Ancient Fiend Dragon Emperor

Chapter 2277: Chapter 2276: The Four Great Statues

The Nine Factions, every single Sect, had a Sub-Immortal Level expert emerge.

And these Sub-Immortal Level experts were very likely the final foundation of their Sects!

They had originally been unwilling to deploy them, intending to keep them in reserve and, when the Extraterritorial Demons were wiped out in the future, rely on them to compete with other Sects.

However...

If they didn’t use them now, it was simply no longer possible!

Those words from Song Jiyu were not a lie.

Even when the Second Segment of Destruction descended, the Four Great Dao Academies did not make many further moves.

The Starry Alliance went even further into hiding; clearly the Number One force in the Milky Way Galaxy, yet cowering like a turtle pulling in its head.

If this went on, every Sect would see more and more of their Disciples dying and being injured. ℯℯ𝑙.

In the end, if only these Heavenly Emperor Realm and Sub-Immortal Level experts were left, what meaning would that have? Could that still be called a Sect?

...

And in the second month after the eruption of the Second Segment of Destruction—

Countless voices spread out toward the Phoenix Sect.

Their goal was only one: to have the Phoenix Sect open the safety zone for a third time, so that more people from their Sects could enter!

Resistance at this moment would only bring greater and greater losses; only by temporarily hiding within the safety zone, concealing their strength and biding their time, could they preserve their power.

And the Phoenix Sect did not disappoint them.

This third opening made all the forces go mad with joy.

...

The Three Teachings: up to five hundred million people may enter!

The Nine Factions: up to three hundred million people may enter!

The Seventy-Two Sects: up to one hundred million people may enter!

Below the Seventy-Two Sects, the small forces could send in up to fifty million at most!

As for other Loose Cultivators, there was no limit on their numbers; as long as the Spirit Crystals they paid were sufficient, they could all enter!!!

...

This number far surpassed the previous times by too much, beyond what anyone had imagined.

However, they would not feel grateful to the Phoenix Sect, because no matter who it was, if they wanted to enter the safety zone, they had to pay Spirit Crystals.

In their view, this was a seat they themselves had bought with money; what was there to be grateful for?

Not only were they not grateful, their hatred toward the Phoenix Sect instead deepened a bit.

It was just that, relying on the Phoenix Sect at this moment, even if their hearts were filled with rage, they did not dare show it on the surface.

As for the Phoenix Sect—

The influx of this massive crowd made the Spirit Crystals, Demon Crystal Stones, Star Crystals, and other items in the Phoenix Sect’s treasury explode severalfold over, to an unknown degree.

”How much” had already become just a number.

Even Lian Yuze no longer came to report to Su Han; he merely said one sentence—”It’s enough.”

And that made sense.

Take the Three Teachings as an example: this time they could send in five hundred million people.

Even if all these five hundred million were at the Spirit Transformation Realm, under the double-rate rule, the total Spirit Crystals they had to pay still reached... ten quadrillion!

Ten quadrillion—that is to say, ten trillion billions!!!

And this was calculated only using the Spirit Transformation Realm as a basis.

But in reality, as the Three Teachings, could these five hundred million people really all be merely at the Spirit Transformation Realm?

No. Among those who had survived until now, Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators were already very few; within these five hundred million, the Spirit Transformation Realm might in fact be the smallest portion!

This terrifying amount of Spirit Crystals had completely resolved the Phoenix Sect’s current predicament.

Even if Su Han himself used Spirit Crystals for Cultivation, he would no longer feel the slightest twinge of heartache.

And the Phoenix Sect had likewise not stopped purchasing Blood Crystals.

With both working in tandem, the Phoenix Sect’s reserves of Spirit Crystals and Blood Crystals had nearly reached a level of inexhaustibility.

After all, what they were plundering was the financial heritage accumulated over billions of years by the strongest force in the Lower-Class Star Region!

...

The eruption of the Second Segment of Destruction, to tell the truth, was indeed tragic, but the losses it brought to humanity were much smaller than those of the First Segment.

After all, all nine Sub-Immortal Level experts from the Nine Factions had emerged, and they were much stronger than those who had appeared previously.

Figures like the Dark Sorcerer Supreme, Wind Bell Battle Sovereign, Great Emperor Yushuang, and the others were actually a notch weaker when facing Sub-Immortal Level experts like One Blade of the Divine Dream and Guixin Fairy.

However, smaller losses were nothing to be happy about.

Because still ahead lay the Third Section of Destruction, the Fourth Stage of Destruction, the Fifth Stage of Destruction...

No one knew how long this would go on.

The only thing they knew was that if they could not find the entrance by which the Extraterritorial Demons were entering, if they could not eliminate these Extraterritorial Demons, then this Destruction would continue forever, until...

Humanity was completely annihilated!

And after the Second Segment of Destruction had lasted three months, a piece of good news reached the Human Central City.

The Four Great Dao Academies were willing to act together, and this would also be their final intervention!

They promised to use earth-shattering Mana to drive out all the Extraterritorial Demons on the Thousand-Billion Land and to protect the Thousand-Billion Land... for one thousand years!

One thousand years would be the final breathing space granted to the humans on the Thousand-Billion Land!

If they could not, within these one thousand years, find a method to completely eradicate the Extraterritorial Demons, then after that millennium, the Four Great Dao Academies could only move on to the Middle-Class Star Region and leave the people and all the forces on the Thousand-Billion Land to live or die on their own!

One thousand years...

Such a span could be considered long, yet also short.

For a Sub-Immortal Level expert, a casual closed-door Cultivation could last more than a thousand years.

However, given the current situation, one thousand years was truly a very long time.

At the very least, within these thousand years, they could either rapidly advance their Cultivation or seek out various means of survival, and not be as panic-stricken as they were now.

...

Three days later, the Four Great Dao Academies made their move.

Four astonishing statues, a million zhang tall and tens of thousands of zhang wide, drifted over from who knew where.

Their entire bodies were golden, like blazing suns; when they appeared in the Void, they were extremely dazzling.

These four statues took up the four directions of east, west, south, and north; when they completely descended upon the Thousand-Billion Land, golden light suddenly radiated outward.

”Boom, boom, boom, boom...”

Countless rumbling sounds echoed as, on the Thousand-Billion Land, every Extraterritorial Demon directly exploded the instant the golden light swept past, turning into Blood Mist and then凝聚 into Spirit Crystals.

Even the remaining Eighth Level Extraterritorial Demons were as fragile as ants under this golden light, incapable of the slightest resistance!

When every Extraterritorial Demon on the Thousand-Billion Land had been slaughtered, a shocking light linked the four statues together, sealing off the surroundings of the Thousand-Billion Land.

”Roar!!”

”Awo!!!”

Outside the Light Barrier, countless Extraterritorial Demons roared in fury, claws and fangs bared.

They tried to charge into the Light Barrier, but every time they touched it, there would be a dull bang as they directly exploded.

This fearless, suicidal assault continued for a full month.

Only when a thick layer of Blood Crystals floated over the million-li region outside the Light Barrier did those Extraterritorial Demons finally cease their attacks.