Black flames burned in the sky, engulfing the entire East Capital in a spectacle of extreme grandeur.
Countless people stared blankly at the sky as a series of piercing screams echoed, shaking the nerves of everyone present.
"I-Ichi-maru Shi..."
The members of the Takamagahara watched Ichi-maru Shi burn to ashes, their bodies trembling, their eyes gradually replaced by fear.
Ichi-maru Shi was the core of the Heaven and Earth Annihilation Array. The power gathered by the Takamagahara members within the array needed Ichi-maru Shi to mobilize it.
Now that Ichi-maru Shi was dead, their painstakingly formed annihilation array could naturally no longer be maintained.
The annihilation array completely collapsed!
This also meant that the annihilation array, condensed by their collective efforts, was no match for Ye Ling!
Meanwhile, spies from various countries witnessing all this in the East Capital were utterly shocked.
An annihilation array formed by the combined efforts of nearly a hundred Takamagahara members was enough to destroy any force in the world.
Yet, such a terrifying formation was destroyed by Ye Ling?
The onlookers could no longer imagine how powerful Ye Ling truly was!
In this world, which force could withstand even a single finger from Ye Ling?
They couldn't imagine.
"Quick, run!"
In the ensuing silence, the remaining Takamagahara members gradually regained their senses. Their fighting spirit completely shattered, they began to flee in all directions, no longer daring to confront Ye Ling.
Nearly a hundred cultivators above the eighth rank scattering in all directions delivered another immense shock to the minds of the East Capital's citizens!
Master Randeng watched the fleeing Takamagahara members, petrified on the spot. He gazed at Ye Ling's back, his heart filled with infinite respect and awe.
He had never imagined that someone capable of confronting the entire Takamagahara single-handedly actually existed in this world, and was right beside him!
With this power, Ye Ling was the Lord of the Demonic Palace... Master Randeng couldn't fathom any force in this world that could stop the Demonic Palace's advance!
Master Randeng sighed looking at the sky, "The world is about to change..."
Ye Ling, standing in the void, was not satisfied with merely defeating the Takamagahara members. He smiled at the fleeing members, as if he were watching a group of dead men.
"This Emperor said I would raze your Takamagahara."
Ye Ling's voice echoed in the ears of the Takamagahara members, instilling in them infinite fear.
Whether they were Red Dust Immortals or eighth-rank cultivators, upon hearing Ye Ling's words, they exerted all their might, fleeing madly!
No matter what, they had to escape with their lives!
They wanted to survive!
Driven by the Takamagahara members' powerful will to survive, they unleashed the fastest speeds of their lives!
From the ground, they looked like shooting stars streaking across the sky, leaving the East Capital in the blink of an eye.
With so many cultivators fleeing at such speeds, it was almost impossible for anyone to catch all of the Takamagahara members!
Just as the spies from various countries thought the battle would end with the Takamagahara's defeat, they were horrified to discover that this was far from the end of the battle.
Ye Ling snapped his fingers lightly, and the space before him distorted, creating a spatial wormhole.
The Takamagahara members who had escaped the East Capital were all swallowed into the wormhole that appeared out of nowhere.
The next moment, all the Takamagahara members fell out of the distorted wormhole before Ye Ling, bound by his demonic energy!
Not a single Takamagahara member had escaped; they were all suspended in the air!
Watching the Red Dust Immortals and eighth-rank cultivators hanging in the air, the spies below gaped in disbelief, falling into a stupor.
Let alone Ye Ling, even the Takamagahara members who were being manhandled could take on a group of them on the ground!
Yet, these figures, who were usually at the pinnacle of the cultivator hierarchy, were now being toyed with like playthings by Ye Ling!
"My lord, spare us..."
"We acknowledge the Demonic Palace's status, please spare us!"
"My lord, I don't want to die! As long as you let me go, I'll be your dog!"
The Takamagahara members were driven mad by Ye Ling's methods. They had lost all their pride, and began to beg Ye Ling in a subservient manner, even willing to serve him like beasts of burden!
The fear of death made them abandon all dignity.
However, Ye Ling had no intention of letting anyone present go. After smiling at all the Takamagahara members, he transmitted his voice to all cultivators in the world: "From now on, this Emperor will execute all Takamagahara members!"
"And as their blood sprinkles the earth, it will signify the establishment of the Demonic Palace!"
"A new era has dawned, prepare yourselves!"
Boom!
As Ye Ling's words fell, the demonic energy binding the Takamagahara members tightened, and nearly a hundred Takamagahara members exploded into blood mist at that moment, raining down from the sky!
Tens of millions of East Capital citizens, spies from various countries, members of the Arasaka... all witnessed this scene firsthand.
The Takamagahara was truly annihilated...
There was no suspense; it was a complete annihilation!
The entire East Capital fell into dead silence.
Even Arasaka Shoichi, who was desperately trying to prevent the Takamagahara incident from spreading from the East Capital to the entire country, stopped his work and stared blankly at Ye Ling on the screen.
The establishment of the Demonic Palace was simply too shocking!
Arasaka Shoichi believed he had overestimated Ye Ling's strength, even thinking Ye Ling had a decent chance of winning against the Takamagahara alone...
But he never expected that he had still vastly underestimated Ye Ling's power!
The Takamagahara, which could easily annihilate the Bushi with just a few dispatched individuals, was now reduced to ashes at Ye Ling's snap of a finger...
The strength of the two sides was no longer on the same dimension!
Arasaka Shoichi couldn't imagine how strong Ye Ling truly was.
As all the Takamagahara members were annihilated, the black flames in the sky dissipated, the strong winds ceased, and the thunder quieted.
Sunlight pierced through the heavy clouds, shining down on the earth.
Ye Ling, the only one standing in the sky, appeared like the sole deity in the world.
Many citizens of the East Capital looked at Ye Ling in the sky and involuntarily knelt down, treating Ye Ling as a god.
Faith began to sprout in their hearts.
After witnessing Ye Ling's heroic deed, they had already come to regard Ye Ling as the god who saved them!
Ye Ling could feel a continuous stream of faith pouring into his body from the East Capital, sensing the signs of becoming a god on Earth, and his brow furrowed slightly.
Unwilling to accept this, Ye Ling extended his divine soul to cover the entire city, locking onto all ordinary people.
The next moment...
Ye Ling erased their memories.
He established the Demonic Palace to suppress the cultivator circles, and the ordinary society... did not need any changes.
He also did not need people's faith.
Under the influence of Ye Ling's divine soul, the East Capital quickly returned to normal!
Witnessing this series of events, spies from various countries used various means to transmit the precious recorded footage back to their respective forces...
In an instant, tremendous waves of shock swept across the world!
When Ye Ling transmitted his voice to cultivators worldwide, although many were shocked by his ability to transmit his voice across vast distances, they did not really believe that the Demonic Palace he established could become the world's overlord.
Everyone treated it as a joke.
But when the footage of Ye Ling single-handedly killing nearly twenty Red Dust Immortals and dozens of eighth-rank cultivators spread throughout the world, everyone realized that a demonic god had truly descended upon this world.
Ye Ling was a monster that could never be defeated!
And shortly after the news of Ye Ling's annihilation of the Takamagahara spread worldwide, messages of Demonic Palace envoys appearing and challenging major top-tier forces began to frequently emerge, continuously shaking the entire world.
Without exception, every Demonic Palace envoy who descended upon the world attacked the mountain gates of top-tier forces with absolute crushing power!
The forces that were once recognized as overlords within the circles were now powerless before the Demonic Palace envoys, all suffering crushing defeats and forced to submit.
What was even more terrifying was that each Demonic Palace envoy, alone, could crush an entire sect!
And there were as many as ten such figures in the Demonic Palace, besides the Palace Lord Ye Ling!
The Qionghua Sect, the only one whose mountain gate was not shattered, immediately issued a statement, declaring that the Demonic Palace envoy had resolved their thousand-year great threat, and in gratitude, Qionghua chose to attach itself to the Demonic Palace.
Thus, a tide of the Demonic Palace swept across the globe, with a large number of fervent admirers emerging, and countless cultivators wanting to join the Demonic Palace!
Various families tried their best to contact people related to the Demonic Palace, wanting to send their descendants into the Demonic Palace, even if it was just to become an outer disciple.
So, all cultivators knew that after the Demonic Palace had swept through the major top-tier forces with overwhelming force, it had become the world's foremost power.
Although the Demonic Palace had only recently appeared and its foundation was still weak, based on the strength it had displayed openly, becoming the world's overlord was only a matter of time.
There was no other reason; the current Demonic Palace...
Even a single member who emerged was now invincible in the world!