Zither Emperor

Chapter 729: The second episode of Milan School of Magic and Martial Arts - the fifth episode of Deadwood Dragon's Song is the third

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How rich is Yinzhu's combat experience, even if he is not using his current strength, he can still grasp every momentary change on the battlefield. Seeing that Jiuhuan is about to approach him, he does not panic, and his body shakes slightly on the spot After a while, a purple-black halo rose from under his feet, and then, a common abomination appeared beside him.

The abomination didn't attack but hugged Cosbah's body.

Even the ordinary abomination is more than six meters tall, and its fat body is like a mountain of meat, which is absolutely out of proportion to Cosbah's body, which is close to a human being. The action he thought of directly threw Cosbah's body high.

The power of hatred is extremely strong, and with this full force throw, Cosbah's body immediately rushed into the sky tens of meters high, and naturally avoided the nine halos that were inevitable.

All of this happened too suddenly. If it was just one or two weakened spells, perhaps the eleven demon kings could still control it with their own mental power and track down Cosba's body. It's a pity that her mental power is not strong enough, and the simultaneous casting of nine auxiliary magics has already put a lot of load on her, so how can she do it if she wants to control it delicately

Originally, this Eleven Demon King had worked hard for a hundred years to take advantage of this opportunity to improve her ranking among the Demon Kings, but she never imagined that she would meet such a powerful challenger. When Ye Yinxiu used the death contract to subdue the golden sickle, she knew that she had no chance to hold back from the opponent's challenge. But she still underestimated the 'Gausbah' in front of her. The nine auxiliary magics that she was bound to win were actually broken free by him in this special way.

Of course, the abomination wasn't so lucky. Nine auxiliary spells landed on it at the same time, the loathing let out a stern roar, its huge body trembled violently, not to mention attacking, even standing still had become an extremely difficult task.

Cosbah's body rose to the highest point and began to fall, and the direction of the fall was exactly where the abomination was. Naturally, there would be no problem at all with hating that fat body to withstand the gravity of his fall.

However, the eleventh demon king had already reacted after a brief surprise, and of course she couldn't let Ye Yinxiu control Cosba to land smoothly. Even though the nine magic spells that she spent a lot of energy on death didn't achieve the desired effect, Cosbah's body ascending into the air also virtually restricted her own ability to move. Eleven Demon King will not let go of such an opportunity.

A circle of dark blue halo suddenly appeared at the feet of the common abomination. With a bang, the abhorrence that had been subjected to nine levels of weakening magic, the huge and fat body burned almost instantly.

Turned into a dark blue flame. The violent burning even made all the surrounding lords watching the battle feel the chilly breath from the flames.

According to the calculations of the eleven demon kings, after casting a death energy call. Cosbah's own magic power couldn't immediately continue to cast the next spell, especially with his spiritual power to control the abomination to throw his body away. Therefore, he cannot fall with magic power. It can only be caught by the common abomination.

Therefore, the Eleven Demon Kings did not choose Cosbah in the sky for the first Luminous Ice Ring, but chose the fat body of the common abomination first, and the abomination that was burning violently was burning under the effect of the nine-fold weakening magic. Landing on the huge lunar fire, which is the location where Cosba is about to fall. With the burning of the abominable body under the effect of the nine-fold auxiliary magic, the power of this mass of lunar fire is definitely much greater than the direct emission of the lunar ice ring. The Eleven Demon King's calculations were very good. As long as Cosbah fell into the fire of the sun, he would not be able to get out of it. After that, he only needed to apply some weakening magic to him. This battle is over. At the same time, just to be on the safe side, the Eleven Demon King has already begun to prepare the death energy needed for his second Lunar Ice Ring.

Unfortunately. Although the Eleven Demon King's calculation was accurate this time, it still failed. because. She overlooked one thing, a key to her doom, and that was Cosbah's death pact.

Seeing that Cosbah's body was less than 20 meters away from the ground, his body had even turned dark blue against the huge solar fire, but Cosbah who fell from the sky did not Any panic, suddenly, a golden light suddenly appeared under Cosbah's body, causing his falling body to stop suddenly. .

what is that? It was the golden evil sickle that Cosbah had just signed a death contract with. The two huge sickles slapped suddenly, making a series of screaming sounds in the air. Those two huge sickles became wings for gliding, sitting on their backs. Following Cosbah, he flew out obliquely, completely detached from his feet.

Yin fire.

When the abomination appeared and threw Gosba's body up, the entire battle plan had already been transmitted to Gosba's mind through his mental power. Ye Yinzhu's keen judgment of the situation, the abilities of the three abyssal creatures he could control were all deeply imprinted in the mind. The golden scythe suddenly appeared, turning the situation around in almost an instant. It seemed that Cosbah's body was still in the air, but the terrifying gliding speed of the golden scythe had already reached the Eleven Monsters in just a few blinks of an eye. before the king.

The eleventh demon king turned pale with fright, let out a scream, and almost subconsciously sent out the Taiyin ice ring that she had just prepared. In a crisis, she can be said to have launched this attack with all her strength. The Lunar Ice Ring shone with a dark blue brilliance, releasing terrifying and eerie energy.

Cosbah's hands tightly grasped the scales on the back of the golden evil sickle, and his legs tightly clamped the golden evil sickle's not-so-broad back. At the same time as the lunar ice ring appeared, the two giant scythes of the golden evil sickle Withdrawing suddenly, the body without the gliding tool suddenly fell, avoiding the attack of the lunar ice ring when there was no time to go.

At this time, the golden evil sickle was only about three meters away from the ground, and it fell suddenly. The moment its body touched the ground, it bounced up again, almost passing under the ice ring of the lunar moon, and the two huge sickles seven meters long had already cut off suddenly. Go out, go straight to the body of the Eleven Demon King and stagger away.

The speed of the Golden Evil Scythe was brought to its limit at this moment. The Eleven Demon Kings did not have the ability to bully the Golden Evil Scythe's body and find a blind spot like Cosba controlled by Ye Yinzhu. Seeing, her body was about to be cut into pieces under the attack of the golden scythe.

The anti-magic shield would not have any blocking effect under such an attack, and the eleven demon kings could only watch helplessly as death was about to come.

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The two huge golden sickles stopped suddenly less than three inches away from the Eleventh Demon King. The huge sickles trembled slightly due to the previous speed and strength, emitting a terrifying sound. The gloomy light flickered, and the eleven demon kings who saw it were frightened.

Ye Yinzhu, who was sitting on the back of the golden sickle, said calmly: "I think I should have won this challenge."

The eleventh demon king raised his head and took a deep look at Ye Yinzhu. The strange thing is that there was no resentment in her eyes, but a bit of relaxation. She just nodded, turned around and walked towards the stone platform. go.

"Gao Siba succeeded in challenging the eleventh demon king, and he was automatically promoted to the eleventh demon king. Do you want to continue the challenge?" The voice of the great demon king sounded. At this moment, the eyes of all the demon kings were focused on Cosbah alone. The strange fighting method just now greatly increased the vigilance of these witches. The original absolute advantage over wizards has undergone a huge change because of the extremely low success rate of the death contract. For a while, these witches couldn't accept it.

However, this doesn't mean anything, the challenge is stipulated by the Abyss Demon King, and they can only continue.

Before Ye Yinzhu's eyes fell on him, the beautiful ten demon kings had already smiled at him, "I give up. I will be automatically reduced to eleven demon kings. Cosbah should be ten demon kings now."

The gazes of many demon kings turned from Cosba to the ten demon kings, but the ten demon kings stood aside as if nothing had happened, and made room for themselves.

You must know that it is a great shame for a strong demon king to not accept the opponent's challenge and directly admit defeat at the demon king change conference. They would rather be defeated than surrender easily. After all, except for the original twelve demon kings, there will be no life-threatening to challenge the demon kings. And Cosbah is just one person. Although he does not need to consume mana to use the death contract, summoning abyssal creatures requires constant consumption of death energy, which cannot be replenished in a short while. As long as he continues to consume it, he will be considered dead. The golden sickle summoned by the contract will not be powerful enough to threaten all the demon kings.

The retreat of the ten demon kings immediately pushed the nine demon kings who had fought against Ye Yinzhu to the cusp of the storm.

Gao Siba looked at the Nine Demon Kings, and under the strong control of Ye Yinzhu's spiritual power, he showed strong disdain and contempt, curled his lips, and said, "Should the Nine Demon Kings also admit defeat and give up your position?" Give it to me?".

The Nine Demon King was furious. She had suffered a loss from Ye Yinzhu before, but she knew that it was because this Gosbah was a bit different, but it also had an important relationship with her underestimating the enemy. Thinking of the scene where those four subordinates were destroyed in Ye Yinzhu's hands, the resentment in Nine Demon King's heart could not be restrained rising.

In a blink of an eye, the Nine Demon Kings had come not far from Ye Yinzhu, looking at the golden sickle under him, "Why should I escape? I accept your challenge. I want you to know that the challenge of the Demon King is not so Easy to do."

"Abolish her." A gentle voice came to Ye Yinzhu just at this time, no, it should be said to be Gausspar's ear.

This voice once left a deep impression on Ye Yinzhu, and the owner of this voice still insists on his 'partner'. Cosbah glanced at the Three Demon Kings on the stone platform, and Cosbah's aura had become even more gloomy.

The anti-magic shield appeared on the body of the Nine Demon King for the first time, and then, a series of screams came out from her mouth, and her whole body suddenly became blurred. A string of phantoms retreated in different directions at the same time.

Ye Yinzhu knew that this should be a derivative form of the Abyss Clone Technique, and the effect was much stronger. What the Nine Demon Kings showed at this time was her real strength, and the number of figures that suddenly separated was more than ten. And they are all drifting back in different directions. Even if the golden scythe can attack a very wide range, it is impossible to destroy all the clones in a short time.

Ye Yinzhu didn't order the Golden Evil Scythe to attack, but stayed where he was. He wanted to see how the Nine Demon Kings planned to attack Cosba and the Golden Evil Scythe.

Without warning, a circle of dark red halo suddenly rose from the ground, and it was not Cosbah who attacked, but the golden scythe.

The huge body of the golden evil sickle suddenly became stiff, through the spiritual connection. Ye Yinxiu immediately noticed that the speed of the golden scythe had at least doubled. This is an auxiliary magic with a slow effect.

Immediately afterwards, dark red halos began to appear one after another, and the targets were not Cosbah, but the golden scythe. Because of Ye Yinxiu's order, the golden sickle couldn't attack. After being hit by the slowing magic, it could only endure one weakening magic after another.

The most frightening thing about these weakening spells for witches is that the effects can be superimposed, after a certain amount of weakening spells are hit on the body. No matter how strong the body is, no matter how powerful the strength is, it will be greatly restricted due to the superimposed effect. so. The best way to deal with a witch is to not let her first weakening spell succeed. Otherwise, under the ebb and flow, the gap will only become wider and wider.

This attack method of the Nine Demon King is very clever. She always remembers that witches are the natural enemies of wizards, and she has an anti-magic shield on her body. Any magic effect of Gaussbar's body will have no effect on her body. His greatest reliance is the gold that can launch powerful and weak attacks. Evil sickle, although I don't know how he successfully signed the death contract, but the Nine Demon King believes that as long as the golden evil sickle is dealt with first, be more careful. Attacking Ye Yinzhu with the method of eleven demon kings will definitely win the final victory. Therefore, as soon as she came up, she set her target on the golden scythe, which was very powerful in speed and attack power. Sure enough, it has achieved excellent results.

At least ten weakening spells have been superimposed on the Golden Scythe. But its body is naturally not comparable to the ordinary abomination that Cosbah summoned before, so. It still stood there, although it was a little panicked, but with its master, Cosbah, it was not afraid of anything.

Although Ye Yinzhu didn't order the golden evil sickle to attack, his own mental power had completely spread to the entire battlefield. Although the avatar technique of the Nine Demon Kings couldn't be seen through, with his keen mental power, Ye Yinzhu had already You can accurately grasp the attributes of magic when the opponent releases magic, even when it is instant magic.

You want to attack the golden scythe? OK, then let you attack.

As long as it doesn't die, it can still help me fight when the weakening magic effect disappears.

Although the effects of weakening magic can be superimposed, each weakening magic has its own time limit. After the time limit, the effect will naturally be lost. Therefore, even though it has a superimposed effect, it cannot be superimposed without limit.

What Ye Yinzhu was waiting for was the moment when the Nine Demon Kings launched an attack. .

Sure enough, when the thirteenth weakening magic was superimposed on the golden evil sickle, the Nine Demon King finally couldn't help it. She was absolutely sure that after suffering so many weakening magic superpositions, even an existence like the golden evil sickle It is also impossible to survive under its own lunar ice ring. One must know that his Taiyin ice ring is stronger than those eleven demon kings.

The fire of the lunar eclipse rose quietly under control, and the nine demon kings controlled it very carefully. Even before casting the icy ring of the lunar eclipse, they sent a slow weakening magic to Cosbah's body. The purpose is not to hit the opponent, but to confuse

Don't let it discover its true purpose.

But how did she know that her every move has long been invisible under the attention of Ye Yinzhu's spiritual power.

A faint light flickered, and there was a gloomy glint in Cosba's eyes. The golden scythe that had never moved under him suddenly arched his body at the moment when the Nine Demon King activated the Taiyin Ice Ring, and then quickly bounced off, knocking Cosba back. His body was sent out, and at the same time, the golden scythe that was attached with thirteen weakened magics suddenly disappeared and returned to Cosbah's contract space.

All of this was done in a timely manner. Cosbah's body was sent out, just avoiding the slow magic, and the Lunar Ice Ring that appeared almost at the same time as the disappearance of the Golden Scythe also happened to fail to land on the Golden Scythe. On the evil sickle.

There is only a slight difference.

But as the saying goes, the plan that the Nine Demon Kings had arranged from the very beginning failed completely. After consuming a lot of their own death energy, they did not achieve the desired effect, even though the golden sickle was temporarily lost. It has the ability to fight, but it is not dead yet, and Cosbah has not even cast the smallest magic, so it can be said that there is no consumption of death energy.

When the Nine Demon King saw that her Taiyin Ice Ring had lost its target, she froze for a moment. She couldn't imagine why the opponent's attack was so accurate.

Just as the Nine Demon King was shocked, an unforgettable scene appeared, Cosbah waved his hands in the air, and circles of dense death energy floated out, covering all her clones.

Can you attack directly with death energy? The Nine Demon King was extremely disdainful, she had an anti-magic shield on her body, such an attack would not cause any harm to her at all. But is all this really as simple as she imagined? When death can approach all her clones, Cosbah told her with actions, of course not.

A strange scene appeared, the purple-black death energy suddenly dispersed the moment it floated close to all the clones of the Nine Demon Kings, and did not launch an attack. Immediately afterwards, on the ground where the avatar of the Nine Demon Kings was standing, a dark white figure suddenly appeared.

These white figures are not high class, but the lowest and most common ghouls. Around each clone of the Nine Demon King, four white ghouls appeared, four ghouls were enough to surround her body, and the dozens of ghouls summoned at the same time moved at the same time. When they got up, their movements were very simple, they hugged the Nine Demon Kings in front of them.

The aura of the avatar might be the same as that of the main body, and there is no difference in appearance, but the avatar is an avatar after all, and although the anti-magic shield looks pink and green, all the magic on the avatar has no effect. So, when the many ghouls made the same action. Four of the dozens of ghouls were instantly shattered and turned into pieces of bone, but all of their clones disappeared with them.

The body of the Nine Demon King stood there almost stiffly. The four ghouls that were broken before died under the effect of her anti-magic shield.

Using the lowest level of ghoul summoning to break her high-level summoning, the situation of the battle was reversed almost instantly.

All the ghouls disappeared almost at the same time, but in front of the Nine Demon King, there was also an extremely huge fat man with two heads of hatred. In the hearts of all demon kings, another death contract creature of Cosbah.

In order to defeat Cosba, the Nine Demon Kings can be said to have used all their strengths, whether it was her advanced avatar technique or the constant weakening of magic and the lunar ice ring, the consumption of death energy was very large.

The magic power of the witch itself is very strong, but the magic of the abyss plane has a disadvantage, that is, the magic power consumed by the magic attack itself is the same regardless of the scale or area.

That is to say, when the Nine Demon Kings launch a weakening spell, they only attack one Golden Scythe, which consumes the same mana as attacking both the Golden Scythe and Cosbah at the same time. It's just that the larger the area of the magic attack, the less powerful the unit area will be. .

Although the spells launched by the abyssal creatures are all instant, they also consume more magic power than human magicians. When this consumption reaches a certain level, they also need to rest, at least in a short period of time they cannot activate the same instant magic. At this time, what the Nine Demon Kings are facing is such an embarrassing situation that they have just used so many magics and have not yet recovered.

At this moment, Ye Yinzhu realized the huge disadvantage of the abyss plane compared with the Longzinus continent.

In the continent of Ryuzakinus, magicians must use spells to achieve magic, some magic is an exception, and powerful magicians may be able to cast some low-level magic instantly. The magicians of the abyss plane obviously do not have this restriction. Most of their magic is instantaneous.

However, while the abyss plane has an instant advantage, it also has a huge flaw, that is, the ability to recover and protect itself. Ye Yinzhu had vaguely discovered this problem since the first battle with the witch, but he was not sure of his conclusion until now.

You know, the abyssal creatures at the demon king level are at least above the purple level, and there are even existences that have reached the demigod level like the three major demon kings. However, during these witches' battles with Ye Yinzhu or Gosiba controlled by Ye Yinxiu, Ye Yinzhu felt their weaknesses many times. That is, once the magic fails, it will be difficult to keep one's life alive.

Of course, magicians in the human world also have such shortcomings. After all, magicians use magic to fight, and their physical abilities are very fragile. It is bound to be very miserable when they are approached by soldiers.

However, in the human world, this kind of situation will only happen to low-level magicians. When magicians reach the purple level, this kind of situation will never happen.

First of all, a purple-level magician can cast almost all magic below the green level instantly, and, more importantly, after entering the purple level, he has the title of great magister. Such a magician has a very high status in the human world. Not to mention their own ability, but the equipment in all aspects is quite rich, which must include life-saving props, such as some magic scrolls or artifacts.

therefore. After human magicians reach the purple level, their survival rate on the battlefield is extremely high. In addition to the protection of the guards, the equipment they own is the best means for them to save their lives.

However, in this abyss plane, there are also purple-level magicians, what do these demon kings use to protect themselves

In this one-on-one situation, they couldn't drive the guards of their subordinates, and when the magic came to a standstill, they could only watch the enemy attack them.

Even the avatar technique performed by the Nine Demon Kings before. That is also the ability of her body, rather than relying on external force or any magic items to achieve it.

Don't underestimate the power of equipment, back then. How did Ye Yinzhu defeat the master of the dark tower, Slondi

There is still a big gap between his own strength and Sloan's, even if he has reached the demigod level. But compared with Sloan, the eighth-level demigod level, there is still a huge gap.

However, he still won the final victory, relying on the powerful assistance of several super artifacts on his body.

Super artifact dead wood dragon chant piano. The super artifact Thor's Hammer, coupled with the set of super artifact armor composed of the four great beasts, made Ye Yinzhu ignore the gap in strength between himself and Sloan.

Destroy the opponent.

Even now, if Ye Yinzhu is allowed to use these equipments at the same time, even the little dragon girl may not be his opponent.

Affirming his own idea, Ye Yinzhu finally achieved his purpose of reconnaissance this time, and found the biggest advantage that his side can use.

Perhaps, the combat strength of the abyss plane is strong enough, but they do not have their own civilization. Not to mention technology. With all kinds of equipment that are much more powerful than the opponent, can't human beings win the final victory

With this confidence, Ye Yinzhu has already come up with a whole set of plans for the abyss plane. You only need to go back and implement it before this jihad can begin.

Ye Yinzhu's spiritual power is so powerful. The thoughts in his mind did not affect him from ending the fight. The moment the two-headed hateful eyes shone with terror and came before the Nine Demon King, the outcome of the battle was already doomed.

The magic that the Nine Demon Kings can use is not as powerful as the Taiyin Ice Ring. For the big guy who has evolved to a certain level, the two-headed hatred, her magic can no longer win in a short time. .

You know, the two-headed abomination controlled by Ye Yinzhu is already second only to the two-headed blue abomination at the lord level in terms of strength.

Two huge golden lights flashed suddenly, and the Nine Demon King managed to condense a little death energy. While retreating rapidly, he wanted to cast the Taiyin Ice Ring again, but Ye Yinzhu didn't give her time to accumulate enough death energy.

A pair of her arms had been severed off under the scythe several meters long.

According to what the big demon king said, as long as he doesn't kill his opponent, it is not considered a foul, and the three demon kings have already said that they let themselves abolish the nine demon kings. That being the case, how could Ye Yinzhu be polite

Although the Nine Demon King looks like a pretty girl,

But Zhu knew very well how cold-blooded and evil the creatures of the abyss were. They are acquired changes, the essence of these abyssal creatures is only ugly.

The screams caused the death energy that the Nine Demon King had just condensed to flow away with the wound. At this moment, the light in her eyes was only fear.

"Don't kill me." The Nine Demon King roared in fear. Her face has become completely distorted. At this moment, let alone fighting power, she has even lost all desire to fight, and just hopes that she can live.

Even though she lost her arm, as long as she still has the position of the demon king, it would not be difficult to grow another pair of arms by devouring the creatures of the abyss.

"Of course I won't kill you. The rules still apply. But..."

The golden light flashed again. This time, the Nine Demon King lost her legs. As soon as her slender legs left her body, they shriveled up and turned into a pile of disgusting rotten flesh. This is the witch's body. It was like a maggot.

The two-headed abomination didn't dislike these things. He quickly picked up the limbs of the Nine Demon King with the giant scythe in his hand and sent them into his mouth. After chewing a few times, he swallowed them.

Even though what he devoured was only a part of the Nine Demon King's body, at the moment when the devouring ended, a faint blue light flashed across the body of the two-headed abomination. Obviously, he was far away from evolving to the next level. Not far away.

The Nine Demon Kings were completely abolished by Ye Yinzhu. Although he didn't know what the purpose of the Three Demon Kings was, it was right for him to reduce the enemy's strength no matter how he killed them.

The eyes of the Three Demon Kings looking at Ye Yinzhu seemed to become more gentle, but unfortunately, the flash of vigilance in the depths of her eyes could not escape the scanning of Ye Yinzhu's mental power.

Seeing that the limbs of the Nine Demon Kings were cut off by Ye Yinzhu, the faces of the Four Demon Kings and the Seven Demon Kings changed drastically at the same time. They wanted to come out, but they all forcibly endured it. After all, the Demon King Change Conference is not something they can decide.

The Seven Demon King could only lift down the body of the Nine Demon King who was completely unconscious. When the Nine Demon King left the competition venue, her body had already begun to undergo drastic changes. degraded scene.

Obviously, the Nine Demon King is no longer at the witch master level, and it is not so easy to evolve back.

After defeating the Nine Demon King, Ye Yinzhu automatically took over her position. In theory, he did not violate the rules, at least he left the Nine Demon King alive.

However, the successive victories also made the atmosphere of the scene more solemn. The Eight Demon Kings who were supposed to appear next did not leave the boulder they were standing on for a long time, but just quietly looked at Ye Yinxiu below.

Not only him, including the top three demon kings, they all found that they couldn't see through this wizard Cosbah.

If it was a bit of a fluke for him to defeat the Twelve Demon Kings, then the strength, on-the-spot reaction and skillful application of skills he showed in the next few battles deeply shocked the Demon Kings.

Especially just now when facing the golden scythe, he suddenly cut into a dead corner and summoned four abominations to capture the opponent. Using the death contract and just at the last moment of the battle, he summoned a large number of low-level ghouls out of thin air to break the Nine Demon King's high-level avatar technique The scene of this scene is deeply remembered by all the demon kings.

They discovered for the first time that the wizard's skills can still be used in this way, and the effect is so good that it seems to have reversed the restraint between the wizard and the witch.

The disastrous defeat of the Nine Demon Kings made the Eight Demon Kings hesitate. How could they not be afraid of death at their level? It is by no means an easy task to have the current authority, and they have paid countless efforts. If he was directly degraded by Ye Yinzhu like the Nine Demon Kings before, it would undoubtedly be more uncomfortable than death. So the Eight Demon Kings hesitated to make a move. In her opinion, the reason why Ye Yinzhu killed the Nine Demon King was because he devoured the opponent's body as much as possible to supplement his own strength within the scope of the rules, and she didn't think too much about it. Such an approach was not unheard of in the challenges of a century ago.

"I abstain, I am willing to give up my position." After weighing the pros and cons, the Eight Demon Kings reluctantly said the same words as the Ten Demon Kings. At the same time, he took a step down and stood at the position where the Nine Demon Kings were before.

So far, the three demon kings have fulfilled Ye Yinzhu's request to break into the top eight. In fact, even the Three Demon Kings themselves did not expect this. .