Chapter 277: Demon Kings (4)

High above the devastated amphitheater of the Grand Court, the sky was a fractured tapestry of bleeding purple miasma and blinding orthodox Qi. The battle between the Nine province's greatest experts and the Demon Kings of the Hollow Beyond was tearing the very fabric of reality apart.

Emperor Tianxu and Emperor Beiming were locked in a desperate struggle against the Rat Demon King, Mo Du. The hunched, wretched entity fought with an expanding domain of absolute, necrotic plague.

Thousands of screeching, incorporeal shadow-rats swarmed the Qilin and Black Tortoise domains, their sickly green fangs gnawing away at the Void Refinement Qi. Every time Emperor Tianxu blasted them to ash, Mo Du simply laughed—a grating, infectious sound—and summoned thousands more from the purple rift.

"Your Dao laws are so rigid, so fragile!" Mo Du hissed, his voice echoing like scraping metal. "You cannot kill my plague! Breathe the rot, Emperors! Let your Dao Hearts wither!"