The innately evil demon race!

In the Western Regions of the Demon Plane, beneath a dark red sky, the undead and demons are locked in a fierce battle.

Skeleton swordsmen and demon warriors clashed, Bone Dragon and three-headed dogs tore and clashed in the low sky, and Lich ' poisonous mist and demon warlocks' meteor showers clashed. The battle lines were repeatedly pulled back and forth, and two torrents of gray and white and red and black devoured each other. Every moment, large numbers of figures fell, and the battlefield was littered with mountains of corpses.

Cassius, the king who had ruled the western region of the Demon Plane for thousands of Thousand Years, knelt on one knee in the charred ruins, his arm severed, his dark golden scales shattered, revealing his body riddled with holes by Elemental Divine Lightning.

He raised his head, his dark red eyes reflecting the distant battle and the figure atop the demon's corpse, and a bitter smile appeared on his face.

"I never imagined that the Demon Plane would come to this."

Huo Yuhao stood with his hands behind his back, not a speck of dust on him.

"Didn't expect this? You should have thought of this day the first time you gained Life energy by invading other planes."

Cassius was taken aback at first, then murmured, "So that's how it is. You were attacked by a certain king, which is why you invaded the Demon Plane."

Before his death, Balu only managed to send a brief message: foreign enemies had invaded and Alba had betrayed them. Then he fell silent. As for who came and why, Balu himself didn't know. In addition, he died so quickly that the message he sent was naturally even more vague.

So even after being attacked at his home, Cassius still had no idea about the details of Huo Yuhao and the others.

Hearing Huo Yuhao's words, he roughly understood the cause and effect.

It's likely that Alba attacked another dimension, was suppressed and subjugated, and then led these humans to launch a counterattack.

From this perspective, the calamity that befell the Demon Plane is entirely Alba's fault!

Alba:

I'm suing you for defamation! It's clearly Wuliao's fault!

However, these background details were actually not important to Cassius.

Cassius's expression gradually returned to calm, and he continued, "As you said, we should have expected this day, but we don't regret it. The law of the Law of the Jungle is the truth of the world. Those planes were invaded by us simply because they weren't strong enough. If we had encountered a plane stronger than us, like yours, wouldn't we have to pay the price now?"

Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow, offering no opinion on his philosophy, only saying, "After all this delay, have you prepared your trump cards? According to Alba, you're the first Demon Lord to make contact with the Plane Master; surely this isn't all the power you've got?"

"He even told you about this?"

Cassius frowned, and slowly pushed himself up with his remaining arm. A dark red light emanated from the charred wound on his severed arm, spreading along the seams of his scales, like some ancient pattern being illuminated one by one.

"That traitor Alba really did spill the beans."

He raised his head, his dark red eyes no longer feigning turbidity, but instead displaying an almost frenzied fervor.

"Originally, without you, I couldn't have done this. With my current level, I couldn't possibly touch the power of Plane Master. But because of you outsiders, I did it! With the blessing of plane power, your level might not be beyond my reach!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a black beam of light engulfed Cassius, and his aura began to surge, eventually reaching a level comparable to that of God Rank.

Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes, showing no panic at Cassius's improved cultivation level, nor did he rush to attack. Instead, he stared at him with a thoughtful gaze.

"You—exploited the selfish desires of this dimension?"

Upon hearing this, Cassius, who had broken through to the God Rank and whose injuries had fully healed, revealed a slight smile.

"As expected of a god, you saw through my methods so quickly? Indeed, as you said, I exploited the selfish desires of this plane."

It seemed that breaking through to the God Rank gave him the confidence to face Huo Yuhao, or perhaps it was because he wanted to share his successful plan with someone. Cassius spoke with great enthusiasm, "After reaching a bottleneck in my cultivation, I have been pursuing the God Rank realm. However, the Demon Plane has its limits, and I can never break through to the God Rank here."

"So, I had the idea of going to other planes to become a god, and that's why I started researching how to plant seeds in other planes. But when I actually got to other planes, I found that the upper limit of other planes was not much different from that of the Demon Plane. God Rank seemed to be the Limit in most planes, and my plan failed."

"But in the process, I discovered something—every time I brought back Life energy from other dimensions, the Demon Plane would get excited. It was like feeding a dog meat; once it tasted the sweetness, it would wag its tail and look forward to the next meal."

"This gave me a new idea. The Plane Master currently only possesses instincts, lacking the ability to think. But instincts can be trained. If you repeatedly give it good things, it will develop the desire to want more. Desire is lust. With lust, how far is it from true intelligence? Thus, I came up with another plan— Spirit Nurturing!"

Cassius grew more and more excited as he spoke, his eyes gleaming with an almost fanatical sense of triumph.

"I can't become a god under a Plane Master who can't think. But what if I were to become a Plane Master can think and trade? I give it Life energy, and it relaxes its suppression—that's a reasonable trade, isn't it?"

"So how do you make Plane Master only possesses instincts, develop sentience? It's quite simple; just exploit its desires. A dog is born knowing only hunger. Feed it once, and it remembers; feed it ten times, and it starts to long for it. Instinct becomes desire. Then tease it with a bone, and it knows to please and wag its tail. Desire fuels behavior."

"By exploiting the desires of the Plane Master, gradually allowing it to develop intelligence and behave in a way that benefits me—this is Spirit Nurturing."

Cassius paused, then continued, "After obtaining Life energy from other planes, the Plane Master began to actively cooperate with me in opening plane portals. It didn't know I was using it; it only knew that cooperating meant it would get food. This was its first step from instinct to desire."

"But feeding them all by myself is too slow. So I passed on the method of 'stealing Life energy from other planes' to all the Demon Lord. Those fools, hearing it could make them stronger, rushed to do it. The energy they stole ultimately flowed back to the Demon Plane."

"As a result, the Plane Master reaped more and more benefits, even bestowing upon us blessings of fortune. This indicates that it has developed its own preferences and has begun to distinguish who is useful to it and who is not. This is not yet deliberation, but it is already a prelude to deliberation, enough to prove that the plan is being implemented smoothly."

"But desire alone is not enough. Desire can move it, but it's not enough to awaken it." It also needs fear. If a creature never experiences fear, it will never truly think about how to survive.

At this point, Cassius looked up at Huo Yuhao, a cold smile appearing on his face. "I should thank you for coming. You killed a king, annihilated an army, and crushed the protection of the plane. For the first time, it felt threatened, felt the possibility of loss."

"Your existence has instilled fear in the Demon Plane for the first time—and I have benefited from this, gaining its true trust and receiving its power. Now, let me use this power to send you on your way, outsider!"

Before Cassius could finish speaking, two enormous energy arms slammed out simultaneously. The dark red dimensional origin poured down like a raging torrent, carrying the pressure of the entire world, and crushed towards Huo Yuhao.

This attack was enough to destroy a city and annihilate a city.

Huo Yuhao smiled as he watched this scene, without even trying to dodge.

The two enormous energy arms, carrying Heaven Destroying Earth Annihilating force, crashed down—but stopped abruptly three feet away from Huo Yuhao, as if they had struck an Formless wall.

Cassius's eyes widened, an expression of disbelief on his face.

How is this possible? The opponent's current aura is not even at the God Rank, and they don't have the power they had in the previous battle. How did they manage to block this attack?

"Power can really be blinding."

Huo Yuhao's voice was soft, yet it reached Cassius's ears clearly, "But undeniably, it was a beautiful dream, wasn't it, Your Excellency Cassius?"

"A beautiful dream?" Cassius's heart skipped a beat, a vague unease creeping in.

Huo Yuhao didn't explain, but simply raised his right hand and snapped his fingers lightly.

Great Dream of Ten Thousand Ages, now it's over!

Click!

The scene before Cassius's eyes began to distort—the dark red dimensional origin collapsed like melting wax, and the two enormous energy arms shattered, turning into specks of light and dissipating. Immediately afterward, the surrounding ruins, the army of the undead, and even Huo Yuhao himself began to shake violently, like a shattered mirror.

"No-

-"

Cassius tried to struggle, but found himself completely powerless. His consciousness began to sink, and everything before him receded rapidly like the receding tide.

When the image stabilized again, he was completely stunned.

He remained kneeling amidst the charred ruins. One arm was severed, and his dark golden scales were shattered, revealing his body riddled with holes from the Elemental Divine Lightning beneath.

It has no energy arm, no dimensional origin, and no God Rank aura.

He remained the same gravely wounded and dying Demon Lord, never rising again.

"You—when did you—" Cassius's voice was hoarse, filled with deep fear.

Huo Yuhao remained standing in the same spot, calmly observing him. "From the very beginning of the battle."

Can I play the role of a traditional villain and give you a chance to turn the tables? The conversation, even in a dream, is the same.

"Your plan is indeed very innovative. If nothing unexpected happens, given the long lifespan of the demon race and your method of reproduction, which is like creating clones, you will be able to accomplish this sooner or later."

Huo Yuhao paused, his tone completely calm.

"But not now."

"It's time to wake up from this dream, Lord Cassius."

Cassius trembled violently, whether from fear or anger, it was hard to tell.

Huo Yuhao ignored him and, having obtained the information he wanted, turned and walked out of the ruins.

Behind him, a wisp of gray mist drifted by, Cassius's body vanished silently, as if he had never existed.

The surviving demons, seeing their king fall in battle, either fought to the death and were eventually killed by the undead, or lost the will to resist and chose to scatter and flee, or kneel down and surrender.

In conclusion, Huo Yuhao has taken control of the situation here.

Meanwhile, elsewhere, Snow Empress, Gu Yuena, and the others' operations were also progressing smoothly.

On the northern border, the Ice Seal Throne.

The Snow Empress stood atop a towering ice peak, beneath which the entire Demon Fortress had been frozen into a crystalline ice sculpture. Tens of thousands of demon soldiers remained frozen in their charging posture, their expressions lifelike, yet utterly devoid of life.

Eastern Regions, the Molten Abyss.

Gu Yuena hovered above the lava lake, her silver hair cascading down her back, surrounded by a faint silver aura. The last Demon Lord had already been killed and devoured by her with the Silver Dragon Spear.

As for the teams led by Alba and Yuanen Zhentian, they were facing Wuliao's territory. Since Wuliao was dead, and the strong had been exhausted in Alba's territory and in the attack on the Douluo Continent more than ten years ago, they were naturally no match for them.

At this point, apart from the Demon Lord Alba who had already submitted, all the other kings had died in battle, and their territories had been initially occupied by Huo Yuhao and his group.

Although remnants of forces and demons still resist in various places, they are no longer a significant threat.

With the battle situation initially settled, the group held a small meeting using a projector, consisting of only Snow Empress, Gu Yuena, Huo Yuhao, and Alba.

At the meeting, Alba congratulated, "Congratulations, Master becoming the new ruler of the Demon Plane!"

"Wrong."

Huo Yuhao frowned and corrected him earnestly, "The new ruler of the Demon Plane is not me, but my teacher."

Alba was taken aback, and only after hearing Huo Yuhao's plan for the Holy Spirit Cult did he understand what was going on, and he fell silent.

Was he spared only to provide a show of respect for others? If not, wouldn't he have been killed like the other kings?

I always felt that the reason he survived was rather hasty.

Life seemed to lose its meaning in an instant.

Thinking of this, Alba quickly shook his head.

No, we can't think of it that way. He could have thought about it from a completely different perspective.

Their demon race is far more wicked than the Holy Spirit Cult that Huo Yuhao spoke of. After all, the demon race relies entirely on fission and reproduction, and none of the demons who have survived to this day are innocent children, nor are any of them truly innocent.

The demon race is an inherently evil race!

The Evil Spirit Master of the Holy Spirit Cult are on the kill list in the Douluo Continent. If Huo Yuhao hadn't needed to leave them and some demons alive to fill the void, he probably would have said something like, "The demon race is inherently evil, I will personally wipe them all out," when attacking the Demon Plane.

Thinking about it this way, his reason for surviving suddenly seemed much more noble.

This gave their demon race a glimmer of hope from the brink of extermination!

"My Master, thank you for your plan!"

Huo Yuhao glanced at Alba with a puzzled look, seeing his sincere expression, and wondered what this devil was so moved about.

At this moment, Gu Yuena asked, "Yuhao, we have initially occupied the Demon Plane. What are your plans next?"

"Prepare to head back. Leave the rest of the cleanup to Alba; he's the Demon Lord, so he'll handle it better than we will." Huo Yuhao glanced up at the dark red sky, his eyes slightly narrowed. "As for the Plane Master —we'll deal with it later."

The original plan was to settle the matter in one battle, taking over the Demon Plane and then dealing with its Plane Master. However, the plan has been brought forward, and his strength is not yet sufficient to use the Undead Plane to devour the Demon Plane. He will have to wait a little longer.

However, he wasn't in a hurry.

According to Cassius, the spirituality of the Demon Plane 'Plane Master has been enhanced. Although it is not yet at the level of possessing intelligence, its will to resist would certainly be strong if it were to face a life-or-death crisis.

Moreover, he was an extraterrestrial demon who had wiped out all the "feeders" of the Demon Plane, and was already hated by the demon. Dealing with him would definitely be a difficult task, so we must be fully prepared.