281: Resist everything? It shatters at the slightest touch!

Chen Nian's figure stepped into the heart of this altar from outside the shattered rock wall like a specter.

His pace was leisurely and his expression calm, as if he were just taking a post-meal stroll and had accidentally wandered into a somewhat untidy backyard.

However, for all the Demonic Evils within the cavern, his appearance was no different from Death himself knocking on the door!

"He... how did he get in from here?! Where are the guards outside?!"

"The wall! He punched through the wall reinforced with defensive runes! How is this possible?!"

"Where are the Bone Armor Commander and the Poison Wing Commander?! Weren't they intercepting him outside?!"

"Could it be... could it be that the two Commanders have already..."

"It's over! It's all over! Even the Commanders couldn't stop him! What can we do now?"

Extreme terror erupted instantly like a plague!

The remaining Demonic Evils let out screams distorted by horror.

Their faces were ashen, their bodies trembling like sieves, and they were nearly collapsing to the ground!

They looked at Chen Nian's spotless casual clothes and his calm, rippleless gaze.

Then they thought of the violent manner in which he had broken into this place.

A desperate thought uncontrollably surfaced in the heart of every Demonic Evil.

All the defensive lines outside, including those two powerful Demon Commanders, had likely met a grim fate!

The Shadow Demon Commander and the Bone Staff Demon Commander's pupils also constricted at this moment, their faces written with unbelievable horror!

Their senses were sharper than the ordinary Demonic Evils, allowing them to better perceive the terrifying aura on Chen Nian—one that was restrained to the extreme, yet seemed to contain the power to destroy heaven and earth!

Especially the way Chen Nian appeared—not through the passage, but by directly and violently blasting through the solid rock wall reinforced with Abyss Runes!

This meant that the defensive system outside had completely collapsed!

The complete disappearance of Bone Armor and Poison Wing's auras also confirmed this!

What kind of monster was this human?!

"Silence!!" The Shadow Demon Commander suddenly let out a sharp mental roar, forcibly suppressing the stormy waves in his heart. "Everyone! Stop the ritual! Form the 'Abyssal Protection' Formation! Quickly!"

The Bone Staff Demon Commander also came to his senses, a flash of determination in his eyes as he hissed harshly, "Quickly! Activate the Formation! This is our only way to survive! Block him!"

Now was definitely not the time for shock and fear!

The ritual clearly could not continue; the priority was survival!

This "Abyssal Protection" Formation was the stronghold's final defensive measure, capable of drawing upon the massive amount of Abyssal Evil Energy accumulated here to form a solid barrier.

Hearing this, although the remaining Demonic Evils were terrified to the extreme, their survival instinct forced them to suppress their collapsing emotions.

"Yes! Form the Formation! Form the Formation quickly!"

"Only the Formation can save us!"

"Inject all the Evil Energy into it!"

"Block him! We must block him!"

The Demonic Evils, as if grasping at the last straw, hissed and scrambled to change their energy output.

They were no longer pouring energy into the eye of the monarch at the center of the altar, but were instead frantically injecting Evil Energy into the Formation runes already carved beneath their feet!

"Buzz—!!!!"

Accompanied by the full-force activation of dozens of Demonic Evils, including two seventh-rank Peak Demon Commanders.

On the ground around the altar, those complex dark-red Formation runes suddenly lit up with a blinding light!

Thick, blood-like Abyssal Evil Energy was frantically drawn from the depths of the earth veins, converging like a hundred rivers returning to the sea!

A thick, condensed, dark-red energy shield, its surface flowing with countless phantom images of wailing souls in pain, quickly rose and closed with the altar as its center!

The shield emitted a suffocating aura of evil and solidity, as if it could even isolate space itself!

The moment the Formation was complete, all the Demonic Evils breathed a slight sigh of relief.

It was as if this dark-red shield could bring a sliver of illusory safety.

They stared at the figure outside the shield with extreme tension, praying in their hearts that this final barrier would work.

However, Chen Nian, who was outside the shield, had only been watching their busy work indifferently from start to finish.

Watching that dark-red shield rise, feeling the Evil Energy contained within it.

On his face, instead of the slightest trace of solemnity, there appeared... disappointment?

He shook his head slightly, as if he had seen some clumsy performance, his tone carrying undisguised contempt:

"Oh? This is your final welcoming ceremony?"

"Making such a big fuss, I thought there might be some new tricks."

"In the end, this is it?"

"Truly disappointing."

As he spoke, under the shocked and furious gazes of the Shadow Demon Commander and the Bone Staff Demon Commander.

Under the extremely tense gazes of the dozens of Demonic Evils.

Chen Nian just casually raised his right hand and gave a light wave toward the shield formed by the seemingly indestructible "Abyssal Protection" Formation.

The movement was casual and light, like brushing dust off a sleeve.

"Rumble—!!!!!!!"

An indescribable, majestic, and domineering terrifying energy, seemingly containing the power to create the world, burst forth violently!

There were no brilliant light effects, no complex manifestations of Law.

There was only the purest, most extreme crushing force!

That dark-red shield, which had condensed the full power of dozens of Demonic Evils and drawn upon the Evil Energy of the earth veins.

The moment it came into contact with this power, it was like glass hit by a giant hammer; there wasn't even a split second of stalemate!

"Crack—!!!!!"

The ear-piercing sound of shattering exploded!

The surface of the shield was instantly covered in dense, spiderweb-like cracks!

Immediately following—

"Bang—!!!!!!!!!"

The entire "Abyssal Protection" Formation violently exploded! It was completely shattered!

Countless dark-red energy fragments shot out in all directions like a torrential rain!

The violent energy shockwave, mixed with the broken Formation energy, rolled back toward the Demonic Evils inside the shield like a tsunami!

"No—!!!"

"How is this possible?!"

"Pfft—!"

"Arghhhhh—!"

The Demonic Evils let out screams and wails of ultimate despair!

They simply could not withstand the terrifying backlash and energy impact brought by the shattering of the Formation!

The Demonic Evils close by were instantly torn into pieces by the energy turbulence!

Those slightly further away were also violently blown away by the shockwave, crashing into the surrounding rock walls or the altar's base, their bones broken and spitting out foul blood!

Even the Shadow Demon Commander and the Bone Staff Demon Commander let out muffled groans, their blood and Qi churning as they were shaken back repeatedly, their faces filled with shock and disbelief!

One strike!

Just a casual strike!

The final barrier they relied on for their lives, the "Abyssal Protection" Formation that was said to be able to withstand any attack.

It just... shattered?

It was casually slapped to pieces by the opponent like a soap bubble?!

What kind of power was this?!

The dust slowly settled.

Chen Nian still stood in his original spot, with not even a corner of his clothes out of place.

He slowly lowered his hand, his expression indifferent, looking completely unruffled.

One couldn't see any of the effort that should have come from just casually destroying a powerful Formation.

It was as if he had just done something insignificant.

His gaze swept over the messy scene of the heavily injured and terrified Demonic Evils.

Finally, it landed on the two Demon Commanders who were pale-faced with blood at the corners of their mouths.

The corners of his mouth curled into an arc of extreme disdain.

"Alright, the welcoming ceremony ends here."

"It's time to get down to business."