Inside the automobile manufacturing plant, before the temple structure, an astronomical telescope had been erected.
Oli, the human-demon, watched the starry sky unceasingly, as if awaiting something.
Oli was resplendent in appearance, her lips a deep purple, two dark horns crowning her head, clad in a low-cut, purple gown. Aside from her horns, she looked like any ordinary person.
However, she was the most dangerous demon within the entire automobile manufacturing plant.
She was originally an ordinary woman from the Indi region, fresh out of university, eager to forge her own future.
Then she joined a company that was a subsidiary of the Abyss Eye.
Within this company, a peculiar atmosphere prevailed; they divided people into three ranks.
The highest rank consisted of perfect 'Davo' people.
The second rank was for humans who could face their own inferiority and were willing to serve the Davo people, referred to as worshippers.
The third rank was for ignorant and ugly commoners.
At first, Oli found this ideology utterly absurd and the atmosphere disgustingly hysterical, but she stayed with the company for the sake of her job.
However, within the company, she was exposed to certain information.
For instance, that humans were inherently aggressive, violent, and possessed ugly genes; that all humans should be castrated; that worshippers should intermarry with Davo people, and that having an affair with a Davo person was not infidelity, but rather a 'bloodline purification'...
In essence, all the information Oli encountered served to demean humans and elevate the so-called Davo people.
Thus, through constant exposure, Oli assimilated into this ideology, becoming a 'worshipper'.
Following that, she began to vehemently despise her own kin, dedicating herself to matchmaking for Davo people, and dismissing all humans who did not worship the Davo people as utterly worthless.
During that period, Oli was a veritable madwoman, hated by gods and men.
Yet, it was precisely because of her excellent conduct during that time that she was granted the opportunity to become a Davo person. After a blasphemous and dark ritual, Oli transformed into a 'Davo'.
It was then that Oli realized that the so-called Davo people were, in fact, demons.
But she no longer cared, for she too had become one of them.
However, after a period of being a demon, Oli became dissatisfied once more. This was because pure-blooded demons never considered 'human-demons' like her as members of their kind.
Furthermore, some non-'worshipper' humans, upon learning of Oli's identity, found her utterly repulsive and harbored a deep-seated aversion to her.
Therefore, to escape her predicament, Oli desperately sought out demons of higher bloodlines, wishing to 'purify her bloodline' with them.
And the demon with the noblest bloodline she could find was the one about to descend here... the Pure White Lord!
Beside Oli were two other True Orders. One was Grandpa Drill, who had once attacked the Faceless Demon. He had spiraling hair, paced incessantly, and muttered incantations.
"When the stars align, the great Abyss Lord shall descend upon this world. The world will finally belong to demons, it will belong to demons..."
This Grandpa Drill was always quite eccentric. He was a demon chauvinist, and thus, was extremely excited at this moment.
What is a chauvinist? It's someone who believes their own race is supreme and advocates for the invasion and enslavement of other races. It is precisely because of such individuals that 'worshippers', these mentally incapacitated groups, exist...
Grandpa Drill always yearned for the day when a demon army would sweep through the real world, with all humans becoming slaves or sustenance for demons.
Broccoli, with his cauliflower-like hair, fiddled with the pocket watch in his hand, looking at Oli and Grandpa Drill with a touch of disdain.
Few demons were normal, and the Brain Demon tribe had always been rational. Therefore, he felt a sense of superiority when facing other demons.
While the other two demons had straightforward intentions for the Pure White Lord's descent, Broccoli's was different.
He intended to leverage the occasion of the Pure White Lord's arrival to extract greater benefits from the Abyss Eye.
The Abyss Eye was an organization established by demon worshippers. The purer the demon's bloodline, the more respected they were by other demons.
The current Speaker of the Abyss Eye, like Oli, was a human transformed into a demon. Consequently, many were dissatisfied with her assuming the position of Speaker, believing a mongrel was unqualified to lead the Abyss Eye.
Once the Pure White Lord descended, he was bound to contend for power with the Speaker. And he, Broccoli the Brain Demon, would be the first to pledge allegiance to the Pure White Lord. When a new order was established, he, Broccoli, would be the second-in-command!
Moreover, during this process, he had to prevent any opportunity for communication between the Speaker and Clawri, and directly engineer a conflict to eliminate the incumbent Speaker.
This was because he knew that that wench, like Oli, had always desired to 'purify her bloodline' with high-ranking pure-blooded demons, but due to her pride, she maintained a aloof demeanor.
If Broccoli did nothing, perhaps the Speaker would voluntarily abdicate and become the Pure White Lord's little wife...
But if a conflict erupted, the prideful Speaker would definitely refuse to yield, and eventually, a victor would emerge.
This might sound incredible, but these demon worshippers truly thought this way.
Who among the mentally sound would so fanatically belittle their own race and grovel before another?
The three True Order demons harbored their own hidden agendas, yet all had heightened their vigilance to the utmost.
This was because their plans were predicated on the assumption that the Pure White Lord would descend successfully. If the ritual failed, everything would be in vain.
Although the ritual process this time was not overly long and the disturbances were minimal compared to other methods of summoning Cataclysm-level beings, it generally wouldn't attract the attention of the Hunter Association.
Yet, they all understood that until the very last moment, the success rate was never one hundred percent.
By this time, the humans kneeling within the temple had reached six hundred and sixty people. To select these individuals, the demons had searched for a long time in Sihuan City, and even throughout the entire Xiangnan Province.
Only a little over half of those captured met the criteria. The unqualified ones were all chopped up and fed to the tentacles and mosquitoes.
Once six hundred and sixty-six people were gathered, a connection resembling a hazy mist would persist.
Even if these six hundred-plus people were to perish right now, it would not significantly impact the ritual; the summoning ritual could still proceed, albeit with greater difficulty.
However, overall, the three of them remained relatively optimistic.
This was because, to this day, this automobile manufacturing plant had not been discovered.
And outside, Zhang Kewei, used as bait, was still alive and well.
Suddenly, Oli cried out in delighted surprise. The trajectory of the stardust finally reached the designated position, and a faint starlight descended into the temple!
The connection points of the two hazy mists began to form a blurry portal...
The planar通道 had finally opened!