After Tatyana revealed her true self, her elegant black dress began transforming into a royal red dress.
First, Tatyana's head was adorned by a black crown with a green jewel in the middle. The crown was more like a tiara, splitting in the middle and going up like two horns, ending in three pointy edges at the base, middle, and the top of the two 'horns.'
It oozed black and green haze, sending chills to anyone looking at it, and amplified the aura around her, making all beings under Transcendence Realm want to kneel and surrender to her.
Her long black hair hung loose, moving with the air elegantly. Red light poured through the corner of her eyes, leaving a red trail and her gaze seemed to be looking down at the world.
She had a black collar that hugged her neck with another green gem encrusted in the middle of it together with other decorations.
Her torso was barely covered. The red dress only covered her perfect breasts and was adorned with armor-like dark decorations around it, similar to her tiara, with pointy but elegant edges. The red itself seemed to be made of moving thick red light, giving it a mysterious beauty.
It was sleeveless and had two black and wide red strings that stuck to her slim, naked, perfect waist and connected the top with her skirt.
Her waist was surrounded by the same armor-like parts that were on her chest area, and these armor-like decorations partially belted her belly, making an alluring image. The waist and chest area were also decorated with green gems that complimented her collar and tiara crown.
The skirt was double-layered. The outer part was long and would even slightly trail if she walked on the ground. It was somewhat stiff because it was armored, yet it moved around with her steps and was completely open in the front. Below the big armored skirt, there was a long silk skirt that reached her ankles with a darker red color.
On her hand, a beautiful but intimidating sword appeared. The sword was 1.1 meters long and somewhat wide, with the center of the sword being thicker. It had an interlocking circular pattern around the handle with three green gems encrusted on it.
(Author Note: Image on P.a.t.r.e.o.n.)
After this dress covered her body, Tatyana's aura multiplied seemingly endlessly, covering thousands and thousands of kilometers around her. By the time the change was done, she had walked until she reached the same altitude as the Demon Emperor and Empress.
Tatyana looked at the Demon Empress and said, her voice sounded authoritative, giving all the people that listened to it the sensation of being pressed down. "This eminence will give you one last chance. If you tell me what you did to that portal, I will graciously not make you suffer for eternity and will comfort myself by just killing all of you."
The Demon Empress, mostly unfazed by her aura, laughed out loud and flew toward Tatyana slowly. "Hahaha, So daring of you, Tatyana. Do you think you are a god? You are just a level two Law-creator realm cultivator, or as the people call it, a level two demigoddess. Do you really think you have the qualifications to speak to me like that? I alone am enough to make you run away, defeated. Not to mention my husband, who is even stronger than me!"
The ten-meter tall Demon Emperor appeared beside the three-meter tall demon Empress and looked at Tatyana. He asked in his rumbling and deep voice, "I will also give you one last chance. Surrender, and become a breeder for my son with your daughter. Then, we will let you and your daughter live. What do you say?"
Tatyana looked at him as if looking at a walking corpse and said, her voice dripping with coldness and her red eyes gaining a murderous glow. "I've never had a Demon Sovereign Summon, but it seems I will get two soon."
Then she waved her hand horizontally and commanded, "Enough hiding our main organization, move behind me, and let everyone know the truth."
With Tatyana's command, the Ice Phoenix, Nature Dragons, Lightning Qilins, Island Turtles, and Winged Tigers, together with the other beast clans, flashed behind Tatyana, positioning the Death Empress before an army of continent-destroying beasts.
Moreover, the position they were placed in, with Tatyana at the front, let the spectators clearly see that all the beasts treated Tatyana as their leader!
This was the real reason the Ice Phoenixes wanted to reconcile with the Academy after their unintentional blunder and also were afraid of making Tatyana their enemy. It was because Tatyana's true organization was actually the core of the alliance between beasts!
In short, all intelligent beasts in the continent were under Tatyana's command!
The humans looked at Tatyana, confounded, "Why are those beasts behind you, Tatyana!"
Tatyana looked at that person with indifference and answered, her tone even as if speaking about the weather. "Because they work for me. All beasts in this continent and the surroundings are my subordinates. Beasts are much more trustful than humans; why would I focus my main alliance with humans instead of them."
One human screamed, "You betrayed humanity!"
Tatyana smiled disdainfully, "You are so old yet so stupid. Should I only be allied with one side or the other?"
As soon as she finished speaking, a third of the humans flashed behind her, adding to her army of beasts, Human Transcendence Realm cultivators. The humans that didn't move were all from the righteous side, and the ones that moved were the 'Neutral' group.
However, now that Tatyana had made a clear stance, all of them moved with her. This let all creatures present know that the 'neutral' faction of the continent wasn't so 'neutral' and instead was governed by Tatyana's forces.
The neutral party has been able to remain neutral because neither the righteous nor demonic side managed to make it submit. Therefore, the neutral party always acted as the judge between the righteous and demonic sides.
So, what did it mean that this party wasn't a council but something governed by a single woman? This meant that this woman had been the judge of the continent for the time the neutral party existed!
One human cultivator smiled bitterly. "Played, the whole continent has been played by a single person. Like puppets dancing on her all-reaching hand."
After counting beasts and humans, there were a total of five hundred Transcendence Realm cultivators behind Tatyana. Half being beasts, and another half being humans.
The Demon Empress and Emperor looked at this with indifferent faces. They've come to kill all of them, so they were prepared to fight all the people present at the same time, not to mention the separated group that was behind Tatyana.
One of the seniors suddenly exclaimed with a trembling voice, "W-Wait, you are the one behind that power that has grown into a behemoth during these last millennia!?"
"You mean that power that has become untouchable these last 20 years? It suddenly became much stronger than before."
The Demons were at the side without doing anything, waiting for someone to have a slip of tongue and reveal information they didn't know.
Tatyana looked at them, fully knowing what they were waiting for, but she didn't have any haste to enter battle. Moreover, she had been creating a killing formation silently all this time. She wouldn't fight against these two powerful opponents without previous preparations.
Tatyana continued speaking and making time. "It seems that some of you aren't that stupid."
Tatyana looked at the Demon Empress and smiled mockingly, "The reason for this last spike in power was, of course, the one you, demons, have been targeting."
The Demon Empress amusedly said, "Your daughter? It is true that we have tried killing her quite a lot of times. However, your defenses around her are tight; I think we would have it easier invading the Heavenly Sect than killing your daughter."
Tatyana smiled coldly, "Everyone that knows about her can easily guess that she is my weakness. However, now that she is inside the secret realm, I can go all out without worrying."
The Demon Empress took out her demonic sword and said, "I haven't had a fight in a while. How about we exchange some pointers?"
Tatyana ordered, making her voice echo around the enormous valley. "Tian Long, keep the demon Emperor at bay."
With this order, a roar that shook the heavens spread around the world.
*RRROOAAAAAR!!!*
Everyone looked at the sky after hearing that Heaven Shaking roar. They saw that accompanying this roar, Tian Long's Titanic body descended from the sky toward the West demon army. His speed was so fast that before anyone moved, Tian Long had already blasted past the clouds, blowing all of them away with his enormous body and momentum.
Right now, although he was in his "small" 20km long body, his figure still bloated the sky. Tian Long opened his maw as he fell and released a continent-sinking attack, moving his head to cover more distance. "[Dragon King's Abyssal Breath]."
From his maw, an enormous black ray shot with an aura that made Transcendence Realm cultivators feel suffocated. When the energy beam left his maw, it expanded outwards, creating a beam so wide that it appeared like a black pillar that connected the Heavens and the Earth. Wider than even Tian Long himself. This pillar moved horizontally across the west demon army in a single second.
Then...
*BBBOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!*
The earth shrieked with pain, and the floor exploded with a cataclysmic explosion. The shockwave of the attack covered thousands of kilometers destroying everything in that area and leaving a true Abyss to look down upon with a depth that couldn't be measured.
Just like that, with a single strike, Tian Long's dragon breath attack annihilated the whole west demon army. Twenty of the 100 Demon Monarchs in the west area had died in that strike, and another thirty had become extremely badly damaged.
Tian Long stopped descending and moved his red glowing maw toward the north army, charging his next attack.
Of course, the Demon Emperor wouldn't let it do as it liked. He first wanted to test the strength of the attack, but it seemed that they had concurred to heavy losses before they knew it.
The Ten-meter-tall Demon Emperor's voice resonated around, "Don't you dare make another attack! [Demon Emperor presence: Heaven Burning Armament]!"
A burst of black infernal flames surrounded his figure in a titanic fire tornado that dwarfed Tian Long. The tornado changed the surroundings, melting the landscape around.
Tian Long closed his maw and looked at the fire tornado with a serious gaze; he could feel danger from it. 'Tatyana, I don't think I can win this fight; stalling is all I can do.'
Tatyana transmitted, 'Don't worry, if you can stop him for one day, I'm confident in winning.' Tian Long nodded.
Although a day may seem a lot, battles of their level could take even months if the strengths were on par. The amount of energy, resources, and treasures that cultivators in their realm had obtained was almost unending. It was more difficult to kill one cultivator at that level than to defeat ten.
After the tornado stopped, the Demon Emperor had grown from 10 meters to 10km in height, with a similarly big wingspan, approaching Tian Long's size. He held an enormous 7 km sword with flames all around it. His whole figure seemed like the condensation of demonic things itself, making even the souls of the people around tremble with fear.
Then, the Demon Emperor flapped his four flaming wings once and shot to the sky to face off against the Abyssal Dragon.
Tian Long focused his aura on one of his claws, making the space tremble around it. Then he also flapped his sky-shrouding wings, and his body shot toward the Demon Emperor fearlessly, not minding that the Demon Emperor was two levels above himself.
The two giant creatures approached and finally collided.
Shortly after, the sky dimmed as Tian Long's claw and that sword clashed, followed by an enormous explosion that blew everything in thousands of kilometers around them!