185: deathly silence and decay

Luo Ximei let out a delicate shout, and the Demon God Manifestation behind her instantly changed form.

The platinum-gold right eye shone brightly, and the originally pitch-black Devilish Qi instantly transformed into incomparably sacred Platinum Holy Flame.

A giant light screen unfolded in front of her, blocking all the blood rain and Blood Leeches filling the sky.

As soon as the Blood Leeches touched the Holy Flame, they instantly let out sharp screams, dissolving into wisps of green smoke.

“Third Junior Sister! Stop using that slow-acting poison!”

Luo Ximei maintained the light screen while shouting at Chu Weiwei:

“This sea of blood is alive! Your poison gets diluted as soon as it enters! Freeze it for me! Or solidify it!”

“Solidify?”

Chu Weiwei's eyes lit up. With a flip of her wrist, she pulled out a pale white jade bottle, upon which was carved a lifelike Ice Silkworm.

“Got it! Since it’s a liquid, I’ll turn it into a solid!”

“Ice Soul Malice!”

She pulled out the stopper, holding nothing back, and poured the entire bottle of chilling poison liquid onto the boiling sea of blood below her.

“Crack... Crack...”

The originally surging and roaring blood waves, upon contact with the toxic liquid, actually began to thicken, and layers of purple ice crystals formed on the surface.

“Trying to freeze this Old Ancestor's sea of blood? Delusional!”

Seeing this, the Blood River Ancestor let out a disdainful snort.

The world core in his hand lit up with a foul yellow light.

As the yellow light swept past, the ice crystals Chu Weiwei had just condensed instantly turned black, festered, and reverted into a pool of highly corrosive black water.

“It's useless!”

The Blood River Ancestor laughed wildly, his body slowly merging into the Lotus Platform beneath his feet.

“Here, this Old Ancestor is immortal and indestructible! As long as the sea of blood doesn't dry up, this Old Ancestor can infinitely Rebirth!”

“Rumble!”

Following his integration, the entire sea of blood completely ran wild.

Countless blood waves thousands of feet high crashed down. These were not just physical attacks; every drop of blood contained the power of Law capable of causing a Mahayana Stage Cultivator's Physical Body to rot and their Primordial Spirit to fall.

“This turtle shell is too tough!”

Su Hongling split open a blood wave with her sword, but the wave instantly closed up, even attempting to corrode her arm along the sword body.

“Old Man! I can't kill it! This stuff is as disgusting as snot!”

Su Lin stood in the middle of the three, the golden light of the Immovable Wisdom King Body expanding into an absolutely safe Domain.

He didn't rush to attack, but calmly observed his surroundings.

“Immortal and indestructible?”

Su Lin looked at the core where the foul yellow light flowed, a cold smile curling his lips.

“There is no true immortality or indestructibility in this world.”

“The so-called infinite Rebirth is only because... the cycle hasn't been broken.”

“Cycle?”

The Blood River Ancestor seemed to have heard a great joke, his pale, demonic face full of mockery.

“Arrogant human.”

“Do you think seeing through this Old Ancestor's reality and illusion will allow you to break the situation?”

He suddenly spread his arms, and the Lotus Platform beneath him instantly disintegrated, turning into tens of millions of blood-colored Meridians, like living things, plunging deep into the vast sea of blood below.

“This sea of blood was formed from a mouthful of True Immortal's heart blood when he fell back then, having endured tens of thousands of years and devoured countless living beings. It is both dead and alive!”

“As long as this Old Ancestor's single thought remains, this sea of blood is an endless source of energy!”

“Want to break the cycle? Unless you can instantly evaporate this sea of blood spanning billions of miles! Otherwise, this Old Ancestor can exhaust you to death!”

Following his roar, the entire Red Lotus Blood Sea seemed to be completely enraged.

The waves, which were originally just surging, began to undergo a qualitative change at this moment.

The viscous drops of blood quickly condensed and reorganized, transforming into Blood-colored Giants hundreds of feet tall.

These giants had no facial features, only massive mouths split open to their ears, and they held blood-colored long spears condensed from the Law of Decay.

At a glance, they were densely packed, numbering over a thousand!

The Aura emanating from each one was comparable to the Body Integration Early Stage!

“An army of thousands...”

Chu Weiwei's hand clutching the poison bottle was slightly pale, and her expression was grim.

“This is too shameless! Although my poison is potent, I can't poison so many monsters without pain receptors at the same time!”

“What if there are many?”

Although Su Hongling spoke toughly, a layer of fine sweat beaded on her forehead.

Although her previous sword strike splitting the blood wave looked easy, only she knew how disgusting that feeling of powerlessness, like chopping into cotton, truly was.

With every sword strike, three-tenths of her strength would be devoured by that strange Law of Decay.

If they really had to face these thousands of unkillable Blood Giants... even a body of iron would be exhausted.

“Revered Master.”

Luo Ximei retreated to Su Lin's side, and the black and white Domain expanded, protecting everyone within it.

“To catch the bandits, first catch their king. As long as we kill him, these Puppets will naturally disperse.”

“But he is hidden in the sea of blood,” Su Lin said calmly. “Within this Domain, he can Rebirth freely in any drop of blood here. If you kill him once, he merely revives in a different location.”

“Then what should we do? Do we really have to escape?”

Luo Ximei gritted her teeth, looking at the Blood-colored Giants rushing toward them from all directions, her eyes filled with unwillingness.

“Escape?”

Su Lin shook his head. The cold smile on his lips did not disappear; instead, it grew deeper.

He slowly raised his right hand. In his palm, the black world core obtained from the White Bone Madam was quietly suspended.

“He's not wrong, this is the True Immortal's heart blood from back then.”

“But precisely because it is blood, it has a fatal weakness.”

Su Lin turned his head to look at the three disciple behind him, his eyes instantly becoming stern and focused, just like when he taught them Cultivation in the Daochu Sect back then.

“Listen carefully.”

“In this lesson, your Revered Master will teach you how to turn flowing blood into deathly still ash.”

“Hong Ling!”

“Here!” Su Hongling subconsciously straightened her back.

“Your mission isn't to kill the enemy, but to open the path.”

Su Lin pointed toward the center of the sea of blood, where the Blood River Ancestor's phantom was watching them with a mocking expression.

“Use your maximum strength to split this sea open for me!

I don't want to see splashes, I want to see the mud on the Sea Bed!

Even if it's only for a single breath of time, you must pave this road for me!”

“Split the sea open?”

Su Hongling looked at the bottomless, vast sea of blood, her throat feeling dry.

But this was the Old Man's command... “Damn it! I'll risk it!”

She fiercely tossed her greatsword into the air and formed a strange seal with both hands. This was a secret Body Cultivator technique she had comprehended when she Broke through to the Mahayana Stage.

Her petite body instantly swelled. The originally red Qi and blood power soared into the sky like a volcanic eruption, condensing behind her into a thousand-foot-tall red Valkyrie Phantom.

“Open up... for this mother!!!”

The Valkyrie Phantom grabbed the greatsword in the air and slashed down fiercely at the sea of blood before them, in a posture that seemed to split heaven and earth!

“Boom!!!”

Heaven and earth lost their color.

That was not a simple slash; it was a vacuum fault created by the pure Law of Gravity.

Wherever the sword edge passed, be it blood waves, Blood Giants, or the arrogant Law of Decay, everything was ruthlessly pushed aside.

A vacuum channel, hundreds of feet wide and bottomless, forcibly appeared in the sea of blood!

They really saw the Sea Bed!

It was a Sea Bed covered in dense white bones and black sludge!

“Now! Weiwei!”

Su Lin's voice was like thunder.

“Present!”

Although Chu Weiwei was usually erratic, she never failed at critical moments.

“You don't need to poison this entire sea, and you wouldn't be able to.”

Su Lin's instruction was crystal clear.

“This sea of blood is alive, so it has Meridians!

“Understood!”

A sharp light flashed in Chu Weiwei's eyes.

She didn't scatter the poison into the air; instead, she threw the jade bottle directly into the vacuum canyon split open by Su Hongling, smashing it onto the exposed Sea Bed.

“Detonate!”

Bang!

The jade bottle exploded.

There was no earth-shattering sound, only a gray-white mist that spread out along the Sea Bed at an incredible speed.

That was a potent poison targeting spiritual nature.

The sea of blood barrier, which was trying to heal, let out a mournful shriek the moment it came into contact with the mist.

The blood, which had been flowing freely, seemed to have had its moisture instantly drained.

The blood vessels were blocked!

“What?!”

The Blood River Ancestor, hidden deep within the sea of blood, finally panicked.

He felt his control over the sea of blood rapidly declining. The blood, which he could previously command like his own arm, now felt incredibly heavy and impossible to mobilize!

“You group of ants! How dare you ruin my Foundation!!”

He roared, trying to forcibly contract the core and gather all his strength.

“Trying to run? Too late!”

“Ximei!”

Su Lin let out his final stern shout.

“Disciple present!”

Luo Ximei could no longer hold back. She stood beside Su Lin, her platinum-gold right eye practically burning.

“Use your Origin power to construct a cage!”

“Not to trap him, but to isolate him!”

“Completely sever the Karma connection between him, this heaven and earth, and this sea of blood!”

“Understood!”

Luo Ximei let out a long cry, plunging both hands abruptly into the Void Realm.

Hum—!

Countless black and white interwoven chains emerged from the Void Realm. They ignored distance and the obstruction of the blood, directly locking onto the core Aura that was attempting to flee.

“Clank! Clank!”

Space was sealed, and Karma was severed.

The Blood River Ancestor discovered, in horror, that he could no longer sense the outside world's Aura!

He was like a lonely ghost stripped away from the world, isolated in a small space only ten zhang in circumference.

“No... this is impossible! This is a True Immortal method! How could a Devil Cultivator like you...”

“Too much nonsense.”

Su Lin's figure had appeared at the end of the vacuum canyon at some unknown point.

He stepped on the sludge-covered Sea Bed, walking step by step toward the blood-colored light mass trapped by the black and white chains.

Su Lin did not possess any earth-shattering Aura.

But at this moment, within the killing formation jointly created by his three disciple, he resembled the final judge.

In his hand, he held the black core representing Deathly Stillness.

“Do you know the difference between deathly stillness and decay?”

Su Lin looked at the Blood River Ancestor frantically struggling in the cage and asked in a calm tone.

“You... what do you want to do?!”

The Blood River Ancestor felt the Aura emanating from the black core, an Aura that made his Soul tremble.

“That was the scent of a natural predator!”

“Decay is a process, it is chaos, it is the disorderly dissipation of vitality.”

“And deathly stillness...”

Su Lin slowly raised the black core in his hand.

“It is the terminus, it is absolute stillness.”

“It is also... the final destination of all rot.”

“Suppress!”

Su Lin didn't hesitate, slamming the black core directly onto the barrier of the cage!

“Buzz!!!”

An invisible fluctuation instantly spread out, centered on the point where the two cores touched.

The Blood River Ancestor, who had been struggling frantically and attempting to break through the confinement, suddenly stopped moving.

His body began to lose color, changing from dripping vibrant blood-red to dried dark red, and finally turning into deathly gray dust.

“No... I... immortal...”

His voice grew fainter and fainter, finally turning into a sigh like windblown sand.

“Whoosh.”

The immortal and indestructible Blood River Ancestor disintegrated right before everyone's eyes, turning into a pile of gray gravel devoid of Spiritual Qi, scattered on the ground.

And within that pile of gravel.

A dark red crystal, its surface covered in patterns resembling mold spots, lay quietly there.

That was the second world core.

Representing Decay.

The surrounding sea of blood, spanning billions of miles and having lost its Revered Master's control, seemed to lose its Soul at this moment.

They no longer surged or roared; instead, they rapidly dried up and sank, finally transforming into a desolate, Death Qi-filled Black Wasteland.

It was over.

“Whew...”

Su Lin's body swayed, and he nearly lost his footing.

Forcing the Deathly Stillness core to Suppress a Decay core of the same level was still too great a burden for his current self.

“Revered Master!”

Three figures rushed over almost simultaneously.

“Old Man, are you alright?!”

Su Hongling canceled her Heaven and Earth Manifestation state, reverting to the petite red-clothed girl. She didn't even bother recalling her greatsword, immediately rushing to support Su Lin.

“How are you? Are you injured anywhere? Let me see quickly!”

Her hands moved all over him, frantically patting Su Lin, afraid he might be missing a piece of flesh.

“Stop touching me randomly. Your Revered Master is fine, just a bit exhausted.”

Su Lin patted her hand away and smiled helplessly.

“Revered Master, this is a Qi Replenishing Pill, this is a Spirit Restoring Pill, this is a Foundation Strengthening Pill...”

Chu Weiwei pulled out a large pile of bottles and jars as if performing a magic trick, shoving them all into Su Lin's arms regardless of whether they matched his symptoms.

“Eat them all! Eat absolutely everything! If it's not enough, Weiwei will refine more!”

“Are you trying to stuff your Revered Master to death?” Su Lin asked, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Luo Ximei, saying nothing, walked directly to the pile of gravel and picked up the dark red core.

She carefully checked it, confirming there were no remnant Souls attached and no traps, before wrapping it layer by layer in a clean white silk handkerchief and presenting it to Su Lin with both hands.

“Revered Master, the spoils of war.”

Her eyes were sparkling, like a child waiting for praise.

“How was our coordination?”

Su Lin accepted the core, looking at the three disciple in front of him, who were slightly disheveled but whose eyes shone brightly.

Su Hongling's clothes had several tears, and her face was smudged with dust.

Chu Weiwei's hands had red spots corroded by the backlash of the poison.

Luo Ximei's right eye was somewhat bloodshot from the excessive use of her Origin power.

“Whether it was opening the path, applying poison, or sealing the target, it was impeccable.”

“Revered Master... will there be a reward tonight?” Chu Weiwei blinked her large eyes. “For example... letting Weiwei tie you up again?”