Every Ninth Tier served as a formation eye.
Each of them took out their own Magical Treasure, combining it with their powers, forming different Seals with their hands.
In an instant, beams of light descended, enveloping the entire Divine Country.
The power of more than a dozen Ninth Tier Cultivators was integrated by the Battle Array in an instant, and in that instant, the power level surpassed the limits of the Ninth Tier.
Jia Shisi held the long blade, which hummed loudly.
"Your Majesty, I come to send you to meet the late Emperor," he said.
With a single slash, Jia Shisi's long blade suddenly shattered, leaving only a Light Blade that shot into the sky, cleaving it open to reveal the Endless Void.
As the blade's edge descended, it rapidly shrank, gathering all the rolling Evil Qi and immense killing intent into the strike. By the time the blade reached Emperor Dui's head, it was only about a yard long, and its brightness had grown dim.
It wasn't weakening but was condensed to the extreme, with even brightness deemed a waste, all transformed into a single strike.
Emperor Dui stood in midair, gazing at Jia Shisi from afar, with admiration.
"Were it not for the limitations of heaven and earth, you would have long reached the Tenth Tier. The Heavenly Transformation Blade Realm, this strike, already bears a trace of the Heavenly Blade Realm's shadow."
As he spoke, Emperor Dui put away the Jade Seal and extended a hand, grasping the blade condensed to just a yard.
With a sudden sound, a terrifying shockwave expanded from the contact point between blade and hand, the raging tide ripping apart the already broken sky of the Divine Country.
Emperor Dui's expression remained calm, exerting force with his palm. With a cracking sound, the long blade shattered abruptly.
"Unfortunately, it's still not enough," he said.
Jia Shisi stood within the Battle Array, his expression like still water, his heart sinking.
Emperor Dui, now transformed into the Earth Devil Venerate, had absorbed the power of countless Earth Deities and incense fire Cultivators, achieving his own Incense Fire Dao throughout the world.
Moreover, as Emperor of Dadui Divine Dynasty, he wielded the power bestowed by the position of Emperor Dui.
Even after gathering the power of more than a dozen Ninth Tiers within the Battle Array and amplifying it with the array power, he still could not stand on equal footing with Emperor Dui's peak strike.
Wen Lingyou sighed softly and lifted his foot.
Yu Ziqing, behind Wen Lingyou, said,
"The gap is too vast; I must take action too," he replied.
"Are you planning to burn your Dao, Senior?"
"Indeed, we have no retreat," Wen Lingyou confirmed.
"Can you reach the Tenth Tier?" Yu Ziqing asked.
"No, at most the Third Tribulation of the Ninth Tier," Wen Lingyou replied.
"Then forget it, Senior. Don't make meaningless sacrifices. This isn't a simple matter of being one Ninth Tier short."
Yu Ziqing looked into the distance at Emperor Dui, constantly adjusting his assessment of Emperor Dui. It was partly recognition and partly judgment.
Seeing Emperor Dui, the rust on the rusty sword remained, suggesting something crucial was amiss.
He continued to adjust the permutations and combinations. In the end, he finally reached a complete understanding of Emperor Dui.
At last, the rust began to fall off.
Yu Ziqing's gaze towards Emperor Dui was complicated; suddenly, he understood.
At this moment, he was both Emperor Dui and the Earth Devil Venerate.
He was both unwavering in his original intention and tyrannical and brutal.
He wanted to kill everyone present yet also wished to be slain by them.
Perhaps no previous Emperor Dui had as complicated a mind as Emperor Dingmao Dui.
Yu Ziqing threw out the Mysterious Heaven Sect's Sect Master's pendant.
In an instant, he unsheathed his sword, and his aura rapidly increased to the Third Tribulation of the Ninth Tier.
With all his might, he struck out with a sword, the force whistling past, turning the Storage Bag into dust on the spot before roaring toward Emperor Dui.
With sheer strength, Emperor Dui suppressed the Battle Array composed of more than a dozen Ninth Tiers, including Jia Shisi, and still had room to extend a hand, lightly sweeping to shatter Yu Ziqing's strike.
"Wanting to be rebels and traitors, this power is insufficient. If this is all you have, then you shall die," Emperor Dui declared.
Emperor Dui's eyebrows and eyes brimmed with Evil Qi, Demonic Qi burgeoning. With a gentle wave of the short stick, it transformed into a long serpent, the exotic beast's skull forming a snake's head, flying out and continuing to swell.
Demonic Qi gathered on the skull's surface, seemingly about to forcibly condense a Devil Body with it.
Yu Ziqing stood with his sword, feeding the Soul Destruction Blade to his long sword, his expression growing even graver.
"Fourteenth Brother, cut off the exotic beast's head."
Meanwhile, Yu Ziqing lifted the Hungry Ghost Sword shimmering with a ghostly blue glow toward Emperor Dui.
He directly swallowed the Devil Orb he had just obtained.
The immense Devilized Power and Devil power fueled his current strength at the Third Tribulation of the Ninth Tier, forcibly succumbing to demonization once again.
For others, demonization started with the Devil Thought before generating Demonic Qi, but for Yu Ziqing, he could only rely on external forces for forced demonization.
Devil Patterns spread across Yu Ziqing's face and throughout his body, forcefully pushing his power to the Ninth Tier Peak.
Subsequently, Yu Ziqing raised his sword and struck down. Instantly, his heartbeat suddenly paused, and his Yin God opened its eyes, flames of Blood Flame spurting from its eyes.
Seizing the newfound power before it dissipated, and taking advantage of demonizing once more, he, at the Ninth Tier Peak, targeted Emperor Dui.
Second time unsheathing the sword. This time, there were no preconditions as obstacles.
Yu Ziqing knew only at the moment of action what the outcome would be.
His Yin God rapidly grew.
His visage transformed into a hungry ghost form, and blood flames ignited in his eyes, black flames burning atop his head.
At this moment, the power of the Yin God surged to the Ninth Tier Peak, his physical power also climbed to the Ninth Tier Peak, together with the Demonic Qi acquired through the Third Tribulation demonization, all achieving the Peak of the Nineteenth Tier.