You travel through the skies above the Demon Realm...

[Knowing that there are too many people below to save, and that some things cannot be completely eradicated unless the root cause is addressed.]

"And first, we need to deal with the Feathered Demon King, who is over five thousand years old."

"It resides year-round in..."

[Pay attention to the information on the intelligence network and head straight for the Rift Cliff, 480 million miles away.]

[Flying and stopping, your maximum speed is 30,000 miles per second, but you can't maintain that speed indefinitely. It took you about a whole day to gradually approach the Bone-Cracking Cliff.]

Then you saw that eerie green, tiny bird-like creature, seemingly nothing but bones, barely a meter tall, making it smaller than a child of a few years old.

The Feather Demon King lives a very comfortable life. It has already reached the highest level in the Azure Domain. Those at its level are either allies, reclusive turtles, or three perpetually sleeping reclusive humans and dragons.

It is no longer in mortal danger; in this vast demonic land, it is the absolute ruler!

[Until—a long howl came from overhead.]

"Demon King, I will fight you to the death right now!"

"Where did this idiot human come from?" The Feathered Demon King scratched his ribs, the clinking sound quite pleasant.

It raised its head, its emerald green eyes gazing at the sky.

"A human supreme being who infiltrated from the heavens?"

"Interesting!" The Feathered Demon King spread its wings, instantly cleaving through the air. Strands of pale white energy shot out, compressed by its rapidly flapping wings, forming shapes resembling sword and blade energy.

Almost instantly, countless thin white streams of energy slashed out in two directions around its body, densely overlapping to form two long, wavy white bands.

The two white streaks expanded as they receded into the distance, eventually forming two fan-shaped laser sweeps that carved furrows into the earth, pulverizing scattered skeletons and raising two dust storms over tens of thousands of miles.

[The Feathered Demon King has already completed the leap from zero to fifty thousand in just one second, surpassing your maximum speed right now, and it's still accelerating...]

"This kind of momentum... is close to that of a Heavenly-level Supreme Being, surpassing the strength of our clan's Upper Heavenly-level beings." The Feather Demon King remarked with interest.

"It's inconvenient for me to kill you, the human race's trump card, even on human territory or during the Holy War, but now you've come looking for me!"

"This is the first time I've tasted such a delicacy of the highest caliber!"

In just a few seconds, it surpassed the Frigid Zone, tore through the Gale Zone, broke through the Thunder Sea Zone, and arrived at the Sun-Diving Zone!

The petite demonic body traced an arc through the blazing sea of ​​void suns, its vital energy radiating from its wings, cleaving in half a void sun thousands of miles in diameter!

[And within the Yang-Piercing Belt, your burst of true energy appeared right in front of it!]

The Feathered Demon King neither dodged nor evaded. Though only a meter tall, its radiating aura engulfed the surrounding illusory yang energy.

The sun, which those newly crowned false kings could hardly face, was submerged in its ocean of energy and blood, as if it were about to be extinguished. Even its outward-radiating radiance subsided, and its color became dim and gloomy.

[Faced with such immense blood and energy, your attack couldn't even get close to its true form; it was entangled and blocked by the blood and energy at a distance of tens of thousands of miles...]

That's enough.

"Father Yun is punishing you!"

[You sacrificed 1% of your own essence, simultaneously reducing the Feather Demon King's by 1% as well!]

[The Feather Demon King felt his physical body, blood, and soul all plummet!]

[And beyond these surface-level attributes, it seems to have lost even more!]

But it had no time to think further, for its time had come, and this illusory future would be obliterated into the endless expanse of time and space.

Only its diminished essence will be brought back to reality.

"Returning to one's true nature."

At the summit of Riftbone Cliff, the Feathered Demon King stood frozen in shock.

[Its vital energy, as if guided by some unseen force, expanded outwards to a radius of over 100,000 miles, not only enveloping a vast area of ​​heaven and earth, but even faintly touching the sea of ​​lightning in the sky and the lava flow zone underground!]

"What happened!?"

The Feather Demon King was terrified; its vital energy inexplicably leaked out, as if it had just fought some kind of creature.

It swiftly withdrew its vital energy, tearing a large hole in the sky, through which lightning could be faintly seen pouring down. Mudstone was also overturned, revealing flowing crimson-gold lava at its base.

With all his vital energy returned to his body, the Feather Demon King breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the loss of vital energy was relatively small, and there were no strange injuries on his body. Apart from the two large holes that had been torn open in the sky and on the earth, it seemed that nothing was wrong...

The next moment, its piercing cry exploded, forcing the surrounding air apart with its sound waves, causing waves of earth to surge outwards in waves, even killing some demons hundreds of thousands of miles away!

It was terrified, it was angry, it was fearful!

[It lost a portion of its power; it wasn't a drop in cultivation level due to depletion of vital energy, but rather a reduction in its upper limit!]

"Something must be wrong, something must have gone wrong..."

[While the Feathered Demon King was panicked and at a loss, you were in the Sun-Piercing Belt, more than five million miles above the ground, wrapped up tightly, huddled inside a sun with a diameter of 800,000 miles.]

[Anyone with a mental detection range of less than two million miles wouldn't be able to detect you hiding within the outer edge of this sun, even if they were just brushing past its outermost layer!]

"As expected, practical application is always safer than the theoretical minimum value."

"Although I can only fly a little over two million miles in sixty seconds during my burst of speed, the speed of my true essence transmission and the speed of my elemental force strikes are much greater than that."

"From five million miles away, I condensed my voice into a single beam, dodging countless illusory suns, piercing through the sea of ​​lightning and the gale-force winds, so that the Feather Demon King would hear it and charge towards me."

"Then all you need to do is unleash another burst of true energy, hitting its outward-emitting blood and qi power."

"It's a pity." Simply hearing your voice doesn't count as being within the range of contact, and the true energy you use to transmit your voice can only broadcast your words outwards within the cold air zone.

[You have conducted over 100,000 explorations of the future, pushing contact time and safe distance to their limits.]

[On the surface, you can fire your second burst of true energy at the Feather Demon King a few seconds earlier, but you have to take into account the countless, shimmering illusory suns that separate you two, a million miles apart!]

[Now that you have finally succeeded, although your true form is now confined within this sun, you will be using your precognitive abilities to propel yourself forward and observe the current situation in every instant.]