BOOM! With a casual flick of his sleeve, Lu Xuan's hand, like that of a god shaping creation, pulsed with boundless Divine Radiance. The entire treasury of the Stabbing Heaven Palace and every Storage Ring on the fallen assassins vanished into his grasp. Without a backward glance, he turned and departed.
Next stop: Ghost Shadow Race Territory! In mere moments, Lu Xuan's form materialized high above their lands.
Activating his Insight Eye, Lu Xuan gazed down. Below lay a boundless, pitch-black mountain range, steeped in an unsettling silence. Ancient, colossal tombs jutted from the earth, shrouded in endless, swirling layers of dense mist. Within the spectral haze, mysterious humanoid figures moved, barely discernible.
Lu Xuan simply brought his palm down! BOOM! The strike descended like a falling star, obliterating everything in its path, sweeping through the Ghost Shadow Race like an autumn gale. None could stand against it. The Ghost Shadow Race was annihilated!
Moments later, Lu Xuan descended into the heart of the Demon Race's territory. His white robe billowed around him, his form blazing with such fierce Divine Radiance that he seemed like a second colossal sun, casting its light across the land. The sight struck terror into the hearts of the many Great Demons present.
Every Great Demon froze in terror. “The White Robe Great Emperor has arrived!” one shrieked. “The Red Serpent Old Ancestor is dead! How can we possibly stop him?” Panic seized the Demon Race, and they stampeded towards the colossal stone statue of the Lord of the Demon Court. Their only hope now was that the Demon Lord’s statue would unleash its heaven-shattering power to repel the White Robe Great Emperor!
The Demon Race Great Emperors prostrated themselves before the Lord of the Demon Court’s statue. “Lord Demon Court, we beg you to manifest your divine might!” they cried. “Otherwise, our Demon Hall faces utter annihilation today!”
Lu Xuan’s gaze fell upon the Demon Lord’s colossal stone statue. It depicted an immense Titan Ape, its body towering to the heavens, standing like a mountain, etched with brilliant Dao patterns. Even as a mere carving, it pulsed with an overwhelming, heaven-reaching demonic power.
The next instant, a deep voice resonated from the statue. Its eyes, like twin stars, blazed with Divine Radiance, fixing their gaze on Lu Xuan. “Junior,” the voice boomed, “the Red Serpent is dead, and several Nine-star Great Emperors of my Demon Race have fallen. Let this matter conclude here!” As the words echoed, the Demon Race Great Emperors erupted in excitement. The Demon Lord’s statue had responded! They were saved!
Lu Xuan merely glanced at the statue, his tone utterly flat. “So, you’re the so-called Lord of the Demon Court?”
The deep voice instantly turned savage, roaring, “Silence that insolent tongue! The Lord of the Demon Court is still in slumber! But even if he were to awaken, would he deign to notice an ant like you?! I am merely a common Demon General. Yet, when the Heaven and Earth Change truly begins, and I step forth from this realm, I will crush you like an insect!”
Lu Xuan remained perfectly unperturbed, simply offering a dismissive “Oh.”
The deep voice continued, “I give you Ten Breaths to vacate this place! Otherwise—” Before it could even finish its threat, Lu Xuan’s palm descended.
BOOM! Heaven-shattering power transformed into stellar might. Lu Xuan’s colossal palm print swelled, rapidly engulfing a thousand li of land. Surging spiritual energy converged wildly, the very heavens and earth seeming to boil. The single palm strike descended directly upon the Demon Hall!
The colossal statue blazed with a fierce Divine Radiance, and the violent voice roared, “You court death! White Robe Great Emperor, my Demon Court declares undying enmity with you!”
The Great Demons watched, utterly aghast. “Has the White Robe Great Emperor gone mad?” they thought. The Demon General’s will represented the Lord of the Demon Court! How could the White Robe Great Emperor possibly contend with the Lord of the Demon Court’s unparalleled power?! One had to remember, throughout the endless ages of the Southern Wilds, only eight Supremes had ever emerged, and three of them hailed from the Demon Race! This very Titan Ape statue represented the lineage of the third Supreme—the one who had unified the Demon Race, established the mighty Demon Court, and whose heaven-shattering power had long ago eclipsed humanity. Yet today, the White Robe Great Emperor dared to openly defy the Demon Lord’s authority!
In that instant, Lu Xuan’s heaven-reaching palm slammed into the Demon Lord statue’s brilliant stellar river. BOOM! With a single, earth-shattering impact, Lu Xuan’s colossal palm annihilated the stellar river, utterly unstoppable! The incomparably vast Demon Race stone hall crumbled in an instant, disintegrating into countless fragments. Lu Xuan’s terrifying destructive power could shatter the very heavens; the Great Demons simply couldn’t withstand it. Across the thousand-li expanse of the Demon Hall, every single demon felt their life force rapidly draining away. Even Nine-star Great Emperors found it unbearable! Under the Invincible Stance, all beings were rendered equal. Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Demon bodies exploded one after another. In a flash, a thousand li of land became a river of blood, Blood Flowing to Float Shields.
From the Demon Lord’s statue, the violent voice erupted once more, thundering through the void. “White Robe Great Emperor, you are dead!”
Suddenly, a colossal Heaven and Earth Anomaly erupted from the Demon Hall, like a volcano spewing towards the firmament. Across the Demon Race Provinces, centered on the Demon Hall, countless Demon Race magnates turned their shocked gazes towards the epicenter. “Who dares to stir up trouble in the Demon Hall?!” a Great Demon shrieked. “What kind of powerhouse has descended upon them?” “A thousand li of blood mist! Every Great Demon in the Demon Hall must be annihilated!”
The Fire Dragon Old Ancestor and Golden Crow Old Ancestor stared, utterly dumbfounded, towards the Demon Hall. The Golden Crow Old Ancestor’s eyes blazed with a frantic light as he stammered, “Could it be the White Robe Great Emperor? This… this is too terrifying!” The Fire Dragon Old Ancestor’s entire being trembled. “It has to be! That means the Red Serpent Old Ancestor and the others have already fallen in the Blackflame Mountain Range! To travel from Blackflame Mountain Range to the Demon Hall so swiftly, only the White Robe Great Emperor possesses such speed.” They exchanged a look, the same desperate thought flashing between them. “Go! We must find the White Robe Great Emperor at once!”
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! The Fire Dragon Old Ancestor and Golden Crow Old Ancestor shot into the sky, tearing through space as they hurtled towards the Demon Hall. Other Demon Race Great Emperors, however, were paralyzed with fear, sealing off their territories and not daring to even send out their Divine Sense. The demons who had recently emerged from seclusion were utterly flabbergasted. “Only one epoch has passed, and humans have become this brazen?” they wondered. “They dare to touch even the Demon Hall!” The Demon Hall was the direct representative of the Demon Court, dispatched by the Lord of the Demon Court himself to investigate the Southern Wilds’ heavenly rules before the Heaven and Earth Change, arriving with a sacred mission. And now, it was about to be annihilated! They could already envision the incandescent rage of the Demon Court’s many magnates. This was an unprecedented, colossal humiliation!
Meanwhile, at the Demon Hall. Lu Xuan had extinguished the life force of countless Great Demons, acquiring a massive haul of demon bodies. He wouldn’t have to worry about what to eat for a long, long time. With another casual flick of his sleeve, his hand of creation swept clean the Demon Hall’s entire treasury.
From the statue, the mysterious Divine Radiance watched, its voice growing colder and colder. “Madman! Your days are numbered!”
Lu Xuan simply ignored the threat. Before departing, he cast a final glance at the colossal Demon Lord statue. This statue was quite remarkable; it had actually withstood his strike without shattering. Lu Xuan sensed Half-step Supreme power surging within it, realizing it might be a crucial nodal point for a realm within the Demon Court. Since he couldn’t destroy it, he decided to give the Demon Lord a taste of his true ‘prowess.’ Lu Xuan stepped into the depths of the void, unzipped, and proceeded to relieve himself directly onto the statue. “Sizzle!” The stream plunged down like a waterfall, three thousand feet, as if the Yellow River itself had fallen from the Ninth Heaven! Witnessing this ultimate act of desecration, the voice within the Demon Lord’s statue exploded with monstrous killing intent, erupting into a torrent of vulgar curses. “Damn your ancestors! You are dead!”