Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle

In an instant, all the Demonic Divine Spirits' wills just froze.

This included the two Demon Lord wills hovering above the starry battlefield.

They all sensed a crisis of life and death, their will's alarm reached its peak. It felt like their temples were pounding, and every single will trembled and shuddered in terror.

"*What is this? Deathly stillness, emptiness, horror—what am I feeling?*"

"*I feel like I'm about to die—how's that possible?*"

"*Impossible, absolutely impossible. We're divine spirits! How could we die?*"

They howled, they raged, they were terrified.

*In utter disbelief.*

Yet the two Demon Lord wills just looked utterly dead inside.

They remembered what the Five Elements Divine Spirit had told them.

'There's a human brat, just in the Venerable Realm, who could wipe out a divine spirit's will.'

'Nine divine spirits under me were all erased by that human brat.'

'If you run into a kid in the Venerable Realm, you better be careful, don't act rashly.'

'Even my will at early stage Emperor Realm phase three was erased by a third—if you're at Emperor Realm Perfection, that brat could still wipe you out!'

Looking at the newly advanced Human Emperor Realm there, they saw the shadow of that same human brat.

But wasn't that brat in the Venerable Realm?

This one was in the Emperor Realm, completely different people.

There was a gap of two major realms between Venerable Realm and Emperor Realm.

No one could break through from Venerable to Emperor in just two days, right?

"Run! Run for your lives!"

The two Demon Lord wills' speed exploded past the speed of light, bolting straight toward the White Horse Star System.

The divine spirit wills trapped in the golden gigantic net screamed, panicked:

"Demon Lord Ancestor, save us!"

"You can't leave! What'll happen to us if you go?"

"Demon Lord, damn you! Throwing away your own followers—you're done too!"

"Demon Lord, you called us to invade the Milky Way, promised you'd cover us—come save us!"

"Ahh, selfish Demon Lord, may you die a wretched death!"

"Demon Lord…"

These Demonic Divine Spirit wills got hit by Supreme Power.

They faded away quickly.

Still cursed and cried with their mouths as they vanished.

The Demon Path cultivated a corrupt power that infected the hearts of others, and only under a mighty leader could they barely hold together in unity.

Without the restraint of a powerful being, every one of them revealed their rotten true natures—even cursing the Demon Lords out loud.

In just two seconds, all twenty Demonic Divine Spirit wills were erased by Supreme Power, not a shred left!

One Demon Lord, who had fled ten light-years away, took a glance back and nearly lost his soul from terror.

Every Demonic Divine Spirit on the starry battlefield was wiped out!

The Demon Lords' inner sense of crisis still didn't fade.

One of them cried out,

"Wife, let's jump into the black hole at the White Horse Star System's center! Even if our wills get sucked in…"

"As long as we're not dead, we can transfer onto the White Horse Demon Realm's origin."

"We'd just lose some will energy, that's all."

He kept shouting, but there was no answer from beside him.

He turned his head, and his soul nearly left his body—his will broke into a cold sweat.

Right there, his partner, the Demon Lord, had been struck by Supreme Power, her vast will now in the process of annihilation.

Just one second ticked by, and that Demon Lord will was erased completely—not a trace left behind.

"!!!"

The male Demon Lord's will was horrified.

At that moment, Supreme Power descended, hitting him with perfect accuracy.

"Ahhh!"

His face twisted, howled in utter agony.

The pain of will annihilation was a hundred times stronger than that of soul body annihilation.

It was a thousand times worse than having all your flesh torn, skinned, or bones gouged out.

*He was in agony, terrified, and confused all at once.*

*Why didn't the Demon Lord wife even let out a scream?*

*But with these questions swirling, he didn't have time to think—as his vast will was erased completely in less than a second.*

Both Demon Lords, utterly dead!

All twenty Demonic Divine Spirits of the White Horse Star System, wiped out as well!

On the starry battlefield, the Fierce Beast Army was moved to tears, voices echoing in jubilation, tears of joy rolling down their faces.

Every beast had thought this star system war spelled defeat for the Milky Way—the Milky Way would be crushed, Blue Star destroyed.

But now, the Milky Way had scored a total victory!

Even though they had lost over nine hundred thousand beasts, even though two divine spirit bodies had fallen, not a single soldier remained of the Demon Army from the White Horse Star System—not even a speck!

And the critical factor behind all this was that tiny Human Emperor Realm genius holding that sky-high tower in his palm!

The three divine spirit wills prostrated near Blue Star stared blankly in the starry sky.

After hundreds of thousands of years of war, this was the one and only utter triumph, a real and total victory!

That newly advanced Human Emperor Realm bloke shone even brighter, more dazzling than the Empress herself!

Xiao Ye, holding the billion-zhang tall black-gold Bronze Hall, stood together with the Ancestral Empress, eyes calm as he gazed into the distance.

After a long time, the Ancestral Empress let out a sigh and said,

"The Demon Lord who had ruled the White Horse Star System for over four hundred thousand years, finally fell."

"The White Horse Star System's hundreds of thousands of years of glory ended as well—it's about to enter a long period of decline."

"With no more worthy opponents, maybe I'll actually get to kick back a little now."

Suddenly, her eyes gleamed with mischief, lips curling into a cheeky grin as she said,

"Human Emperor, you now owe me."

Xiao Ye's eyes went wide, his mouth twitching.

*Owe her?*

*That line sounded so ambiguous.*

*Like he'd actually done something to the Empress.*

"Owe you what? I never did anything to you." he said, on guard.

The Ancestral Empress giggled and said, "You've left me with nothing to do—so I'll be pestering you all the time now!"

"For these hundreds of thousands of years, my only real opponents were those two Demon Lords."

"They couldn't kill me, I couldn't kill them."

"Every twenty thousand years or so, they'd launch a massive star system war, and it was then I'd destroy their bodies and take my leave."

"After another twenty thousand years, they'd piece themselves together, come back with a new demon army and demonic divine spirits for revenge."

"And every wait of about twenty thousand years, I'd just go grab all living beings from Blue Star's Mortal Realm and toss them in as cannon fodder for the Fierce Beast Army."

"Of course, not just Blue Star—plenty of life planets in the Milky Way, I didn't discriminate. I'd grab them all as cannon fodder."

*Xiao Ye stood dumbfounded.*

*No wonder every trace of ancient Blue Star civilization disappeared exactly two hundred centuries ago—the timeline matched up perfectly.*

*Back when the Empress first met him, she had also said the starry battlefield was about to erupt, and that the Beast Girl era on Blue Star was coming to an end.*

*She'd meant to grab all humans and beasts from the Mortal Realm of Blue Star and throw them in as cannon fodder.*

Xiao Ye glanced back at the less than a hundred thousand strong Fierce Beast Army, feeling conflicted.

The Ancestral Empress might have said she used these people as cannon fodder.

But really, the beasts in that army—they had no intention of being cannon fodder at all.

They'd been set to spill their blood for the Milky Way, to defend their home until their last breath.

The Ancestral Empress wouldn't sit by and watch the beast army slaughtered, sending them to their deaths.

Otherwise, back at the Zi Family's Imperial Race feast, she wouldn't have suddenly gotten angry and dragged him here.

Every twenty thousand years, the Ancestral Empress forcibly rounded up Milky Way beings for the starry battlefield,

*Was that wrong?*

*Or was it right?*

*You couldn't call it right, but you couldn't exactly call it wrong, either.*

*If not for the Ancestral Empress guarding the starry battlefield, the Milky Way would've long been overrun by the Demon Army of the White Horse Star System, contaminated by the demonic path.*

*There wouldn't be any of this—at least a veneer of calm and peace in the Milky Way.*

*At the very least, in that twenty thousand year stretch, life in the Milky Way was somewhat peaceful, somewhat harmonious.*

The Ancestral Empress sighed and said,

"Human Emperor, every living being in the Milky Way should be thanking you."

"If not for you, yesterday I would have rounded up more than half of the Milky Way's living beings as cannon fodder!"

"Without the aid of Blue Star's divine spirits, nearly all of those cannon fodder would have died—so in a way, you saved their lives."

"Your name as Human Emperor deserves to be known throughout the Milky Way!"

Xiao Ye just waved his hand and said coolly, "Whatever, I'm not after any of that fake glory."

"I'm just one of Blue Star's own. Driving back the White Horse Demon Path was my duty. They don't owe me a thing."

With a laugh, he kept his merit and name hidden deep within.