"Hum, hum, hum..."
The moment the five hundred pitch-black Demonic Scales Fighters appeared, they all blazed with light that wreathed their entire bodies, hurtling toward Netherblood Island like five hundred meteors!
"Boom, boom, boom..."
At the same time, another hundred and eight enormous metal constructs... heavy engines of war, half Heaven-Breaking Ballista Fortresses and half Heaven-Bombarding Sacred Towers, surrounded Netherblood Island from every direction in accordance with the positions of the Celestial Cycle Star-Dipper Formation. Their formations activated the instant they appeared, blazing with light as they visibly circulated power and charged for an attack.
"So many heavy engines of war? And those pitch-black monsters? Are they immortal vessels and flying warships?"
The countless demonic beasts had lived on Nine-Dragon Island for so long that their experience was limited, and they showed little reaction. The four hundred thousand or more cultivators who had followed along, however, were stunned. Although they had not refused to contribute some of their magical power to the Celestial Cycle Star-Dipper Formation, few intended to risk their lives; most had come purely to watch the spectacle. Now, they were profoundly shaken!
"Wait!"
Just as the five hundred Demonic Scales Fighters and hundred and eight war machines were about to unleash their attacks, a booming, deafening shout rang out. A swath of eerie, pale fire burst from the rolling devil mist, burning fiercely as though it had set the vast Netherblood Island alight, threatening to incinerate the heavens.
"We can talk this over!"
The voice of Demon Emperor Asura, who had just departed, rang out once more, stirring devil qi into a sweeping surge as a sea of blood stretched across the sky.
More than a hundred arms resembling colossal pillars that supported the heavens reached out from the demonic creatures, bearing the might to hold up