444: The demons take action

In the Moon Essence Dao Domain, the boundless desolate plains.

Nine Taiyin Flood Dragons, their entire bodies silver-white, glided among the clouds, each scale reflecting the clear, cold moonlight.

The white jade immortal palace they pulled was faintly visible within the sea of clouds, and the bronze bells hanging from its eaves chimed with an ethereal sound.

Suddenly, the celestial phenomena changed drastically!

The originally bright moon instantly turned blood-red, and the clouds within a thousand-mile radius became as black as if splashed with ink.

Nine bolts of blood-red lightning struck down from the sky without warning; each bolt of lightning was entwined with countless distorted vengeful spirits, their shrill screams making the scales of the Taiyin Flood Dragons stand on end.

"Roar—"

The nine Taiyin Flood Dragons let out terrified wails, their Dragon eyes reflecting the approaching blood-red lightning.

The destructive aura contained within the lightning paralyzed these exotic beasts, comparable to half-step Dao Lords, in mid-air, stripping them of even the courage to struggle.

Just as the blood-red lightning was about to strike the Flood Dragons, a dazzling golden light suddenly erupted from the immortal palace's dome!

"How dare you!"

A clear shout resounded through heaven and earth, and pure golden power of judgment condensed into a materialized golden spear phantom.

As the spear swept across, the nine bolts of blood-red lightning were like striking an invisible barrier, shattering into a sky full of blood mist with an ear-splitting cracking sound.

The scattered lightning splashed onto the desolate plains, instantly blasting countless cracks emitting Evil Qi into the plains.

"Hehehe..."

Eerie cackles came from all directions, and three black-robed figures, like ink stains dropped on rice paper, slowly spread out in the Void Realm.

The leader's bony, withered fingers emerged from his sleeves, the lingering afterglow of the blood-red lightning still flickering at his fingertips.

"As expected of the Xu Family, which has produced two peerless True Kings." The voice of the black-robed man in the middle was like a rusty knife scraping bone, "To be able to break this Venerable One's casual strike."

As his words fell, the entire world suddenly plunged into absolute darkness.

Viscous Devilish Qi spread from beneath their feet, instantly plundering the vitality of the desolate plains wherever it passed, the earth cracking into countless spiderweb-like fissures with creaking sounds, and even the air began to distort.

"Demon Race members?"

The pearl curtain in front of the immortal palace's gate moved without wind, vaguely revealing a tall figure standing with a long spear.

Xu Liang looked at the three Devils with a solemn expression; the spreading Devilish Qi was enough to explain the origin of the three Devils.

He hadn't expected the Demon Race to not go after Xu Yuan, but to target them instead.

The strength of these three Devils was extremely formidable; their Cultivation was at least Late Stage Dao Lord, especially the person in the middle, who was an Immortal Giant.

"Audacious Demon Race, this is the Human Territory! How dare you Demon Race act so presumptuously here? Are you not afraid that the powerhouses of our Human Race will arrive and slay you?"

Xu Liang questioned loudly.

"Hehehe!" The person in the middle had a sinister smile on his face, "Don't think about outsiders discovering the anomaly here! This world, this Venerable One has already set up a sealing array; even an Immortal Overlord would not be able to detect it."

"As for that Elder from your Sacred Hall who has emerged, a Venerable One of our Demon Race will naturally block him. And if you surrender obediently, this Venerable One will only imprison you. But if you resist, then don't blame this Venerable One for being ruthless!"

"Surrender?" Xu Liang, enraged, laughed instead, the bronze spear in his hand suddenly entwined with golden lightning. "Do you three old Devils, hiding your heads and tails, really think my Xu Family will surrender?"

"Kill!"

As his words fell, he shattered the Void Realm with a single step, his spear, wrapped in ten thousand feet of golden lightning, thrust directly at the three Devils. Wherever the spear tip passed, space shattered inch by inch like a mirror, revealing Chaos turbulence.

"Interesting! Boss, Second Brother, let me play!"

The Devil Head on the right grinned ferociously and tore open his robes, revealing a body covered in Demonic patterns. He clapped his hands together, and surging Devilish Qi rushed out from the Demonic patterns, condensing into nine hideous skull heads, which met the lightning with ear-splitting screams.

"Boom—"

The moment the lightning and Devilish Qi collided, the entire desolate plains trembled violently.

Golden lightning snakes and nine hideous skull heads intertwined and tore at each other, actually forming an energy vortex with a diameter of a thousand miles in mid-air.

Xu Liang rotated his long spear, and a phantom of a golden Heavenly scale suddenly appeared on the spear shaft.

"Judgment—Sin!"

In an instant, the Devil Head's phantom appeared on the left side of the scale, while Xu Liang's figure was on the right.

"Not good!"

Seeing this, the three Devils' expressions changed.

A strange scene occurred: the scale actually tilted to the left. The next moment, an invisible power of the Great Dao suddenly descended.

The Demonic patterns all over the Devil Head's body suddenly twisted madly, making a "hissing" sound as if being strangled by invisible chains.

"Ah!" The Devil Head roared in pain, spewing black blood from his seven orifices, "Damn it, you can actually invoke the judgment of the Great Dao!"

Xu Liang remained silent, his offensive undiminished. He formed a hand seal with his left hand, activating the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning. Countless purple-gold lightning pillars suddenly descended from the dark clouds, each containing a destructive aura, sealing all escape routes for that Devil Head.

"Not good! Third Brother is no match for him!"

The Devil Head in the middle saw that Third Brother was in danger and roared, seventy-two blood-colored banners flying out from his sleeve.

The banners unfurled, transforming into a boundless sea of blood, intending to corrode and dissolve the lightning pillars.

But just then, a supreme sword light struck, and wherever it passed, all seventy-two blood-colored banners shattered.

"Puff!!!"

With his Dao Weapon damaged, the Great Devil, as the Dao Weapon's master, was immediately injured, spitting out a mouthful of black blood.

"Boss!"

The Second Devil's expression changed, and he quickly stepped forward to support the Great Devil, whose gaze, however, was directed towards where the sword light had come from, revealing a figure like a sword immortal.

"It's him!"

The two Devils' expressions changed!

They were all too familiar with this figure—that peerless True King of the Xu Family from six hundred years ago.

But wasn't he Cultivating the Blade Dao? How could his Sword Dao be so powerful too!

The two Devils' faces were extremely grim, as this person was an existence who could contend with an Immortal Overlord, something even the Great Devil could not do.

"Rashly interfering in other people's battles is impolite! So, the two of you should just watch from the side!"

Xu Qing had a smile on his lips, his tone indifferent.

The two Devils wanted to say something, but an invisible Sword Dao power enveloped them, rendering them unable to move.

"Ah!!!"

Just then, the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning struck down, and a shrill sound came from the center of the lightning.

The Third Devil was blasted into a blood mist under the lightning, but being a Dao Lord, he wasn't so easy to kill.

The blood mist dispersed and then reformed his body hundreds of millions of miles away.

However, at this moment, the Third Devil's originally sinister face was now covered in scorched cracks.

Under the intense pain, the Third Devil had already lost his sanity, his eyes flashing with a mad glint: "Good! Very good! It's been a long time since this Venerable One tasted injury!"

He suddenly tore open the flesh on his chest and pulled out a bone-white rib. The bone was covered with strange runes, and as Demonic blood dripped onto it, it transformed into a bone blade of a hideous design.

"Let me show you what true Demonic Path is!"

As the bone blade swung, all the bones on the ten-thousand-mile desolate plains, nourished by Devilish Qi, trembled simultaneously.

The next moment, countless white bones burst out from the earth, forming a ten-thousand-foot-tall Eight-Armed Demonic God Dharma Aspect in the sky.

As the Third Devil chanted incantations, the Eight-Armed Demonic God Dharma Aspect's eight bone hands simultaneously formed seals, and immediately, an boundless sea of blood poured down from the Void Realm.

Xu Liang snorted coldly, drawing a circle in the air with his spear.

Lightning and the power of judgment intertwined into a gold and silver Taiji diagram, blocking all the pouring sea of blood tens of thousands of miles away.

The shockwave generated by the collision tore deep, bottomless ravines into the desolate plains below.