"I am the Jade Emperor of the Celestial Realm. Who are you, daring to trespass upon my domain?" The Jade Emperor stood with his hands behind his back, frowning as he gazed at the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor, who had transformed into a giant. "I am the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor, ruler of the Demon Realm. My status matches yours, so we can speak as equals." The Blood Shadow Demon Emperor's body rapidly shrank back to normal size, and he looked at the Jade Emperor with a chuckle. "Why do you attack my Celestial Realm without cause?" The Jade Emperor's eyes were stern as he questioned the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor. "All I ask is that your Celestial Realm return the sacred foot of our Demon Realm's Demon Ancestor. I, the Demon Emperor, promise to leave the Celestial Realm immediately." The Blood Shadow Demon Emperor spread his hands, looking at the Jade Emperor, clearly demanding the foot of the Demon Ancestor Luo Hou. "Once the Demon Ancestor Luo Hou is reborn, the Three Realms will face a great calamity. You want his remains? Dream on!" As soon as the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor finished speaking, the Jade Emperor directly rejected his demand. "Since we can't reach an agreement, then let's fight. I'll keep going until you yield!" Seeing the Jade Emperor shake his head in refusal, the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor wasted no more words. He transformed into billions of blood-red divine lights, surging toward the Jade Emperor like a tidal wave. "Boundless Heavenly Lord!" The Jade Emperor pressed a single palm to his chest, chanting loudly. Then a green barrier expanded, enveloping all the Celestial Realm's forces within, shielding them from the erosion of the billions of blood-red lights outside. "Sizzle!" "Fizz!" The billions of blood-red lights conjured by the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor crashed against the barrier, producing a grating sound. Yet, these highly corrosive divine lights, when meeting the barrier formed by the Jade Emperor's divine power, were firmly held at bay. After a sustained effort, the billions of blood-red lights found they couldn't break through the green barrier's defense. They rapidly converged again, reforming into a blood-red giant over ten zhang tall, which slammed a heavy fist onto the barrier! Boom! Those inside the barrier, including Jiang Yuan and the other Celestial Realm beings, felt as if an earthquake had struck beneath their feet. Many players, like Jiang Yuan, couldn't keep their balance and tumbled to the ground. "Yuanzi, do you think if we take down this boss called the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor, he might drop some divine artifacts?" Ding Ye sat sprawled on the ground, looking up at the towering blood-red giant outside the barrier, then turned to Jiang Yuan and asked. "Give it a rest. Against him, we'd be one-shot. I doubt we could even break through his defense." Wending Cangsheng shot Ding Ye a sidelong glance and smiled helplessly. Wending Cangsheng was right. This Blood Shadow Demon Emperor, like the Gouchen Emperor displayed above their heads, was an ultimate boss at level 999—far beyond what they could handle at this stage. Jiang Yuan, watching the blood-red giant outside the barrier, added, "I reckon we'd need to level up for another ten years before we could even scratch a boss like this." "Ten years? My god! By then, who knows if we'll even still be playing this game!" Chuangshi Xiaoyun chimed in, laughing in astonishment. While Jiang Yuan chatted with his team, the battle above continued. The blood-red giant, which the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor had transformed into, was swinging its fists tirelessly, pounding the massive barrier formed by the Jade Emperor's supreme divine power. With each punch, the barrier's color dimmed a little more. "Boom!" After dozens of consecutive blows, the green barrier finally couldn't hold. With a earth-shattering roar, it exploded into pieces! "Hehehe! I've been fighting for so long, I'm tired. Time for some nourishment!" The blood-red giant's body rapidly shrank back into the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor's form, then turned into billions of blood-red lights, charging toward the Celestial Realm's heavenly soldiers. "Ah!" "Help!" A series of screams rang out. Under Jiang Yuan's horrified gaze, the hundreds of thousands of Celestial Realm heavenly soldiers behind the Jade Emperor fell one by one, turning into skeletal, withered corpses in the blink of an eye! "Hehehe! Delicious!" In an instant, having devoured the essence blood of nearly a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers, the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor reformed into human shape, licked his lips, and let out a sinister smile. "Damn! I remember now! You're that Shadow Demon from Shadowmoon Valley!" Hearing the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor's eerie laugh, Jiang Yuan felt a flicker of familiarity. Combining that with the enemy's ability to split, he racked his brain and suddenly pointed at the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor, shouting. At these words, the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor's body stiffened. His eyes quickly scanned the crowd, searching for the speaker. "Brat, it's you!" Spotting Jiang Yuan in the crowd, the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor studied his features. A long-buried memory unlocked, and he immediately recognized the culprit who had nearly destroyed him with the Demon-Slaying Needle back then! "Brat, your life is mine!" The Blood Shadow Demon Emperor hadn't expected to run into the guy who had beaten him up so long ago, now in the Celestial Realm. Furious, he raised a hand and sent a blood-red light shooting straight at Jiang Yuan. Pfft! The blood-red light pierced through Jiang Yuan's body at lightning speed. Poor Jiang Yuan, with no chance to fight back, collapsed to the ground as a corpse. "It really is you! I should have killed you back then!" After being revived by Hamster Pudding's resurrection skill, Jiang Yuan pointed at the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor, now the ruler of the Demon Realm, and cursed loudly. "Brat, today I'll grind your bones to dust!" The humiliating memories of the past surged back, and the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor abandoned the Jade Emperor, charging straight at Jiang Yuan! "Mom! Your Majesty, save me!" Seeing the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor, now an ultimate boss, rushing toward him, Jiang Yuan shuddered in terror, let out a strange yelp, and quickly hid behind the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor threw a punch from afar at the charging Blood Shadow Demon Emperor, sending him flying backward. "In my presence, you have no room to act recklessly!" The Jade Emperor's punch sent the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor reeling. He shielded Jiang Yuan like a mother hen protecting her chick, speaking with immense authority. "Your Majesty is mighty!" "Your Majesty is formidable!" Seeing this, Jiang Yuan began frantically flattering the Jade Emperor! "Jade Emperor, how about I trade these two for the one behind you?" To Jiang Yuan's surprise, the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor suddenly pulled two people from behind him, addressing the Jade Emperor. "Your Majesty, save us!" Two voices rang out almost simultaneously. The Jade Emperor looked closely and saw it was Erlang Shen Yang Jian and Nezha, both captured alive! Seeing Yang Jian and Nezha, the Third Lotus Prince, in the Blood Shadow Demon Emperor's grasp—one was the Jade Emperor's own nephew, the other his trusted right-hand man and supreme commander of the land, sea, and air forces— The Jade Emperor looked at them, then turned to Jiang Yuan. After a moment of silence, his next words nearly made Jiang Yuan's soul leap out of his body! "Minister Jiang, how about you make a sacrifice?"