Chapter 133

At the same time.

Outside the Desolate Martial Continent, in the Void Flow Region, lies the middle-tier world Demon Realm.

The Demon Realm borders the Desolate Martial Great World; their heavenly dao levels are identical, both being continents where the Emperor Realm represents the pinnacle of power, both constrained by the heavenly dao and unable to reach the Immortal Realm.

However, the Demon Realm's overall strength far exceeds that of the Desolate Martial Great World, because the entire Demon Realm is ruled by the Demon Emperor, unlike the fragmented forces of the Desolate Martial world, where each faction fights on its own.

Aside from the dominant demon clan, the Demon Realm is home to countless other races, such as the Rakshasa clan, the Asura clan, and the Undead Ghost clan.

However, all these races must submit to the rule of the strongest demon clan; if they disobey, a single word from the Demon Emperor could doom their entire race to extinction.

Because the entire Demon Realm Continent bears the demon's name, it clearly shows the strength of the demon clan.

Demon Realm, Demon Domain.

The Demon Domain is the demon clan's main stronghold, where numerous powerful demons gather and the Demon Emperor resides.

The demon clan numbers in the hundreds of billions, with countless experts and innumerable demon soldiers; the combined strength of this region equals that of the three greatest upper provinces of the central region in the Desolate Martial Great World.

At this moment, the Demon Palace.

Towering castles of varied styles dot the landscape, the sky shrouded in dark red hues, and everywhere is enveloped by an overwhelming demonic aura.

Within the magnificent, awe-inspiring Demon Palace, the Demon Emperor sits upon the high throne, demonic energy surging around him, his head crowned with massive horns, his face veiled in a hazy black mist, obscuring his features.

Dozens of demon kings stand respectfully below.

Several demon venerables float beside the palace.

They all gaze reverently toward the throne above.

"Shixue, how is the opening of the passage from the Chaotic Flow Star Region to the Desolate Martial Continent coming along?"

The Demon Emperor looked down and asked sternly.

This is a concerted effort by the entire Demon Realm to open the gateway to the Desolate Martial Continent, invade it, and feast on its cultivators, who are nothing but delicious blood food.

"Report, Your Majesty the Demon Emperor, the powerful blood food of the Desolate Martial Continent has been guarding there, and we have repelled it after countless attacks by our demon army."

Beside him, the demon venerable named Shixue, appointed by the Demon Emperor, spoke respectfully.

"Huh? So you're saying our demon army still can't break through the entrance to the Desolate Martial world?"

The Demon Emperor snorted coldly, and a massive demonic pressure bore down.

"Your Majesty the Demon Emperor, please forgive us."

In the hall, the numerous demons immediately bowed their heads and hastily spoke.

They dare not lift their heads, staring at the ground, knowing the Demon Emperor's cruelty—any displeasure brings death, and now the bones of demons piled in the rear courtyard of the Demon Palace have formed a mountain.

Shixue, standing beside the palace, seeing this, nevertheless continued: "Your Majesty the Demon Emperor, please forgive me; I have not finished speaking."

"Do you still remember the invasion of the Desolate Martial world tens of millions of years ago?"

"Back then, by breaking through the seal, a batch of our demon army surged out, seemingly invading the eastern region of those blood food cultivators, only to later be annihilated by the Great Emperor of those blood food."

Tens of millions of years ago, they happened upon a passage that could bypass the Chaotic Flow Star Region and lead straight to the Desolate Martial Continent, but the passage was too narrow, allowing only a portion of the army to be sent.

However, after those troops transported blood food out for a period of time, they lost contact.

The final message said that a Great Emperor of the blood food had intervened, which they could not withstand.

Later, when the demon clan tried to send powerful beings to the Desolate Martial world, they discovered that the heavenly dao of Desolate Martial had sealed it.

"Huh? You're saying we can go there?"

The Demon Emperor, upon hearing this, asked and simultaneously withdrew the demonic energy he had released.

Only then did the demon kings beneath the palace dare to rise.

They felt fortunate, relieved that the Blood Venerable was present; otherwise, the Demon Emperor might have had to pick a few of them to vent his anger.

"Yes, Your Majesty the Demon Emperor."

"Lately I have noticed that a seal is steadily weakening; it seems something has happened to the Wasteland Continent, and I have already sent our strong ones to break it, which should take only a few days."

"By then, not a single blood food of the Desolate Martial Continent will escape—hahaha!"

Having said that, the demon venerable Shixue let out a sinister laugh, his blood-red eyes flashing with feral light.

"Haha, good, then speed it up; once we break the seal, I, the Emperor, will reward you with hundreds of millions of blood food."

The Demon Emperor rose and said, as a tremendous demonic surge swept through the hall.

"We shall faithfully obey the edict of Your Majesty the Demon Emperor."

Elsewhere.

Azure Cloud Sect, in front of the sect gate.

At this moment, the Heavenly Pride Battle is in full swing.

On the martial arts platform, spiritual qi surges, sword qi crisscrosses intermittently, and battle intent soars.

Boom—

The tremendous collision echoed through the heavens.

"So strong, so huge, so mighty!"

"Holy crap! These senior brothers are so fierce; I challenged them, couldn't last three breaths, and was knocked off the stage by an outer sect senior brother."

Beside him, a black-smoke-emitting, pitch-black man exclaimed excitedly: "What's this? I got beaten so badly in the second battlefield that I'm about to crap myself!"

"That senior brother is truly formidable!"

"Wielding the power of lightning, surging spiritual qi burst forth, and a single palm strike sent me flying off the stage."

"Look, I'm still a battle‑hardened head!"

Here, the battlefield is divided into three arenas.

In the Transformation Spirit Realm match, the inner sect senior brother Qin Han and the second inner sect senior brother Ning Yan face off.

In the Cavity Void Realm, the geniuses are matched by rank against the remaining eight inner sect disciples and the top ten of the outer sect ranking.

The Nascent Soul geniuses, in batches, fought the remaining twenty disciples on the outer sect ranking list.

If one is assigned to challenge an inner-door senior brother and fails, they can directly become an outer-door disciple.

After all, those inner-door disciples are heaven's pride cultivators with extremely high strength, and they also practice immortal arts, so it's normal to be unable to defeat them.

However, the cultivators assigned to inner-door battles also have high realms, sufficient to defeat the lowest-ranked outer-door disciples, so they directly skipped the battle.

In other words, if your strength is strong and your realm high, defeating an inner-door disciple lets you directly enter the inner door; if you cannot defeat them, you can still directly ascend to the outer door.

However, such cultivators are few; they are renowned heaven's pride from each region, and the central region has the greatest number of them.

However, these are no longer important, after all, in one month the sect's disciple promotion rules will be revised.

At that time, promotion will be based solely on realm; if you want to obtain resources, you can either exchange contribution points or secure a spot on the disciple ranking list.

Outside the sect, the sound of the great battle here reverberates to the clouds.

The illusory realm sky-ladder examination below is still ongoing.

They all heard the sound of the great battle at the mountain peak outside the sect.

They also understood what the second stage examination is.

It turned out not to be a mere test of talent, but entirely based on each one's own strength.

This is how the mind's way should be; originally the cultivation world speaks by strength.

If only talent were tested, it would be unfair to cultivators whose talent is low but whose strength is great.

For example, mortal-body cultivators, innately worthless cultivators.

Some of them can greatly enhance their strength through their own fortuitous encounters.

Even such a saying has been circulated.

The mortal body is inherently an invincible path; why need to borrow heavenly blessings!

Below, the Lin family's heaven's pride Lin Bu Fan is anxious, stamping his feet.

Also don't know how the battle above is going.

Xuan'er, are you alright?

No, we can't just wait idly; he must take action.

He made up his mind resolutely; normally, he would never dare to provoke the Imperial Sect.

However, when a person goes mad, they can do anything.

He circulated his spiritual energy and shouted loudly: "Imperial Sect's strong ones, I am not resigned!"

"Please give me an opportunity to display my strength!"