Demon Suppression Alliance Officially Established

"Wang Hao... I cannot let you live..."

The giant blood pupil, condensed from blood qi and resentment, slowly rotated above the Demon-Suppressing Great Wall. The coercion it emitted faintly surpassed the limits of the Astral Qi Realm, touching upon the threshold of a Martial God.

The entire battlefield fell into a deathly, eerie silence at this moment. The countless Night Fiend monsters that were frantically attacking the formations all seemed to have had a pause button pressed on them, prostrating on the ground and shivering all over.

The representatives of the major sects, heads of aristocratic families, and even young geniuses like Xiao Chen on the city wall felt as if their hearts were tightly gripped by an invisible hand, making even breathing incredibly difficult.

The Heavenly Secret Pavilion was actually manipulating the monster tide! Moreover, the existence behind this blood pupil had a cultivation base so high it was simply despair-inducing!

However, Wang Hao, who was standing on top of the mountain of flesh and directly facing this terrifying blood pupil, did not have the slightest fear. Instead, he casually dug his ear.

"Are you done talking?"

Wang Hao's voice was not loud, but wrapped in true qi, it clearly spread across the entire battlefield.

"If you only have these few painless lines, then you can get lost. I am in a hurry to go back and hold a meeting."

The blood pupil flickered violently, seemingly enraged by Wang Hao's extremely arrogant attitude. The surrounding blood qi began to churn madly, seemingly about to condense some devastating attack.

"Ignorant child, you have no idea what kind of existence you are facing! The cleansing of the Eastern Wasteland is the mandate of heaven, your Great Zhou cannot stop the general trend..."

"General trend my ass!"

Wang Hao completely ignored martial ethics. He didn't even wait for the other party to finish their classic villainous posturing lines. With a flip of his right hand, the One-Day Martial God Realm Experience Card in his system space was instantly activated with a trace of power (Wang Hao was very stingy; he couldn't bear to use the full card to deal with a phantom, so he only drew out a trace of qi).

Boom!!!

A Martial God qi, which was even more domineering, more tyrannical, and filled with extreme destruction and imperial majesty than the blood pupil, suddenly erupted from Wang Hao's body! This qi transformed into a massive hand that blotted out the sky and sun, grabbing the endlessly chattering blood pupil!

Crack, crunch...

The blood pupil revealed an extremely anthropomorphic look of terror.

"Remember my words." Wang Hao's eyes were as cold as eternal ice. "In the Eastern Wasteland, I am the mandate of heaven! My rules are the general trend!"

"Shatter for me!"

Bang!

The massive hand suddenly clenched tight. The unbearably arrogant giant blood pupil didn't even have time to let out a scream before it was directly crushed into a sky full of blood mist!

Losing the enhancement of the blood pupil and the control of the Heavenly Secret Seal, the hundred-zhang tall mountain of flesh beneath his feet let out a mournful wail. Its massive body began to rapidly collapse, turning into puddles of foul-smelling bloody water.

The leaderless monster tide army instantly fell into chaos. Without unified command, they reverted back to beasts that only knew how to slaughter by instinct. Under the strangulation of the formation heavy artillery and the Demon-Suppressing Army, they melted away like ice and snow.

Above the Great Wall, it was dead silent.

Everyone stared blankly at the black-robed emperor standing in mid-air, who had casually crushed the blood pupil.

If it was said that earlier in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Wang Hao used imperial power and tactics to force them to bow their heads; then now, on this battlefield of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, what Wang Hao displayed was absolute, despair-inducing martial force!

Not only was he ruthless and black-hearted, but his damn fists were also the hardest in the world! How were they supposed to play this game?!

"Grand Companion Wei." Wang Hao withdrew that trace of Martial God qi and lightly landed on the city wall.

"This old servant is here!" Wei Zhongxian immediately scurried over like a lapdog, trembling all over with excitement. His master was mighty!

"Did you record all the nonsense that eye was spouting just now? Did you get enough camera angles?"

"Replying to Your Majesty! Thirty-six peerless-grade recording crystals, 360 degrees without any blind spots, even the red blood streaks in that blood pupil were recorded clearly! The sound was recorded using a peak-grade amplification formation, absolutely high fidelity!" Wei Zhongxian patted his chest and guaranteed.

"Very good." Wang Hao nodded in satisfaction, turned around, and his gaze swept over those sect bigwigs who were covered in blood and in a sorry state.

"Everyone, are you satisfied with this live-action combat drill?" The smile on the corner of Wang Hao's mouth was as warm as a spring breeze, but in the eyes of the crowd, it was more terrifying than a demon.

"S-satisfied! Your Majesty's divine might is peerless, and the Great Zhou's Demon-Suppressing Army is unparalleled in the world!" The Valley Master of Fire Cloud Valley was the first to react, plumping down on his knees. "This old man only understands now that the Heavenly Dao Alliance is just a bunch of hypocritical beasts! The Heavenly Secret Pavilion is the chief culprit for betraying the human race! Only Your Majesty is the true savior of the Eastern Wasteland!"

"We are willing to revere the Great Zhou as the head of the alliance! We are willing to follow Your Majesty's lead!"

Clatter, a large swath of people knelt down on the city wall. This time, there was no coercion, no threat. Everyone was acting out of heartfelt fear and submission.

The bloody truth was laid bare before them: the Heavenly Secret Pavilion wanted to kill them, the Heavenly Dao Alliance wanted to screw them over. Only by following this inhuman tyrant of the Great Zhou, even though they would be used as cannon fodder and squeezed dry of their surplus value, at least... they could survive!

Wang Hao looked at this group of old foxes whose backbones had been completely broken, and sneered in his heart.

The routine of giving a stick and then a sweet date was old, but as long as it worked, it was fine.

"Pass down my decree! Return to the palace! We will continue the meeting!"

...

Three hours later. The Great Zhou capital, Hall of Supreme Harmony.

The light of the massive teleportation formation flashed again, and the bloodstained representatives of various factions returned to this resplendent hall.

Suddenly returning from the meat-grinder battlefield where flesh and blood flew everywhere to this quiet and majestic center of power, the intense contrast left many people feeling somewhat dazed.

But when they saw Wang Hao on the dragon throne, who had already changed into a brand-new, spotless dragon robe, all their daze instantly transformed into deep awe.

"Everyone has worked hard in the battle of the Northern Border. However, our alliance charter still needs to be implemented." Wang Hao smiled, holding the alliance treaty that was stained with a few drops of blood, as if nothing had happened.

"Please give your orders, Your Majesty! We will strictly obey!" The representatives shouted in unison, their attitudes even more respectful than biological grandsons.

"Good! I announce that the first Eastern Wasteland Demon-Suppressing Conference has come to a successful conclusion! The Eastern Wasteland Demon-Suppressing Alliance is officially established today!"

Wang Hao slapped the dragon desk and directly threw out the blockbuster bomb he had been planning for a long time.

"Alliance Rule Number One: As the head of the alliance, the Great Zhou will coordinate all efforts in the Eastern Wasteland to fight against the Night Fiends! Any sect or aristocratic family must unconditionally obey the dispatch of the alliance's supreme command. Violators will be punished for the crime of treason against the human race!"

"Rule Number Two: Establish the Demon-Suppressing Contribution Ranking. All spirit stone veins, natural treasure producing areas, and secret realm entry quotas in the Eastern Wasteland will no longer be privately occupied by various sects. They will all be collected by the alliance and uniformly distributed according to contribution points! Sects that do not hand in supplies on time and in full will have all their resource quotas canceled!"

As soon as these words came out, the corners of the mouths of several major sect elders below twitched madly.

How the hell was this forming an alliance? This was clearly legalized robbery! He directly wiped out the economic lifelines and financial power of all the major forces in one fell swoop!

But now, who dared to say a single word of refusal? Looking at the imperial guards outside the hall who had just finished slaughtering people in the Northern Territory, and remembering the blood pupil that was crushed to pieces, everyone could only nod with tears in their eyes.

"Thirdly..." Wang Hao's gaze fell upon the young prodigies in the back row. "The Prodigy Roll will be updated quarterly and strictly linked to the Contribution Roll. The original Prodigy Pavilion is officially upgraded to the Great Zhou's Demon-Suppressing Youth Department!"

"All sects and aristocratic families across the Eastern Wasteland must send a proportional number of their core direct disciples and talented descendants to the Youth Department for unified training and practical combat experience. To put it bluntly..."

Wang Hao's smile grew even more radiant. "Everyone must hand over their young masters and holy maidens into my hands as hostages... oh no, as the future pillars of the Eastern Wasteland."

An absolute killing move!

This was the ultimate killing move of pulling the firewood from beneath the cauldron! Snatching the resources of the older generation, detaining all the young seedlings as hostages, and brainwashing them to reshape their minds. In less than ten years, all the hidden factions in the Eastern Wasteland would exist in name only, completely turning into subordinate organizations of the Great Zhou!

Xiao Chen stood among the ranks of the prodigies and closed his eyes in pain.

He touched the newly replaced waist token of a Demon-Suppressing Youth Department Rank Seven Envoy. From today onwards, he, a grand and peerless sword dao prodigy, was completely reduced to a high-class beast of burden, an ultimate wage slave under this tyrant. Every month, not only did he have to bleed and sweat for the Great Zhou to earn contribution points, but he would also be used to keep his own sect in check.

Too ruthless. The scheming of this black-hearted boss was ten thousand times more terrifying than the night terrors in the abyss!

"The Great Zhou Times will issue a special edition overnight." Wang Hao turned his head and instructed Wei Zhongxian. "Front page headline: Demon-Suppressing Alliance Established, Great Zhou Swears to Protect the People to the Death; Second page: Xie Wujiu's Northern Territory Conspiracy Exposed, Heavenly Dao Alliance Revealed as a Traitorous Organization; Third page: The Prodigy Roll Determines the Glory of Generations, All Heroes of the Eastern Wasteland Enter the Great Zhou."

"Tomorrow morning, I want this newspaper to flutter across every corner of the Eastern Wasteland!"

"This old servant obeys the decree!"

The conference ended in an extremely harmonious and extremely united atmosphere.

That night, in the Imperial Study of the Great Zhou Imperial Palace.

The night was deep. Wang Hao sat alone at his desk, toying with a top-grade recording crystal in his hand. This was the highest definition version recorded by Yu Huatian in the Northern Territory.

In the projection, that blood pupil was collapsing.

Wang Hao slowed the footage down to the extreme, carefully examining it frame by frame.

Suddenly, his gaze condensed sharply, and with a tap of his finger, he froze the image 0.01 seconds before the blood pupil burst.

In the deepest part of the blood pupil, behind the overlapping layers of blood mist, there faintly reflected the outline of an extremely massive, ancient corpse with nine thick black chains piercing its collarbones!

The aura exuded by that corpse, even through the screen, made Wang Hao feel a trace of palpitation.

"Ding!"

Just then, the long-absent system notification sound abruptly rang in Wang Hao's mind.

[Detected that the host has come into contact with the core secret of the world's origin—the Corpse of an Ancient God data.]

[Main Ultimate Chain Check-in Task Triggered: The God Burial Ground.]

[Task Description: Behind the Heavenly Secret Pavilion hides a terror that does not belong to this era. You thought you had already swallowed the general trend of the world, but the true chess game has only just begun...]

Looking at the red text on the system panel, Wang Hao not only felt no panic, but a trace of extremely crazy excitement ignited in the depths of his eyes.

"The corpse of an ancient god? Interesting..." Wang Hao's slender fingers gently tapped the desktop, letting out cold sneers. "A god, huh? In this Eastern Wasteland, even if the King of Heaven himself comes, as long as he dares to block my path, I will pluck his feathers, skin him alive, and squeeze out his last drop of value!"

"Xie Wujiu, wash your neck and wait. I will play this game of chess with you to the very end!"