Even after the seven Demon Emperors had been smashed into heaps of flesh and blood by the pale Fist Shadows appearing out of thin air, those before the Spirit Mirrors still found it hard to accept what they had just witnessed.
"They were all... Demon Emperors!"
In the Southern Chu Imperial Palace in Youyun Heaven, the King of Chu stared at the heaps of flesh and blood in the Spirit Mirror before him, disbelief written across his face.
After speaking, he abruptly turned toward the old Martial God Zhu Huai beside him and asked with great solemnity:
"Elder Zhu, have all eight Demon Emperors truly perished?"
He asked because most Demonic Beasts of the Nine Abysses would turn into Demon Seeds within the Demon Abyss after death and be reborn, making them exceedingly difficult to kill for good.
"What killed them was the Book of Life and Death, a divine relic of the Primordial Era. Most of those called to account by the Book of Life and Death are annihilated in both body and spirit, even Nine Abysses Demonic Beasts."
A trace of excitement colored Zhu Huai's expression as he spoke.
The Nine Abysses Demon Domain had lost eight Demon Emperors at once, all of them formidable combatants who had waged war in Mysterious Wasteland Heaven for hundreds or even thousands of years. For the entire Shangqing Realm, this was momentous news.
"Elder Zhu is right."
Sword Immortal Qionghua nodded as well.
"Not only will the Divine Souls of these eight Demon Emperors erased by the Book of Life and Death be unable to enter reincarnation, but even the Demon Seeds within them cannot be reborn in the Demon Abyss."
"With eight heavenly-calamity-level Demon Seeds lost at once, the fighting strength of the entire Nine Abysses will drop considerably."
"Furthermore,