Chapter 534: Duel
In the void of the Divine Beast Pseudo System, humans and demons stood across from each other. Their numbers blotted the space and brought color to the void. A battle of this magnitude would cause catastrophic damage to the adjacent realms from the sheer numbers of participants at the true immortal level and above.
The demons would have preferred to engage in a much less populated area where the realm beast can run amok. Unfortunately, they were the defenders. The Demon Clan could choose and wait in the void for the humans, but the humans would just conquer their home base, and leave them like rootless duckweeds.
No matter what preparation they made, demons needed to absorb the spiritual qi of heaven and earth to survive. Once they lost the three ancestral realms, the Demon Clan would eventually wither and die. Even if they descended into lower realms, the amount of spiritual qi they needed was far from what lower realms could produce.
No matter what, it was a battle the Demon Clan could not afford to lose.
Demon Emperor Redraco stared at Minister Everpast with guarded eyes. The elderly immortal minister was the only immortal sovereign on the human’s side, but he wasn’t the one that Demon Emperor Redraco placed the most importance on.
No, it was the immortal emperor that resembled a sword. According to the Demon Clan’s intelligence, he was Bao Ling, the rising star of the Numinous Sword Sect. No, the title rising star no longer suited Bao Ling. He was a new pillar of the Numinous Sword Sect.
When he stared at Bao Ling, he saw an unsheathed blade. When their gazes connected, Demon Emperor Redraco felt his soul tingle, as if something was scratching it. Just that alone sent alarm bells off in his head. Bao Ling’s gaze alone was akin to a soul attack.
There was one more that he paid attention to: Nine Heavens Emperor Xi Tianyi. If Bao Ling was the new pillar of the Numinous Sword Sect, then Xi Tianyi was the new pillar of the Buzhou Immortal Court, formerly the Buzhou Immortal Sect.
In sharp contrast to Bao Ling, Xi Tianyi gave off zero aura at all. It was to the point that even if he used his demon sense to see Xi Tianyi, he would get nothing. Normally, that meant the holder of the demon sense automatically ignored the target because they were too insignificant, but Demon Emperor Redraco knew better. Even if he tried to lock onto him, he would sense nothing. Not even a soul aura.