Everyone looked in shock at the scene unfolding before them; they did not know what had happened to Yuanen Yehui, but judging by her mutated posture at this moment and the huge light gate that had suddenly appeared, they could also sense that something was definitely wrong.
However, all of this happened too quickly; from Yuanen Yehui's mutation to the condensation of the light gate, it was merely in the blink of an eye, and even if Long Yeyue wanted to step in and stop it, it was already too late.
Around the light gate, circles of dark purple halos continuously expanded like ripples, accompanied by a deep and majestic voice emanating from within: "My subjects, my envoy, you have done very well. You have opened the passage leading to the Demon World."
Everyone on the ruins of Shrek Academy heard this sentence clearly; although they did not know what the "Demon World" actually was, judging purely from the literal meaning and the oppressive feeling pervading the air at this moment, it was definitely not a friendly existence.
That voice continued to come over: "You will lead your clansmen toward this brand-new World."
"Let us fall together, be free together, and be destroyed together!"
"Set out, Demon Legion!"
Yuanen Yehui let out another low roar, a sound in which almost no trace of humanity could be heard.
Her body suddenly expanded in that instant, transforming into a huge body standing fully ten meters tall, with a layer of purple-gold scales appearing on the surface of the wings behind her.
The voice from the light gate came out again, carrying a condescending bestowal: "As your monarch, I bestow upon you the royal purple-gold Bloodline to commend your achievements."
"After we conquer this World, you shall be the monarch representing me."
Conquer this World?
When everyone present heard these words, they were almost triggered.
After all, they had just experienced the large-scale invasion of the abyss not long ago, and that memory still carried warmth. Hearing similar words transmitted from a light gate that appeared out of thin air at this moment would involuntarily cause anyone's heart to tense up.
When the gazes of many people fell upon Yuanen Yehui, they already carried hostility, thinking that she was not an Evil Soul Master of the Holy Spirit Cult, but a human traitor of this so-called Demon World!
However, there was no time for them to think too much; the dark purple-black light gate, which originally had only one, had split into nine in a short moment, like nine opened eyes of demons.
From the light gate right in the middle, a dark shadow rushed out first.
That was a Hell hound with a sturdy build like a lion, its head even larger than its entire body, and fangs crisscrossing in its mouth like neatly arranged blades.
After landing, it opened its huge mouth, let out a deafening roar, and then pounced toward the crowd closest to it.
From the nine demon gates, dense Hell hounds surged out like a tide, and within just a short while, over a thousand had already rushed out.
Without the slightest hesitation, they launched indiscriminate attacks on the surrounding crowd.
There were still many ordinary people on the ruins of Shrek Academy at this moment; they had originally come to observe the ceremony, but now they had become prey in the eyes of these demonic creatures.
Exclamations and screams rose one after another, and the crowd began to flee in all directions, the scene instantly plunging into chaos.
Everyone from Shrek Academy completely did not expect such an upheaval to occur, but at this moment, there was no time for them to be surprised.
Long Yeyue's face was livid, and her voice resounded over the ruins like a thunderclap: "Stop them!"
The students and teachers of Shrek Academy successively made their move, engaging in battle with the demonic creatures continuously pouring out from the light gate.
They all knew clearly in their hearts that if the people who came to observe the ceremony today died at the hands of the demonic creatures, Shrek Academy would probably never have a chance to rise again.
But Shrek Academy currently only had a little over two hundred people counting everyone, while the demonic creatures were growing more and more numerous.
Following the Hell hounds, snake-like creatures with bat wings, giant worms covered all over in dark red shells, and some twisted, deformed monsters that seemed pieced together from multiple species surged out one after another from the nine light gates.
In the blink of an eye, their numbers had already exceeded ten thousand, and the strength of each one could not be underestimated. Placed on the Douluo Continent, they were at least existences at the thousand-year Spirit Beast level.
Everyone from Shrek Academy tried their utmost to intercept them, but their defense line was like a dam impacted by a flood, continuously being torn open with new gaps.
Those demonic creatures easily rushed out of their encirclement and scattered toward the surroundings of the ruins.
The powerhouses of various major factions who came to observe the ceremony were cursing inwardly at this moment; they had originally thought they were just coming to watch a Shrek performance, who would have thought it would turn into such a "major event" as a plane invasion?
But even if they were furious in their hearts at this moment, they could not just stand by with folded arms.
If these demonic creatures were allowed to run amok in Shrek City, in the end no one could stay out of it.
Therefore, these powerhouses also successively made their move, joining the battlefield, and the lights of various colored Spirit Rings intertwined into a chaotic light net above the ruins.
Yet even so, the number of human powerhouses was still far less than those demonic creatures continuously surging forward like a tide.
The defense line was being compressed bit by bit, and casualties began to appear. At first, a few Spirit King-level Spirit Masters were pounced and knocked to the ground, then a Spirit Emperor was pierced through the chest by a giant demonic claw, and thereafter the ordinary people who hadn't escaped began to suffer casualties...
The casualty figures were climbing at an unsettling speed, and the air was filled with an increasingly thick smell of blood.
However, right at this moment, dozens of figures appeared in the distant midair, flying rapidly toward the direction of the Shrek Academy ruins.
Their speed was extremely fast, and in a fleeting moment they had already arrived above the battlefield; those were precisely the powerhouses of the Spirit Pagoda.
Although Huo Yuhao had not specially sent people to observe the ceremony at Shrek Academy, the distance of the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters was inherently not far. The abnormal energy fluctuations erupting here were naturally captured by the powerhouses of the Spirit Pagoda at the very first moment.
In the midair of the Shrek ruins, Huo Yuhao's figure hovered in front of that huge light gate.
He glanced at the chaotic battlefield continuously expanding below, watching those demonic creatures of various forms continuously pouring out from the light gate, and his brow furrowed imperceptibly.
He couldn't help secretly thinking in his heart that Shrek Academy had completely messed up this time.
He then raised his head, casting his gaze toward the light gate not far away that was continuously expanding.
The nine scattered light gates had already merged back into one, transforming into a giant portal standing more than thirty meters tall.
The purple-black light flowing on the surface of the light gate was even denser than before, and inside, it seemed as if some even more terrifying aura was slowly surging.
Huo Yuhao did not say another word of nonsense, his voice clearly falling into the ears of every powerhouse of the Spirit Pagoda: "Kill these demonic creatures."
The moment his words fell, his mental force spread out like a tide, silently covering the entire Shrek Academy ruins area.
Those demonic creatures that were originally rushing around and biting seemed to have been simultaneously pressed with a pause button in that instant; their movements stopped uniformly, as if their Soul had been grasped simultaneously by an invisible giant hand.
Huo Yuhao executed his Spirit Domain, and at this moment, all the demonic creatures were influenced by his powerful mental force.
The mental force of the God Origin Realm was sufficient to instantly shroud the entire battlefield, yet controlling such a quantity of demonic creatures simultaneously was still a huge consumption.
Fortunately, the dozens of powerhouses from the Spirit Pagoda were equally swift in their actions. Taking advantage of the gap where those demonic creatures fell into rigidity, they cut into the battlefield like sharp blades, the light of Spirit Abilities lighting up one after another, precisely harvesting those immobilized targets.
In the blink of an eye, over a thousand demonic creatures were killed, and this number was still expanding rapidly.
Those precarious defense lines on the ruins finally regained a breathing space at this moment.
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A/N:
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