"I...can I beg for mercy?"
Father William said in unbearable pain, his aged face flushing with shame.
He feared death to the utmost!
"I thought the people of the Bright Church were supposed to be brave. Aren’t you supposed to sacrifice yourself for the glory of the Father God?"
Bai Yan chuckled lightly, not hiding his murderous intent and disdain.
Compared to the god fanatics recorded in the memories of his past life shown by Bai Yan, Father William lacked the loyalty and zeal for the deity; he seemed more like a hypocrite who aids a villain.
Father William was speechless, but his eyes still shimmered with the hope to live.
Bai Yan glanced at William lightly, his Dragon Claw tightening!
William screamed in terror, but his voice abruptly stopped as the sound of breaking bones, "click~click~", erupted, his bones crushed alive by the Dragon Claw.
Every bone in his body was completely pulverized! He couldn’t even speak!
Luckily, he wasn’t dead...
William endured the pain, feeling immensely relieved.
The hope that appeared after despair excited him extraordinarily; despite his body being completely disabled, he didn’t care!
As long as he was alive, that was enough!
However, Bai Yan’s next words drastically changed William’s expression.
"Don’t worry, I can’t bear to kill you... I will sacrifice you all to the Abyss! That way, I can compensate for my losses!"
Bai Yan said broodingly.
The Abyss...this demon intends to take me to that gloomy, sunless Abyss!
Then my soul...will be forever imprisoned by the Abyss!
Bai Yan’s statement sent a chill through William’s heart, and a dark, despairing feeling enveloped him again.
His shattered bones left him only able to emit weak, terrified sounds.
Bai Yan gave him a cold glance and threw the powerless William directly into the Abyss Territory.
As for the nine knights already dead on the ground, Bai Yan did not waste them either, sending them straight into the Abyss Territory.
Ten members of the Bright Church appeared on the altar, and the sacrifice began.
In Father William’s despairing gaze, a bloody sinister glow rose from the Mysterious Patterns on the altar, entwining around them.
According to the System’s information, sacrificing one S-Class Abnormal provides ten thousand points of demon energy, and sacrificing one SS-Class person provides fifty thousand points of demon energy.
Here are ten church officials, one SS-Class and nine S-Class; logically, they should provide Bai Yan with one hundred and forty thousand points of demon energy!
However, since the nine knights are already dead, the effectiveness of the sacrifice might be discounted, and the final acquisition of demon energy might be less than one hundred and forty thousand.
No matter, as long as it compensates some of my losses, that’s fine!
Bai Yan calmly watched the altar.
Unexpectedly, as the sacrifice on the Abyss altar began, a fiery cloud-like spectacle suddenly appeared in the originally dark sky of the Abyss Main Plane!
The sky was filled with bizarre red clouds, the Nether River by Bai Yan’s Abyss Territory surged violently, and a powerful will descended upon the territory!
This is the Abyss Will, comparable to Heavenly Dao!
According to the System’s records, the Abyss Will is the soul of the weird and unique Main Plane of the Abyss; it has no thought, no specific form, but it firmly holds the supreme and powerful laws of the Abyss Main Plane!
The immense and traceless Abyss Will descended within Bai Yan’s Abyss Territory, conveying a noticeably jubilant and excited feeling.
It was happy, it was joyous!
Because Bai Yan had sacrificed ten priests with considerable strength, it was the first time in millions of years that the Abyss Will accepted holy souls, which made it wildly ecstatic.
A blood light that shot up into the sky suddenly burst forth at the altar in Bai Yan’s Abyss Territory, penetrating through the control screen of the Demon Breeding Pool, and directly seeping into Bai Yan’s body.
A sense of indescribable comfort emerged, a reward given by the Abyss Will.
Like an innocent child, the Abyss Will developed a fondness for Bai Yan due to the special nature of the sacrificial offerings, and red light actively healed the dark injuries in Bai Yan’s body caused by the death of a level-four Demon.
After all, Bai Yan had previously withstood the baptism of SS-rank Holy Light, and though he had the Symbiotic Talent to reduce damage and had a Demon actively taking damage on his behalf, the powerful Holy Light still left indelible dark diseases in his body.
However, all these injuries were completely healed under the baptism of the red light!
The red light, containing the pure aura of the Abyss, and the evil power completely purified Bai Yan’s body, restoring him to his peak condition!
"What a pity, my level-four Abyssal Cerberus didn’t revive!"
Bai Yan pursed his lips, moving his body around.
He felt that the Abyss Will was really stingy, he himself being the first Demon Lord in millions of years to capture and sacrifice priests, and the reward was just healing his physical injuries?
I lost a level-four demon!
For these ten Church priests, how many trump cards did I throw out! And I even died once!
You are the will of a plane, after all! If you’re this stingy, how am I supposed to lead a team in the future?
Maybe it heard Bai Yan’s inner grumbling, the powerful will of the Abyssal Plane hovered over the altar.
Originally, the sacrificial energy of less than 140,000 demon energy points ultimately provided Bai Yan with a total of 200,000 demon energy points!
"Not bad! This round is not a loss!"
Bai Yan beamed, 200,000 demon energy points, if used to cultivate level-four demons, with the current cultivation probability of Bai Yan’s level-two Demon Territory, could likely successfully cultivate two level-four demons!
As the reward from the Abyss Will was issued, the Abyss Will, satisfied, vanished with the souls of the ten Church priests. All souls of the sacrificial offerings belonged to it, which was an equivalent exchange between the Abyss Will and the Demon Lord.
After the Abyss Will departed, Bai Yan chose to convert all 200,000 demon energy points into Demon Eggs, and then set them to automatically devour and upgrade into level-three Abyss Demon Giant Trees.
Based on the cultivation odds, these 200,000 demon energy points could likely cultivate about 18 to 20 Abyss Giant Trees, somewhat compensating for Bai Yan’s losses.
As for the new level-four demons, Bai Yan planned to cultivate them after returning to the villa. There was no rush, as cultivating level-four demons took a long time.
Moreover, counting the time, the giant egg state of his own demon identity was also about to successfully hatch.
The System had already informed Bai Yan that the moment his demon identity achieved a breakthrough, his strength would be much stronger than that of an ordinary level-four demon!
Bai Yan contentedly folded up the screen of the Demon Breeding Pool. Although Father William was already dead, the Illusion Realm still existed, and the Azure Dragon Illusion surrounding Bai Yan’s body, although powerful, was summoned by the Dragon Vein Talisman, so its existence was also running out of time.
Bai Yan commanded the Azure Dragon, accumulating the remaining power within the Azure Dragon’s body, and fiercely struck towards the Void!
With a roar from Bai Yan, the Azure Dragon roared as it tore open the Void, shattering the Illusion Realm.
The Void was like a mirror, spider-web-like patterns appearing, shattering inch by inch!
At the same instant that the Illusion Realm was shattered, the Azure Dragon Illusion also disappeared entirely due to the depletion of its energy.
"Hey, let’s go, let’s play ball together!"
"Hahaha, I’ve got a date with my girlfriend today, no basketball!"
The playful and noisy voices of students came through, and in the small wooded area near the parking lot, several couples appeared.
The familiar campus environment reappeared around Bai Yan.
Bai Yan had finally broken through the restrictions of the Illusion Realm, returning to the Main Plane.