"N-no... it wasn't me!"
With a thud, the disciple who had just spoken collapsed to the ground in terror.
A puddle of unidentified yellow liquid slowly spread from beneath his crotch, and a stench of urine instantly rose into the air.
Swish!
The leading member of the Blood Bat Devil Race merely reached out with his claws and seized the disciple from a distance. Shaking his head, he said, "Tsk, tsk! What kind of shitty ant from a minor sect dares claim that our Devil Race has been wiped out?"
"A wretch like you isn't fit to compare with a toenail on the Su Imperial Clan's guard dog. How do you have the nerve to criticize the Su Imperial Clan?"
At that moment, this member of the Blood Bat Devil Race felt that the Su Imperial Clan had been treated unfairly.
That wasn't to say he didn't hate the people of the Su Imperial Clan.
Rather, over all these years, setting aside its top experts, the Su Imperial Clan had even sent its juniors, who were the same age as the Heavenly Mist Sect disciples before him, into the Realm Sea. They had treated the Devil Race entirely as whetstones on which to sharpen their juniors' blades.
Of course, no small number of the Su Imperial Clan's prodigies had fallen at the hands of the Devil Race.
Even so, the Su Imperial Clan had continued to suppress the Devil Race without a backward glance.
Compared to them, these sect disciples weren't even worth a pile of shit!
"The Devil Race? Weren't you ground to death by the Nine Heavens Devil-Suppressing Mystic Firmament Grand Array? How can you still be here? Could you be fish that slipped through the net?"
On the other side, the two elders stared at the densely packed Devils around them, their hearts filled with confusion, panic, and terror.
Leaving the leading Devil aside, at least several hundred of those around them had presences considerably stronger than his.
The Heavenly Mist Sect had only around twenty elders of his level in all.
The difference in strength between the two sides was like an impassable chasm!
The leading member of the Blood Bat Devil Race didn't attack immediately. Instead, he looked at the two elders mockingly. "Heh! A bunch of flowers sheltered in a greenhouse, weaving a beautiful lie for yourselves. What... did you weave it for so long that even you came to believe it?"
Rather than kill these humans outright, he preferred to see the prey in his eyes die in despair amid endless terror.
Like a cat with a mouse-ah, he was just toying with them!
A hundred thousand years of suppression had left them chafing for far too long. It was time to let these lowly humans once again feel the terror of being dominated by the Devil Race!
Elder Gu Yu's voice trembled, his face full of disbelief. "You mean your Devil Race was never ground away by the Nine Heavens Devil-Suppressing Mystic Firmament Grand Array?"
After all, the news of the Devil Race's destruction had originally come from the mouths of people from the Feng Imperial Clan, which controlled their Seven Stars Prefecture.
Did that mean the people of the imperial clan had deceived them all?
But why?
"Isn't it obvious?"
The leading member of the Blood Bat Devil Race ripped off the right arm of the Heavenly Mist Sect disciple in his grasp, then tossed it into his mouth and began chewing under everyone's gaze.
"Aaaah!!!"
The agony of having his arm torn off made the disciple let out a heart-rending scream on the spot.
Blood spurted from the stump in a fountain.
His face contorted beyond recognition, growing ever paler from the loss of blood.
"Too noisy!"
The leading Devil's face flashed with displeasure at the disciple's screams. He opened his bloody maw and bit the Heavenly Mist Sect disciple's head off in one bite.
"Mm~~~ How wonderful! I've missed this taste!"
The Blood Bat Devil Race leader wore a look of utter bliss.
"Aaaah-!!!"
The sight terrified the young men and women on the training grounds below. Many of the girls' pretty faces turned deathly pale on the spot.
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
Just then, Elder Gu Yu's image stone began vibrating wildly.
Already afraid, Gu Yu was suddenly gripped by an ominous premonition. As if guided by ghosts and gods, he connected the image stone in his hand.
A clear image appeared before everyone's eyes.
It showed a man in black robes, but he was now covered in blood, and his left hand and left leg were both gone.
Judging by the wounds, they hadn't been cut off; they looked more like they had been forcibly torn away.
"Old Gu, quickly! Contact your Heavenly Mist Sect master and have him come to the Tyrant Saber Sect's aid. The Devil Race... has appeared in the world! Our Tyrant Saber Sect has suffered heavy losses. Our sect master is fighting with all his might. We request reinforcements!"
"Pfft!"
The instant he finished speaking, his chest was pierced through!
A huge scorpion tail had burst out through his heart, and a wicked barb could faintly be seen at its tip.
"Ugh..."
The man in black laboriously turned his head and saw a towering Devil looking down at him from behind.
It was the scorpion tail behind this Devil that had pierced him!
Amid boundless unwillingness, the light before the black-clad man's eyes vanished completely.
"Kuang Ba?!"
Elder Gu Yu watched with his own eyes as his old friend died at the Devil's hands, and in his panic, he dropped the image stone.
The man in black was from the Tyrant Saber Sect, a brother sect to the Heavenly Mist Sect!
From the looks of it, the Heavenly Mist Sect wasn't the only one under attack by the Devil Race. There was also the Tyrant Saber Sect, and perhaps even... every sect in the entire Seven Stars Prefecture?
At the thought, Gu Yu felt an icy chill shoot from the soles of his feet straight to the crown of his head.
"Oh, my, Xie Wu was pretty quick!" The Blood Bat Devil Race leader looked away from the image stone and fixed his gaze on the two elders. Beckoning with a finger, he said, "I can't let that fellow outdo me!"
"Heehee! You guessed right!" As if he knew what Gu Yu and the other elder were thinking, the Blood Bat Devil Race leader said outright, "The Nine Heavens Devil-Suppressing Mystic Firmament Grand Array has already been broken. Our Devil Race's great army has returned in force, and this time, we'll take back everything we lost back then."
"Not just you-even the eleven great imperial clans of the other eleven prefectures will all die in the end!"
Just then, a figure with a presence even stronger than Gu Yu and the other elder's charged out from the depths of the Heavenly Mist Sect. "Beast! You will not run rampant here!"
The newcomer was a white-haired old man holding a broken sword. After sweeping his gaze over the scene, his eyes gradually turned blood-red.
"Sect Master! The sect master is here! We're saved!"
"The sect master is a King Realm expert!"
"Sect Master! Kill these Devils! Crush their bones and scatter their ashes!"
Once they saw who had arrived, many people felt as though they had grasped a life-saving straw. Much of the terror in their eyes faded, replaced by a trace of joy.
"King Realm? Nothing but an ant!"
"Blood Bat Howl!"
The old man was like a pillar of support to the people of the Heavenly Mist Sect, but the Blood Bat Devil Race leader merely glanced at him and smiled coldly. Then he abruptly opened his mouth, and a blood-colored sonic attack rippled outward.
"You..."
The Heavenly Mist Sect master tried to block it with his broken sword, but the moment he made contact with the blood-colored sound wave, his expression changed drastically. Terror showed on his face as he cried, "You're... at the Emperor Realm!!!"
"Pfft!"
The next second, his entire body exploded into a mist of blood. The blood mist pattered down, and the Heavenly Mist Sect disciples on whose faces and bodies it fell could still feel the warmth lingering in it.
"No, no, no! I don't want to die! Run!"
Seeing that even their Heavenly Mist Sect master couldn't withstand a single exchange with their opponent and had died in an instant, someone shouted, and instinct drove many to flee in the opposite direction.
At the very front was none other than Zhou Lingxuan.
The oval-faced girl and the girl in the red dress who had clung to Zhou Lingxuan's side hurried after him.
To their utter surprise, however, Zhou Lingxuan swung his hand and sent them both flying more than ten meters backward.
Without looking back, Zhou Lingxuan said coldly, "Junior sisters, don't blame me. Every extra person holding them back gives me another sliver of a chance to live!"
"Interesting! Interesting!"
Watching the scene, the Blood Bat Devil Race leader clapped his hands, the corners of his mouth curling upward.
The next moment, he reached out and lightly pointed at the fleeing Zhou Lingxuan. A streak of blood-red light struck Zhou Lingxuan's back in an instant.
Zhou Lingxuan's body was torn to pieces, scattering chunks of flesh across the training grounds.
"Kill them all!!!"
At his command, the thousands of members of the Blood Bat Devil Race surrounding them moved as one and began the slaughter.
"Aaaah!!"
"The imperial clans lied to us!"
"I'll be eighteen tomorrow. Why..."
Such scenes of purgatory were playing out in countless sects across the Black-Yellow Realm at that very moment!