Chapter 768

Outside the void of the world, there is another hidden, eerie palace.

The palace has a gloomy color scheme, and its decorations are exceptionally unique.

It seems the entire palace was refined from the white bones of countless living beings.

At this moment, inside the palace, several terrifying demon gods with immense demonic aura sit in the main hall; on the chief seat sits one clad in purple-black profound armor, with an exceptionally fiery figure, a demonic powerhouse.

Her pupils are slit, yet each is different; the left eye is entirely crimson, like blazing fire.

The right eye, however, displays a strange, icy coldness.

Her face bears both fervent allure and icy dignity, evil; moreover, her entire body is surrounded by vast waves of demonic aura condensed within this majestic palace.

Below her, there are four other presences with demonic aura soaring to the heavens.

They are also part of the later generation of demons born after the ancient era.

They consist of three males and one female, each with distinct appearances.

After the black-robed figure entered the palace, his gaze first fell upon the Nine Infant Demon Saint seated on the chief seat.

"Nine Infant Demon Saint, Great Venerable, please have them act first and seize that Patrol Heavenly Venerable!"

Upon hearing this, a demon venerable beside him, his body wrapped in white-red scaled feather armor, coldly laughed.

"Could it be that the Ink God Demon Venerable wishes to break the agreement? Or perhaps he fears this Patrol Heavenly Venerable of the Longevity True Realm?"

His eyes held a hint of cold severity.

According to the agreement, a frontal assault is to be handled by the Ink God Legion, while our demon tribe is responsible for opening the outer-world gate from within!

The black-robed demon god's face remained calm, and he spoke lightly.

"What do you mean by saying this, Great Phoenix Demon Saint?"

"Great Venerable, you roam heaven and earth; how could a mere human Dao Venerable make you worry? Our Ink God Legion has already acted and successfully established the two-realm battlefield—this is sufficient proof of our sincerity!

Now, Great Venerable hopes you demons will take the lead, likewise proving your ability and sincerity; once you show sincerity, our Ink God Legion will naturally continue attacking the Longevity True Realm!"

Upon hearing this, another female demon coldly laughed.

"What a joke—when you harvested the origin of the Long Corridor Realm, you never mentioned sincerity; now you're merely afraid of that Patrol Dao Venerable. Ink God Demon Venerable, ancient demon venerable of the Upper Abyss Demon Realm, actually so timid—truly disappointing!"

At this moment, the black-robed demon god slowly raised his head; his eyes faintly glowed with intense malice, and his icy voice transmitted.

"Please, Serpent Demon Saint, watch your words and deeds; the Great Venerable's dignity must not be profaned. Anger the Great Venerable, and for both of us, there will be no benefit!"

After a slight pause, the black-robed demon god spoke coldly and calmly.

"Of course, you may choose not to obey the Great Venerable's command; if so, our demon legion will immediately withdraw!"

His expression remained indifferent, while the several demon saints in the hall instantly flared with rage.

These outer-world demon gods truly lack sincerity—shameless!

Many demon powerhouses also felt some contempt in their eyes.

The Nine Infant Demon Saint, however, raised her hand to silence the demons; her face was cold and indifferent, and she spoke lightly.

"Tell the Ink God Demon Venerable: I will personally handle this matter, but also tell him that when a powerhouse is utterly devoid of reputation and principle, it is also the time they sever themselves from the myriad heavens!"

The black-robed demon god's expression remained unchanged; he simply said.

"I will convey the Great Venerable's words!"

"I wish the Nine Infant Great Saint victory in this battle!"

His form transformed into a stream of light, instantly vanishing within the palace.

After his departure, several demon saints could not conceal their anger and killing intent in their eyes.

The Great Phoenix Demon Saint gritted his steel teeth, producing a grating sound.

"These outer-world demon gods are truly unreliable—actually breaking the agreement at such a critical moment!"

"Great Saint, if you ask me, even if we abandon the mission today, we must make these demon gods of the demon legion look bad!"

Besides the Great Phoenix and the Serpent Demon Saints, the other two great demon saints are the Yayu Demon Saint and the Dark Peng Demon Saint.

Several demon saints were exceptionally active during the medieval era.

Their years of cultivation are likewise very long.

The Nine Infant Demon Saint's face remained calm; she simply said.

"We still need to rely on these demon gods' strength for now; it is not advisable to break with them outright!"

"Do not forget: our primary mission this time is to rescue the Heart Ancestor Yuanchu; if this Primordial Chaos Evil God joins our demon tribe, the benefits need not be elaborated by me!"

Upon hearing this, the other demon saints still showed some anger on their faces.

However, they also knew this matter is of utmost importance to the demon tribe.

Now, the demon tribe faces a full-scale encirclement by the human tribe, and their situation is extremely difficult.

The Heavenly Demon Realm can barely hold on.

They were also dispatched on this mission to search everywhere for powerful allies.

The Heart Ancestor Yuanchu is one of their targets.

The title of this Evil God Sovereign above the heavens' void—they have heard of it; if they could win him over, one person could surpass a hundred million demon beast legions, making the demon tribe's confrontation with the human tribe much easier!

At this moment, the Serpent Demon Saint appeared beside the Nine Infant Demon Saint and spoke.

"Great Saint, the Patrol Heavenly Venerable of the Longevity True Realm is likely not ordinary; Great Saint, you still need to carefully select a few!"

The Nine Infant Demon Saint nodded; she naturally understood the danger of this battle.

She had also witnessed the fall of the Yangyang Demon Venerable.

It was nearly a one-strike kill.

She and the Ink God Demon Venerable already possess means to exterminate ordinary Dao Venerables, yet they cannot achieve such effortless ease.

As one of the Nine Great Demon Venerables on Yangyang Ridge, the Yangyang Demon Venerable is also no ordinary commodity.

……

In Iron Core City, seeing that the many extradimensional demon gods no longer dared to clamor, Zhang Jian also relaxed his mind, returned to the city, and directly began refining the various heavenly treasures and earthly riches given to him by the Daoist Lord of Longevity.

For him, the most important thing was still to accelerate the pace toward completing the form of the ultimate powerhouse.

After refining these many heavenly spirit fruits and heavenly rare treasures, they could all be integrated into the Twelve-Leaf Innate Azure Lotus, condensing and transforming into the Innate Creation Origin, accelerating the transformation of the Twelve-Leaf Innate Azure Lotus into an Innate Spiritual Root.

Once the Innate Spiritual Root takes shape, with one natal Innate Spiritual Root giving back nourishment, he would naturally be able to further perfect the form of the ultimate powerhouse.

Even this Innate Spiritual Root could serve as the primordial foundation of his Earth Emperor True Form.

In the quiet chamber, Zhang Jian simply took out one heavenly spirit fruit after another from his Hundred Treasures Pouch, including the Three Radiance Divine Water, the Heavenly One True Water, and other Innate True Waters, all of which were absorbed and refined by the Twelve-Leaf Innate Azure Lotus.

After absorbing various Innate True Waters and heavenly treasures, a Twelve-Leaf Innate Azure Lotus deep in his chest had each lotus leaf flowing with intense innate divine light.

As the Daoist Lord of Longevity said, its formation speed was accelerating.

Deep within its core, the speed of increase of the Innate Creation Origin was obviously quickening, already visible to the naked eye.

Unlike before, when the progress bar was so slow its edge could not be seen.

If he were to also use the Myriad Trees Divine Pool deep within the Heavenly World Divine Tree, it would indeed be possible to advance within a single elemental cycle!

Zhang Jian's secluded cultivation did not last long; soon after, the Daoist Lord of the Hidden Phase knocked open the door of the quiet chamber.

Zhang Jian opened his eyes, gazing at this seated Inspector.

The Daoist Lord of the Hidden Phase had a slightly solemn expression; although Zhang Jian had not released any pressure, he still felt a terrifying might, daring not to be the slightest bit negligent.

Zhang Jian casually made a move, directly executing the action of slaying the Yang Sun Demon Venerable, which indeed fiercely shocked the gods of the Longevity True Realm.

The Daoist Lord of the Hidden Phase slightly bowed, then clasped his hands and said.

"Heavenly Venerable, a female demon has come to the Two Realms Battlefield, pointing out your name and surname to challenge you; I do not know whether to reply!"

After a slight pause, the Daoist Lord of the Hidden Phase continued.

"She calls herself the Nine Infant Demon Saint of the Demon Race!"

Zhang Jian spoke lightly.

"Is a Demon Saint that impressive?

Scold her away; this venerable one currently has no time to duel with a nobody!"

Upon hearing this, the Daoist Lord of the Hidden Phase was somewhat startled; he very much wanted to say that their Nine Infant Demon Saint is not a nobody, but after thinking it over, he still clasped his hands in assent.

After he left, Zhang Jian's eyes deepened slightly with something unusual.

Zhang Jian naturally knew the reputation of the Nine Infant Demon Saint.

In the ancient era, a famous great demon with a name and surname, who had once stirred up many disasters, and in many myths was also a terrifying great demon quite active.

Her cultivation must certainly not be weak.

But Zhang Jian simply did not want to pay attention to her.

The Longevity True Realm now only needs to hold steady; the longer the delay, the more beneficial it is for the Longevity True Realm.

When reinforcements arrive, with internal and external attack, he will fulfill this demon saint.

At this moment, Zhang Jian's eyes held a hint of chilling killing intent.

As the Nine Infant Demon Saint leapt forth, the truth of the Corridor Realm's destruction had already surfaced.

Clearly, the Corridor Realm probably fell under the combined forces of the demon and monster races.

The Corridor Realm, a great thousand-world domain, inside it not only billions of living beings, but countless human races all fell into the Eye of the Return to the Abyss; this blood debt naturally all falls on the heads of the demon and monster races.

Although he said he had no kinship with the human race of the Corridor Realm, as a core elder of the human race, he could not sit idly by while enemies roamed freely before his eyes without moving.

"Blood debts must be repaid with blood!"

His eyes flickered.

Soon he suppressed it; at this moment, his vast Other Shore will also subtly related to the gradually forming Two Realms Battlefield.

But one side of the Two Realms Battlefield is the Return to the Abyss Demon Domain condensed by the Ink God Demon Venerable.

The other side is the Longevity True Realm.

The erosion of the Longevity True Realm by the Return to the Abyss Demon Domain is actually not slow.

The Ink God Demon Venerable summoned a portion of the Return to the Abyss Great Will to descend.

But the Longevity True Realm is not the kind of world about to fall into the Return to the Abyss; the power of conclusion, the power of calamity accumulated is not much, so the Eastern Yang Emperor Venerable is still able to guard the Longevity True Realm, constantly using the Longevity True Form itself to turn all phenomena, wearing down calamity and evil, suppressing the influx of Return to the Abyss demonic qi.

If following the normal steps of attack, the Ink God Demon Venerable should logically try to directly tear apart a part of the Longevity True Realm's domain space, forcefully break in, directly destroy the Longevity True Realm's heavenly order, weaken the Dao Origin, and then continuously devour the Longevity True Realm.

After the balance collapses, the Ink God Legion in the Return to the Abyss Demon Domain naturally can rush in en masse to accomplish the great feat of conquering a realm.

But unfortunately, after Zhang Jian's single strike killed the Yang Sun Demon Venerable, the Ink God Demon Venerable had misgivings and was unwilling to personally take the risk.

In fact, the Ink God Demon Venerable's caution is also correct.

If he disregarded caution and forcefully broke in, Zhang Jian, with the support of his side's heavenly Dao, would have full confidence to slay the opponent within the Longevity True Realm.

However, the Ink God Demon Venerable's prolonged unwillingness to retreat also caused Zhang Jian to develop doubts.

The Ink God Demon Venerable seems to be waiting for something?

Waiting for internal chaos in the Longevity True Realm, to collapse without attack?

Zhang Jian pondered in his heart.

He recalled the sudden fall of the Corridor Realm.

Then recalling the Longevity True Realm's 'time bomb,' Zhang Jian's heart already had some understanding; his eyes deepened with a hint of coldness, then immediately transmitted a message that fell into the Longevity True Realm.

Afterwards he continued his secluded cultivation.

But not long after, the Daoist Lord of the Hidden Phase ran over again.

This Daoist Lord's face showed a gloomy color; he reported.

"Heavenly Venerable, that Nine Infant Demon Saint has come again to challenge, she said many unpleasant things in front of the Two Realms Battlefield!"

Zhang Jian opened his eyes, slightly furrowed his brows, then immediately said:

"Ignore her, scold her back; if she has the guts, let her directly enter the Void Law Realm, this venerable one will fulfill her wish!"

The Cangxiang Daoist nodded, also feeling indignant for Zhang Jian.

This one forcibly seized them as servants, yet is ultimately the reliance of the Changsheng True Realm.

With foreign enemies arriving and acting so arrogantly, he naturally also turns toward his own Celestial Venerable in his heart.

……

On the battlefield between the two realms, the Nine Infant Demon Saint heard the vile and obscene insults from across, her eyebrows standing on end, yet her mind was filled more with worry.

That Inspecting Celestial Venerable had a skin thicker than she imagined; no matter how she challenged or cursed, he refused to come out.

Unable to achieve her goal, the Nine Infant Demon Saint worried that the matter of the myriad demons allying with the Ink God Demon Sovereign might encounter changes.

She could only hope that the Inspecting Celestial Venerable would temporarily be distracted by them.

This is the best-case scenario.

The worst-case scenario is undoubtedly that the other side has already detected their plan; if they take advantage and set a trap, the White Ze Demon Saint who infiltrated first would likely face extreme danger.

The Nine Infant Demon Saint heard the harsh curses in her ears, paid no heed at this moment, and returned on her own to the Nine Infant Palace, then summoned the demons, fully assisting the Ink God army to swiftly break through the outer world barrier of the Changsheng True Realm.

……

In the Return to the Abyss Demon Realm, the Ink God Demon Sovereign stood upon the endless demon clouds, below which were countless terrifying extraterritorial demon gods.

The number of these extraterritorial demon gods is nearly ten million.

This scene is truly extraordinarily terrifying.

Seeing the Nine Infant Demon Saint's strategy fail, the Ink God Demon Sovereign's eyes flickered.

The black-robed demon god beside him followed silently, saying nothing.

Yet both saw clearly that this battle was now completely unlike their expectations.

Even failure is highly possible!

According to the Ink God Demon Sovereign's naturally cautious nature, under normal circumstances, he would certainly have already begun retreating.

The matter cannot be done; there is no need to take risks.

Moreover, the benefits contained within the Changsheng True Realm are not necessary for the demon god army.

Yet they still press forward without retreat, for both demon gods are willing to believe in the White Ze Demon Saint.

This demon clan strategist, since the fall of the ancient demon court, has been arranging things behind the scenes.

The demon clan has remained active from ancient times to the present, and this one has contributed greatly.

Whether in the Heavenly Demon Realm, the Mountain and Sea Realm, or the formation of numerous demon clan realms.

After all, by the end of the Middle Ancient era, the entire demon clan's backbone had nearly been broken.

Even some renowned ancient demon saints of heaven and earth were forcibly converted by major superpowers, or directly had secret seals implanted and subdued as mounts.

Such beings naturally deserve a bit more patience from the two demon gods.

We can only see how the demon clan strategist White Ze Demon Saint's methods will fare!

……

Within the Changsheng True Realm, at this moment a figure appeared out of nowhere in the void, wearing an ordinary blue robe; White Ze glanced toward the direction of the majestic celestial realm divine tree.

He was near that celestial realm divine tree by a hair's breadth.

The target is already very close!

Relying on the secret treasure in his hand, he could even feel the terrifying, vigorous vitality of the Heart Ancestor's Origin!