The demon lord Yi Yuan led the withered black creatures from the micro-space, beginning their rampage by targeting one planet after another.
As time wore on, more and more withered black creatures emerged from the micro-space portal. Once their numbers grew substantial, Demon Lord Yi Yuan began dispatching them in waves to exterminate entire planets.
Demon Lord Yi Yuan had lost all compassion for the ordinary immortals and mortals residing on these planets.
He utilized teleportation arrays to travel to each planet, prioritizing control of the planet's existing teleportation arrays. Once in control, he would release vast numbers of withered black creatures, who then swarmed across the planet like locusts, annihilating all its inhabitants.
The ruler of this star domain, a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, had already been slain by Demon Lord Yi Yuan and his withered black creatures at the micro-space portal. Now, there was no Grand Unity Golden Immortal left in this star domain to stop them.
In the main space channel, the Grand Unity Golden Immortals of the Immortal-Demon Grand Universe were engaged in a fierce battle with Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level withered black creatures from the withered black universe, preventing them from intervening to deal with Demon Lord Yi Yuan. Consequently, they could only dispatch large numbers of Grand Unity Golden Immortals to eliminate him.
The first wave consisted of thirty Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
Although Demon Lord Yi Yuan and his withered black creatures were unstoppable, the sheer vastness of an entire star domain demanded significant time to conquer.
Furthermore, some dissatisfaction was brewing among the withered black creatures regarding their leadership by an immortal from the Immortal-Demon Grand Universe.
Several Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level withered black creatures communicated telepathically in secret.
"With so many of us withered black creatures here, why must we obey an immortal from the Immortal-Demon Grand Universe?"
"Exactly! Why don't we just take command ourselves!"
Just as these Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level withered black creatures were about to openly defy Demon Lord Yi Yuan.
Demon Lord Yi Yuan, as if anticipating their thoughts, immediately used his mystical orb, instantly annihilating three Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level withered black creatures.
Demon Lord Yi Yuan declared, "Do not try to communicate in my presence. With this orb, I can hear your thoughts. Now, who else wishes to take command?"
The withered black creatures immediately quieted down. Although the mystical orb in Demon Lord Yi Yuan's hand had been largely depleted, its remaining power was more than sufficient to eliminate them. This was the principle of "all below Grand Unity are ants." It was like a normal person's glass bead that could kill one ant, or ten, but perhaps not ten million. However, in this situation, merely killing a few ants was enough to intimidate all the others present.
Dragon Country was made aware of Demon Lord Yi Yuan's actions almost immediately.
A spaceship dispatched by Dragon Country had been monitoring the depths of the micro-space portal. Upon detecting the anomaly, the Dragon Country personnel on board left behind some surveillance robots and piloted the spaceship to execute a spatial jump to evacuate.
The remaining surveillance equipment transmitted real-time data of the events back to Dragon Country via spatial jump signals.
Dragon Country had assigned names to all nine micro-space portals. The micro-space portal that Demon Lord Yi Yuan had disrupted was designated as Micro-Space Portal No. 2. The micro-space portal on Chu Yun Planet was named Micro-Space Portal No. 1.
In terms of timing, due to the faster nature of spatial jump signals, Su Han received the information about the disruption of Micro-Space Portal No. 2 even before the Grand Unity Golden Immortals at the main space channel.
Upon learning of this, Su Han was deeply concerned, as the destruction of the Grand Unity array would allow a large influx of Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level withered black creatures.
If their numbers became too great, even Su Han could be easily eliminated.
Therefore, Su Han instructed the Otherworld Development Department to prepare for the onslaught of the withered black creature army.
Fortunately, the Immortal-Demon Grand Universe was incredibly vast. With the withered black creatures currently ravaging individual planets, at their current pace, it would take centuries for them to reach Chu Yun Planet.
However, the Otherworld Development Department harbored no illusions.
They knew that the withered black creatures would inevitably find ways to quickly advance and disrupt other micro-space portals at some point.
It was during this critical juncture that the Otherworld Development Department was diligently making all sorts of preparations. They were manufacturing weapons, transporting vast quantities of heavenly treasures back to the Dinosaur World to ensure Dragon Country would not lack cultivation resources should they fail here. Moreover, as the Immortal-Demon Grand Universe and the Cultivation Universe were integrated, Dragon Country personnel within the Cultivation Universe were also actively involved in transporting heavenly treasures.
A few days later, the thirty Grand Unity Golden Immortals from the Immortal-Demon Grand Universe finally located Demon Lord Yi Yuan.
Upon their encounter, the thirty Grand Unity Golden Immortals from the Immortal-Demon Grand Universe felt a sense of unease seeing the sheer number of withered black creatures. This was primarily because the withered black creatures under Demon Lord Yi Yuan's command now numbered forty Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
In terms of numbers, the Grand Unity Golden Immortals of the Immortal-Demon Grand Universe were at a disadvantage.
What these thirty Grand Unity Golden Immortals were unaware of was that Demon Lord Yi Yuan had also dispatched several Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level withered black creatures to lead separate forces, using spatial jumps to travel to other star domains with micro-space portals to wreak havoc.
The thirty Grand Unity Golden Immortals from the Immortal-Demon Grand Universe engaged in discussion.
"This is not good. Demon Lord Yi Yuan actually has forty Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level withered black creatures under his command. Now it's thirty against forty-one."
"We are no match for them."
"What should we do? Should we retreat?"
Seeing the inclination to retreat among his comrades, the leading Grand Unity Golden Immortal stated, "There is no need to retreat. Our purpose here is to eliminate this traitor, Demon Lord Yi Yuan. Fellow Daoists, when the time comes, we will attack with overwhelming force, concentrating our firepower to annihilate Demon Lord Yi Yuan. After killing him, we will immediately flee this place."
"Wait, what about that Grand Unity-level orb artifact Demon Lord Yi Yuan possesses?"
The leading Grand Unity Golden Immortal stepped forward again.
He extended his hand, and a small umbrella-like artifact appeared in his palm.
"Fellow Daoists, do not worry. This is an artifact bestowed by a Grand Unity. It can withstand Demon Lord Yi Yuan's orb. Demon Lord Yi Yuan's attacks will be blocked by this artifact."
With their doubts dispelled, the thirty Grand Unity Golden Immortals from the Grand Unity side launched a thunderous assault, all their attacks converging on Demon Lord Yi Yuan.