Chapter 1921 Engraving Formation! The Dark Seed Arrives! Horror! Alves and Yurukin!
"Blood son..."
The dark geniuses of the Vampire Clan were a little worried. They looked at the Blood God clone and hesitated to speak.
Especially Euphilia, Blood Rosa and others were very worried in their hearts. The genius of the Demon Brain Tribe, Gui Jie, was really not a simple person.
"No need to worry." The Blood God clone was stunned for a moment, glanced at everyone, and said calmly.
He could see that these vampire dark species were really worried about his safety, and they were not just worried about his defeat by the Demon Brain dark species.
This undoubtedly made him feel a little complicated.
As Wang Teng's clone, the Blood God's clone has always stood in the light universe. Even though his body is that of the vampire race, he cannot be put into the same camp as the vampire dark race.
The Blood God was distracted and felt a little sad in his body and mind. He slowly closed his eyes and stopped looking at these dark vampires. He was afraid that he would be soft-hearted.
For no reason, a feeling of loneliness came over me.
It seems that everyone is extremely friendly and friendly to him, but only he knows that no matter where he is, he is lonely.
Perhaps no one can understand this feeling.
The dark vampires around him didn't know what the blood god's clone was thinking. Seeing that he closed his eyes and said nothing, it was hard to say anything in the end.
Although the Blood God clones looked very confident and didn't seem to be worried at all about losing to Guijie, they still had no idea in their hearts. They all thought about hunting down more geniuses of the bright universe and counting them on his head.
Maybe they can defeat the Demon Brain Tribe's Gui Jie in terms of numbers.
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Yan Yue Xing, Wang Teng was sitting cross-legged on a large mountain, surrounded by flames. His eyes were slightly closed, and his mind was completely immersed in his mind.
Yuan Gungun and Bingtis were floating on the side. Suddenly, Yuan Gungun's expression changed, as if he had received some news.
"What's wrong?" Bingdis glanced at it and asked.
"Message from the Blood God's clone." Yuan Gungun said.
Whoosh!
At this moment, Wang Teng himself suddenly opened his eyes, a flash of light flashed away, and there seemed to be an extremely mysterious and complex formation shadow slowly rotating in the depths of his eyes.
"What did he say?" Wang Teng looked at Yuan Gungun and asked.
"In more than a day, the geniuses of the light universe and the geniuses of the dark species will arrive in the Yanyue Star Territory. However, the Blood God's clone has already found a way to delay you for some time. You'd better hurry up." Yuan Gun said with a serious face.
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"I understand." Wang Teng nodded and said, "The formation has been improved and we can start engraving."
"Is it already improved?!" Yuan Gungun said in surprise.
Bingtis also looked over in surprise. She really hoped that Wang Teng could create a miracle, but she didn't expect that he could really perfect the formation so quickly.
Is this guy's sub-professional talent really that strong?
"You'll find out later." Wang Teng smiled slightly and said nothing more. His face suddenly became serious. He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly...
boom!
A majestic mental power swept out of his body, and the formation inscription materials floating around his body began to move.
Whoosh!
Wang Teng's body also disappeared from the spot and turned into a stream of light rising into the sky. The formation inscription materials followed closely behind him and rushed towards the void.
"It looks like we are really about to start engraving the formation." Yuan Gungun also took a deep breath, with a hint of anticipation in his eyes.
"Let's go and take a look." Bingdis turned into an icy blue stream of light and followed Wang Teng closely.
"Wait for me." Yuan Gungun reacted the slowest. Seeing that the man and the dragon were about to disappear before his eyes, he immediately drew out his mental power and turned into a stream of light and chased after them.
Like Wang Teng, it is a spiritual master, and has reached the realm lord level. The speed it erupts at this moment is not much slower than the realm lord level warrior, and it is gradually catching up with Bingtis.
Bingtis looked back and was a little surprised. Now it is only around the early stage of unlocking the world lord level, otherwise it could be faster.
However, it did surprise her that Yuan Gungun could catch up with her.
A light flashed in her eyes, a slight arc appeared at the corner of her mouth, and she immediately sped up again.
Seeing this, Yuan Gungun was stunned for a moment, and then sped up.
So the two sides started a competition in the void, as if to see who was faster.
Only Wang Teng was still flying steadily at the front. No matter how fast the two of them increased their speed, they seemed to be unable to catch up.
Not long after, Wang Teng's figure suddenly stopped. He compared the starry sky map in his mind and nodded slightly.
Although the meteorites in this star field are constantly flowing, the general situation has not changed, and his improved formation has taken this into account, so it is not a big problem.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The next moment, without any hesitation, several balls of heaven and earth fire of different colors burst out from his body.
The pure white bright holy fire!
The crimson true spirit flame of all beasts!
Cyan sapphire glazed flame!
Three strange flames swept across the starry sky, emitting an extremely hot temperature. The red flames burning on the surface of the surrounding meteorites suddenly seemed to see the king in the fire, and they all dimmed.
Boo hoo hoo…
Various materials flew in from afar, were submerged in three strange heaven and earth fires, were melted, and tempered...
Boom! Boom! Boom...
At the same time, Wang Teng waved his left hand again, and the various animal fires he controlled immediately burst out, suspended around him, surrounded him, and burned quietly.
Some less important materials also flew in from a distance and were submerged in these animal fires and spiritual fires, and were also melted and tempered.
When Yuan Gungun and Bingdis came from behind, what they saw was such a strange sight, and their eyes couldn't help but show surprise.
Although they were already well aware of Wang Teng's secondary professional attainments, they still couldn't help but feel shocked when they saw this scene.
"What a pervert!" Yuan Gungun muttered softly.
Although Bingdis did not speak, it was not difficult to see from her eyes that she probably had the same idea in her heart.
No wonder there was only a little more than a day left, and he still looked unhurried before, with such abnormal efficiency, which was not comparable to ordinary rune array mage.
After a while, the ores turned into various liquid metals, and the impurities were removed, becoming extremely pure.
boom!
Wang Teng's mental power immediately swept out and turned into a carving knife. While letting some liquid metal blend into the surrounding void, it was engraved on it.
He did not inscribe the runes required for the formation on those meteorites, but inscribed them in the void, hiding the liquid metal in the cracks of space.
Because those meteorites are flowing at any time and are easily destroyed, if a war breaks out in this area, the formation will be easily damaged.
Even if it's just some corner runes, once something goes wrong, it will inevitably affect the power of the entire formation.
This is the drawback that Wang Teng discovered.
Originally, after the formation is engraved, it has a self-protection function. Outsiders cannot break the formation and cannot damage these meteorites. However, the situation here is too special. Those meteorites are circulating all the time. No one knows whether they will exceed the formation.
scope of law.
Moreover, before Wang Teng finishes inscribing the formation, the geniuses of the light universe and the geniuses of darkness are very likely to arrive. When a battle occurs, part of the meteorite will definitely be destroyed, and the runes in it will probably be difficult to preserve.
So instead of engraving the runes on the meteorite, it would be better to engrave them in the void.
Fortunately, he has the talent of space, which allows him to hide these materials in the cracks of space and blend them with the void.
This is absolutely foolproof!
Hee hee hee…
After losing the high temperature of the flame, the liquid metal immediately cooled and solidified, and then strange runes emerged out of thin air on it, as if there was an invisible big hand inscribing it.
Not long after, the newly tempered materials were integrated into the surrounding void by Wang Teng, and formation runes were engraved on them.
"Done!"
Wang Teng let out a breath, then immediately turned around and galloped in the other direction: "The next place."
While comparing the starry sky map in his mind, he searched for the most suitable node for inscribing the formation runes.
Yuan Gungun and Bingtis remained silent, both following him, watching him quickly carve the formation runes.
They looked at each other and couldn't help but sweat for Wang Teng.
too fast!
The two of them were almost dazzled by what they saw, fearing that Wang Teng would make a mistake. Even a god-level existence like Bingtis had never seen such crazy behavior.
Most rune formation masters are careful when engraving formations. When it comes to some critical points, they need to think over and over again before they dare to continue inscribing.
But with Wang Teng, Bingtis couldn't see any pause at all, and the whole process really seemed to flow smoothly.
She felt that she seemed to have seen another way of inscribing formations on Wang Teng, and it was estimated that she would never see this method on another person again.
No one can learn from it!
If someone really tries to imitate him without risking life and death, the end will probably be disastrous.
"evildoer!"
A murmur couldn't help but rise in Bingdis' heart.
Time passed quickly, and most of the day passed in the blink of an eye, and Wang Teng had already finished inscribing all the runes on the edge of the formation.
Now the runes he had engraved were spreading towards the center.
The center...is exactly where the Yanyue Star is!
The formation inscribed by Wang Teng covers almost the entire Yanyu Star Territory. Except for the area at the very edge of the Yanyu Star Territory, he has inscribed runes on all other places.
This is undoubtedly an extremely crazy move!
No wonder he asked Zhulongxing to prepare so many materials needed for the inscription formation.
It turns out that he had already made up his mind to turn the entire Yanyue Star Territory into a terrifying formation.
Even if it is just a holy-level calamity formation, once it covers an extremely wide range, and with the help of the terrifying power of fire in the Yanyue Star Territory, the power it can exert must be extremely terrifying.
Maybe even Wang Teng himself couldn't imagine what the formation he had engraved would eventually reach.
After his improvement, this formation is more consistent with this star field. According to theory, the power it can exert will be stronger.
This is also the basic premonition that a holy rune array mage has.
"There's not enough time."
At this moment, Wang Teng looked solemn, calculated the progress of the formation he had engraved, and couldn't help but muttered: "It needs to be faster."
Yuan Gungun: "..."
Bingdis: "..."
Is this still slow?
Wang Teng really doesn't leave any way for other rune array mages to survive!
If other Rune Array Masters knew his engraving speed, would their eyes pop out?
Swish, swish, swish...
As soon as he finished speaking, balls of energy suddenly floated out of Wang Teng's body, forming light groups of different colors outside his body.
These light groups quickly transformed, and then several figures that looked exactly like Wang Teng stepped out from them, and they were clearly his clones.
There are ten channels in total, corresponding to each attribute force.
"Go for it!"
Wang Teng's eyes flashed and he said.
The clones nodded and immediately turned into streams of light, speeding away in different directions.
Obviously, he wanted to engrave runes from multiple directions at the same time.
This is crazy, but if he wants to go faster, this is the only way. Fortunately, he can use his clone.
Moreover, his mental power is strong enough to support the mental power required for these clones to simultaneously inscribe formations.
When Yuan Gungun and Bingdis saw the ten clones turning into streams of light and speeding away, they couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then their eyes showed surprise.
Can it still be like this?
It’s really not the most outrageous, only more outrageous!
Wang Teng ignored their thoughts, and his mental power swept out again, inscribing the runes in this area.
One hour, two hours, three hours...
Time passed again. Under the crazy inscriptions of Wang Teng and the ten clones, the formation's rune inscription progressed rapidly, incredibly fast.
Those ten clones have Wang Teng's rune skills, and there is absolutely no problem in inscribing runes.
Although the runes for inscribing the holy formation were very complicated, there were no mistakes in the end, and the inscription was completed without any danger.
The day passed quickly, and Wang Teng returned to the Yanyue Star and breathed out slightly.
At the same time, the ten clones also completed their respective inscription tasks and returned to the Yanyue Star to join the original body.
"Hurry up and hurry up. Finally, only the runes in the core area are left unengraved." Wang Teng's expression did not relax at all, and was still extremely solemn. The runes in the core area are undoubtedly the most difficult to inscribe, but they are also the most critical.
place.
"Do you want to take a rest first?" Yuan Gunwan said with fear.
Wang Teng's actions were really shocking. He and Bingdis observed closely and witnessed the entire process of the previous formation inscription. The feeling of shock was undoubtedly even stronger.
"It's too late, I can't stop." Wang Teng shook his head.
"Can you still hold on mentally?" Bingdis asked with solemn eyes.
"It should be no problem." Wang Teng said with a flash of his eyes.
In fact, his mental strength can only last for a few hours, but if a dark species comes during this period, his mental attributes may be replenished in time.
But that would make it much more difficult for him to engrave the formation.
On one side is the difficulty of the inscription formation, and on the other side is the spiritual power that is about to be exhausted.
No matter which one it is, it is a huge difficulty.
But Wang Teng didn't worry too much. The bridge was naturally straight from the bow of the ship, and he could get through it if there was any difficulty. It's not like he had never experienced such a thing.
Seeing this, Yuan Gungun and Bingdis naturally couldn't offer any more advice. They knew that Wang Teng's engraving was entering a critical moment and they were most afraid of being disturbed.
Wang Teng took a deep breath, took out a few pills to restore his mental power and swallowed them. His eyes flashed, and he looked at the ten clones. His mental power immediately swept out from their eyebrows, and they immediately continued to engrave.
The inscription of the core runes is on the Yanyue Star.
Those runes before were hidden by him in the cracks of space, and even the upper-level Demon King-level dark species would have a hard time finding them.
But now the core runes are too complicated and mysterious, and Wang Teng cannot completely hide them in the cracks of space. Moreover, as the core of the formation, it needs something to rely on, and the Yanyue Star is the most suitable place.
"rise!"
At this moment, Wang Teng waved his hand and suddenly let out a soft drink.
The various materials required for inscribing formations flew out of the space ring, like giant pythons, flying towards the Fire Meteor Star.
These materials are needed for the core area and are more precious than the materials that were previously integrated into the void. Wang Teng has not taken them out until now when it is time to inscribe the core runes.
Zhu Longyu once reminded him that there are only one kind of materials, and if he fails, he may never have another chance.
These are the materials he mentioned.
Each of these materials is like a small vein of minerals, speeding over the meteorite and quickly arriving at a fixed area.
The scorching temperature of the meteorite cannot affect these ore materials at all, because they are quite strange fire-based ores.
The flames of the meteorite may not be able to melt them.
Unless it is in some extremely high temperature areas and requires continuous burning, it is possible to melt it.
Wang Teng's ten clones also appeared next to these ores. With a wave of his hand, flames swept out and enveloped them.
These flames are all different fires from heaven and earth. They are the power left in Wang Teng's body and can only be used once.
Boom! Boom! Boom...
Wrapped in the flames, the various ores tumbled in the flames, were melted and tempered, and the impurities fell from mid-air, and were immediately swept away by the fire of the meteorite below.
The content of these ores is quite high. Even after melting, they are like giant pythons, rolling in flames with astonishing momentum.
Not long after, the tempering was completed, and Wang Teng's ten clones immediately took action and drove the ores into the underground of the Yanyue Star below.
Boom!
In an instant, like an earth dragon turning over, the ground shook violently, the earth cracked, and the liquid metal transformed from the ores immediately merged into the earth, and then under the control of a powerful force, the ground unexpectedly closed again.
The flames swept forward, and after a while, not even a gap was left, and the ground seemed to have never been touched.
After doing all this, the ten clones continued to inscribe the formation runes. Their mental power seemed to be inscribed on the earth, and it seemed to be inscribed on the ore below.
Time passes again...
I don't know how much time passed, but Wang Teng's face became paler and paler, large beads of sweat dripped from his forehead, and a feeling of exhaustion and weakness pervaded his body.
By this time, his mental power had been extremely depleted, with almost nothing left, and there were waves of tingling sensations in his mind.
He has taken several elixirs. Even though he personally refined the elixirs, almost all of them reached 100% of the potency and had very few side effects. However, it was still not enough for his current situation.
All in all, replenishment cannot keep up with consumption!
The formation he had improved seemed to have exceeded the scope of a holy calamity, and with such a large scope, the mental power required had indeed exceeded his limit.
Wang Teng's mental power is so majestic. Under normal circumstances, it would definitely not require so much mental power to inscribe a holy-level calamity formation.
But the time was too short, and he had no extra time to recover, which resulted in his mental strength being insufficient.
This kind of situation is undoubtedly very rare for Wang Teng, but now it happened suddenly, which shows how tight the time is this time.
"Have those dark species not arrived yet? It seems that the delaying tactics of the Blood God's clone are a little too good." Wang Teng looked away from the Yanyue Star and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
His formation engraving is coming to an end, but his mental power is not enough. If a few dark species come and kill them casually, his mental power can be quickly replenished, and the formation will be completed smoothly.
So, does this count as self-imposed cocooning?
Wang Teng shook his head, shook off these messy thoughts, and took out a few more pills to take.
boom!
At this moment, a roar suddenly came from outside the Yanyue Star Territory.
Wang Teng was stunned for a moment and immediately closed his eyes. When he entered the Yanyue Star Territory, he secretly left some void ephemera behind and hid them in the cracks of space.
Therefore, once there is any movement on the edge of Yanyue Star Territory, he can sense it immediately.
Now the news he has been waiting for seems to have really... arrived!
As he closed his eyes, his thoughts appeared in the body of a void mayfly, and he sensed the situation in the outside world.
I saw spaceships of different shapes speeding in from the void in the distance, and behind these spaceships, there was a rich power of darkness sweeping in like a curtain covering the sky, and the void behind was completely plunged into chaos.
In the darkness, not even the slightest starlight could be seen.
This scene is very terrifying.
It's like a doomsday scene, which can make people feel depressed and panicked.
The spaceship in front was like a panicked bird, avoiding disaster and being driven towards the Yanyue Star Territory.
"The dark species... is here!!!"
On the Yanyue Star, Wang Teng suddenly opened his eyes, surprised and happy.
He has long known that the number of dark geniuses is very terrifying. He had already seen it with his own eyes before leaving the dark world, so he was somewhat prepared in his heart.
But now when he really had to face them, he still felt a bit of pressure.
To be honest, if he didn't have the help of the formation to fight so many dark species, he would definitely turn around and run as far as he could.
He is not stupid, how could he face so many dark geniuses alone.
But now that he is prepared, he may not be able to confront them head-on.
When Wang Teng thought of this, his eyes showed a firm light, and he grinned, as if he was a little excited.
He immediately sent out a thought.
Not long after, the ten clones soared into the sky from the Yanyu star, turned into streams of light, and rushed towards the edge of the Yanyu star domain.
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Yanyue Star Territory, edge area.
A war was about to break out. The spaceships of the bright cosmic geniuses who came from all over the world rushed straight into the meteorite domain, and the speed of the spacecraft was immediately affected by those meteorites.
Boom! Boom! Boom...
The sound of explosions came from all directions. The meteorites were too dense and the spacecraft was unable to move within them. After flying a certain distance, it was hit by meteorites bombarding it from a distance. A dazzling light suddenly lit up above the protective shield.
"Hahaha……"
"They can't run away!"
"The hunt begins!"
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A series of excited roars came from the black mist behind.
The strange warships slowly docked outside the Yanyue Star Territory, and then the dark species of different shapes flew out from the warships, chasing the bright space genius spacecraft ahead.
"Put away the spaceship and prepare to fight!"
At the same time, there were loud shouts from the spaceships of those geniuses of the bright universe.
The spaceships also stopped one after another, and then a large number of warriors flew out from them, some suspended in the void, and some fell on the meteorites...
They all held weapons and looked at the dark species chasing behind them, their faces solemn, and their eyes showing determination.
A large group of dark species immediately surrounded him.
The two sides were at war with each other, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
After those dark species saw that the geniuses of the bright universe no longer ran away, they seemed to be in no rush to hunt them. They all looked at the geniuses of the bright universe in a playful manner, as if they had cornered their prey and were ready to appreciate their desperate expressions.
expression.
"Damn it!"
"Didn't I say that there is a backup force left by the Zhulong Clan in the Yanyue Star Region? Where is it? There is nothing here except meteorites!"
"Fuck! If these meteorites hadn't blocked our spaceship, how could we have been caught up so easily."
"What are the top leaders of the coalition forces doing? Why do they want us to come here to die?"
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Voices full of resentment sounded in the crowd. Faced with such a situation, it was difficult for everyone not to feel resentful.
Boom! Boom! Boom...
At this moment, the billowing black mist behind them suddenly rolled up, and actually condensed into thrones with different shapes.
Although they look different, some are shaped like skeletons, some are like piles of rocks, and some are like a pair of dark armor...
But they all have one thing in common.
These thrones are full of weird and evil auras, making people feel extremely uncomfortable just looking at them.
When the geniuses of Bright Universe saw this scene, their faces turned aside, and their faces showed solemn expressions.
The one who can condense the throne must be a high-level Demon King-level existence.
And it must be an extremely powerful upper-level Demon King!
As soon as this thought came out, a thick black mist swept in from behind and enveloped the throne.
A dark species with a terrifying aura around its head appeared silently on the throne, like a high-altitude king of darkness, overlooking all the dark species geniuses below, as well as the geniuses of the bright universe opposite.
Whoosh!
After these dark species appeared on the throne, the dark species below all knelt down and were extremely respectful.
"hiss!!!"
The geniuses of Bright Universe suddenly took a breath of air and looked at this scene in shock.
The aura of these dark species is too powerful!
It has surpassed the average high-level Demon King-level existence.
And if they perceived it correctly, there were several figures standing next to the throne, and they were obviously high-level Demon King-level beings.
They all stood respectfully aside, as if led by the figure on the throne.
The troll tribe, the sheep-headed demon tribe, the demon moth tribe, the magic armor tribe, the demon rock tribe, the bone spirit tribe, the phantom mirage tribe, the lazy mist tribe...
Everyone's eyes swept over the throne, and they immediately recognized the dark races of different shapes.
For a time, the entire void fell into deathly silence.
Too much!
Almost all the dark races they knew seemed to appear here.
Just now, the geniuses of the dark race were densely packed in front of them. They had not noticed it yet, but now when they saw the figures on the throne, they suddenly realized that there were so many dark races here.
fear!
Horror!
Shocking!
An unspeakable feeling emerged in the hearts of all the geniuses in the bright universe. They had never seen so many dark races. The feeling of shock was simply indescribable.
Boom! Boom!
At this moment, two roars came from the black mist behind.
The expressions of the geniuses of the bright universe changed again, and they all looked behind.
They even discovered that even the being on the throne of darkness turned his head and looked over at this moment.
I saw two completely different mists suddenly sweeping out from the black mist.
A jet black as ink, the darkness is even thicker than the black fog behind, like a black robe rolling up.
One was blood-red in color, and when it swept out, it exuded a rich bloody aura, which undoubtedly appeared extremely abrupt among the surrounding pitch-black mist.
At this moment, the black-robed mist poured down, revealing a huge throne, with a seemingly bodyless black-robed figure sitting on it, which looked extremely strange.
Next to the throne, there are several black robes, very few in number. They are floating quietly like ghosts, without legs, as if they only have a black robe.
"What kind of dark race is this!??"
The geniuses of the bright universe looked at the black-robed figure with surprise and uncertainty, and their expressions became solemn unconsciously.
Because although they couldn't see the race in black robes, they could feel the terrifying and strange aura emanating from them, and they could even see the fearful looks of other dark species.
This all shows that these black robes are not easy to mess with!
"Demon Brain Clan!" At this time, a solemn voice sounded from behind the crowd.
I saw a figure wrapped in white light stepping out of the air. The rich meaning of light immediately dispelled a lot of the haze from the dark atmosphere, which shocked the hearts of the geniuses of the bright universe present.
"Lord Alves!" Many warriors around him saluted, showing great respect to the light warrior.
"Holy Light!"
"He is the genius of the Holy Light Mercenary Group - Alves!"
"What he just said was...the Demon Brain Clan!??"
"What, the dark species of the Demon Brain Clan! Are those the dark species of the Demon Brain Clan?"
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Unbelievable sounds sounded from all directions, partly because of the sudden appearance of the light warrior, and partly because of the identity of the black-robed dark species.
"Alves! Are you sure they are the dark species of the Demon Brain Tribe?"
A deep voice came from the left side of the Holy Light Mercenary Group, where the talented warriors of the Glaive Mercenary Group were.
In front of the warriors of the Glaive Mercenary Group, a warrior wearing a golden battle armor with an extremely majestic figure and a pair of horns on his head was looking at the warrior wrapped in the power of light.
"It's you, Yurukin!"
The light warrior known as Alves turned around and nodded with a serious face, saying, "I have seen them once, and I will never admit their mistake."
"I didn't expect that there would be so many dark species from the Demon Brain Tribe here." Yurukin said.
"Jie Jie Jie..." As soon as he finished speaking, a harsh and strange laughter suddenly came from under the black robe: "It seems that the reputation of our Demon Brain clan is not small, even many people in the bright universe recognize us.
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"Ha~"
At this time, a disdainful chuckle suddenly came from the blood-red mist, causing everyone to look over.
Then his eyes widened involuntarily.
I saw a huge altar slowly emerging from the extremely dense bloody mist, like a curtain covering the sky, covering most of the starry sky.
Boom! Boom! Boom...
The terrifying aura was vented from it, causing meteorites from all directions to explode and turn into dust in the void.