Chapter 499: Chapter 282: Emperor Shows His Might!

“This is bad!”

In the underground palace of Kumu Temple, several demons from the Demon Sect of the Northern Land who had arrived through the transmission array, realized that the crucial Big Array failed to have the expected effect.

One by one, they began to think of retreating.

The Sect Master of the Demon Lotus Sect was among them, and was not surprised by the hesitant expressions of the demons.

However, since they had already come,

how could they leave so easily at this critical moment?

The thought had barely crossed the Sect Master’s mind when the underground palace’s transmission array suddenly cracked and dissipated with a snap.

This left the other demons stunned, and they quickly became frustrated:

“What’s going on!”

“I knew this would happen!”

“However, you don’t think that cutting off our way out will make us from the Holy Sect fight desperately for you, do you?”

While whispering among themselves, the demons gathered together.

At the same time, a bright white light filled the underground palace, revealing more than ten monks, each with a Black Lotus on their foreheads.

They were arranged to the left and right of a young monk at the center, all staring at the demons trying to flee.

All these monks, except for the young monk, were merely at the Foundation Establishment cultivation level.

Yet these demons, each at least at the middle period of the Golden Core cultivation level, felt a chill throughout their bodies and a sense of urgent alarm in their hearts.

“Hmph!”

A chubby demon with big ears took out a black Spiritual Pearl. Holding the pearl, he slightly calmed down for a moment and then coldly huffed:

“This is not what we agreed on, old pig I don’t want to have a direct confrontation with the Blood God Ancestor!”

“Fellows, those who want to leave with me, lend me a hand and watch as I deploy the Great Translocation Divine Power and get out of this damned place!”

As soon as the big-eared demon spoke, he immediately received approval from the other demons around him.

They crowded against the big-eared demon, channeling mana into him while also,

keeping a wary eye on the hostile Sect Master of the Demon Lotus Sect and the strange monks.

Each of them brought out their foundations, sending out Spirit Treasures and Demon Weapons brimming with demonic qi that flew around them as safeguards.

“Attention! Quickly increase your mana output; help me break the restrictions of this place!”

After a few tense moments of standoff, the big-eared demon suddenly sent a warning through his Divine Sense to the other demons around him.

Then… the next second!

The demons who had increased their mana output suddenly changed their expressions.

Shockingly, on the big-eared demon, the upper half of a Demon Lord’s illusion with two horns appeared.

With the Demon Lord’s illusion tilting its head back and spreading its arms as if to inhale,

the surrounding demons pressing close to the big-eared demon, unable to utter a single sound,

first lost their energy, and in just a few breaths, their bodies turned into skin and bones.

In the end, even their bones and the last bit of body fluid vanished.

All that remained was a shriveled husk of skin that slumped to the ground.

The Spirit Treasures and Demon Weapons also, having lost their masters, fell and clattered to the ground.

“Not enough.”

The Demon Lord’s illusion sighed lightly with closed eyes, and then,

the big-eared demon taken over by him also suddenly shook, showing a pained expression,

and before long, he too turned into a dried-up husk of skin.

The big-eared demon’s Spiritual Pearl was about to hit the ground,

but was caught mid-air by the Sect Master of the Demon Lotus Sect, who then swallowed the pearl with a grin.

“This Demon Pearl from the Demon Pearl Sect is indeed a fine item passed down in their lineage for a thousand years.”

“It’s better that I keep it to maximize its use.”

After explaining, the Sect Master bowed to the illusion of the Demon Lord in the air:

“Venerate, shall we continue the sacrificial ritual?”

“Continue.”

“That guy has made me more and more curious.”

“Even if we can’t capture him this time, figuring out some clues is also acceptable.”

The Demon Lord’s illusion spoke indifferently.

Yet inside, he was no longer as arrogant as when he first encountered the Blood God Ancestor.

An egomaniac couldn’t possibly rise to the seventh place among the sons of the Evil God.

He started to hesitate about how much investment it would take to conquer the seemingly fragile but incessantly peculiar Immortal Cultivation World.

The monks surrounded the Demon Lord’s illusion, their eyes alight with fanatic fervor, as if they saw the True God they’d devoutly worshipped all their lives.

The young monk stepped out from the ranks and came to the side of the Sect Master of the Demon Lotus Sect, simultaneously taking out a small cloth bag and throwing it to the ground.

As the mouth of the bag loosened, a cold wind swept through, and thousands of Evil Spirits flew out of the bag.

Screaming as they just reached mid-air, they involuntarily got sucked into the Demon Lord’s illusion and disappeared.

“This bag contains thousands of Evil Spirits suppressed and sealed by the Kumu Temple over the past century.”

“Now it is a fitting sacrifice for the Venerate.”

The young monk said lightly.

The Sect Master of the Demon Lotus Sect, however, sneered inwardly.

An era can hardly yield so many Evil Spirits to seal.

It must be this trusted true inheritor of Master Xuanmu, using his position and power, who had been secretly driving low-tier cultivators or mortals insane, turning them into Evil Spirits, and then capturing and sealing them.

Boom!

The ceiling of the underground palace suddenly transmitted a huge tremor.

The shockwaves spread down layer by layer afterward, resonating within the underground palace.

The young monk’s eyes momentarily flickered with regret.

But soon, he regained his composure and said:

“The top can’t hold much longer; the one you first chose is even more useless than imagined.”

“Must be scared,”

“Don’t worry, with your special constitution and no major faults, the Venerate wouldn’t bear to devour you.”

Having seen through the other’s careful plans, the Sect Master of the Demon Lotus Sect casually remarked.