Ten Thousand Saints Mountain Demon God Palace.
On the very central altar within the Demon God Palace, over a thousand Prophet Demon Masters dressed in prophetic robes sat cross-legged at various positions on the altar according to a special array.
The white-haired, white-browed Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi now stood tall at the highest point of the altar.
At first glance, the formation formed by these countless Prophet Demon Masters upon the altar looked exactly like a pyramid.
Moreover, the most astonishing thing was the lineup of Prophet Demon Masters that had appeared today.
One Jiu Surnamed Prophet Demon Master, nine Demon Masters of Eight Surnames Prophet, eighty-one Seven Surnamed Prophet Demon Masters, and seven hundred twenty-nine Six Surname Prophet Demon Masters.
The eight hundred and twenty Prophet Demon Masters, from bottom to top, faintly formed a gigantic three-dimensional pyramid.
Even though the Blood Sacrifice had not yet begun, from the lowest tier of Six Surname Prophet Demon Masters, countless obscure auras were already streaming upward layer by layer through the altar.
In the end, they converged upon the body of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi at the very top of the altar.
At this moment, the eyes of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi seemed to flash with countless rays of wisdom, becoming incomparably strange.
With a single glance, anything at all was revealed down to the tiniest detail under the Wisdom Eye of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi.
"Let the Blood Sacrifice begin!"
With a light shout from Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi, countless Demon Masters who had long been standing by on all sides pounced forth; in the hands of every Demon Master, more than ten slaves or Demon Beasts dangled, restrained by various means.
The Jade Blades flashed; the slaves and Demon Beasts in their hands were all beheaded with a single stroke. Then, under the empowerment of their Secret Techniques, the fresh blood within the bodies of these sacrificed slaves and Demon Beasts spurted out like gushing springs, emptied within just a few breaths.
A hundred thousand offerings were sacrificed within the time of a Hundred Breaths.
In an instant, the entire altar was coated with a thick layer of blood pulp.
Under the chanting of the eight hundred and twenty Prophet Demon Masters, this mass of blood pulp was swiftly absorbed by the mysterious pattern at the center of the altar, and countless suction forces emanated forth, devouring the Divine Souls of these slaves and Demon Beasts.
As though in counter-feedback, once the altar had absorbed the Essence Blood and Divine Souls of these offerings, it diffused countless obscure gray radiance, sending it into the bodies of those eight hundred and twenty Prophet Demon Masters.
Afterward, all the obscure gray radiance absorbed by those eight hundred and twenty Prophet Demon Masters was entirely transmitted into the body of the topmost Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi.
The obscure gray power drawn from a hundred thousand offerings entered his body, and in an instant it turned that pair of Wisdom Eyes of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi silver.
Silver filaments of light burst forth; in the eyes of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi, everything between Heaven and Earth transformed into visible Xuan Ji, yet all these Xuan Ji were veiled beneath countless streaks of Blood Light, making them indistinct.
Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi lightly furrowed his brows, then waved downwards with his hand. "Continue!"
The Blood Sacrifice that had just paused began once more.
This round of sacrifice lasted a full two hours.
During these two hours, Demon Beasts and slaves—these slaves included Human Demon Clan slaves as well as the Demon Clan’s own Racial Slaves—over 1.2 million offerings were sent into the altar.
Around the altar, the corpses were already piled like mountains.
Such a sea-like volume of Blood Sacrifice even tinted the clouds in the sky with hues of blood.
Only when the Wisdom Eye of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi at the top turned gold did the Blood Sacrifice cease, with a single wave of Jiu Xi’s hand.
His gaze shifted; a hundred meters of golden wisdom light shot from the Wisdom Eye of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi, looking toward the depths of the void above the Primordial Continent.
Countless Heavenly Secrets flickered within the golden light of the Wisdom Eye of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi; yet among these myriad Heavenly Secrets, countless streaks of Blood Light still surged, so that no matter how he looked, they could not be clearly seen.
"The Heavenly Secrets are being confounded by Blood Light?"
Murmuring under his breath, Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi lowered his head, taking in the surroundings of the Demon God Palace altar with a single glance.
The offerings that the Demon Emperor and the Demon God Palace had drawn for this sacrifice were already consumed by nearly ninety percent; just over two hundred thousand remained.
However, in the current state, these two hundred thousand offerings were far from sufficient.
Jiu Xi understood very well that if he wished for his fate-seeing eyes to ascend another level, the offerings required might well number in the tens of millions.
Tens of millions of offerings—even if the entire country exhausted its strength to support this, gathering them would still take a very long time.
Yet the sacrifice before his eyes could not wait that long.
His brows drew together once more; Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi waved his hand again. "Continue!"
Before long, the remaining two hundred thousand offerings were completely sacrificed, yet the obscure gray power that converged into Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi’s body still failed to raise his fate-seeing eyes by another tier.
He swept a faint glance over the more than eight hundred Prophet Demon Masters of various ranks below the altar, then spoke decisively. "Origin Essence Blood Sacrifice—each person will offer five hundred years of Life Span!"
As these words fell, the complexions of the eight hundred and twenty Prophet Demon Masters below all changed drastically.
Yet none dared voice a doubt.
Without the slightest hesitation, all eight hundred and nineteen Prophet Demon Masters below simultaneously activated Secret Techniques, sacrificing their own Life Span.
Mouthful after mouthful of incomparably precious golden Origin Essence Blood was spat into the altar by these Prophet Demon Masters as though it cost them nothing, then swiftly absorbed by the altar.
The faces of the eight hundred and nineteen Prophet Demon Masters below began to age rapidly one after another.
Most of the Prophet Demon Masters fared somewhat better, but those whose Life Span had already been scant to begin with, after offering five hundred years of Life Span, began to grow dramatically old, their Life Force swiftly ebbing.
Within just a few breaths, more than fifty Prophet Demon Masters aged on the spot and collapsed dead by the altar’s edge.
Half the Prophet Demon Masters sprouted white hair.
Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi, however, merely watched all this woodenly, calmly awaiting the end of the sacrifice.
The combined offering of forty thousand years of Life Span by eight hundred and nineteen Prophet Demon Masters made the whole altar flash with radiance, and in the void above, a Demon God phantom suddenly surfaced.
The emergent Demon God phantom let out a satisfied burp, then opened its mouth to spew forth a torrent-like surge of gray power, all of it merging into the body of the topmost Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi.
In an instant, the Wisdom Eye of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi, which had been flashing with golden light, shifted from gold to a Chaos-like hue of虚无 death-silence.
At once, the light of the Wisdom Eye of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi pierced straight through All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds of the Primordial Era.
Yet ahead of this Wisdom Eye radiance, countless streaks of Blood Light still veiled his sight.
This made the face of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi change greatly—could even the Demon God’s power not penetrate the Heavenly Secrets?
"Again!"
With a furious shout, his fingers pinched out a Magic Formula; this time, countless streams of light reached directly out from within the altar, beginning to draw out the Origin Life Force of those eight hundred and nineteen Prophet Demon Masters.
One Prophet Demon Master after another began to age and die where they stood.
Yet under the continuous extraction and empowerment, the radiance of the Wisdom Eye of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi grew increasingly bright, already able to pierce through those layers of Blood Light and glimpse the obscure Heavenly Secrets hidden behind.
Half a Quarter-hour later, when the two hundred and forty-seventh Prophet Demon Master collapsed dead, the Heavenly Secret Light of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi’s Wisdom Eye suddenly flared brilliantly, piercing through the layers of Blood Light before him in the Heavenly Secrets.
The extraction sacrifice halted there; the eyes of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi suddenly grew incomparably bright.
Within Jiu Xi’s fate-seeing Wisdom Eye, piercing through the layered Blood Light, he saw countless streaks of Blood Light rising from the Human Demon Battlefield, with lights of various colors within the Blood Light waxing and waning.
In the region where the Great Zhou Dynasty lay, several beams of radiance wavered endlessly in brightness; yet behind the Demon Clan’s lines, the black radiance representing the Demon Clan’s fortune suddenly surged once.
Having seen only this much—and before Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi could look further—the Blood Light that had just become transparent thickened once more, and the Heavenly Secrets were again shrouded.
No matter how Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi strove, he could no longer glimpse the slightest thread of Heavenly Secret.
"Can these Heavenly Secrets be seen only up to this point...?"
"The omens of great chaos arise from the Human Demon Battlefield, yet they are to the benefit of our clan... I understand..."
Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi slowly closed his fate-seeing Wisdom Eyes, which were emanating Chaos Radiance; when he opened them again, they had already returned to normal, becoming once more that pair of limpid, water-like pupils.
Jiu Xi’s gaze swept across the corpses of the Prophet Demon Masters fallen around the altar, without the slightest change.
"Transmit my order: all Prophet Demon Masters who sacrificed themselves are to be buried with an extra grade of thick compensation according to their respective statuses."
As he spoke, the figure of Prophet Demon Master Jiu Xi had already vanished; when he appeared again, Jiu Xi was already hovering above the Demon Palace.
All of the Demon Clan high echelon watching this scene were filled with dread.
A sacrifice of 1.5 million slaves and over three hundred incomparably exalted Prophet Demon Masters—what sort of Heavenly Secrets had Prophet Magus Jiu Xi ultimately beheld?

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