306: The three great demon kings are dead!

The world outside was completely swallowed by boundless darkness. In an instant, a radius of ten thousand li transformed into a terrifying world purely condensed from the Great Dao of Darkness.

Blood Demon Venerable's gaze was extremely solemn. The blood sea surging around him rapidly contracted, only protecting a ten-thousand-zhang area around him, strenuously resisting the erosion and attrition of the dark world.

This dark world was precisely the world projection of the Black Sky Demonic Lord.

There were no living beings within it, only divine kingdom believers evolved from endless dark power.

These believers were bizarre existences, somewhere between living beings and inanimate objects. They had no Souls or spirits, yet possessed independent consciousness. Dark power was the only source that maintained their existence.

From the depths of the thick darkness, dark figures emerged like a tide, praising the might of the Black Sky Demonic Lord in unison. The power of the dark world surged dramatically!

The ten-thousand-zhang blood sea contracted further inward under this terrifying pressure.

However, there was not the slightest ripple on Blood Demon Venerable's deeply furrowed old face. He merely spoke coldly, “Black Sky! Do you truly believe that with just these petty tricks, you can harm this old man?”

Before his voice faded, the silent blood sea suddenly boiled!

As if infused with violent vitality, it actually withstood the immense pressure of the dark world and expanded outwards with fierce defiance!

A similarly vast blood-red world condensed and manifested behind Blood Demon Venerable. Countless ferocious blood-red Vicious Beasts roared and charged out from within, like a breached blood-red torrent, madly pouncing towards the devout divine kingdom believers in the dark world.

In an instant, the world within a ten-thousand-li radius completely devolved into a chaotic purgatory of black and red.

The world projections of the two quasi-Saints fiercely collided, and believers and blood beasts engaged in an endless, mad struggle within!

The Black Sky Demonic Lord stood high in the sky, his cold gaze looking down at Blood Demon Venerable below, a blatant sneer playing on the corner of his lips.

Condensing a world projection was merely a trivial matter for quasi-Saints like them, who had already condensed the Fruit of the Great Dao.

The strength of their respective worlds was already quite similar, so he naturally never expected to defeat his enemy with this.

However, was it necessary?

Black Sky's gaze swept over Night Without Double and the other two behind Blood Demon Venerable, and the mocking smile deepened.

Blood Demon Venerable's heart sank abruptly.

His Divine Sense quickly swept behind him—only to see that the dark power had spread and eroded Night Without Double and the other two like maggots clinging to bone!

Especially Night Without Double, whose entire body had turned a deep inky black, almost completely swallowed by darkness.

The Dark Great Dao runes he had refined within him had, at some unknown point, been silently permeated and assimilated by the Black Sky Demonic Lord, turning into an accomplice that accelerated his own destruction!

Yu Lang and Zhou Kuang's situations were equally dire. Dark power lingered, and their vitality was dim, clearly indicating that nothing could be done to save them!

“Hahaha! Finally discovered it?” The Black Sky Demonic Lord, witnessing Blood Demon Venerable's suddenly ashen face, couldn't help but burst into maniacal laughter.

His dark power had already silently infiltrated the bodies of the three Devil Kings!

Even before Blood Demon Venerable intervened, he had already controlled most of Night Without Double's Dark Great Dao runes.

The previous continuous attacks were merely a pretense to buy time, just to wait for the dark power within Night Without Double's body to complete its erosion.

Once successful, he could use Night Without Double, this “pawn,” to instantly detonate the dark power already deeply embedded within Zhou Kuang and Yu Lang!

At the same time, the storm-like attacks were also meant to disturb Blood Demon Venerable's mind, preventing him from carefully investigating the situation within the three.

“What a tactic!” Blood Demon Venerable knew the tide had turned, his old face so dark it could drip water. He gritted his teeth, enunciating each word: “Today's events! This old man remembers!”

The Black Sky Demonic Lord's objective had been achieved.

With a wave of his sleeve, the dark world covering ten thousand li, along with the three Devil Kings who had turned into dark Puppets, were instantly absorbed into his sleeve, vanishing without a trace.

Blood Demon Venerable also withdrew his blood-red world, his face grim.

He gave the Black Sky Demonic Lord one last cold glance, then his figure flickered, and he vanished into the Void Realm.

The ancient battlefield was hidden within the Blood Prison territory. Black Sky's high-profile appearance, his ambiguous attitude towards Wu Sheng Saint Venerable, and his blatant hostility towards his Blood Prison... Blood Demon Venerable was almost the person among the existing old monsters who understood the terrifying aspects of the Great Annihilation Demon Venerable most deeply.

He had to rush back immediately and prepare—what followed would likely be a war between the Great Annihilation Demon Venerable and the Blood Prison!

The Black Sky Demonic Lord merely watched Blood Demon Venerable retreat with a half-smile, making no move to stop him.

Blood Demon Venerable's body was also a Severed Corpse.

After a million years, although Black Sky was confident that his strength surpassed the other's, he was not entirely certain he could keep him there.

As Blood Demon Venerable departed, the Black Sky Demonic Lord also flicked his sleeve and calmly stepped into the huge spatial rift, which spanned a thousand li.

Once his figure was completely absorbed into it, this scar tearing through the heavens and earth began to slowly close, eventually vanishing without a trace, as if it had never appeared.

It should be noted that for a quasi-Saint to slay their Three Corpses, they need the power of a origin supreme treasure.

Only with this treasure as a foundation can one manifest a Great Dao Clone—the Three Corpses—containing the corresponding Great Dao.

The Three Corpses can Cultivate independently and, with the power of the origin supreme treasure, can quickly condense the corresponding Dao Fruit.

Alternatively, the Main Body can divide its own Dao Fruit and bestow it upon the Severed Corpse.

After the Three Corpses reach Major Achievement, they only need to accumulate enough power and receive the aid of Grandmist purple Qi to achieve saint position by uniting the Three Corpses, breaking the Main Body's shackles of fate, transcending the will of the boundary sea's constraints, and finally attaining the saint position.

This is the most secure path to becoming a Saint.

However, this method's requirements for external objects are extremely stringent.

Just finding three origin supreme treasures that match the attributes of one's own Great Dao is already incredibly difficult.

Furthermore, if the obtained treasure is contrary to one's own Great Dao, one may even need to abandon the old Dao and Cultivate a new method to align with the treasure.

The Black Sky Demonic Lord, back then, was manifested by Hao Duo using a origin supreme treasure of darkness.

His combat power was definitely among the top tier of Severed Corpses.

In contrast, Blood Demon Venerable's Severed Corpse was not manifested from a origin supreme treasure of blood, yet it could still unleash the complete and flawless power of the Great Dao of Blood. Its hidden depths were such that Black Sky could not fully discern its true extent for a time.

However, his appearance this time was also a whim.

Opening the rift was merely to attract people from the outside world and probe the current reality of the Immortal-Demon Realm.

Now that his objective was achieved, and since his Main Body, the Great Annihilation Demon Venerable, had no intention of appearing immediately, Black Sky directly closed this temporary passage.

Meanwhile, in the Place of Cessation of Grief, Xiao Zhuo's secluded Cultivation continued.

During this period, Hao Duo instructed Yue Li to deliver over a hundred ancient texts on the Dao of Time and Space, Thunder, and Soul.

These were at least Saint-Grade High Grade, or even Divine-Grade secret texts, demonstrating the generosity of this convenient Revered Master.

Xiao Zhuo accepted them without hesitation.

These days, the panel continuously deduced the Great Dao of Time, while he diligently studied these ancient texts.

Hao Duo even said that if he had any questions, he could go to the underground palace to ask, and he also had Yue Li instruct him on many application techniques regarding the Great Dao, which increased his combat power by at least thirty percent.

This Revered Master was indeed extremely responsible, making Xiao Zhuo temporarily unable to fathom his true intention for taking a disciple—was it really just pure appreciation for talent?

However, he did not delve deeper.

The most urgent task was to become stronger as quickly as possible.

Currently, there were still five million Attribute Points remaining in the panel, enough for him to fully comprehend one Great Dao.

A Demonic General needed to comprehend at least one Great Dao to advance to Demonic Lord, and he possessed three; if the Great Dao of Time was included, that would be four.

“Each Great Dao requires three hundred thousand Attribute Points. Just deducing four Great Daos would require twelve million...” Xiao Zhuo sighed inwardly at the difficulty of the later stages of the Cultivation path, then composed himself and continued to immerse himself in the vast ancient texts.

He did not know that if outsiders knew of his thoughts, they would likely want to beat him to death.

He had only Cultivated for a few hundred years and was already an invincible Demonic General.

In a few hundred years, even a Prodigy from a top-tier noble family in the Major Thousand Worlds, with countless precious resources invested and exceptional talent, could at most barely achieve Heavenly Immortal.

Yet he, a native from a Minor Thousand Worlds, went from Trash to this Realm in a few hundred years, and still complained it was too slow; truly, human greed knows no bounds.

Time slowly flowed by during this focused Cultivation.

“Ding! Deduction complete, deduction results can be extracted!”