Earth, South America, an unspecified location.
The originally clear sky suddenly darkened, as dense clouds gathered and cold winds blew in gusts.
With a loud explosion, the sky lit up with lightning and thunder.
On the heavy cloud layer, a huge vortex appeared, slowly bulging downwards like an hourglass.
It was not only the cloud that was twisting but also the space itself.
At a level invisible to the naked eye, the world's barriers were like a thick, insurmountable wall, but now, someone with a slender spear had poked a tiny hole in this wall.
Though small, it connected the inside and outside of the wall.
Another loud explosion was heard, and red fog began to swirl around, growing denser.
Suddenly the red fog contracted sharply and, with a crackling sound, shattered like a mirror.
The funnel-like cloud burst open as a colossal creature, thousands of meters long, burst out from the leaden clouds.
The sound echoed like the detonation of a high explosive, sending ripples through the air in concentric circles.
Survivors tens of kilometers away could hear it clearly.
Their faces turned pale.
Dark red patterns rapidly spread out.
Abyssal Rifts, one after another, rooted firmly onto the Earth as soon as the world's barrier was penetrated, drawing from the Origin.
At the very center was a kilometer-long Abyssal Rift, like the gaping maw of a monstrous beast.
Dozens of meters in size, the Catastrophe Level Demonized Beasts were massive, yet they seemed tiny compared to the kilometer-scale Abyssal Rift.
One after another, they crawled out of the rift.
In just a few minutes, hundreds of these enormous Catastrophe Level Demonized Beasts had appeared.
There were also a few whose bodies were over a hundred meters long, with Combat Power that could match or even surpass that of ordinary Transcendents—terrifying Demonized Beasts.
They descended, roaring and rushing in all directions.
The anomaly in the sky had already recovered, leaving only the red fog to obscure the sky.
The thousands of meters long colossal creature hovered in the air.
It resembled a snake, long and sinuous, but its body was also dozens of meters wide, and on the sides of this giant snake-like Demonized Beast were pairs and pairs of huge, bat-like wings, densely covering it from head to tail.
Hundreds of pairs of wings flapped up and down, stirring up air currents that formed hurricanes, affecting hundreds of miles around.
If it weren't flying in the air, its appearance would resemble a centipede—truly ferocious.
This was the essence of the "Devil Race's" war machines.
A Pseudo Holy Tier... or rather, a world-class Demonized Beast!
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Just one could destroy an entire world.
Having learned from past mistakes, those descending upon the Origin Star this time were the elite of the "Devil Race"—while the "Devil Race" had few people, even their common folk could match great talents from large clans, and their elite could crush the similar tiers from the Ten Thousand Races.
The Devil Race Envoy, Mo Ke, stood on the head of the serpent, his face long and narrow, eyes squinting like a venomous snake, with a thick tail swinging back and forth, its tip like a syringe, chilling to behold.
"Origin Star? Human Race Sages? They are all things of the past."
He looked down at the world-class Demonized Beast, a cruel smile curling his lips.
World-class Demonized Beasts also had their ranks.
The weakest could only compare to upper mid-tier Domain Level experts, but those perfectly crafted could confront a Holy Tier directly, a real Holy Tier!
In the Endless World with countless races and thousands of planets and worlds, many had not birthed their own Holy Tier experts—Domain Level experts were already considered regional overlords, but Holy Tier beings could roam the cosmos with their bodies, traverse the void, and were immortal... like Immortal Gods.
Even in the glorious days of the Origin Star, Holy Tiers were the absolute elite.
But the "Devil Race" artificially created Holy Tier Combat Power, not to mention the Sovereign who ruled the Endless World, unmatched by anyone; just the "Devil Race's" war machines alone made many races shudder with fear.
Devil Race Envoy Mo Ke narrowed his eyes,
Last time a world-class Demonized Beast descended, it was merely of an ordinary rank and was supposed to be foolproof, yet unexpectedly, it perished together with the resurrected body of a Saint.
This time, the Hundred-Winged Demon Snake Emperor is considered upper echelon among world-class Demonized Beasts.
The Holy City of the Human Race has already crumbled, no resurrected Holy Bodies will appear again.
The once mighty Origin Star was indeed strong, but now, not only has it lost most of its heritage, its experts are even more scattered.
As a member of the Devil Race, he had very detailed intelligence.
The strongest were merely Transcendent First Tier, or perhaps just advanced to Transcendent Second Tier?
It has been less than a year since the Source Qi of Origin Star revived, starting from zero. To break through to Transcendent was already quite challenging. Stronger? How much stronger could they be?
Strength depended on the accumulation of time!
Mo Ke stood on the snake's head, arms folded behind him.
The Hundred-Winged Demon Snake Emperor's hundreds of wings flapped up and down, its long body weaving through the clouds.
It descended sharply, bursting through the clouds and flying freely.
The Demon Snake Emperor's mouth opened wide, amassing black flames within, and with a whoosh, it exhaled.
A column of black flames, tens of meters wide, descended from the sky. The earth turned into a sea of fire, where the black flames touched, they burned, and once burned, things turned to ash, whether vegetation, buildings, or rivers… Under the vast swathe of black flames, all was consumed.
South America, a large settlement of over a hundred thousand people, turned to ash under the black flames without even a struggle.
Within a radius of tens of kilometers, the ground seemed as if it had been excavated by more than a dozen meters, now a realm of death, leaving only an unknown black substance congealed after the burning.
Had anyone seen it, they would have been utterly terrified, alas, under the vast black flames, not a single Awakener survived.
Tang Yu walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing into the distance.
Minutes passed, his Perception shook violently with the world's barriers, which then calmed down.
Piecing together information previously extracted from an Alien Race, Tang Yu guessed that the "Devil Race" might have descended again.
Recalling the terrifying Demonized Beast that emerged in the Holy City and nearly shattered the Holy Domain in a battle against a resurrected Holy Body, even now, his scalp tingled.
Unsure if Eileen, Nancy, and the others could contend?
He had already commanded Luo Zhe to put the Territory on high-alert and had mobilized the Intelligence Department – he could only sense the general vicinity of the world barrier's rupture but not the specific location, let alone what kind of entity had arrived.
Eileen, Nancy, and others hadn't noticed.
After all, they were merely at Transcendent Second Tier.
He himself, had it not been for the World Tree and his Territory being bound together, would also have struggled to detect such distant fluctuations.
But this was all he could do for now.
"We must prepare for both scenarios, ascertain the enemy's strength, and formulate annihilation strategies. If we cannot contend…"
He would have to give up the Territory, no matter how reluctant.
Aino Continent was out of reach, and during this time, he also explored two other unknown worlds.
They were not very dangerous and had not been discovered by the "Devil Race"… just that their resources were scarce and had low developmental value.
South America, in just two hours, nearly a third of the region had turned into scorched earth.
Perhaps learning from the previous Envoy's setback, the second Envoy, Mo Ke, was more cautious and had summoned over twenty different Alien Races, with even more Alien Race experts rushing from all over the world.
Over the Pacific Ocean,
The Purcell Royal Family discovered an Alien Race stronghold. This time, Gulete didn't plan to exterminate it alone but instead gathered a few Royal Family Transcendents and a few Freelance Transcendents who had recently joined the Imperial Dynasty. He planned to use this opportunity of destroying the Alien Race's base to integrate his subordinate Transcendents.
And to enhance his own prestige.
After advancing to Transcendent Second Tier, Gulete had shown considerable power, but he had never slain an Alien Race Transcendent in front of others.
Originally, when the human Transcendent Alliance Army fought the Alien Race Alliance Army, many heroes from Green Shadow had risen to fame, the center of everyone's attention.
Now, this was his best chance.