The green devil flames contained towering ferocity, like flames that could destroy the world.
Even though Mirror Devil Empress had entered First Rank, despair welled up within her. She knew she could not escape.
But the devil flames suddenly stopped and no longer eroded outward.
Jiang Youfei, Meow King, Gao Tiankuo, and the others watched from afar. Devil flames soared to the heavens around the Dead Devil Lands, green radiance blazing brightly. They had been only a hair's breadth away from reaching the earthen prisons outside, where commoners from various places were held captive.
The devil flames stopped and no longer spread outward.
Then everyone witnessed a horrifying scene.
Tens of thousands of Devil Cultivators stood within the sea of fire. Whether ordinary Devil Cultivators or lofty Upper Ranks, there was no difference between them now. Green flames rose from their entire bodies, burning them inside and out as they screamed, rolled about, and flailed wildly.
Their True Essence, magical power, spells, and treasures had all failed.
Ten thousand devils wept, and all living beings wailed.
"Heavenly Devil pressure..." Gao Tiankuo lowered his head and looked at his pitch-black right fist.
A figure stumbled out of the devil-flame region. It was the Moon Devil Sect's Right Protector, a dignified First Rank, yet his body had been burned down to a skeleton. He collapsed onto the ground, seemingly dead.
Then, a scream suddenly came from nearby. A person wreathed in green fire emerged from the ground several hundred zhang from the edge of the green flames, falling to the ground and rolling around.
Before long, that person turned to ash, and the green flames vanished.
Then flesh swelled from the ashes, swiftly growing into a human figure again. It was unmistakably Hundred-Illness Devil Child.
But the next instant, green devil flames