the list.
The identity of the mysterious existence that had bestowed those "gifts" was clearly marked.
—Netherworld Blood Sea, Ancestor Minghe.
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