53: Chapter 53 You think I'd fall for your tricks a third time?!

"It's you!!!"

"Saobaxing! You lingering ghost of a dog, how dare you still appear before me!"

Lian Zhan suddenly raised the incomparably heavy battle-axe in his hands, and the power of his vital blood surged like an erupting volcano, condensing into a layer of visible crimson aura on the surface of his body.

He stared fiercely at Lin Yunfei behind the stone pillar, roaring through gritted teeth: "Even if the king of heaven himself comes today, you must die right here!"

Zhang Hao and Liu Ting at the side also instantly entered a combat state.

Dazzling magical radiance lit up the tip of the staff in Zhang Hao's hand, the temperature of the surrounding air plummeted instantly, and countless frost blades rapidly formed in mid-air.

As for Liu Ting, her face was filled with resentment, her slender fingers tightly gripping the magical artifact at her waist, wishing she could devour his flesh alive.

Facing the trio's posture—as if they wanted to skin him alive and pull out his tendons—Lin Yunfei, for the first time ever, did not utter any taunts.

He pressed his hands downward, and the voice transmitted through his mask sounded exceptionally solemn, even carrying a trace of rare anxiety: "The three of you, put away your hostility first! When I came out this time, it was definitely not to snatch any fortuitous encounters, but to save your lives!"

"Save our lives?"

Hearing these words, Lian Zhan laughed out of extreme anger, his laughter echoing across the empty crimson plaza, exuding a manic undertone.

Lin Yunfei ignored his wild laughter, reached out to point at the crimson altar in the center of the plaza that was tightly locked by nine thick iron chains, and spoke at a rapid pace:

"Think carefully with your brains! How could the trial grounds of this ancient divine kingdom place a legacy in such a bizarre place? Have you felt the baleful aura around this altar? This is not a legacy seal at all!"

Lin Yunfei took a deep breath and spoke the truth:

"Inside this altar, an Ancient Blood Demon capable of destroying this space is sealed!"

"If you break the seal and that Blood Demon awakens, everyone present, including your thralls, will all be reduced to its blood food, and not even bone scraps will be left!"

"Pfft——hahahaha!"

Zhang Hao was the first to break the silence. Not only did he not show the slightest fear, but instead he clutched his stomach and burst into exaggerated, mocking laughter.

"An Ancient Blood Demon? A great terror capable of destroying space?"

Stepping forward, Zhang Hao looked at Lin Yunfei with the gaze one would give to someone mentally disabled, and mockingly shouted loudly:

"Do you think that if the same trick is used three times, we will still fall for it like fools?!"

"Do you really take the children of noble families for three-year-olds who can be kneaded and toyed with at your whim?!"

Liu Ting also sneered repeatedly to the side, her exquisite face slightly distorted by jealousy and anger: "Young Master Zhang is right! You are shameless to the extreme! Aren't you just trying to scare us away with such low-level lies so that you can monopolize the supreme legacy within this altar?"

"Put on an act! Keep acting!"

Liu Ting pointed at Lin Yunfei's nose and cursed loudly, "Your wretched little thoughts were long ago seen through by us!"

Hearing this, the face beneath Lin Yunfei's mask twitched wildly.

At this moment, he finally deeply understood what the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" effect meant.

"Cut the fucking crap!!!"

Lian Zhan let out a furious roar, directly cutting off Lin Yunfei's words.

"You want to monopolize it? Today, I refuse to let you get your wish! Not only will I not let you get your wish, but I am also going to take this legacy right in front of your face!"

A flash of crazy ruthlessness crossed Lian Zhan's eyes. He clenched his teeth fiercely and pulled a crimson jade talisman that emitted a terrifying destructive fluctuation from his bosom.

The moment this jade talisman appeared, the dark red miasma around them seemed to retreat in fear.

"That is the Lian family's top-tier forbidden weapon, [Nine Heavens Thunder-Attracting World-Breaking Talisman]?!" Zhang Hao gasped in a breath of cold air and exclaimed.

Talismans of this level were shockingly expensive to manufacture, and their power was outrageously immense.

Even facing a defensive array set up by a genuine Third-Order deity, it could forcefully blast open a gap!

This was definitely Lian Zhan's ultimate trump card for entering the divine kingdom this time!

"Young Master Lian, isn't using this thing to smash the chains a bit too wasteful?" Liu Ting swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked with some heartache.

"If you don't risk the child, you can't catch the wolf! As long as we can obtain the legacy of the central altar, even ten world-breaking talismans would be worth it!"

Lian Zhan's face twisted, and without hesitation, he bit his fingertips, dropping a droplet of essential blood onto the crimson jade talisman.

"Hum——!"

The jade talisman instantly erupted with blinding crimson thunder light, and a violent destructive aura crazily gathered above the plaza, with faintly deafening thunder rumbles exploding deep in the firmament.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yunfei's pupils suddenly contracted.

"Maniacs! You really are a bunch of hopeless idiots!"

"Kind words cannot persuade a ghost hell-bent on dying. Since you are courting death yourselves, I won't keep you company anymore!"

Without the slightest hesitation, upon encountering danger, Lin Yunfei put everyone in front of him and then took to his heels and ran!

Seeing Lin Yunfei's wretched and fleeing figure, an unprecedented sense of gratification suddenly surged in the hearts of the three Lian Zhan!

"Hahahaha! Did you see that? He's scared! He's panicked!"

Lian Zhan laughed wildly up at the sky, feeling that the pent-up foul air accumulated in his chest for half a day was finally thoroughly exhaled.

"Can't keep up the act anymore, can you? Want to run? Too late! This core legacy is destined to belong to me, Lian Zhan!"

"Break for me!!!"

Accompanied by Lian Zhan's hysterical roar, that [Nine Heavens Thunder-Attracting World-Breaking Talisman], which had condensed terrifying thunder power, transformed into a thick crimson lightning bolt, fiercely bombarding the intersection of the nine black iron chains at the top of the altar with a destructive momentum!

"Rumble rumble rumble!!!"

Amidst earth-shattering loud noises, blinding thunder light swallowed the entire altar.

The violent energy shockwave swept in all directions like a tsunami, completely destroying the already dilapidated stone pillars on the plaza and turning them into sky-filling powder.

"Crack..."

A crisp snapping sound appeared exceptionally piercing amidst the lingering echoes of the thunder.

Following closely were the second and third sounds...

"Snap! Snap! Snap!"

Under that heaven-destroying thunder power, the nine suppression iron chains that had endured erosion for tens of millions of years finally let out an unbearable mournful wail, shattering inch by inch and falling onto the plaza as countless pieces of black iron.

As the chains snapped, dense, spiderweb-like cracks also began to emerge on the surface of the crimson altar, which stood dozens of zhang tall.

"It's broken! The seal is truly broken!" Zhang Hao trembled all over with excitement.

"The legacy! That is our legacy!" Liu Ting also screamed in excitement.

"Clatter——"

Accompanied by the final loud crash, the huge crimson altar collapsed with a roar, turning into dark red crystal fragments dancing all over the sky.

A pillar of crimson light—so dark red it looked black, and so viscous it seemed like solid matter—shot into the sky from the center of the altar's ruins, directly piercing the firmament of this space!

"Hiss!!!"

The moment the crimson pillar of light soared into the sky, the temperature of the entire plaza plummeted abruptly at an unreasonable speed.

The already pungent smell of blood in the air instantly grew a hundred times richer, as if a sea of corpses and a mountain of blood had suddenly descended into the real world.

That nauseating stench and oppression even caused the high-level thralls present to involuntarily emit fearful low roars, all uncontrollably shrinking backward.

"What is going on?"

The wild joy on Zhang Hao's face instantly froze.

He stared blankly at the pillar of blood soaring into the sky, and an instinctive fear crawled up his spine like bone-gnawing maggots.

"Gurgle gurgle..."

A creepy, bizarre sound—as if thick phlegm was rolling around in a throat—slowly emanated from the base of the crimson light pillar.

Following that, the viscous pillar of blood began to violently roll and wriggle.

Under the extremely terrified gazes of Lian Zhan, Zhang Hao, and Liu Ting, whose pupils had shrunk almost to the size of needle points—

The crimson light pillar gradually dissipated, and a terrifying flesh mass as huge as a mountain, its whole body flowing with turbid black blood, slowly appeared at the original location of the altar.

There were no facial features whatsoever on that flesh mass, only countless nauseating crimson tentacles dancing wildly.

"Hum..."

Suddenly, at the highest point of the flesh mass, a huge fissure slowly split open.

Two giant eyes the size of red lanterns suddenly opened amidst the thick blood fog!

Merely being swept by that pair of eyes made the three of Lian Zhan feel as if their souls were tightly grasped by a cold giant hand, and even their breathing completely stagnated at this moment.

First-Order peak—no, that was a terrifying aura infinitely approaching the Second-Order!

"Roar!!!"

The Ancient Blood Demon raised its head and emitted a soul-shattering, violent roar.

The sound wave transformed into substantive crimson ripples, instantly shattering a dozen front-row heavily armored thralls into sky-filling blood mist!

Until this very moment, the three of Lian Zhan, who were pinned firmly to the ground by this heaven-destroying pressure, soberly realized!

That masked Saobaxing.

Just now, he really wasn't lying to us!!!