Published: February 11, 2025
However, things often do not go according to their will. As they continued to destroy their respective second black hole, other teams also destroyed a black hole and were attacking the next one. Suddenly, among the remaining seven or eight black holes, the emergence of demon monsters stopped.
This left the Cloud Summit people momentarily stunned.
Could it be that the ninth-level life form finally ran out of energy and could no longer support such long-distance transportation?
Or perhaps these black holes were interconnected, and once more than half were destroyed, the remaining ones would cease to function?
The answer soon emerged.
The Cloud Summit people were disappointed to find that these black holes were not unable to continue producing demon monsters; rather, a brand new evolution level of demon monsters was emerging—extremely high!
In those seven or eight holes, the shadows of seventh-level demon monsters began to emerge almost simultaneously.
Previously, it was uncertain if the low evolution level of the demon monsters was a result of quantity, as the highest level seen emerging from the black holes had only been fifth-level, with a few occasional sixth-level ones appearing. Seventh-level was not completely absent, but Ye Zhongming had only discovered one or two at most.
But now, suddenly, seven or eight appeared, which was quite unusual.
Other demon monsters frantically besieged the humans, as if they did not want anyone to disturb their high-level peers' emergence.
This quickly brought the seventh-level demon monsters into the battlefield.
But this did not signify the end; within those seven or eight black holes, shadows of seventh-level demon monsters began to appear again.
Then came the third batch, the fourth batch…
The number of high-level demon monsters was increasing as time passed!
“Hurry, hurry, there’s not much time left!”
At this moment, the Holy Maiden was truly anxious. She suddenly recalled some information regarding the ninth-level life form recorded by the Sanctuary. Due to the vast distance between them, even though the Sanctuary monitored the Night Demon Plain and the Cursed Abyss, there was not much information available. In such days of falling sand, the information received, if not due to the long duration, might only consist of a few lines.
However, over time, this information accumulated, and although it had previously been incoherent and mostly seemed worthless, there were also many speculations and inferences made by people. The Holy Maiden deemed them unreliable and did not take them to heart.
But now, she suddenly recalled several records and speculations that previously seemed irrelevant, increasingly feeling that perhaps those ancestors were right.
That ninth-level life form might indeed be a special kind of existence.
“We must quickly destroy these black holes! These demon monsters are not here to kill us, but to entangle us! Moreover, their ultimate purpose is sacrifice! That ninth-level beast will utilize a secret method at some point to sacrifice these subordinates and then come through these black holes!”
The Holy Maiden's voice was not loud amidst the roars of the demon monsters on the battlefield, but everyone present was no ordinary person; they all heard her, and their expressions immediately changed.
Previously, when the demon monsters' evolution level was low, they could still put up a fight. However, ever since the seventh-level demon monsters appeared, the pressure drastically increased. Now, Xia Bai and Xia Lei's team had lost their previous momentum and were struggling to move through the demon monster horde.
Only Ye Zhongming, the Holy Maiden, and Yangos could maintain relatively strong momentum, but compared to before, they had slowed down significantly.
Yet the speed at which high-level life forms emerged from the black holes did not diminish; although they appeared one by one, it was at a regular walking pace. In a short while, nearly a hundred seventh-level life forms had appeared.