The World-Purifying Green Lotus phantom's light, like an invisible sea of purification, gently yet cruelly washed over every corner of the Demon Palace's grand hall. The Demonic Lord's shadow, already shrunk to a millstone's size, like a bug trapped in amber, twisted madly in the green light's embrace, struggling and emitting screams twisted to varying pitches.
In these screams, the previous indifference, mockery, and rage had long vanished, replaced by a life-instinct, most primitive, profound—fear!
It sensed it.
That green light was not mere energy, but some kind of... rule! A natural enemy law engraved in the universe's origin, specifically established to restrain and purify existences like them from the dark side!
Its demonic source, that massive foundation condensed over who knows how many tens of thousands of years, devouring countless realms' negative emotions and energy, before this green light, was like ice and snow meeting its nemesis, beginning to disintegrate and melt from the very core! Not being defeated, but being... "erased"! As if its very existence was a mistake, now being forcibly corrected by the universe's corrective force!
This kind of negation and purification from the existence level was far more terrifying than any physical or energy-level attack! This was the absolute restraint in the true sense that it had never encountered while traversing the heavens!
"No—!!! What power is this?! Why can it directly erode my origin?! The World-Purifying Green Lotus long ago collapsed and was destroyed! This is fake! An illusion!" The Demonic Lord's shadow let out a mad shriek in extreme fear, attempting to deny this terrible reality beyond its cognition. Its constantly shrinking shadow edges violently fluctuated, attempting to condense power to counterattack, but any demonic energy the moment it left its body, was like water droplets falling into a red-hot iron pot, instantly evaporating completely, instead accelerating its origin's consumption.
It "looked" at that slowly rotating Green Lotus phantom, at that human youth before the phantom whose aura was merged with the Green Lotus. Yes! Everything was because of this variable! This ant that should have been its perfect "vessel"!
Fear like a poisonous vine madly entwined its core composed of negative emotions. It realized that continuing like this, without the other party needing to act further, it would itself completely disintegrate in this purification light, returning to the most primitive cosmic dust!
No! It could not die! It had devoured so many realms, accumulated for such long ages, how could it perish in this remote little realm?! Perish at the hands of an ant it viewed as food?!
Ultimate fear often gave birth to ultimate madness!
"You want to purify me?! Then let's perish together!!!"
The Demonic Lord's shadow let out a hysterical roar mixed with despair and madness! It no longer attempted to resist that omnipresent purification light, but instead... actively abandoned the cohesion of most peripheral shadows, taking its remaining will and core demonic source, like a suicide attack... fiercely crashing toward that blood pool below that, although largely purified, still retained vast dark energy!
No! Its target was not the blood pool itself, but that Perfect Demon Body that under the green light's washing was already broken beyond repair, on the verge of complete disintegration!
Although the demon body's condensation was interrupted and severely damaged, it still contained the massive pure demonic energy and resentful soul origin it had prepared for this realm! That was the result of a hundred years of painstaking management!
"With my remnant soul as guide! Absorbing ten thousand souls' demonic energy! Forging... Oblivion Demon Embryo!"
The Demonic Lord's remaining shadow, like a moth to flame, plunged headfirst into that broken demon body's chest position! It was going to use its own remaining origin as the core, forcibly devouring and fusing all remaining energy within the demon body, disregarding consequences, disregarding everything... to perform one final, most mad condensation!
It no longer pursued "perfection," no longer needed a "vessel"! What it wanted was, in the shortest time, to erupt with transcendent-limit destructive energy sufficient to shake or even pollute that World-Purifying Green Lotus phantom! Even if it meant its own consciousness would become chaotic and form collapse, it would not hesitate!
Rumble rumble—!!!
The broken demon body, after the Demonic Lord's remnant soul merged, like being injected with a violent catalyst, suddenly violently expanded! From those cracks on the surface that were originally being purified, viscous pitch-black demonic energy gushed out. Within the demonic energy, countless resentful souls were forcibly crushed and fused, emitting final desperate wails! A chaotic, tyrannical, self-destructive terrifying aura erupted from within the demon body like a blowout!
The blood pool's residual liquid that had become clear under the green light was instantly dyed pitch-black again and began boiling, transforming into pillars of demonic energy madly pouring into that expanding demon body!
The demon body's form began to undergo strange distortions, no longer humanoid, but transforming toward some indescribable, twisted-tentacle-and-painful-face-filled tumor-like object! The energy fluctuations it radiated, although chaotic, were madly climbing at an abnormal speed, even faintly beginning to contend with the surrounding purification green light!
It was burning everything it had, including that remaining rationality, conducting the final, mad gamble!
Even if the end was still destruction, it wanted to drag this damned little realm, drag this damned Green Lotus phantom, drag that damned ant... to be buried together!
The World-Purifying Green Lotus's green light still continuously purified the demonic energy radiating from that distorted demon embryo, but the speed was clearly hindered. That demon embryo was like a volcano constantly erupting filth. The destructive energy contained within was too vast and chaotic. Even the Green Lotus's power could not instantly completely purify it.
The situation, once again became critical!
The Demonic Lord's mad counterattack pushed this final battle toward an even more unpredictable abyss!