33: Chapter 33 The Demonic Sect is enraged! How dare they touch my people!

Blood Fiend Sect, Blood Demon Hall.

Dead silence.

A thick, bloody stench mixed with a bone-chilling cold lingered in the air, making every breath a form of torture.

On both sides of the hall, dozens of Elders in blood robes stood with their heads bowed, their bodies as stiff as stone statues, even the sound of their own heartbeats felt jarring.

Their gazes, filled with awe and fear, glanced toward the center of the hall.

There, a Golden Core assassin who had once made countless people tremble in fear was now curled up like a dead dog, emitting hoarse, incoherent babbling from its throat, its entire body convulsing violently.

Shadow Killer had gone mad.

"Trash!"

A roar shattered the dead silence!

At the end of the hall, on the throne piled high with countless white bones, a burly figure suddenly exerted force.

"Bang!"

The demonic crystal armrest, harder than fine iron, exploded into a handful of black powder under his palm.

Terrifying pressure instantly swept through the entire palace, and the bloody Evil Qi turned into visible ripples. All the Elders groaned, feeling their Primordial Spirits trembling.

The man on the throne had his figure hidden within the churning blood mist; only his eyes shone like two blood moons.

He was the Sect Master of the Blood Fiend Sect, a titan of the Demonic Path whose fierce reputation shook the Eastern Wilderness — True Person Xue Tu!

"Sect Master, calm your anger!"

A Grand Elder with white hair and beard, enduring the stinging pain in its Divine Soul, braced itself and stepped forward.

"Calm my anger?"

True Person Xue Tu's voice held no trace of joy or anger, yet it was more bone-chilling than ten thousand years of black ice.

"The sharpest blade under my command, a top-tier Golden Core Middle Stage assassin, went to a third-rate, insignificant Sect, and before it even touched the corner of the target's clothes, it was stared into an idiot!"

"How do you expect me to calm my anger?!"

His voice suddenly rose, turning into a roaring thunderclap.

"This loss is not just about Shadow Killer!"

"This is someone pointing at the nose of my Blood Fiend Sect and giving me a fierce slap in the face! If this spreads, who in the Eastern Wilderness Demonic Path will still obey me?!"

The boundless killing intent caused the Soul fire lamps in the hall to sway violently, flickering on and off.

Shadow Killer was a trusted aide it had personally promoted, its most satisfactory tool.

Now, the tool was ruined.

And it happened in the most humiliating way, lost to a small place whose name he couldn't even remember!

This was even more unbearable to him than killing Shadow Killer directly!

"Sect Master."

The Grand Elder bowed again, its tone extremely strained: "This matter is extremely bizarre. Shadow Killer's Divine Soul... seems to have been crushed from the root by some unspeakable existence. Its Dao Heart has completely collapsed, with no possibility of recovery."

It paused, seemingly recalling some terrifying scene.

"This subordinate just tried to peek into its remaining memories, but only saw a void of Chaos... filled with supreme death and eternal stillness. That will, just a fleeting glimpse, made my Nascent Soul ache as if it were about to split, and I dared not probe any further."

"Oh?"

The blood mist churning around True Person Xue Tu stalled slightly.

In those eyes like two blood moons, the violent rage receded, and a deeper, more scorching emotion emerged.

That was greed.

"You mean to say, within the Taixuan Sect, there is a hidden treasure capable of directly threatening a Nascent Soul's Divine Soul?"

"This subordinate dares not speak rashly." The Grand Elder said in a low voice, "But to be able to waste Shadow Killer with one glance, the means are definitely not ordinary. First, there is a world-shaking existence hidden within the Taixuan Sect that we cannot fathom; second, they used a forbidden exotic treasure specifically targeting the Divine Soul."

"A world-shaking existence?"

True Person Xue Tu let out a scoff, full of disdain and arrogance.

"A third-rate Sect with exhausted Spiritual Veins, struggling even to support one Golden Core, what could they possibly have to worship a world-shaking existence? Looking across the entire Eastern Wilderness, who dares to call themselves 'world-shaking'? Those old fogies of the Righteous Path? They don't have the guts!"

"Therefore, there is only one truth."

True Person Xue Tu's breathing grew heavy.

The greedy light like blood moons in his eyes almost became tangible, dripping down.

"The Taixuan Sect got incredibly lucky and obtained a supreme treasure of Soul attacks left behind from ancient times!"

"They are relying on this treasure to dare release the wild talk of a 'Saint descending', putting on a mysterious front to lure people into their trap!"

The more he thought about it, the more he felt this was the only truth.

A supreme treasure capable of crushing a Golden Core's Dao Heart with a single glance!

What kind of Heaven-Defying divine object was this?!

If... if it could fall into my hands...

True Person Xue Tu's heart began to beat like a drum.

He seemed to see himself wielding this treasure, his Divine Soul attacks sweeping across the Eastern Wilderness, and all his enemies turning into idiots like Shadow Killer before him!

He would ascend to the pinnacle of the Eastern Wilderness, conquer the Cangxuan Dao Domain, and become the only Devil Emperor in all eternity!

"Pass on my edict!"

True Person Xue Tu stood up abruptly from the bone throne, the blood mist behind him soaring into the sky, turning into the phantom of a roaring demon god.

"Summon the Blood Shadow Guards!"

"Assemble the Top Ten Demonic Generals!"

"I will personally step on the Taixuan Sect!"

Once this order was issued, everyone in the hall was shocked!

"Sect Master! You absolutely must not!" The Grand Elder's face changed drastically, and it knelt on the ground with a thud, "Why do you need to risk yourself for a mere Taixuan Sect? Such a treasure is bizarre, please reconsider!"

"Reconsider?"

True Person Xue Tu looked down at it coldly.

"Such a divine object, every extra moment it stays in the world, there is one more variable! If those hypocrites of the Righteous Path catch a whiff of it, will I still be able to take the treasure safely?"

"I will use the force of thunder to flatten Taixuan and return with the treasure!"

His gaze fell on Shadow Killer, who was still convulsing in the hall, and a flash of disgust crossed his face.

"As for this trash... drag it away and refine it into a blood slave; it might still be of some use."

With one word, he determined the final fate of a Golden Core powerhouse.

Just as True Person Xue Tu's killing intent was boiling and he was about to order the march.

An aged, hoarse voice, like the grinding of dry bones, sounded without warning from the deepest shadows of the hall.

"Sect Master, wait."

The voice was not loud, but it struck everyone's heart like an invisible heavy hammer.

Even the overbearing True Person Xue Tu had his body stiffen abruptly.

Everyone looked over in horror.

They saw that the eternal shadow was actually wriggling like a living thing, and from it, a hunched figure slowly walked out.

It leaned on a pale white bone staff, and every step seemed to exhaust all its vitality, as if it would turn into flying ash at any moment.

But seeing this person, everyone, including True Person Xue Tu, had their expressions change.

It was a kind of dread that came from the depths of their Souls, impossible to hide.

The blood moons in True Person Xue Tu's eyes dimmed, and he spoke in a dry voice.

"Elder Blood River... you, have you come out of seclusion?"