"Demon Lord—it's the Eastern Demon Lord's troops!"
Unlike Jiang Yuan and the others, Feng Tai, the general behind the Western Demon Lord, recognized the demon army chasing Aoshi Longhuang and his group. A look of delight immediately appeared on his face as he excitedly reported to the Western Demon Lord.
"Get lost, just get lost! Damn it!"
Ding Ye couldn't help but curse loudly as he watched Aoshi Longhuang getting closer and closer to their position.
"Brother Cangsheng, I think we need to take the initiative and attack. We can't let these two demon forces surround us like dumplings!"
Jiang Yuan quickly assessed the situation on the field and urgently said to Wen Ding Cangsheng.
"Good point. Let's clear out these demon soldiers first!"
Wen Ding Cangsheng nodded. Compared to the terrifying Western Demon Lord before them, the group of demon soldiers behind were clearly much easier to handle!
"Brothers, charge with me!"
Wen Ding Cangsheng raised his great sword high and shouted to the players from the Tianbo Mansion and Hanjiang City alliances, then charged toward Aoshi Longhuang.
"Damn it! They're not coming to kill us, are they?"
Seeing Wen Ding Cangsheng and Jiang Yuan suddenly change direction and rush toward them, Aoshi Longhuang was startled, freezing in place.
But what puzzled Aoshi Longhuang was that when these players from the Hanjiang City and Tianbo Mansion alliances reached their side, they completely ignored the players from Emperor Province and the Ten Thousand Mile Alliance, instead hurling their skills at the demon soldiers chasing those two alliances!
Watching these "enemy players" rush past him, Aoshi Longhuang's face flushed red—he had misjudged them!
Realizing he had been petty and suspicious, Aoshi Longhuang said nothing and began leading the players from Emperor Province and the Ten Thousand Mile Alliance, alongside the other two alliances, to counterattack the pursuing demon forces behind them.
Another chaotic battle erupted. The Eastern Demon Lord's ten-thousand-strong army began to struggle against the over 140 players from the four alliances who had reached the First-Rank Loose Immortal realm, losing their overwhelming advantage.
Just then, the Ascension Platform, which had been completely silent, suddenly shook violently!
"Thump! Thump! Thump!"
Deep, heavy sounds echoed from the Ascension Platform, as if a giant were tapping a massive stone door with its fingers. The players from the four alliances and the demon soldiers all stopped fighting, their gazes fixed on the Ascension Platform.
"Not good! The seal is about to break. Han, you old ghost, get over here and help!"
The commotion from the Ascension Platform made the Western Demon Lord's expression shift. He quickly looked at the distant Eastern Demon Lord, who stood with his hands behind his back, and growled in a low voice.
A figure streaked past Jiang Yuan's head and landed steadily at the edge of the Ascension Platform.
Jiang Yuan focused his eyes. The newcomer was wrapped in a loose black robe that covered his entire body, and eerily, he wore a mask engraved with a ferocious ghost face.
By then, the Western Demon Lord had also arrived at the edge of the Ascension Platform, standing shoulder to shoulder with the Eastern Demon Lord.
"Han, you old ghost, how about we first reinforce the seal together, then deal with these annoying human ants, and finally take on those from the Celestial Realm?"
The Western Demon Lord said to the mysterious figure in black beside him, right in front of Jiang Yuan and the other four-alliance players.
But Jiang Yuan wasn't focused on the Western Demon Lord's words. Instead, he stared intently at the mysterious black-robed figure beside him, feeling a strange sense of familiarity.
The Eastern Demon Lord said nothing, only nodded. He then extended a finger and gently tapped the seal on the Ascension Platform.
Streams of black demonic energy flowed from his fingertip, and the patterns covering the entire Ascension Platform grew glossier as they absorbed this energy.
"Thump, thump, thump!"
From the clouds above the Ascension Platform, the knocking grew more intense, as if something had been discovered, each sound more urgent and louder than the last.
While the two Demon Lords from the demon realm worked together to reinforce the seal, Jiang Yuan and Wen Ding Cangsheng exchanged a glance and continued leading the Hanjiang City and Tianbo Mansion players to speed up the cleanup of the demon soldiers.
"Ding! Congratulations on killing a demon soldier. You have gained 180,000 experience points!"
"Ding! Congratulations on killing a demon squad leader. You have gained 360,000 experience points!"
"Ding! Congratulations on killing a demon centurion. You have gained 900,000 experience points!"
A series of notifications rang in their ears. Under the relentless bombardment of area-of-effect skills from the four alliances' mages, the Eastern Demon Lord's ten thousand demon soldiers were annihilated, reduced to nothing but dust!
By then, the two Demon Lord-level figures from the demon realm had also reinforced the seal somewhat, enough to hold for a little while longer.
"Let's go. Let's take care of these ants first!"
The Western Demon Lord glanced at the Eastern Demon Lord. His robes billowed as waves of demonic energy surged from his body. Unlike the black demonic energy released by the Eastern Demon Lord, the Western Demon Lord's energy was blood-red!
This dark, blood-red demonic energy twisted and intertwined before the Western Demon Lord, gradually forming a skull about the size of a truck. It glowed with an eerie red light, hovering silently in front of him.
"Go!"
The Western Demon Lord pointed, and the blood-red skull opened its gaping maw, flying swiftly toward the four-alliance players on the field!
"Ah!" "Ah!" "Ah!"
Screams erupted one after another. Any four-alliance player grazed by the blood-red skull had their health bar vanish instantly, turning into a corpse.
With that single strike, the Western Demon Lord wiped out the entire four-alliance force! Only Jiang Yuan, protected by his blue, rippling water-shield, managed to survive.
"Interesting."
The Eastern Demon Lord, Han Xiaotian, looked at Jiang Yuan standing alone on the field. His expression was unreadable beneath the ghost mask as he spoke flatly, then pointed a finger at Jiang Yuan!
"Boom!"
A damage number of 13,200,000 appeared above Jiang Yuan's head. His body went limp and collapsed, his consciousness slowly fading.
Just as Jiang Yuan's awareness sank into boundless darkness, a thought suddenly surfaced in his mind.
"That voice... it sounds so familiar!"
When his consciousness cleared again, Jiang Yuan found himself automatically resurrected in the Hanjiang City alliance's capital, Shangjing City.
"Master, you're alive again?"
A voice echoed in Jiang Yuan's mind. He looked closely and saw that Beiluoshimen had somehow followed him back here!
"Do you want your master to die or something?"
Jiang Yuan grabbed the loose skin at the back of Beiluoshimen's neck, lifted her up, shook her, and said menacingly.