The "Sacrifice Purification Light" that Xu Zhan condensed from a hundred years of suffering, a lifetime of cultivation, and all his soul power was no ordinary energy attack. It contained the transcendent power of the "sacrifice" law. At the cost of his own complete annihilation, it triggered the most fundamental purifying characteristic of the World-Purifying Green Lotus lotus seed, and using the Demonic Lord's origin that had been nurtured within him for a century as a catalyst, it struck directly at the Demonic Lord's core essence!
That gray-white beam, like the judgment of fate, ignored all defenses and barriers, precisely striking the deepest, most untouchable origin core of the Demonic Lord's shadow.
Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!!!
As if scalding acid were splashed on ice, or sacred flames were burning a filthy soul! The Demonic Lord's shadow body, composed of endless negative emotions and pure demonic source, under the continuous irradiation of the gray-white beam, began to "melt"—not on a physical level, but directly acting on its essential existence!
Its massive, incomparable terrifying pressure that could crush the life force of everyone present rapidly declined and withered like a punctured balloon! The shadow's volume shrank and thinned at a visible rate. The various negative law fluctuations of destruction, chaos, and curses it contained became extremely chaotic, no longer able to maintain that posture of controlling everything.
"Ah—!! Xu Zhan!!! I will ensure you never reincarnate for all eternity!!!"
The Demonic Lord let out a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar filled with endless pain and maddened fury! This roar was no longer the previous aloof indifference and mockery, but carried the shame and rage of being severely wounded by an ant, of having its plans completely disrupted!
It had traversed the heavens, devoured realms—when had it ever suffered such a severe wound? And from one it viewed as a "cultivation vessel," a piece it had manipulated at will for a hundred years, using such a mutual-destruction method to wound it!
This was not just a loss of power, but a complete trampling of its dignity and schemes!
However, misfortunes never come singly!
There existed an extremely close energy and consciousness connection between the Demonic Lord's main body and the Perfect Demon Body being condensed. With the main body suffering such a devastating blow, that massive demon body suspended above the blood pool, fused from countless resentful souls and pure demonic energy, immediately suffered violent repercussions!
Crack! Crack crack crack—!
The solid ice covering the demon body's surface, cast by Mu Xue with all her strength, instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks from this internal energy eruption, then shattered with a crash! But what was revealed was not a smoothly condensing demon body, but an even more shocking sight!
That demon body which had initially taken human form was now like an explosive barrel detonated from within. Its surface violently twisted, expanded, collapsed! Countless resentful souls, having lost the Demonic Lord's will forcibly binding them, let out even more miserable and painful wails, scrambling to break free from the demon body, making its structure extremely unstable, as if it might completely collapse and disintegrate at any moment!
The mysterious and evil demonic patterns on the demon body's surface now flickered chaotically, winking in and out. Massive amounts of pure demonic energy like an out-of-control flood frantically scattered from the cracks in the demon body, no longer able to effectively condense and solidify!
The Perfect Demon Body's condensation process had been forcibly interrupted! Moreover, it had suffered near-destructive damage! Even if the Demonic Lord could survive this ordeal, who knows how many years and resources it would need to re-condense a perfect vessel!
"No! My demon body!!!"
The Demonic Lord's shadow let out an even more miserable howl, filled with heartbreak and madness! This demon body was the perfect vessel it had carefully prepared for this realm, spending enormous effort to condense to this stage. It was the crucial step for it to transcend this realm's constraints and explore the broader universe. Now it was destroyed in an instant!
Breath fallen, demon body damaged, plans collapsed!
All of this originated from Xu Zhan's unexpected, utterly resolute counterattack!
The Demonic Lord's shadow continued to shrink and fade under the gray-white beam's continuous purification. Although the beam's power was also rapidly consuming and about to completely dissipate, the wound to the Demonic Lord's main body had been dealt. Its aura had fallen by more than half compared to its peak! That despair-inducing pressure from the crushing of life levels had greatly diminished!
Its two deep dark "eyes" (now blurred and unclear) stared dead at the direction where Xu Zhan had dissipated, filled with bone-deep malice. Then, suddenly turned toward Tang Xiaoqi below!
All because of this boy! If not to nurture the lotus seed's vitality within him, why would it have allowed Xu Zhan's divine soul to remain? Why would it have left behind today's source of disaster?!
Endless rage and killing intent, mixed with the agony of its wounded main body, drove the Demonic Lord into complete madness!
"You... will all die!!!"
It let out a hysterical scream. Its shadow, shrunk by more than half yet still radiating terrifying aura, suddenly contracted, then like ink dropped into water, abruptly spread out countless jet-black waves containing all the destructive power it could currently muster, indiscriminately blasting toward everyone in the hall! Including the collapsing demon body—it seemed it didn't even want this ruined vessel anymore, only wanting to completely annihilate these detestable ants before it, along with this space!
Terrifying destructive energy surged like a tsunami. Xiao Qi and the others, who had just been shaken by Xu Zhan's sacrifice and hadn't yet emerged from their grief, instantly fell into an even more dangerous desperate situation!
Though heavily wounded, the Demonic Lord's deathbed counterattack still possessed power sufficient to destroy everything!