Chapter 760: The Demon God Arrives, the Awakening of the Dragon Emperor (III)

Burning divine law power to merge into the void, Chen Chu flashed across dozens of kilometers in an instant, his speed reaching insane levels.

While rushing onward, he casually pulled out four pieces of looted spatial equipment, preparing to check his harvest.

Just as Chen Chu's will entered a scale he had seized from one of the ox-horned demon kings, a deafening roar blasted through the darkness. A phantom of a demon king, hundreds of meters tall, emerged from the shadows.

Bang!

With a flash of black light, a blade-shaped rune swept across the void. The Insightful Void-Slashing Eye instantly severed the retaliating will, revealing a kilometer-wide pocket of space.

Inside were dozens of varieties of ordinary god-level resources—a pile of black ores as large as small mountains, a spine hundreds of meters long from some unknown mythical colossal beast, and a golden box emanating waves of top-grade god-level resource fluctuations.

For a middle-stage demon king, this wealth was quite decent. At the mythical level, however, it was rare to get rich by killing opponents because any resources aiding in cultivation or advancement would be immediately consumed. Only materials and minerals that didn’t match one's attributes or those that one had developed a resistance to would be set aside.

Chen Chu transferred the resources he recognized into his spatial bracelet, then tore open a meter-long black rift and tossed the scale into his planar space. It had barely entered the planar worlds when it detonated with a thunderous roar. Countless god-level materials, minerals, and black ores rained down from the skies.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

One after another, god-level materials were shredded by the rampant elemental forces of the worlds. Only a few minerals survived to land on the ground, causing the worlds to tremble.

Before long, another black scale appeared, followed by a black ring and a bracelet. Each one caused an avalanche of god-level resources to descend...

The planar worlds shook even more violently, their edges rapidly expanding, their spatial capacity strengthening, and their golden sun becoming more dazzling.

The worlds' budding origin, nurturing the Law of Power, was also affected. It slowly advanced toward intermediate mastery.

Countless insights into the Law of Power flooded Chen Chu's mind. A heavy aura faintly radiated from him. However, thanks to his Hidden Divinity and integration with the void, no demons detected him.

***

In a space burning with black flames, Tarorya lowered her head respectfully. "Greetings, Your Majesty."

Suspended in the air, a ten-meter-diameter black crystal flickered, revealing Deorus' phantom within.

"I already know what happened within the empire," Deorus said. "Are you preparing to personally move against Chu Batian?"

Tarorya was a bit surprised; she didn’t expect Deorus to find out about this matter so quickly. "Yes, Your Majesty. That human is extremely audacious, daring to infiltrate deep into the empire alone at the middle stage of the mythical level and slaughter several demon kings.

"For my duty as a princess and the honor of the Purgatory Clan, I must step forward to suppress him. I am confident I can kill him."

Inside the black crystal, Deorus nodded slowly. "I trust your strength, but that human is rather special. He won’t be easy to kill. Tarorya, your mission is to locate the human, deploy seven demon kings, and set up the Heaven-Sealing Demonic Array to trap him. Afterward, you are to wait for my return together with Kaodes."

Tarorya momentarily froze. "What? Your Majesty, you and Kaodes are both coming personally!?"

Two demon-god-level beings would return from the frontlines just to kill a mere human at the middle stage of the mythical level? Wasn’t that overkill?

Still, the Purgatory Clan's philosophy had always been that even a lion used full strength to hunt a rabbit. They looked down on alien civilizations, but tactically, they treated every battle with utmost seriousness—whether the enemy was a major power or a minor civilization with only a handful of mythical beings.

However, even by those standards, mobilizing two demon-god-level beings seemed excessive.

Naturally, Deorus noticed the flicker of emotion across Tarorya's face. His voice deepened. "You only need to carry out my orders."

"Yes, Your Majesty," Tarorya replied respectfully, bowing her head.

Once Deorus's phantom disappeared, Tarorya exited the demonic palace ablaze with black flames. Her expression was heavy, her voice a low rumble. "Dark Demon Kings."

Seven powerful auras of darkness immediately materialized from the void, forming black shadows that slowly floated before her. "We answer your summons, Dark Abyss Princess. What orders do you have?"

Tarorya solemnly said, "By the command of His Majesty, you are to carry the Heaven-Sealing Demonic Banners and assist me. Together, we will trap a human enemy."

The seven dark shadows bowed slightly. "As His Majesty commands."

They then silently melted back into the dark void. Tarorya flashed, distorting space, and reappeared within the main hall.

Seated high upon the throne, Tarorya gazed quietly at the Demon God's Eye that was suspended above her, which spanned hundreds of meters across.

The entire Dark Demonic Morkaya Empire was in a state of turmoil. From the land and sky, beams of black probing light shot upward, and figures wrapped in demonic qi swept across the world.

As advanced demons patrolled the forests, rivers, and mountains, the violent roars of colossal beasts occasionally rang out, accompanied by explosive battle fluctuations.

***

Meanwhile, in a city brimming with alien architecture at the empire’s border facing the human frontlines.

Inside a room, a four-meter-tall demon clad in dark-red battle armor was flipping through a document.

"Brooks, the higher-ups have issued a new mission. Get out here!" someone shouted from outside.

"Coming." Brooks set down the book in his hand and strode outside, where another demon with two pairs of forked horns awaited him.

Brooks looked curiously at the horned demon. "Guludeen, aren’t we here for advanced training? Why the sudden mission?"

With a serious expression, the horned demon solemnly replied, "Word is, something happened in the southwest. A powerful human has invaded."

Surprised, Brooks asked, "A human invader? Could it be that a few human heavenly kings have infiltrated again?"

Guludeen shook his head and lowered his voice even further. "No, not heavenly kings. Apparently, it’s only one mythical-level human. Name's Chu Batian, and he's terrifyingly strong. Seven demon kings and even a great demon king have already fallen to him."

Brooks gasped, unable to believe his ears. Stunned, he muttered, "Impossible... He's just a mythical cultivator... yet he managed to slaughter that many powerful demons? Have they even confirmed those deaths?"

Of course, Brooks knew who Chu Batian was. After all, he had personally overseen Yan Ruoyi's reincarnation ritual and had once entered the Void Continent ruins alongside Bredos. Thus, he was even more shaken than most.

"Yes, it's that bad. Now, the Dark Abyss Princess has mobilized all demon kings, advanced demons, and elite vassals to find him at all costs. It's no different here. Our lord suspects that he might try to conceal himself and escape toward the human region, so all demonic capitals have been called to arms.

"Not only us—even the ordinary soldiers have been deployed. They’re forming a web across the entire border to prevent even a single creature from slipping through."

While the two high-rank true demons conversed in hushed tones, Brooks noticed that the entire city was stirring. Masses of true demons and aliens were flooding out toward the wilderness, their faces full of excitement.

𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

The rewards were beyond generous. Any non-advanced demon or alien who spotted traces of the invading human would be awarded a vial of Demon God Blood, guaranteeing that they would reach the Ninth Demonic Mark and even possess the potential to ascend to the demon king level. They would also be instantly elevated to nobility within the Purgatory Clan.

The reward was even greater for the advanced elites; they would also get a pure origin of law, which would push them straight into quasi-mythical status—a step away from becoming a demon king.

Thus, aside from a few smart demons, everyone had gone mad with excitement.

"Brooks, let’s head out too! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! If we find that human—"

"Don't even think about it. That's suicide," Bredos coldly interjected. "Guludeen, to us, someone of that level is death itself. The moment you see him, you're already dead. But... a mission is a mission. Let's just head outside, find some forest, and lay low."

***

While Tarorya was deploying a massive web across the empire, even calling on demon kings with special abilities or precognition-type law weapons to search...

Chen Chu had already spent a day crossing two million kilometers. Now, he stood atop the branch of a towering tree outside the demonic region, his aura and presence still concealed by his Hidden Divinity.

From hundreds of kilometers away, he could see a ten-kilometer-thick wall of black mist stretched from earth to sky, enveloping an area of over a thousand kilometers. Yet within the black mist's boundary, the world was filled with birdsong, fragrant flowers, clear rivers, and verdant mountains.

Magnificent buildings, hundreds or even thousands of meters tall, rose into the sky. Amid the sweeping expanse of majestic architecture, colossal demonic pillars pierced the heavens—each over a kilometer in diameter and thrusting into the endlessly swirling dark clouds above, their aura utterly staggering.

"So this is the heart of the Demon God Empire—the demonic region," Chen Chu softly said.

Meanwhile, within the rift world, a pair of golden vertical pupils slowly opened.

A day had passed. Though the vague sense of danger still lingered far behind him, the demon gods who could be pursuing him had yet to arrive for some reason. Whether they were delayed by other matters or lying in wait for him to expose himself, Chen Chu cared little.

No matter the reason, he was ready to make his move—to strike a heavy blow and ease the pressure on the frontlines.