Everyone immediately retreated.
Zi Yuan followed behind them, her expression complicated.
At last, she understood why so many people both hated and feared Wang Hao.
This man truly was shameless.
But his shamelessness was not simply a matter of having no dignity.
Rather, every step he took forced others into positions where they had no choice but to act.
Did the demonic sects and sacred lands want to be used as pawns?
No.
But they wanted the Demon Lord to become an immortal even less.
So they could only strike while swallowing their resentment.
That was more terrifying than coercion.
It meant knowing full well that they were being schemed against, yet still having no choice but to leap into the pit.
At the center of the battlefield, the Demon Lord finally found himself unable to continue devouring the Demon Lord calmly while under the combined assault of the powerful experts.
A Taiyin Frostmoon slammed into his shoulder.
The dead aura of the Yellow Springs coiled around his arm.
The powerhouse from the Sword Ruins struck for the second time, leaving a bloody mark in his palm.
The Demon Lord lowered his head and glanced at the wound.
The demonic light in his eyes suddenly surged.
“You’re courting death.”
He brought one foot down.
Boom!
The ley lines beneath the entire Black Heaven City split apart.
Countless black demonic pillars shot into the sky.
Each one resembled a heavenly pillar supporting the Demon Realm, carrying ruinous power.
Several Martial Gods who were too close were sent flying on the spot.
The powerhouse from the Blood Prison Demon Sect suffered a caved-in chest and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Half of the White Bone Old Monster’s skeletal body shattered.
A phantom of a golden palace appeared behind the Martial God of the Golden Vault Sacred Land, cracks spreading across it.
The Demon Lord was absurdly powerful.
Even while devouring the Demon Lord and being besieged by everyone, he could still suppress the entire battlefield.
Wang Hao watched with a deep frown.
“Not enough.”
These people were still holding back.
The sacred lands feared exposing their trump cards.
The demonic sects feared damaging their foundations.
Everyone wanted someone else to be the first to fight desperately.
If this continued, the Demon Lord might truly withstand the pressure and forcibly finish devouring the Demon Lord.
A flicker passed through Wang Hao’s eyes.
It seemed he would have to add another spark to the fire.
He raised his hand and took out the fragmentary dragon-vein map.
The four fragments merged into one, transforming into a damaged map of the Nine Provinces’ dragon veins.
Although it was still incomplete, it already possessed the power of the grand terrain.
Wang Hao infused it with a strand of the willpower of the common people.
The dragon-vein map trembled.
A dragon’s roar resounded throughout Black Heaven City.
Every Martial God instinctively turned to look at him.
Wang Hao shouted:
“Everyone!”
“Just now, I used the dragon-vein map to glimpse a thread of heavenly fate!”
“If the Demon Lord becomes an immortal, the first thing he will do is seize the dragon veins of the Nine Provinces!”
“Not one sacred-land mountain gate or demonic-sect ancestral ground will escape!”
Everyone’s expressions changed once more.
The Demon Lord said coldly:
“Ridiculous nonsense.”
Wang Hao did not blush in the slightest.
“Dare you swear that you won’t seize them?”
The Demon Lord fell silent for a moment.
Of course he could not swear that.
After ascending to immortality, the very first thing he would do was unite the grand momentum of the Nine Provinces and use the dragon veins to stabilize the foundation of the demonic path’s immortal realm.
Wang Hao immediately seized upon that moment of silence.
“Look!”
“He’s admitted it!”
The eyes of all the Martial Gods changed completely.
A moment ago, this had merely been a threat for the future.
Now, it concerned their immediate interests.
Seizing the dragon veins was tantamount to digging up their ancestors’ graves.
The sacred lands had established their sects upon the dragon veins.
The demonic sects’ ancestral grounds also relied on the earth veins to nurture their demonic power.
If the Demon Lord truly intended to seize them, he would not merely be placing himself above them.
He would be uprooting them entirely.
The voice of the Taiyin Old Matriarch turned shrill:
“Summon the Taiyin Ancient Mirror!”
The void behind her split open.
A damaged ancient mirror emerged.
The moment its surface appeared, the temperature of the entire world plummeted.
It was a projection of the Taiyin Sacred Land’s ancestral artifact.
The Yellow Springs Ancestor gritted his teeth.
“Summon the Yellow Springs Stele!”
A bloodstained stone stele rose from the depths of the Yellow Springs River.
The powerhouse from the Sword Ruins closed his eyes.
When he opened them again, a vague sword mountain appeared behind him.
“Summon the ancestral sword intent of the Sword Ruins.”
The experts from the Blood Lotus Sacred Land, the Golden Vault Sacred Land, and the others also began using their true trump cards.
Seeing the sacred lands fight with everything they had, the demonic sects could only draw upon their own foundations despite their resentment.
The powerhouse from the Blood Prison Demon Sect cursed angrily:
“Wang Hao!”
“I’ll remember this!”
With that, he offered up a blood-red heart.
As the heart throbbed, the laws of the Blood Prison surged violently.
The White Bone Old Monster also cursed:
“Young Emperor, you’d better not end up alone somewhere!”
Then he pulled three ribs from his own body, transforming them into white-bone killing spears.
Wang Hao waved with a smile.
“Rest assured, everyone.”
“Your achievements in resisting the demons today will all be recorded by Us.”
“In the future, the historians of Great Xia will surely embellish the truth faithfully.”
The powerhouse from the Blood Prison Demon Sect nearly spat blood from sheer fury.
What in the world did “embellish the truth faithfully” even mean?
The Demon Lord watched everything unfold, and his gaze finally turned completely cold.
He knew.
Wang Hao had succeeded.
With just a few words, this Young Emperor had stirred up everyone’s deepest fears and interests.
Now, it was no longer a matter of whether these people wanted to fight.
They simply did not dare not to.
The Demon Lord laughed wildly beneath the Demon Lord’s palm.
“My lord!”
“Do you see this?”
“You, too, have had your day of being mauled by a pack of wolves!”
The Demon Lord lowered his head and looked at him.
“Shut up.”
Boom!
The Demon Lord forcibly extracted the Demon Lord’s origin.
The Demon Lord let out a shriek as half of his body merged into the Demon Lord’s form.
High in the heavens, the black, dark immortal gate became even clearer.
A wisp of aura beyond the Martial God realm and beyond transcendence descended from above.
Everyone’s hearts sank.
The aura of immortality.
Although it was merely in embryonic form, it had already begun distorting the laws of the world.
Wang Hao’s expression also turned solemn.
He knew that if this continued, then even if all the Martial Gods fought to the death, they might not be able to stop him.
He had to act personally.
Not to fight the Demon Lord head-on.
But to interrupt the devouring.
Wang Hao looked toward the Thunder Abyss Suppressing Demon Tower.
Two full-power strikes at the Ninth Realm remained within the tower.
The purple thunder dragon.
This thing might not be lethal to the Demon Lord.
But if it struck at the point where the Demon Lord and the Demon Lord were merging…
A ruthless glint flashed through Wang Hao’s eyes.
“New Emperor Sword.”
The New Emperor Sword immediately raised its head.
“Master, who should I cut?”
Wang Hao said:
“Cut the Demon Lord.”
The New Emperor Sword froze.
“Not the Demon Lord?”
Wang Hao replied:
“The Demon Lord is too tough.”
“The Demon Lord is in the process of being devoured. He’s at his weakest.”
“Go bite onto the Demon Lord’s remaining origin. Devour as much as you can.”
The New Emperor Sword’s eyes lit up instantly.
“Steal his food?”
Wang Hao nodded.
“That’s right.”
“Steal food straight from the Demon Lord’s mouth.”
The New Emperor Sword trembled with excitement from tip to hilt.
“This is thrilling!”
Han Shanyue’s face went pale.
“Your Majesty, this is far too dangerous.”
Wang Hao said indifferently:
“Fortune favors those who brave danger.”
Han Shanyue said:
“But you’ll be seeking it from the Demon Lord’s mouth.”
Wang Hao answered seriously:
“That’s precisely why it will be worth more if we succeed.”
Han Shanyue was rendered speechless.
Wang Hao then looked toward Yin Jiuyou and Xue Wuhen.
“You two don’t need to go.”
“Protect Han Shanyue and Zi Yuan.”
“If We get blasted away, remember to catch Us.”
Yin Jiuyou said solemnly:
“Your Majesty…”
Wang Hao waved his hand.
“Don’t make this sentimental.”
“We have no intention of dying yet.”
He took one step forward.
The willpower of the common people condensed behind him into a phantom of mountains and rivers.
The Thunder Abyss Suppressing Demon Tower appeared in his palm.
The tower gate slowly opened.
Purple lightning spilled out from within.
The moment that lightning appeared, all the demonic qi between heaven and earth faintly stagnated.
The Demon Lord raised his eyes.
“You dare come again?”
Wang Hao smiled.
“You jest, Senior.”
“We did not come to attack you.”
The Demon Lord’s gaze turned cold.
Wang Hao raised his hand and pointed toward the Demon Lord.
“We came to steal your meal.”
Boom!
The ninth level of the Thunder Abyss Suppressing Demon Tower opened.
A purple thunder dragon roared out.
This thunder dragon had once displayed its might within the Black Heaven Ancestral Nest.
Now that it had appeared once more, it carried with it the force of subduing demons.
At the same time, the New Emperor Sword transformed into a streak of silver light and followed close behind the purple thunder dragon, rushing straight toward the Demon Lord’s ruined body.
At this moment, the Martial Gods also unleashed their trump cards simultaneously.
The Taiyin Ancient Mirror cast down a beam of frost.
The Yellow Springs Stele suppressed the aura of death.
The ancestral sword intent ripped the void apart.
The blood-red heart thundered like a war drum.
The white-bone killing spears pierced through heaven and earth.
All those powers converged into a torrent powerful enough to annihilate Black Heaven City.
The Demon Lord seized the Demon Lord with one hand and faced the gathered powerhouses with the other. At last, he revealed his true fury for the first time.
“Wang Hao!”
Wang Hao threw back his head and laughed.
His laughter echoed through the collapsing heavens and earth.
“Don’t shout!”
“I’m right here!”
A purple thunder dragon crashed into the point where the origins of the two Demon Lords converged.
Crack!
The fusion node split apart.
The Demon Lord let out a shrill, anguished scream.
The New Emperor Sword seized the opportunity and lunged forward, biting down on a mass of the Demon Lord’s origin.
“Delicious!”
It had barely finished shouting when the Demon Lord struck with one palm.
Wang Hao had been prepared for this.
Heaven-Prisoning Earth-Covering Palm!
First strike!
Second strike!
Third strike!
Fourth strike!
Fifth strike!
Six palms came in succession!
Seventh strike!
Eighth strike!
Ninth strike!
The nine palms merged into one, meeting the Demon Lord’s furious blow head-on.
Boom!
Wang Hao was sent flying backward like a meteor.
The shield formed by the willpower of the common people lit up of its own accord, blocking the most devastating shockwave for him.
The shield shattered.
Wang Hao smashed through three ruined towers before crashing into the rubble, fresh blood staining his dragon robe crimson.
Yet he only smiled.
Because the New Emperor Sword was already dragging that mass of the Demon Lord’s origin back toward him.
As it ran, it shouted:
“Master!”
“I got it!”
For one instant, the heavens and earth fell deathly silent.
Every Martial God stood there dumbfounded.
This Young Emperor had actually snatched a bite of the Demon Lord’s origin right from the Demon Lord’s mouth.
The Demon Lord stood at the center of the collapsing ancestral nest.
His black hair whipped wildly in the air.
His gaze was so icy and grim that it seemed capable of freezing the eternal ages.
His devouring had been interrupted.
Though most of the Demon Lord had already been devoured, the most crucial strand of origin had been stolen by Wang Hao and that shamelessly cheeky, strange sword.
The phantom gate to immortality began to tremble.
It was unstable.
The Demon Lord’s immortal opportunity was no longer stable.
Wang Hao crawled out of the ruins and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
He looked toward the Demon Lord and revealed a smile brighter than the sun.
“Senior.”
“It seems your ascension to immortality isn’t exactly legitimate for the moment.”
“Shall I arrange an extension for you?”
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