Within the Demon Night, this Inauguration Altar was known as the holy place of pilgrimage.
Although many of the Demon Night warriors' strength wasn't considered powerful, because they worshiped their queens so highly, many of them would co here from various supre worlds in order to cultivate. These Demon Night mbers would worship their queens every day though, and so even gave up on their cultivation.
These mbers were called pilgrims.
For even the strongest of powerful pilgrims, it usually took them years to travel a long distance to reach here from other supre worlds. With ti though, most of them could manage to make it. However, for the weak pilgrims, they'd probably spend their entire life on the road. Even before their lifespan ran out, it would still be difficult for them to reach the Rosy Cloud World, let alone personally see the Inauguration Altar!
The Inauguration Altar was incomparably huge. And around the Inauguration Altar was an even greater platform - millions of feet in diater. On this platform were many warriors of the Demon Night. Much like the followers of the secret sect in the Thoughtless Minds, the warriors were prostrating on the ground and in their hearts, they knew that the queens were the supre existences as well as the True Gods that had protected them.
Although most of the sacred places of the Rosy Cloud World were in complete chaos, the great platform surrounding the Inauguration Altar remained solemn and quiet. No one dared to make a ruckus here.
“It's Leroy! Supre Lord Leroy has co to the Inauguration Altar!”
Soone from the crowd was shouting.
Supre Lord Leroy had led the group of Demon Night warriors to this location. With thousands of warriors following him, he had of course attracted the attention of quite a few people.
Although Leroy hadn't made an appearance for many years now, most of the people present still recognized him.
The loud shouting imdiately broke the silence. Countless mbers of the Demon Night widened their eyes and looked toward the sky.
Supre Lord Leroy had been the one to issue the queen's order, and his na had spread far and wide among the Demon Night in a short period of ti.
A few warriors completely viewed him as the only savior of the Demon Night race, the only one capable of saving them from this dire situation. However, at the sa ti, there were also certain mbers who viewed him as a traitor, as soone who had broken the rules that the Demon Night race had set and followed for countless years!
In the dense crowd, a minimum of ten people watched Leroy closely, like a group of hawks. The group nodded at each other, their faces turned vicious!
One of them infused his life vitality into his voice, and suddenly shouted towards the sky, “Traitor! The Queen of Killings of our Demon Night has long perished. Since you have falsely passed on the queen's order, you will be punished with death!”
These pilgrims were totally blinded by their beliefs. They had even given up on cultivation. Now, they only wanted to contribute their faith. Without the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, these blind martial artists could easily be manipulated!
The debate in the past few days had been limited to the various sacred places and hadn't yet affected the Inauguration Alta. Perhaps these pilgrims had heard rumors about the queen's order, but the vast majority of them hadn't been able to clearly discern the truth behind it. To them, there was little importance to who was going to be crowned queen of the Demon Night.
“Why aren't you kneeling down before the Inauguration Altar, begging for forgiveness from all the queens of our Demon Night throughout the ages?!” Another person from the crowd was now shouting, too.
“Supre Lord Leroy wants to usurp the throne! He wants to destroy the Pools of Faith and break the unity of our Demon Night!”
“Every one of the Demon Night race will sacrifice their lives in order to keep this demon out of here!”
Plenty of martial artists in the crowd were now calling out, one after the other.
The martial artists that lurked in the crowd used their life vitality to shout in an attempt to get all the Demon Night mbers to hear them. By doing this, they were trying to misguide them with their incendiary remarks.
Zen's brow creased slightly when he heard these loud, confident voices. The voices coming from below were obviously extrely strange. In his opinion, it was likely that soone was purposefully spreading such words…
And although the thod was extrely vile, it was actually extrely effective at the sa ti!
These words quickly influenced the emotions of the pilgrims below. They glared at Supre Lord Leroy, who was floating in the sky above.
There were close to a million Demon Night pilgrims on the square. Most of them were weak in cultivation, and even more so, a few of the Demon Night mbers were only nature creatures, which were no different than mortals in the Demon Night race.
However, these people had no fear of a mighty Supre Lord. Under the queens' protection, there was not a single trace of hesitation in these pilgrims.
“Shut up!”
With a cold snort, Leroy raised the short bow in his hand. His movent was so fast that no one had seen how, or even when, the arrow had been shot. What they could see though, was a minimum of ten golden sparks suddenly appear in front of Leroy and shoot out in different directions.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!
Although the martial artists were hiding in the crowd, Leroy's judgnt was extrely accurate. The golden Scorching Sun Arrows shot through the crowd, accurately nailing down the martial artists that had spread the words in an attempt to mislead the others!
Although Leroy had casually shot these Scorching Sun Arrows, warriors beyond the level of grand world lords wouldn't have any power to defend against the attack.
Blood splattered out from amongst the crowd, and a few of the pilgrims let out terrified screams. Unfortunately, Leroy's actions had caused them to beco even more furious. Certain martial artists were even jumping out to insult him!
“Leroy, how dare you slaughter your own kind before the Inauguration Altar?! How disrespectful!”
“Our race's Queen of Killings actually chose soone like you to beco a Supre Lord, clearly she was too blind!”
“...”
Zen looked down at the increasingly noisy crowd and asked, “What are they trying to do? It doesn't seem to make much sense to .”
Leroy narrowed his eyes and pondered. Suddenly, he seed to recall sothing important. His expression changed slightly as he grabbed Zen and flew swiftly towards the Inauguration Altar. “We might be in trouble. Let's go!”
Seeing Supre Lord Leroy so anxious, Zen too felt even more perplexed. “What do you an?”
“Elena seems to have been well prepared. She actually arranged for such a group of fellows who don't care for their lives. It looks like they want to activate the Faith Trial and block us from the Inauguration Altar. I had forgotten about this!” By the ti Leroy had finished speaking, he and Zen had reached the front of the enormous Inauguration Altar. Here, they stopped.
This was when Zen finally found the chance to ask, “And what exactly is the Faith Trial?”
Leroy revealed a regretful expression. He stared straight through Zen and said, “That is the Faith Trial.”
The Inauguration Altar was the foundation of all queens. Once the Inauguration Altar was destroyed, the queens' strength would equally be greatly reduced! Thus, and for good reason, the Inauguration Altar was most likely the most heavily guarded area. And the outermost layer of defense was this Faith Trial!
And the right to start this Faith Trial was not held within just one single person, no, but rather in the millions of pilgrims on the platform!
When these pilgrims decided that soone was not qualified to approach the Inauguration Altar, the Faith Trial would be activated!
Elena though, had already arranged for daredevils to spread a few rumors among these pilgrims. After the appearance of the Supre Lord Leroy, the said daredevils risked their lives to slander him. In this way, Elena had easily succeeded in making the crowd hate Leroy!
Furthermore, she had also calculated that Leroy would take action to kill these daredevils, and she had thus purposely arranged for several batches of daredevils to complete the mission. When the first batch of daredevils were killed by Leroy, the second batch of daredevils would continue to slander him.
With the constant slander, a few of the pilgrims who didn't know the truth started to view Leroy as an enemy. They all glared at him, suddenly seeing him as a nesis of the Demon Night! Not all pilgrims were so brainless, however, the world would always be made up of people who didn't know the entire truth.
Because most of the pilgrims saw Leroy as an enemy, the first layer of protection on the Inauguration Altar, the Faith Trial, was put into effect.
The massive Inauguration Altar was a tower in a triple diamond shape. Where these three diamonds connected were the stairs to walk up to the Inauguration Altar. As the Faith Trial was activated, three bands of pure colorful light began to emit from the tower!
The three bands of light were distinctively red, blue, and green. These were the colors of the three Demon Night queens' Faith Energy.
The three bands of light floated in the air and began to condense. In no ti, the beams began to transform into human figures, one after the next.
Seeing the human figures that were slowly condensing in the sky, Leroy retreated a few steps. “These Faith Energies have condensed into the Faith Bodies of the Demon Night queens throughout the ages. You have to be careful!”
“How strong are they?” Zen asked, as he stared at the bright beams of light that continuously swerved and swiveled, changing shapes completely.
“They are on par with the grand world lords,” Leroy replied flatly.
“They may be at the level of grand world lords, but you're a Supre Lord,” Zen snickered. “What's there to worry about?”
Leroy stared at Zen. “I'm reminding you to be careful! That's all.”
Just as he finished speaking, a red figure had now been ford entirely. This red figure was the Demon Night race's thirteenth Queen of Killings. Although the Faith Body was still blurry, it was possible for one to see her beautiful features despite the blood-red mist!
Swoosh!
The Queen of Killings raised her spear and rushed imdiately toward Leroy.
Before Leroy could even think of counterattacking, Zen was already a step ahead. At the sa ti as his figure flashed like a gust of wind, he waved his hand toward the thirteenth Queen of Killings, and a terrifying power instantly exploded from his fingertips. Even the ball of Faith Energy that ford the figure couldn't take this much power: it instantly dispersed. As soon as Zen had killed the Faith Body, he turned his head and smiled at Supre Lord Leroy. As it turned out, it had been completely unnecessary for Leroy to have reminded Zen to be careful, to say the least.
Just for a split-second, Leroy was stunned, but he eventually mumbled, “This kid isn't so bad after all...”
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