82: Chapter 82: The Demon God Half-Revives, the Prodigy Fails! Aristocratic Families Force a Coup to Save Him?

Lin Yuan jumped down from the Tyrant's shoulder, his feet landing steadily on the blood-soaked ground.

He walked slowly into the center of the battlefield, scanning the debris scattered everywhere.

This battle between two million and over two million forces had ended extremely quickly.

Lin Yuan tallied the battle losses.

Aside from the Soldier Insects at the very front responsible for cutting through enemy formations, which lost about fifty thousand, the casualties of other units were almost negligible.

The Titan Violent Demons withstood all frontal firepower, the Shadow Abyssal Demons completed the task of cutting off the rear, and the Calamity Fire Spirits led the long-range bombardment.

This Wasteland unit system displayed astonishing dominance in actual combat.

"Feed," Lin Yuan issued the command.

After the command was issued, the kin on the battlefield entered a frenzy.

Over seven hundred thousand insects dispersed rapidly, wandering through the piles of corpses from the nine great families' kin.

The Soldier Insects waved their arthropods, slicing through the scales of Deep Sea Nagas, the cores of heavy-armored gargoyles, and the flesh of Lion Dragons...

They were swallowed by specialized transport insects, prepared to be brought back to the Divine Domain nest as material for the next generation of insect evolution.

In the sky, dozens of hundred-meter-tall Calamity Elemental Spirit Lords ended their aggregation state.

Their bodies collapsed, reforming into eight thousand Calamity Fire Spirits.

To recover from the weakness caused by the aggregation, the Fire Spirits piled the battlefield debris into dozens of small hills and then pounced on them.

Toxic fire ignited the debris, and the Fire Spirits absorbed the energy released by the burning flesh in the flames, their surface firelight quickly recovering from dim to peak.

The Tyrant Demons and sky creatures were not idle either.

The Titan Violent Demons grabbed the amethyst cores of the Crystal Rock Titans and stuffed them into their mouths to chew.

Demon Vultures and Bone Blade Bats landed beside the corpses of Gale Sword Servants and Holy Unicorns, tearing off large chunks of flesh.

Lin Yuan ignored the kin's feeding and walked straight to the rear of the battlefield.

A massive rift appeared in front, and at the bottom of the rift, a mineral vein stretched out.

This was the Abyssal Source Crystal Vein scouted by the insect scouts.

At the center of the vein stood a Demon God Altar constructed from bones.

A glint flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes.

A Source Crystal Vein was a strategic resource capable of directly replenishing the foundation of a Divine Domain's Origin.

As long as it was buried beneath the Wasteland Divine Domain, the energy concentration of the Divine Domain would increase exponentially.

As for that Demon God Altar, its value was even higher than the mineral vein.

It could communicate with Laws and accelerate the rank Breakthroughs of kin.

However, this type of altar had severe side effects of Abyssal contamination; long-term use would lead to the loss of sanity and distortion of the kin.

If family descendants obtained this, they would have to spend massive resources to have a True God rank powerhouse purify it.

But Lin Yuan did not need to.

"After the grand exam ends, I'll directly use [Creation Extraction] to drain the contamination entry, and what remains will be a pure Law catalyst," Lin Yuan had already planned.

He mobilized the Mental Energy in his Sea of Consciousness and pressed both hands forward.

The Divine Domain channel opened slowly above the rift.

Because the mineral vein was a thousand meters long, it could not be swallowed all at once.

Lin Yuan controlled the edge of the channel, wrapping around the end of the mineral vein bit by bit.

Accompanied by the sound of geological collapse, the thousand-meter-long Abyssal Source Crystal Vein was uprooted and dragged into the Wasteland Divine Domain step by step.

At the same time, the Demon God Altar was also lifted by Lin Yuan using the Law of Gravity and sent into the depths of the channel.

The entire collection process lasted nearly half an hour.

When Lin Yuan closed the Divine Domain channel, the kin had also finished clearing the battlefield.

The over two million corpses left by the coalition of the nine great families didn't even have a complete bone left.

They were all converted into nutrients for the Wasteland kin.

Lin Yuan stood before the Tyrant, preparing to order the integration of troops to continue pushing toward the core area.

A sudden change occurred.

The Demon God Planet beneath his feet suddenly let out a dull vibration.

This vibration did not come from the surface but originated from the deepest part of the planet, acting directly on the Soul level of all living beings.

The lead-gray sky was torn apart.

The originally raging wind fell into dead silence, and thunder hung suspended in mid-air.

Dark red light gushed out from every crack deep underground.

The planet's gravitational field fell into chaos at this moment.

The gravel on the ground floated upward uncontrollably, and the temperature in the air alternated between extreme cold and extreme heat.

Lin Yuan opened his eyes and felt it carefully.

This was not a specific skill attack but a natural overflow of high-level Laws.

Inside the core of this planet, some ancient, grand, and extremely chaotic will had turned over.

That sleeping Abyssal Demon God had half-awakened.

Meanwhile, the prodigies in various regions of the Demon God Planet were all thrown into disarray by this sudden anomaly.

Northern Region.

Xiao Ting's million-strong Lion Dragon army was forming the Wind-Thunder Absolute Killing War Formation.

When the gravitational field became chaotic, the energy link of the war formation was broken.

Dark red Devilish Qi rushed into the Lion Dragon group, and tens of thousands of Lion Dragons rolled their eyes back.

Losing their ability to fly under the pressure of the Laws, they fell straight to the ground.

Xiao Ting's expression changed, and he hurriedly mobilized Divine Power to stabilize the Lion Dragon King.

Forcibly gathering the remaining troops, they were forced to land on the horizon.

Eastern Swamp.

Su Yueying's Six-Winged Angel Legion had just finished purifying an area.

Dark red Devilish Qi rose into the sky, directly suppressing the incandescent Holy Light emitted by the angels.

The wings of the one hundred thousand angels were stained with dark red spots, and they let out uneasy whines.

Su Yueying put away her cross sword, staring solemnly at the core area.

Southern Gobi.

Chu Yunxuan's mechanical legion suffered a fatal blow.

The strong magnetic field generated by the Demon God's Laws caused sparks to fly from the core power furnaces of the mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rexes.

Tens of thousands of mechanical beasts shut down directly, turning into a pile of scrap metal.

Chu Yunxuan punched the armrest of his floating chair, gritting his teeth as he commanded the engineers to carry out emergency repairs.

Western Rift Valley, Ancient Forest...

Murong Bai, Zhan Kuang, and all the prodigies in the first tier were forced to stop hunting under this overwhelming pressure of Laws.

And for those civilian candidates struggling to survive on the periphery, this was a complete catastrophe.

Fatty Wang was sticking his butt out, directing over twenty thousand Black Demon Pigs to mine in a hidden pit.

The ground suddenly shook, and dark red Devilish Qi spewed out from the cracks in the pit.

The Black Demon Pigs were scared out of their wits and curled up into balls.

Fatty Wang scrambled to hide in the deepest dirt pit, clutching his head tightly with both hands.

"This is deadly, this is deadly! I just came to get a passing grade, you can't play like this!"

Fatty Wang was sweating profusely, lying in the dirt without daring to move.

...

Demon Suppression Fortress, Observation Room.

The atmosphere in the hall dropped to freezing.

On the big screen, the light points representing the 300,000 candidates extinguished by the thousands in just a few minutes.

This meant that thousands of students didn't even have the chance to crush their teleportation talismans and fell directly.

The energy reactions of the monsters in various regions soared exponentially.

Patriarch Xiao Tiannan stood up abruptly; he turned his head and stared fixedly at the military camp.

"General Chen Tie! Is this the near-death state your military guaranteed?"

Patriarch Xiao Tiannan's voice echoed in the hall, carrying undisguised questioning.

"This fluctuation of Laws is clearly a sign of the Demon God's will awakening! The gravitational and magnetic fields of the entire planet are out of control."

"Three hundred thousand candidates are all trapped inside now. If that Demon God wakes up, who will be responsible for the future of Tianhai Province!"

Patriarch Xiao Tiannan's attack quickly resonated with the heads of other families and consortiums.

"Patriarch Xiao is right! We thought it was just a controlled drill, but now the planet's Laws have changed drastically."

"Teleportation talismans are highly likely to fail under this kind of magnetic field; the children can't even get out if they want to give up the exam!"

"This planet was originally the Divine Domain of that Demon God; once it wakes up, we can't intervene from the outside at all!"

"You military must terminate the grand exam and forcibly open the plane channel to rescue people!"

Facing the indignation of the families and consortiums, Deputy Commander Chen Tie slammed a palm heavily on the table in front of him.

"Shut your mouths, all of you!" Deputy Commander Chen Tie sneered, looking directly at the Xiao Family Patriarch. "Patriarch Xiao Tiannan, stop pinning labels on the military!"

"This grand exam's venue was decided by the Tianhai Province military, the education sector, and all of you families and consortiums voting together!"

"At that time, in order to let your own descendants get more Abyssal resources, you all raised your hands faster than anyone else."

"Now that an accident has happened, you're afraid your own brats will die inside, so you dump all the blame on the military?"

Deputy Commander Chen Tie's strong counterattack made the old faces of several family heads look even uglier.

"Deputy Commander Chen Tie! What kind of attitude is this! Is the military just going to watch three hundred thousand candidates die?"

"When I was leading troops in battle, you were still wearing open-crotch pants! There's no such thing as not dying on the battlefield!"

The military commander and the family heads were at daggers drawn.

The Divine Power fluctuations in the hall began to collide faintly, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.

Just when both sides were about to tear off their masks.

"Enough."

A calm voice sounded.

Commander Xiao Lie sat on the sofa, just slightly raising his eyelids to scan the whole room.

The voice was not loud, but it easily suppressed all the arguments in the hall.

Commander Xiao Lie drank the wine in his glass and placed it on the table.

"What are you arguing about? It's just that thing taking a nap in its sleep, emitting a little bit of Law aftermath," Commander Xiao Lie said with a flat tone.

"The grand exam was originally a life-and-death trial. If they can't even withstand this small variable, why go to the front lines? Just go home and hold their babies."

"A drill without variables is called playing house."

Patriarch Xiao Tiannan frowned: "Commander Xiao Lie, this is not a small variable. If the Demon God really wakes up..."

"So what if it wakes up?" Commander Xiao Lie interrupted Patriarch Xiao Tiannan.

He slowly stood up, and the pressure belonging to a High-Level True God flashed and disappeared in the hall.

"Everyone here, who isn't a True God?"

"Even if that thing really wakes up, it's just a severely injured Low-Level Demon God."

"With so many of us joining forces, can't we suppress a cripple?"

Commander Xiao Lie's words were filled with confidence and dominance.

Several consortium directors who were originally panicked gradually stabilized their emotions upon hearing these words.

Indeed, the top combat power of Tianhai Province was gathered here; there was no need to panic because of one anomaly.

After hitting them with a stick.

Commander Xiao Lie changed the subject and began to appease the situation.

"However, safety measures must still be taken."

"Deputy Commander Chen Tie, mobilize the fortress's interstellar reconnaissance ships to strictly monitor the Law readings in the planet's core area."

"Once the Demon God's Laws exceed the critical value, dispatch True God powerhouses to go in and provide support."

Deputy Commander Chen Tie nodded: "Understood, I will go arrange it right away."

A dispute that could have caused turbulence among the top brass of Tianhai Province was directly quelled by Commander Xiao Lie in a few words.

Patriarch Xiao Tiannan stood where he was, looking deeply at Commander Xiao Lie.

He was extremely unhappy, but he had to admire him.

This illegitimate son, who had been exiled by the Xiao Family for many years, had unknowingly grown to this point.

Not only was his strength unfathomable.

This command ability to coordinate the overall situation and use both kindness and severity made Patriarch Xiao Tiannan feel shocked.

"This kid's ability is truly remarkable," Patriarch Xiao Tiannan secretly regretted, "If he were willing to bow his head and cooperate with me to rule the Xiao Family."

"Not to mention being the hegemon of Tianhai Province, even controlling the federal discourse power would not be impossible."

Unfortunately, their paths were different.

Patriarch Xiao Tiannan withdrew his gaze and sighed inwardly.

This wolf had long since stopped recognizing this home.