After the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the sea of blood vanished, and the Blood Serpent Devil Emperor appeared in the void.
She lightly licked her cherry-red lips, a look of lingering desire on her face.
At the same time, two human skins drifted slowly down from the void. The faces of Zhao Wu and his companion were faintly discernible on them.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Just then, blood-red figures appeared behind the Blood Serpent Devil Emperor, quickly filling the entire area.
Every last one of them belonged to the Blood Serpent Devil Race.
There were at least several hundred thousand!
Besides them, four figures stood behind the Blood Serpent Devil Emperor, only somewhat weaker than she was and radiating Devil Qi that surged to the heavens.
The Blood Serpent Devil Emperor was a Lesser Perfection Peak Devil Emperor, while all four of them were standard Peak Devil Emperors.
"Lord Blood Serpent, may we make our move?"
One of the Devil Emperors bowed slightly and spoke respectfully to the Blood Serpent Devil Emperor.
"Kill!"
The Blood Serpent Devil Emperor did not turn around. Instead, she glanced at her right index finger, where a drop of blood still remained.
She extended a blood-red tongue and licked the drop of human blood clean from her fingertip. Then a bone-chilling voice rang through the void!
"As you command!"
Having received her answer, the Devil Emperor who had asked turned to the hundreds of thousands of Devil Race troops behind her. "Break through the Zhao Imperial Clan's defenses! Make the Zhao Imperial Clan the first imperial clan to fall. Leave no one alive!!!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
The Devil Race army had long been unable to contain itself. Once the order came, its troops were utterly elated, blood-red light surging in their eyes.
Once the Zhao Imperial Clan fell, the other powers of Flying Moon Province would be nothing more than a meal on their plate, ready to be enjoyed whenever they pleased!
Rumble!
In an instant, the hundreds of thousands of Blood Serpent Devil Race troops became a blood-red torrent, surging fiercely toward the floating island.
"Zhao Deming, do you think the news that the Devil Race has emerged is true?"
At the edge of the floating island, two men wearing the Zhao Imperial Clan's distinctive guard uniforms chatted as they patrolled.
"It should be true, right? The news came from the Liu Imperial Clan, after all. They have no reason to lie!"
The man called Zhao Deming replied.
"If that's the case, shouldn't we, as an imperial clan, go to the Realm Sea to provide support? It's hard to justify leaving the Su Imperial Clan to guard it alone for a hundred thousand years, isn't it?" The man who had asked looked thoughtful. "And could the rumors about the Su Imperial Clan that have spread across the various continents over the years have come from the Liu Imperial Clan too?"
"Will you shut up! If anyone from the Liu Imperial Clan hears that, never mind yourself-even the entire Zhao Imperial Clan will be dragged down with you!" Zhao Deming jumped in fright at his words. "The Su Imperial Clan likes guarding the Realm Sea. No one forced them, so why act so pitiful?"
The man could not understand it. "But if the Devil Race really comes out, it won't just be the other living beings in the Black-Yellow Realm-even our Zhao Imperial Clan won't be spared!"
"Heh! After a hundred thousand years, at most, the array has run out of power and can't hold anymore. The Devil Race?" Zhao Deming sneered. "I doubt there are many of them left. Even the Liu Imperial Clan isn't afraid, which means everything is under their control!"
The other man shook his head. "Uh... looking at it that way, the Su Imperial Clan is a little pitiful!"
"If you pity them, you can join their Su Imperial Clan!"
"Forget it, then!"
"There you go. The Su Imperial Clan's affairs are none of your melon!" Zhao Deming said disdainfully, even rolling his eyes. "You blackhearted bastard, playing the saint here today? I never see your hand tremble when you go out to collect stipends from those other little sects!"
"Besides, the Liu Imperial Clan has disliked the Su Imperial Clan ever since its first generation. Who would've thought the Su Imperial Clan's first-generation ancestor was such a fool that he really took his entire clan to the Realm Sea!"
"And now look. With the cultivation environment over there, the present-day Su Imperial Clan can burn incense in thanks if it still has two Great Emperor experts!"
"Maybe on the day the Devil Race comes out, the Su Imperial Clan will be completely swallowed up by their torrent!"
"Haha, true. I've been a bit on edge lately, letting my thoughts run wild!" The man laughed awkwardly and was about to continue when his eyes suddenly widened, his face full of terror. "The Devil..."
The moment the words left his mouth, a huge blood-red serpent tail whipped through the air and smashed Zhao Deming's head apart.
Splurt!
"Uh..."
The next second, a sharp pain shot through his lower abdomen. He looked down to see that a serpent tail had pierced it as well.
"The Devil Race... is attacking!"
At the last moment, he crushed his communication stone, then fell straight out of the void!
At the same time, guards in identical uniforms dropped all around the floating island like dumplings tumbling into a pot.
An array glowing with a faint purple light also rose at that moment, enveloping the entire floating island!
Before long, several figures with powerful presences appeared inside the array.
Several more disciplined and powerful squads of Zhao Imperial Clan guards followed close behind them.
The man at their head wore a blue brocade robe, a golden belt around his waist, and black boots. He had an imposing bearing, and his eyes shone like cold stars.
Splurt! Splurt! Splurt!
He merely waved his hand, instantly crushing the dozens of Blood Serpent Devil Race members trapped inside when the array had activated into meat paste, which fell to the ground.
He then turned his cold eyes on the Blood Serpent Devil Emperor and the other devils standing in the air beyond the array. "The Devil Race has emerged?"
"Clan leader! This..."
The people who had followed him instinctively felt a trace of unease.
This was the first time they had actually seen the Devil Race. Before now, they had only learned of them from the ancient books in the clan's records.
But now that these fiendish Devil Race members, radiating terrifying presences, had actually come to their Zhao Imperial Clan, it was impossible not to be afraid!
What was more, the presence emanating from the one in the lead was even stronger than that of the Zhao Imperial Clan leader before them!
"Wake the ancestor immediately! The Devil Race is attacking!"
The man in the lead first gave his instructions, then produced a voice transmission stone. Once he connected it, his words all entered the stone. "Zhao Fengtian, clan leader of the Zhao Imperial Clan, respectfully begs Your Majesty the Empress to send people to support the Zhao Imperial Clan. The Devil Race has appeared!"
As he spoke, his expression grew increasingly grim.
Across from him, beyond the array, the Devil Emperor at the front, a smile playing on her lips, was actually a Lesser Perfection Peak Devil Emperor. The four behind her were all Peak Devil Emperors.
As for their side...
He himself was merely a standard Peak Great Emperor, and beside him were one expert at the Eighth Heaven of the Emperor Realm, one at the Sixth Heaven, and another at the Third Heaven.
Besides them, there was only an ancestor in seclusion at the Minor Perfection Emperor Realm.
How were they supposed to fight?
Without this protective array, it probably would not take half a day for blood to flow like a river through the Zhao Imperial Clan under the Devil Race's attack.
Had all the Devil Race members who escaped from the Realm Sea come to their Zhao Imperial Clan?
How could they be so unlucky?
Fortunately, it would take at least five experts at the Minor Perfection Peak Emperor Realm working together to break the Zhao Imperial Clan's protective array.
As long as they held out until the Liu Imperial Clan's reinforcements arrived, these Devil Race members would be nothing to worry about.
After all, the Liu Imperial Clan had experts at the Great Perfection Peak Emperor Realm-and more than one of them!