"So now what you mean is, aside from the three resurrected Main Gods, humanity is about to face an even more terrifying and more powerful enemy?"
When Zhang Yue brought the news of [Demon Emperor · Yu], the entire Dragon Nation leadership was shaken.
Even the Three Main Gods had been secrets sealed away for a hundred years to avoid causing worldwide panic.
The birth of the Demon Emperor was, without a doubt, an even larger bombshell.
At least someone still knew the secrets of the three Main Gods.
Although sealed, some high-ranking personnel from various countries actually knew the inside story.
But this Demon Emperor · Yu, nobody had even heard of it.
Not even Wolong, Yinlong, or Empress Xuan had ever heard of it.
Zhang Yue, the only person who knew of the Demon Emperor's existence and who had been invited to attend the national high council meeting, looked at the live replay on the big screen of his battle with the Golden Warrior and said gravely, "For now I can't confirm the Demon Emperor's exact identity, but what can be certain is: its original rank must surpass King tier."
The three Main Gods, also called Emotion Gods, were born from practitioners' negative emotions.
The God of Wrath feeds on human anger.
The God of Desire feeds on human desire.
The God of Malevolence feeds on human wicked thoughts.
So the existence of the three Main Gods has a basis, they don't appear out of thin air.
This Demon Emperor · Yu, however, has no basis for existence at all.
Or rather, humanity has no control over its existence.
A hundred years ago, at the last moment of Zhang Yue's fight against the ninth-level beast tide, he encountered the Demon Emperor that had appeared within the beast tide, and fought it with all his strength to the point of mutual annihilation.
He thought this guy had died, or that it was merely a dying hallucination, so after his later revival Zhang Yue never mentioned the Demon Emperor.
Only when the Demon Emperor reappeared recently did he realize that it was not a hallucination.
At this point, Chen Zijin, who had also been invited to the Dragon Nation high council meeting, said thoughtfully, "I think, Zhang Yue, could your resurrection be related to this Demon Emperor?"
"There exists in this world a Resurrection God Stone, so practitioners being resurrected is not actually strange."
"What's strange is that you're the only one in the Otherworld who was resurrected by soul possession rather than by a Resurrection God Stone, and if you calculate by timeline, this Demon Emperor and the three Main Gods all appeared after you were resurrected as Zero, meaning their resurrection timeline is the same as yours."
"Is there a possibility that the Demon Emperor wanted to use your body to achieve resurrection? That's why in that battle a hundred years ago it tried to destroy your soul, but it didn't destroy it; your soul slept for a hundred years and then revived by possessing a body…"
Chen Zijin's words were chilling when one thought them through.
In any case—
"Fortunately, this time we successfully crushed the Hell Arena and prevented its scheme from succeeding."
Ice Emperor said, "Otherwise, once this Demon Emperor used the Hell Arena to devour the powers of all the world's top practitioners and restore itself to full strength, then open spatial rifts through the Hell Arena and invade the real world, humanity would truly be finished."
"And now, not only was the Hell Arena broken, but its power also seems not to have recovered to full strength yet."
Moonmark said, "In the final battle I saw its level recover to 480. Aside from the already-dead God of Wrath, the other two Emotion Gods recovered to level 450."
"With their current levels and strength, even if they appear later, we can hunt them."
"We can suppress them by level; if it comes for us, we might be able to fight back," The Seraph said, "Right now the biggest worry is that it'll come for Zhang Yue."
At those words, everyone's gaze turned to Zhang Yue.
Indeed.
Inside the Hell Arena, everyone's levels were reset to 175.
Only within the same-level territory could Zhang Yue defeat the Demon Emperor and the three Main Gods.
But now Zhang Yue is still level 175, while the Demon Emperor has already reached level 480.
If the Demon Emperor targets Zhang Yue now, at his current level and strength, he would be unable to resist it.
At that moment, Yinlong said, "The only option is to stay out of the Death Territory and operate within National Territories."
"Because although we can't enter the Death Territory, we can freely move in and out of the National Territories of various worlds. As long as you stay in a National Territory, we can protect you closely at any time. Even if the Demon Emperor comes, it won't be able to touch Master."
"That won't be necessary," Zhang Yue said in an extremely cavalier tone, "I have my own way to deal with the Demon Emperor. Don't worry about me; protect yourselves. Compared to you, you Tier 9 practitioners are richer in devouring material than I am."
———
Back at the Heavens Hall guild headquarters.
At this time Ouyang Linger ran over, "President, the thing you asked me to make, I've already had the top smith in Dragon City make it. He said he'll upload it to you online directly."
"Okay, thanks for your hard work."
Hearing this, Chen Zijin asked puzzled, "What did you make?"
Ouyang Linger was about to explain but was interrupted by Zhang Yue, "Listen, I'll treat you to a meal. Come on, let's eat, pick the place, I'll pay."
This was to repay Chen Zijin for saving his life in the molten territory.
Chen Zijin behaved sensibly, "Keep a note of it. After we deal with the Demon Emperor, you can treat me then! For now the urgent thing is to clear more Otherworlds and raise levels."
Zhang Yue agreed, "Alright, I will remember that."
"Also, when you log in later, wait for me in the World 33; I have something to give you."
"What thing?", When Chen Zijin heard Zhang Yue was going to give her something, her mind instantly imagined a romantic confession scene from him.
Girls are sentimental.
Then she thought, 'No, this straight man doesn't understand romance at all!'
———
After dinner, the two went online together.
["Ding~ Welcome to the Otherworld. You are currently located in the World 33!"]
Whoosh!
With white light falling, Zhang Yue appeared in the safe zone of the World 33's national territory.
At that time, while clearing the Hell Arena, Zhang Yue had also taken the opportunity to break the World 33 and punch through the Gate of Immortality, and had also defeated the world boss.
But he had not yet had time to enter the World 34 before being trapped in the Demon Territory.
So his first login location remained the World 33.
Just as he arrived online, Chen Zijin sent a private message, ["Wait for me, I'll finish a world boss run and then come to the World 33 to meet you."]
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