333: Chapter 328 I'll handle the remaining mess.

Luo Ximei hovered in mid-air, her heterochromatic eyes devoid of any human emotion, filled only with pure killing instinct.

Although the True Immortal Origin and Demonic Path Origin within her had forcibly fused into one under extreme life-and-death pressure, helping her cross the threshold of a Heavenly Immortal, that overwhelming and mutually repulsive energy had also completely destroyed her mental defenses.

At this moment, she was merely a peerless weapon dominated by the desire to kill.

In her perception, the three figures standing in the ruins ahead—especially the man wearing a white jade mask and black-gold robes—emitted a deep aura that made her extremely uneasy.

He must be eliminated.

This was the only thought remaining in her mind.

"Die!"

A double-toned voice, neither male nor female, issued from Luo Ximei's throat. That pillar of black and white light, which pierced through heaven and earth, continued its momentum unabated, heading straight for Su Lin's chest.

Su Lin stood quietly in place, the gale making his black-gold robes flutter loudly.

Through the holes in the mask, his deep eyes calmly watched the attack that was sufficient to completely destroy his Half-Immortal Body.

He did not retreat, nor did he summon the [destiny] immortal sword.

He understood Luo Ximei's current state all too well.

The backlash from her forced breakthrough had placed her Dao foundation at an extremely dangerous critical point.

If he were to use the Chaos Immortal Power of his Inner World to launch a hard counterattack at this moment, the collision of two Heavenly Immortal-level forces would produce an impact that would surely shatter Luo Ximei's Meridians on the spot.

He had to find a way to absorb this power and then awaken her from the level of her Divine Soul.

However, before Su Lin could mobilize the world tree sapling within him, two figures blocked his path without warning.

"Don't you dare touch the Old Man!"

Su Hongling let out a furious roar that shook the nine heavens.

On her bronze skin, dark-gold battle patterns erupted with a blinding light more brilliant than the sun.

She squeezed out every drop of her blood-qi power without reservation, condensing an extremely solid Primordial Martial God Avatar behind her.

She gripped the hilt of the [no edge] great sword tightly with both hands, her feet plowing two deep furrows into the crumbling ground.

Facing that Heavenly Immortal-level black-and-white death light, she showed no fear. She swung the great sword, using its broad blade as a shield to meet it head-on.

At the same time, Chu Weiwei also moved.

"Fifth Senior Sister, if you dare harm Revered Master in the slightest, I will skin you alive!"

Chu Weiwei's pure and sweet face was now distorted with extreme madness. Her hands flew into seals before her, and the reshaped Medicine Immortal Origin within her surged wildly.

Various toxic powders and corrosive liquids mixed together, and under the drive of Chu Weiwei's mana, they transformed into a thick, deep-purple wall of poisonous miasma. It pressed tightly against the back of Su Hongling's great sword, forming a second line of defense.

The black-and-white light pillar struck the great sword without suspense.

Destructive power erupted, and the entire underground Blood Arena shook violently with the loud crash as large sections of the rock walls began to collapse.

"Urgh!"

Su Hongling felt a sharp pain in her arms, as if her bones were about to be crushed by this terrifying Law power.

The webs between her thumbs and forefingers instantly split, and blood gushed out, only to be rapidly vaporized in the extreme heat and Devilish Qi.

The [no edge] great sword emitted wails of agony, its blade forced into a dangerously bent arc.

Heavenly Immortal power, even if it was just a casual strike from someone who had lost their mind, was not something that could be easily withstood.

"Hold on!" Chu Weiwei screamed, continuously pouring all of her Medicine Immortal Origin into the wall of poisonous miasma.

However, the power of purification and destruction contained within that black-and-white pillar was far too overbearing.

The poison barrier Chu Weiwei took pride in was like snow under a scorching sun the moment it touched the light pillar, melting and disintegrating layer by layer.

A powerful backlash surged through the mana connection into Chu Weiwei's internal organs. She felt a sweetness in her throat and spat out a large mouthful of blood, staining the front of her robes. Yet her purple eyes remained fixed forward, her feet not retreating an inch.

"Step aside, you can't block it."

Su Lin's voice sounded from behind them. He reached out his hands and pressed them onto the backs of Su Hongling and Chu Weiwei.

A warm, deep Chaos Immortal Qi, which seemed capable of encompassing all things in heaven and earth, flowed from his palms into his two disciples' bodies.

This power instantly protected their Meridians, which were on the verge of collapse, greatly mitigating the destruction brought by the Heavenly Immortal Law.

"Old Man, stay out of this! I can still hold!" Su Hongling gritted her teeth, blood constantly seeping from her nose and mouth, yet she stubbornly tried to push the light pillar back.

"Weiwei won't retreat either..." Chu Weiwei's body trembled slightly, but her gaze was terrifyingly obsessive.

"Revered Master knows your intentions."

Su Lin sighed softly. He did not withdraw the Chaos Immortal Qi from his hands; instead, he closed his eyes slightly, and his mind instantly sank into his Dantian.

The [Myriad Heavens Star Chart] erupted with brilliant golden light, and the world tree sapling swayed gently.

Su Lin condensed his Divine Sense into an invisible sharp sword. Following the violent black-and-white light pillar, he moved upstream and forcibly pierced into Luo Ximei's chaotic Sea of Consciousness.

Inside Luo Ximei's Sea of Consciousness, a world-destroying storm was currently raging.

The pure white of the True Immortal Origin and the pitch black of the Demonic Path Origin had transformed into two beasts tearing at each other, shredding her sanity. Countless shrill vengeful souls wailed in the storm, attempting to occupy this powerful Heavenly Immortal body.

Su Lin's Divine Sense avatar stood in the center of this violent storm. No matter how the black and white air currents washed over him, he remained as steady as a mountain.

"Ximei, wake up."

Su Lin's voice wasn't loud, but with the help of the world tree's Law, these four words were like the tolling of a great bell, echoing thunderously deep within Luo Ximei's Sea of Consciousness.

The movements of the black and white beasts in the center of the storm paused slightly.

In the outside world, Luo Ximei's body in mid-air shuddered violently. In her white-gold right eye and pitch-black left eye, flashes of confusion, pain, and struggle flickered alternately.

The power of the black-and-white light pillar pressing against Su Hongling's great sword also weakened slightly.

But immediately following that, the long-suppressed resentment and killing desire regained the upper hand.

"Kill... kill everything..."

A painful roar came from Luo Ximei's throat, and the radiance of the light pillar surged again.

Su Hongling and Chu Weiwei both groaned. Their legs slid back several feet on the ground, plowing two deep furrows into the hard rock floor.

"Is your Dao Heart only at this level?"

Su Lin's Divine Sense spoke again in her Sea of Consciousness, this time with a hint of stern reprimand.

"Did Revered Master teach you the convergence of Yin and Yang just so you could let this power take over and become a mindless Puppet?"

Su Lin's Divine Sense took a sudden step forward. Chaos Immortal light erupted from him, forcibly carving out a piece of pure land within that black-and-white storm.

His hands formed seals, and an extremely complex Heart-Clearing Array, under the control of his Divine Sense, was imprinted directly into the very core of Luo Ximei's Sea of Consciousness.

"Suppress!"

As the Heart-Clearing Array operated, a cool and stabilizing force began to frantically sort through the entangled Immortal and Demonic Origins.

This was an extremely long and mentally exhausting process.

Su Lin had to carefully strip away the resentment affecting Luo Ximei's sanity while simultaneously guiding those two diametrically opposed Origin powers to find a balanced point of convergence. A single mistake would cause Luo Ximei's Divine Soul to completely collapse.

Time seemed to become incredibly long at this moment.

Outside, Su Hongling and Chu Weiwei, protected by Su Lin's Chaos Immortal Qi, gritted their teeth and held on. They could feel the pressure coming from ahead decreasing at an extremely slow rate.

Luo Ximei's expression in mid-air kept changing. At times she looked as ferocious as a malevolent ghost, and at others as pained as a young child.

The black and white demonic light on her body flickered erratically, and the [myriad soul banner] in her hand lost control, hanging limply at her side.

A full half-hour passed.

When Su Lin's Divine Sense finally removed the last bit of violent resentment from Luo Ximei's Sea of Consciousness and stabilized the fused Heavenly Immortal Origin in her Dantian, he slowly withdrew his Divine Sense.

In reality, Su Lin let out a long breath of turbid air, his face behind the white jade mask appearing slightly pale.

This kind of delicate Divine Soul operation was even more exhausting than a battle with a powerhouse of the same Realm.

In the air, the black-and-white pillar of light that had pierced heaven and earth completely dissipated.

The madness and bloodlust in Luo Ximei's eyes finally receded like a tide.

Her white-gold right eye and pitch-black left eye regained their clarity.

She hovered blankly in mid-air, looking at the ruined VIP box below, at Su Hongling with her blood-drenched hands gasping for breath, and at Chu Weiwei with blood on her lips and a pale face.

Finally, her gaze fell upon the man wearing the white jade mask and black-gold robes, who was watching her with an extremely familiar and gentle gaze.

That deep, restrained Chaos aura, that composure that could keep everything under control no matter what happened.

"Mas... Revered Master..."

Luo Ximei's voice was dry and raspy, filled with intense disbelief and lingering fear.

She abruptly looked down at her hands, then at the arena around her where blood flowed like a river and corpses were strewn everywhere. The memories of her time spent without her sanity flooded back into her mind like a tide.

She had almost... almost killed Revered Master with her own hands! Almost killed her two Senior Sisters!

A strong sense of fear and guilt instantly seized her heart.

The Heavenly Immortal mana around Luo Ximei's body instantly dispersed, and she fell from the air like a kite with its string cut.

"Old Five!"

Seeing this, Su Hongling ignored the sharp pain in her arms, threw aside her great sword, and flew forward to catch the falling Luo Ximei, landing steadily on the ground.

Chu Weiwei also hurried over. Although she had wanted to poison this woman to death just moments ago, seeing her regain her senses, she still expertly pulled a Medicinal Pill emitting rich vitality from her sleeve and forced it into Luo Ximei's mouth.

"Swallow it to stabilize your Heavenly Immortal Dao foundation. If you suffer Qi Deviation now, I won't have the energy to save you again," Chu Weiwei said in a harsh tone, but her movements were very gentle.

Luo Ximei swallowed the pill and pushed away Su Hongling's support.

She stumbled toward Su Lin, her knees buckling as she knelt heavily on the rubble-strewn ground.

"Revered Master..."

Luo Ximei looked up, her usually seductive and arrogant face now covered in tear tracks. She reached out her trembling hands, wanting to touch the hem of Su Lin's robe, but stopped in mid-air as if fearing her blood-stained hands would soil him.

"This Disciple deserves death... I failed to control my Heart Demon and almost caused a catastrophe..."

Her voice was filled with endless remorse.

At the moment she regained her senses, she realized how terrifying that state of being dominated by slaughter had been.

Su Lin did not speak.

He slowly removed the white jade mask from his face, revealing his handsome and calm features.

He leaned down slightly, reached out his hands, and steadily helped the kneeling Luo Ximei up.

"If Revered Master couldn't even protect you all, how would I be worthy of being your Revered Master?"

Su Lin's voice was gentle, without any hint of blame. He raised his hand and used his wide sleeve to gently wipe the blood and dirt from Luo Ximei's cheek.

"That you could forcibly fuse the Immortal and Demonic Origins in a desperate situation and step into the Heavenly Immortal Realm—this will and determination were not easy. Leave the remaining mess to Revered Master."

Hearing these words, Luo Ximei could no longer suppress her emotions. She threw herself into Su Lin's embrace, burying her face against his chest, her shoulders shaking violently.

This demonic empress, who struck fear into the hearts of those in the Cultivation World, this Heavenly Immortal powerhouse who had just slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Cultivators, was now weeping uncontrollably.

Su Hongling and Chu Weiwei glanced at each other. Surprisingly, they didn't get jealous at this moment, but instead stood silently to the side.

How much pressure must one endure, being stranded alone in this strange and cruel Taihuang Immortal Domain and having to struggle in a living hell like the Blood Arena?

After a while, Luo Ximei's emotions finally began to calm down.

She looked up from Su Lin's embrace. Although her eyes were still red, her gaze had regained its usual shrewdness and coldness.

"What exactly happened?"

Su Lin motioned for them to find a relatively flat stone slab to sit on. He looked at Luo Ximei's tattered dress. "With your alertness, even if there was a deviation during the teleportation, you shouldn't have fallen to the point of being treated as a gladiator slave.

In this Tianhai City, who was it that captured you?"

At this question, Luo Ximei's face instantly became incredibly dark, and a heart-palpitating Killing Intent flashed in her white-gold heterochromatic eye.

"Revered Master, we were all set up."

Luo Ximei took a deep breath and began to recount her experiences over the past half-month.

"That day, in order to protect us, you used Star Power to tear open a crack and teleport us separately.

My luck was extremely poor.

The landing point of my teleportation wasn't a wasteland or a mountain range, but directly into the outskirts of Tianhai City."

"The guards at that mineral vein were extremely strict.

As soon as I landed, before I even had time to adapt to the terrifying gravity Laws and violent Immortal Qi of this Taihuang Immortal Domain, I was discovered by a group of patrolling guards."

Luo Ximei gritted her teeth, seemingly recalling an extremely humiliating scene.

"If I had been at my peak, I could have destroyed those guards with a flip of my hand. But at that time, the spiritual power in my body was extremely suppressed, and I couldn't even perform the simplest escape technique.

"He wanted to use me for life-and-death combat here, using that to attract the nobility to place bets and earn massive amounts of top-grade Immortal Stones."