Published: March 2, 2025
The spirit of the demon lord did not wait long.
Or rather, being inside the origin pool, he had a much better grasp of the timeline of the Demon Realm's collapse than others.
He could even measure it down to the second...
As time trickled by, at the moment when Wen Yu and Tang Haofei encountered each other outside, the spirit of the demon lord also rose and arrived beside the great formation.
Dull light spilled from the spirit of the demon lord's hands, gradually enveloping the area above the great formation. As he softly chanted an incantation, rune array seals outside and inside the origin pool flickered in succession, shining brightly and connecting to each other. In a brief moment, these rune array seals tightly linked together.
Using individual rune array seals as nodes, they wove into a vast network, perfectly covering the outer side of the origin pool!
In that instant, the entire origin pool seemed to be wrapped in a layer of pristine white.
This was the spirit of the demon lord's preparation...
Over the span of ten years, the spirit of the demon lord had completely transformed the origin pool into his own territory, and this was the foundation that allowed him to dare to seize the Demon Palace!
Outside, with a loud "boom," the Demon Realm began to tremble, and soon the ground cracked. From Wen Yu and the others' perspective, the Demon Realm looked like a large bomb, ready to explode.
However, the spirit of the demon lord within the Demon Palace had a clearer understanding of the collapse of the Demon Realm!
At the moment the Demon Realm began to disintegrate, the spirit of the demon lord distinctly felt a powerful force rising from beneath his feet—that was the Demon Palace forcibly responding to the call to detach from the Demon Realm.
As a supreme treasure, the Demon Palace may not have a "spirit" like some artifacts, but it could still act to avoid danger. At the moment of the Demon Realm's demise, the Demon Palace decisively abandoned the perilous situation of the Demon Realm.
As the connection between the two was violently severed, an even stronger force erupted from the link between the Demon Palace and the Demon Realm. This force not only accelerated the collapse of the Demon Realm but also inflicted significant damage on the Demon Palace itself.
A powerful backlash surged into the Demon Palace's interior, causing the 1998 small worlds inside to tremble violently, as if facing a heavenly tribulation. However, protected by the outer shell of the Demon Palace, this backlash did not cause fundamental harm to the small worlds within.
The same applied to the origin pool.
A mighty force surged into the origin pool, stirring up waves. In that moment, the origin power within the origin pool went into a frenzy, causing clouds to surge and rain to fall—an uproar indeed.
Yet, the spirit of the demon lord at the core of the origin pool had a glint of brilliance in his eyes!
He had been waiting for this moment!
...
High-quality origin power surged out of the spirit of the demon lord's body, instantly infiltrating the core control of the origin pool. The spirit of the demon lord's origin power intertwined with the demon lord's Soul Mark, and a fierce contest erupted in an instant.
The result of the contest...
Was that the spirit of the demon lord fell slightly short.
This was within the spirit of the demon lord's expectations; after all, his raw strength was still inferior to that of the demon lord.
Normally, under such a contest, the spirit of the demon lord would soon exhaust his power and retreat, while the Soul Mark belonging to the demon lord in the core control would quickly restore itself to a perfect state.
This was also the fundamental reason why the spirit of the demon lord had previously felt helpless here.
However, due to the collapse of the Demon Realm, the energy of the origin pool was going berserk, and at this moment, the spirit of the demon lord found an opportunity to fight and win.
A large amount of origin power, under the influence of the formation set up by the spirit of the demon lord, rapidly surged into the core of the large formation of the origin pool. The two entangled forces, under the impact of the incoming energy, were instantly thrown out of balance.