The Abyssal Sage King's expression was grim.
If Su Ming did nothing, even if Douluo's laws infiltrated the demon plane, allowing Spirit Masters to retain combat power in the channel behind the Demon Gate, it wouldn't matter much. At least the demons would have no power within the channel.
That way, both the Abyss and Douluo could push the battlefield into the Demon Plane's homeland, then wage war within the Demon Plane. The damage caused would be to the Demon Plane. Furthermore, the deeper they went into the Demon Plane, the more the energy flow of dead Abyssal creatures could bring more power from the demon plane into the Abyss, to be devoured by him.
However, with demonic laws infiltrating this side of the battlefield, a third-party force would appear on the entire battlefield.
Although the Demon Plane wasn't strong, being weaker than the Douluo Planet's sea, it was still a plane approaching a god-like plane. The Nine Great Demon Sovereigns all had limit-level strength. Among them, Alba was only ranked eighth. The top three Sovereigns had Quasi-God strength. The strongest among them, the Great Sovereign Al'Yi, even wielded the Demon race's divine artifact, capable of briefly burning blood to ascend to god level.
This was information circulated within the cosmos.
As for Douluo Planet, there was little information in the cosmos because its connection with the outside was not deep.
But the Demon Plane invaded weak planes everywhere, so the information flowing out was quite a bit.
If not for Great Sovereign Al'Yi's strength, their Demon race would have long been sanctioned.
The Demon Plane had suffered counter-invasion at least three times. These three counter-invasion were eliminated by Al'Yi the first time.
But this time, whether it was the Abyss or Douluo Planet, neither were problems Al'Yi could solve.
Still, this was a stronger individual than Spirit Emperor or Blaze Emperor.
His entry into The battlefield would still have a significant impact on the battle situation. Although the Demon Plane held nothing against the Abyssal Sage King, allowing him to reach his massive hand into the Demon Plane without restraint, his hand would eventually have to pass through the battlefield. Su Ming could intervene at any time and sever his hand.
"A three-way standoff won't necessarily be easy for you." The Abyssal Sage King's cold voice came from across the channel to Su Ming's ears.
Su Ming didn't care. His goal wasn't to find reinforcements. His initial objective was the Demon Law.
The Demon Plane reacted swiftly. The Nine Great Demons gathered. Alba breathed a sigh of relief.
"My royal city has been captured by them, Great Sovereign. I beseech you to help me reclaim my territory." Alba cried. Hearing this, Al'Yi also frowned.
"Who have you provoked this time?" Alba asked, also bewildered. He recalled the bloodline that "He had summoned me this time," Alba said somewhat guiltily. "A long time ago, I released a bit of my bloodline outside. It should have been that accidentally left-behind bloodline that matured, so I went to harvest it."
"You were too impulsive," Al'Yi shook his head. "You didn't even know where the other side was."
"No, no. I remember that side had summoned me last time. The life energy there was abundant, the laws were sound, and there were opponents at my level."
"Then how dare you descend directly this time!" Al'Yi roared.
Alba lowered his head, very aggrieved.
It was all the fault of those small demons. They didn't notice anything unusual.
Not only did they give false information, saying the life energy there was abundant with no one around, allowing for a safe descent.
Thinking of this, Alba was secretly annoyed, wanting to punish those nine small demons.
Wait, where are they?
Alba was startled, looking behind him at the massive hole appearing in the sky—the channel entrance. After the Abyss's reverse invasion, Su Ming left the battlefield. The Abyssal Sage King had already anchored the Demon Plane and couldn't directly destroy it now, so being hasty was useless. Su Ming's objective wasn't to destroy the Demon Plane either, so after everything was settled, he also left the battlefield. On the contrary, Chen Xinjie and the others remained outside the Demon Gate, waiting for the Demon Plane's powerful figures to intervene and negotiate. At this moment, Su Ming held a small demon in his hand. This enormous demon was now only the size of Su Ming's palm, which he held up to examine. The small demon roared and howled, threatening Su Ming. "Release the great Demon Lord immediately!" Su Ming simply flipped his palm, letting it fall onto his hand, then directly closed his hand. Amidst the other's scream, a wisp of purple-gold power was extracted by Su Ming. The Demon Lord naturally died. Su Ming. He studied the bloodline he had extracted.
"This contains the imprint of planar laws." No wonder the anchoring effect was so strong.
The entire plane encouraged the demon race it spawned to invade other planes.
After safely storing this wisp of bloodline power, Su Ming proceeded to kill the other Demon Lords one by one, extracting eight more bloodline powers.
"Based on my understanding of the Abyssal Sage King, if he can't push the battle line into the Demon Plane's interior on the battlefield, he might try to find a way to create another hole in the Demon Plane." The Demon bloodline possessed anchoring capabilities. The Abyss was only stronger in this regard.
"If any unexpected event truly happens, I can also try to establish another direct connection channel between Douluo's interior and the Demon Plane's interior using these nine bloodlines." On the battlefield, which was now clearly a three-way intersection, the three sides would soon reach a stalemate. Due to the Demon Gate's restrictions, only one... One side—either the Abyss or Douluo—could infiltrate the passage behind them, and the other side would certainly block them. The eventual stable situation would likely be demon armies also entering this battlefield, a three-way division, each occupying a territory.
If they couldn't advance, they couldn't penetrate deep into the demon plane to help them.
Su Ming, unusually, felt a surge of kindness.
He handed these nine bloodlines to Zhang Huanyun, instructing him to give them to the Blood God Legion's research department to attempt to open a secret portal to the demons based on these bloodlines.
"If the Abyss might bypass the battlefield to open another channel to the Demon Plane, then wouldn't he..." Zhang Huanyun's expression turned worried.
Su Ming had anticipated this. "He will. And he might have already started." Zhang Huanyun's face turned extremely grim upon hearing this.
"What do we do then?"
"There's nothing we can do, because the Abyss knows our coordinates," Su Ming said coldly. With the proper methods, the Abyssal Sage King could theoretically open another passage anywhere.
"Before the channel is fully established, none of us can find where he intends to establish it." Only at the moment the channel's establishment, with planar tremors, would there be a possibility of detection, and even that was only a possibility.
In the original work, the Federation discovered the problem only after a large number of Abyssal forces landed and even expanded, not by sensing dimensional tremors and conducting investigations.
However, with Su Ming's control over the plane, he was somewhat confident that he could sense it. "These don't need to be considered for now. Wait until the..."
"Abyss has indeed opened a second passage, then we will establish a second battlefield." Su Ming's tone relieved Zhang Huanyun.
After calming Zhang Huanyun down, Su Ming began to assess his progress.
"The intrusion of Abyssal laws has always been enough. I just couldn't test using this portion of laws for Heaven Refinement first because it would be detected by the Abyssal Sage King, who would then obstruct my operation to open the Demon Gate."
"Now, I can try it step by step." Su Ming smiled.
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