Projection of the Heavens: I prove my immortality through slaughter.

Lin Xuan annihilated a million-strong vanguard of the Heavenly Demons with a single palm strike, like pouring a ladle of ice water into a boiling oil pan. After the momentary silence, what followed was an even more frenzied and violent counterattack from the extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons!

The enormous rift stretching across the starry sky seemed to connect to a bottomless abyss, and the speed at which demonic energy surged suddenly increased! It was no longer a chaotic torrent of demonic soldiers, but began to exhibit a chilling order.

The low-level demonic soldiers still surged like a black tide, but they no longer blindly attacked the starlight barrier. Instead, driven by some invisible force, they coalesced into streams, like drills, continuously assaulting certain nodes of the grand formation. Although they still couldn't shake the foundation of the formation, they were greatly consuming the stellar power that maintained its operation.

What's even more chilling is that some enormous monsters with unusually large sizes and even more bizarre shapes have begun to appear in the demonic tide.

Some resembled rotting stars, their surfaces covered in writhing tumors and enormous eyeballs, constantly spewing corrosive, dark green pus that splattered onto the starlight barrier with a hissing sound, consuming starlight energy. Others were like centipedes pieced together from countless pale bones, stretching for thousands of miles, their hundred legs capable of tearing brief spatial rifts in the starlight, attempting to bypass the barrier's front. Still others were like drifting ghosts, semi-transparent, possessing a degree of immunity to physical and energy attacks, directly penetrating areas of weaker starlight to launch eerie mental attacks on the allied cultivators behind them.

These colossal monsters, generally possessing strength comparable to the late or even peak Golden Core stage, significantly increased the pressure on the allied forces relying on the grand formation for defense. Various magical lights, the bombardment of magical artifacts, the roars of the monsters, and corrosive energy clashed fiercely inside and outside the barrier. The explosive flames and the annihilation of demonic energy transformed this starry sky into a scene of purgatory.

"Form the 'Little Vajra Subduing Demon Formation'! Quickly!" "Fellow demons, leave that skull demon on the left to us!" "Beware of those ghost demons! Guard your spirit platform! May Buddha's light shine forth!"

Inspired by the lingering power of Lin Xuan's earlier palm strike, the allied cultivators fought back fiercely. Shouts of battle, chants of incantations, and the roars of demons mingled together, making for an exceptionally brutal battle. Cultivators fell continuously under the onslaught of demons or the sneak attacks of ghost demons, turning into dust in the starry sky. However, with Lin Xuan in command and the great formation supporting them, the defensive line stubbornly held its ground.

However, everyone knew that this was just the beginning. The real test was yet to come.

As if to confirm their concerns—

"Thump!!!"

A deafening roar, so deep it seemed to strike the very core of the universe, suddenly emanated from the depths of the spatial rift!

The entire starry sky surrounding the rift trembled violently! Even the sturdy prototype of the Zhou Tian Star Array showed obvious ripples in its starlight barrier!

A pressure far more terrifying and profound than any previous demon, filled with an absolute will of destruction and chaos, slowly emanated from the crack like an ancient ferocious beast awakening!

Under this oppressive force, the frenzied demonic tide, as if summoned by the arrival of a king, slowed its advance and emitted even more frenzied howls. Meanwhile, the allied cultivators at the rear were all deathly pale; those with weaker cultivation even coughed up blood, their souls swaying, barely able to maintain flight!

Then, under the gaze of countless horrified eyes, a giant claw covered in dark red scales and with black demonic flames burning at its fingertips suddenly emerged from the crack! This single claw was as large as a small star!

The giant claw gripped the edge of the crack and exerted force!

"Crack... Boom!!!"

The rift was forcibly torn open again and widened! An unimaginably large shadow slowly struggled out from the rift!

It finally revealed its full form.

It was a being resembling a dragon from Western mythology, yet far more ferocious and terrifying. Nearly ten thousand miles long, its entire body was covered in thick, dark red scales that appeared to be made of congealed blood, with a ghostly light flowing from the gaps in the scales. A pair of fleshy wings, spread wide, blotted out the sky, covered with twisted, writhing, eerie runes. Its head was like a mountain, with three pairs of curved horns burning with black demonic flames atop it. Its vertical pupils were like two bottomless pools of blood, filled with endless violence, greed, and a destructive desire.

The demonic power emanating from its body, like a tangible tide, crashed against the starlight barrier, causing the entire formation to hum under immense pressure! The starlight on the barrier flickered at an alarming rate!

The Heavenly Demon Lord! And one of the most powerful beings among them, whose strength had reached the terrifying level of the late Nascent Soul stage! Far surpassing the one that Lin Xuan had previously injured from a distance!

"Insects... how dare you stand in my way..."

A deep, resonant sound, like the echo of billions of thunderbolts, resounded directly into the depths of the souls of all living beings, carrying a demonic power that could shatter one's mind. Those blood-red vertical pupils ignored the allied cultivators who were stubbornly resisting in front of them, pierced through the starlight barrier, and firmly locked onto Lin Xuan, who stood on the main star.

It sensed the aura of power emanating from Lin Xuan, a power that it both loathed and feared, a power unlike anything in this world.

"Delicious...soul...destroyed..."

The Heavenly Demon Lord let out a greedy roar. It opened its huge mouth, not to spew demonic flames, but to condense an extremely compressed dark singularity deep in its throat, which seemed capable of devouring all light!

Around the singularity, space collapsed wildly inward, even distorting and swallowing starlight!

The next moment, the dark singularity transformed into a silent beam of destructive light, ignoring the distance in space, and instantly struck the starlight barrier of the Zhou Tian Star Array!

"boom--!!!!!"

This time, it's not just ripples!

It was a violent tremor of the entire starlight barrier! In the area hit by the singularity, large swaths of starlight dimmed and went out, and the barrier's thickness thinned at a visible rate, even showing tiny, spiderweb-like cracks!

"Oh no! The formation is about to collapse!" "Alliance Leader!"

The allied cultivators cried out in terror. Their morale, which had just been boosted, plummeted once again under the unparalleled demonic might of the Heavenly Demon Lord.

The defense line is in grave danger!

All eyes were drawn to the purple-gold figure that still stood atop the main star.

Faced with this Heavenly Demon Lord, who is comparable to the late Nascent Soul stage, can the Alliance Leader still create a miracle?

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