The air in the Dark Demon Realm seemed to solidify into ink, with no trace of light.Every breath drawn into the lungs carried a metallic, sweet scent like rust, mixed with the stench of decay and sulfur, causing the newly arrived soldiers to instinctively frown, some even subconsciously covering their mouths and noses.The dense demonic energy, like a tangible tide, continuously battered everyone's Spiritual Energy User shields, emitting a 'sizzling' sound of erosion.Even more unsettling were the incessant roars from all directions—sometimes sharp like nails scraping glass, sometimes deep like the roar of a subterranean beast, yet their source remained unclear, as if countless eyes lurked in the darkness, greedily peering at the invading army."This damn place," a soldier couldn't help but curse in a low voice, which was exceptionally clear in the deadly silence, but quickly drowned out by the distant roars.Even a Five-Stage Psionicist couldn't help but feel a tightening in his heart in this pitch-black darkness—his mental power, when extended, felt like it was sinking into thick ink, only able to scan a hundred meters at most, beyond which was a chaotic void.As for the two-stage and three-stage Spiritual Energy Users, they couldn't even see ten meters around themselves, only gripping their weapons, moving their feet with the crowd ahead, their palms already drenched in cold sweat.A subtle commotion gradually arose within the ranks, panic spreading silently like a plague; in the unknown darkness, even the bravest warriors would feel apprehension."Mage Corps, prepare to cast!"A steady shout suddenly pierced the darkness. In the square formation on the flank of the army, thousands of Spiritual Energy Users in robes simultaneously stepped forward, their staffs glowing with a soft white light.Their hand seals were uniform, and they chanted incantations, their voices converging into a torrent that penetrated the obstruction of the demonic energy."With light as eyes, with magic as clarity—Night Vision!"As the incantations concluded, the tips of a thousand staffs simultaneously erupted with brilliant silver light.These lights did not dissipate quickly like ordinary spiritual energy, but transformed into countless tiny specks of light, drifting like dandelion seeds in the wind, landing on the brow of each soldier.In an instant, the originally pitch-black world became clear in everyone's eyes—though still tinged with a faint gray, it was enough to see objects a hundred meters away.Beneath their feet were cracked black rocks, with dark red viscous liquid flowing through the crevices; in the distance stood twisted obsidian peaks, shaped like the claws of demons, piercing the hazy sky; and the source of those roars were low-stage demons hiding in rock crevices and caves, disturbed by the light, now letting out angry roars."Hoo—"A collective sigh of relief echoed through the millions of troops.As the darkness receded, much of the panic also dissipated, and the soldiers gripped their weapons, their eyes once again firm.Oriental Feather looked in the direction of the Mage Corps and nodded slightly: "Well done. All battle groups maintain vigilance and advance according to the predetermined formation!"Led by the vanguard, millions of troops, like armored steel chariots, steadily advanced across the cracked black stone ground.The clanging of armor, the dull thud of combat boots, and the whistling of fluttering banners intertwined, creating a rolling wave of sound in the deadly silent Dark Demon Realm, as if to shake away the gloom of this land.The further they went, the more intense the spatial fluctuations in the air became, like a giant stone thrown into a calm lake, even the rocks beneath their feet trembled slightly.The fluctuations carried a destructive ferocity, making everyone even more certain that the spatial aisle was close at hand.What was even more suffocating was that the demonic aura from the front pressed down like a rising black sea, overwhelming everything—it was not the ferocity of scattered demons, but the bloodlust and madness of billions of lives converging, just sensing it from afar made one's scalp tingle, and their Spiritual Energy User shields hummed.Everyone understood that sealing such a spatial aisle would never be as smooth as the Infernal Demon Sea; what awaited them was bound to be a bitter battle of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.Beyond the Demon Suppression Abyss, the boundless cosmos was vast and dark, but now it was ignited by a fierce slaughter.Three spatial aisles, each over ten thousand meters in diameter, rotated slowly around the Demon Abyss entrance like dark, giant eyes suspended in the void.Inside the aisles, purple-black demonic energy surged, and countless ferocious figures roared out from within, like a breaching black torrent, rushing towards the surrounding Imperial Fleet.These demons, emerging from the second and third layers of the Demon Abyss, were far stronger than the Miscellaneous soldiers of the first layer.Five-Stage Psionicist were ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) as dense as locusts, and Rank Six Demon were not uncommon; they wielded sharp claws and bone blades, carving streaks of afterimages in space, easily tearing through the energy shields of battleships.Even more alarming was the occasional appearance of Rank 7 Demons, burning with hellfire, breaking through the aisles; their massive forms were like giant fortresses, capable of freezing large swathes of space with each breath; occasionally, even the aura of Rank 8 Demons would emanate from the depths of the aisles, a pressure that dimmed the stars, and each appearance was accompanied by the annihilation of several capital ships."Fire! Activate Particle Lance Array, full-domain lock-on!"Inside the flagship's bridge, the commander's orders were transmitted throughout the fleet via quantum communication.In an instant, the Imperial battleships' cannon barrels simultaneously lit up with a ghostly purple glow, and hundred-meter-diameter particle lances pierced through the void, like spears thrown by gods, exploding into brilliant energy ripples among the demon hordes.Low-stage demons disintegrated upon contact, dissolving into particle streams, while Rank Six Demon were impaled by the lances, emitting agonizing roars."Left flank fleet deploy anti-matter barrier, right flank activate warp cannons, intercept high-stage demons!"Each fleet, like a precise instrument, shifted formations under the commander's command.Some battleships released blue-white anti-matter barriers, like unfolding star shields, completely neutralizing the demons' claws and energy impacts; some battleships extended annular arrays from their sides, firing warp beams that twisted space, trapping flanking demons in folded spatial rifts; and even giant fortresses activated dark matter annihilation cannons, the dark energy spheres condensing at their muzzles continuously devouring surrounding light, and when they fired, even light was sucked in, instantly clearing a Star Region.A dark matter annihilation cannon fired from a fortress ship, precisely hitting a Rank Six Demon, annihilating its massive body along with the surrounding space, leaving only a twisted void.But immediately after, dozens of Rank Six Demon broke through the firepower net, crashing into the energy shield of a escort ship; the shield rippled violently, eventually shattering under the tearing claws, and the escort ship's hull was instantly ripped open with several gashes, transforming into a brilliant ball of light in an energy overload Explosion.Just then, several figures shot out from the flagship; they were clad in Starry Sky Armed, surrounded by the spatial ripples left by their warp jumps, and were none other than the Rank 7 and Rank 8 powerhouses sent by the Empire.A general in star-patterned battle armor, wielding a gravity warblade, charged towards a Rank 7 Demons, the warblade's swings triggering localized gravitational fields, crushing the demon's demonic flames.Not far away, an elder formed hand seals, and countless points of light appeared before him, instantly weaving into a giant energy net, trapping several Rank 7 Demons within it, the energy torrents erupting from the nodes instantly decomposing them into elementary particles.In the deepest part of the battlefield, a woman with light wings on her back stood opposite a Rank 8 Demons; she was surrounded by a blazing halo, each punch causing space to collapse, colliding with the demon's dark energy to produce shockwaves capable of tearing apart planets.In space, energy beams and demonic energy intertwined, battleship wrecks and demon corpses floated amidst them, and the lights of Explosion rose and fell, like fireworks adorning black velvet.The Imperial Fleet, with its steel bodies, resisted the torrent from the abyss, while the powerhouses wrote legends of heroes in the star sea.In this cross-Star Region slaughter, there was no retreat, only a fight to the death, for behind them lay the Qingmu Star Region, home to billions of lives.Inside the core compartment of the command flagship, Oriental Mountain stood before a massive holographic star map, his fingertips lightly tapping the alloy armrest.The holographic projection clearly displayed every detail of the battlefield—the trajectories of energy beams, the movements of demon clusters, the deployment of battleship arrays, all flowing before his eyes.His gaze was as calm as a deep pool, showing no ripple, as if this extremely cruel slaughter before him was merely a simulation on a sandbox.The few officers beside him, however, could not hide their relief. "This battle is much easier than before," said an officer in charge of firepower allocation, looking at the holographic star map. "All the aisles on the first layer of the Demon Abyss were sealed internally, saving us so much trouble."In the past, whenever a spatial aisle opened, the vast numbers of low-stage demons from the first layer of the Demon Abyss were a very tricky problem. Although weak, they came in endless waves, often requiring a large force to clear them out.This time, however, the three spatial aisles located on the first layer had been successfully sealed within the Demon Suppression Abyss, allowing the fleet to concentrate its firepower on the stronger but relatively fewer demons from the second and third layers.Although the pressure from high-stage demons remained immense, it was indeed much easier compared to previous times."General, all sealing units are in position and ready to execute the external sealing procedure at any time," a colonel-uniformed officer quickly walked up to Oriental Mountain.Oriental Mountain nodded slightly, withdrawing his gaze from the holographic star map, and said in a deep voice: "Begin."The Empire had never placed all its hopes on the forces inside the Demon Suppression Abyss.After all, the forces entering the Demon Abyss still seemed thin compared to the demons within the Demon Abyss.Sealing from within was naturally the optimal solution, but if things went awry, they were also prepared to execute the sealing from outside—even if that meant paying a price far exceeding internal sealing, including the annihilation of several capital ships.Just as the sealing order was about to be given, a strange purple-black ripple suddenly appeared in the void near the Demon Abyss entrance. The ripple spread rapidly like a drop of ink in boiling water, and then, a distorted spatial aisle abruptly appeared.This aisle was completely different from the previous three; its edges were extremely irregular, like a tattered cloth violently torn open by giant hands, constantly flickering with unstable spatial arcs.Countless dark demons, covered in black scales, swarmed out of the aisle, excitedly roaring and charging towards the surrounding battleships as soon as they appeared.What was even more horrifying was that the aisle, after only a few breaths, suddenly began to vibrate violently, emitting an ear-piercing sound of spatial tearing.The next moment, this main aisle actually shattered like broken glass, splitting into hundreds of small spatial rifts of varying sizes!These rifts, like black chess pieces scattered on a chessboard, appeared randomly in various corners of the battlefield—some clinging to the battleships' energy shields, some suspended in the gaps of the fleet formation, and a few even appeared directly behind the flagship's flank.Countless low-stage demons poured out of these rifts, instantly throwing the Imperial fleet's originally tight formation into disarray."What's going on?!""Emergency evasion! Spatial rift on the port side!""Shield energy plummeting! Requesting support!"Piercing alarms and panicked shouts instantly filled the communication channels of all ships; the previously orderly fleet deployment was completely disrupted. Some battleships, to avoid rifts suddenly appearing in front of them, had to forcibly change course, almost colliding with friendly ships; others had their shields directly breached by demons rushing out of the rifts, falling into close-quarters combat.Inside the command flagship, the holographic star map was densely covered with red dots representing spatial rifts, like a sudden outbreak of plague.The faces of the many generals changed dramatically, their earlier ease completely gone, replaced by an expression of incredible shock."This—what is happening?"Hundreds of randomly distributed spatial rifts—this was completely beyond the Empire's contingency plans.Their sealing methods, whether internal or external, were designed for large spatial aisles and simply could not simultaneously deal with so many scattered small rifts.Oriental Mountain's pupils suddenly contracted, the force of his fingertips slightly deforming the alloy armrest.He knew very well that the fleet's formation was now in disarray, and it would be extremely difficult to reorganize an effective defense, let alone seal these rifts."Immediately contact the forces inside the Demon Suppression Abyss!" Oriental Mountain's voice carried a hint of imperceptible gravity. "Tell them, there's an emergency outside, the fourth spatial aisle has split into hundreds of rifts, and we—cannot handle it.Now, we can only rely on them."

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