152: Entering the eighth floor

The number of figures on Blood Fiend Plaza grew.

Large numbers of Cultivators soared into the sky on flying Magical Artifacts; gradually, the sky above the Blood Fiend Tower floating island was packed three layers deep with luxurious and grand flying boats and Building Ship.

The sixth level opponent was a Sword Cultivator ranked over 3,600.

A Demonic Path Sword Cultivator.

His Sword Dao attainments were so profound that even Xiao Zhuo was awestruck.

Ultimately, he was forced to unleash his Blood Fiend Domain to secure victory.

However, after Breaking Through to Void Refinement Peak, Xiao Zhuo’s magical power had increased dramatically, and the consumption of controlling the Domain was now within a controllable range.

After killing the Sword Cultivator, he did not rest and chose to continue.

The seventh level featured a high-ranking blood Cultivator. The two engaged in a fierce battle within a sea of blood, with blood waves surging to the heavens and blood soldiers dancing wildly. The fight was truly earth-shattering.

The opponent controlled the Blood Soul Domain, which, unlike the Blood Fiend Domain that absorbed vital blood and Evil Qi, required the absorption of a Cultivator’s vital blood and Divine Soul to forge. While its offensive power was inferior to the Blood Fiend Domain, once covered by the Blood Soul Domain, one’s strength would not only be suppressed but also constantly assaulted by the resentful Divine Soul within it.

Once one’s mind was lost, they would immediately be refined by the Domain into one of its undead souls.

However, even with his Divine Soul suppressed to the third stage of soul infant, Xiao Zhuo was still at the Peak of Void Refining Realm Cultivators and could completely withstand the resentful impact of the opponent’s Blood Soul Domain.

Moreover, the opponent’s Blood Soul Domain had barely reached the first layer, far inferior to Xiao Zhuo’s second-layer Blood Fiend Domain. Furthermore, in terms of Blood Dao control, Xiao Zhuo, possessing an Innate Blood God Body, was stronger than that blood Cultivator. After a hundred moves, Xiao Zhuo easily won.

He didn't even use abilities outside of the Blood Dao.

“This child possesses profound magical power, a formidable Physical Body, and even his Blood Dao has reached the second layer of the Domain! Unbelievable! Truly incredible! Even the Sect Master, back in his day, didn’t achieve such accomplishments at this level. This child must be the top Prodigy of our Blood Palace this generation!” an elder with white hair and beard but full, smooth skin stroked his beard in astonishment.

His voice was loud, drawing the gaze of many.

Even several Blood Palace true disciples clad in blood robes looked over, and upon hearing this, their eyes all flashed with displeasure.

Even if they themselves felt they might be inferior to Xiao Zhuo in the Void Refining Realm, knowing it was one thing, but having it said aloud was another.

Whether the elder intended it or not, he had indeed garnered quite a bit of animosity for Xiao Zhuo.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Xiao Zhuo had already stepped onto the eighth level.

The eighth level was a ruined city.

The entire city was enveloped in a terrifying, thick corpse miasma, emitting a pungent stench.

Even the sky was dyed a grayish-green.

As soon as he stepped in, Xiao Zhuo could feel an extremely strong sense of threat within the city before him.

“Is this the power of the top thousand?” Xiao Zhuo’s eyes narrowed slightly. He did not step into the city of corpse miasma. With a raise of his hand, a thousand-zhang Blood Hand appeared out of thin air above the city, carrying a thick, Blood Wind and pressing down fiercely.

“Roar!” A ferocious roar erupted from within the city, and the sky-filling corpse miasma seemed to respond to the summons.

In an instant, it surged back into the city.

“Thud!”

The next moment, a black shadow burst out from the city, charging directly towards the Blood Hand.

Xiao Zhuo’s eyes narrowed, and the magical power surging around him suddenly intensified. He pressed his right hand down fiercely.

The Blood Hand’s descent speed also surged.

“Boom!”

The thousand-zhang Blood Hand and the ten-foot black shadow collided violently!

The anticipated crushing defeat did not occur. The immense power and surging Blood Fiend contained within the Blood Hand were actually resisted head-on by the seemingly tiny black shadow!

“Thud—!”

A dull, heart-shattering roar exploded, and a violent shockwave visibly spread in a ring, instantly tearing a huge hole in the remaining grayish-green corpse miasma shrouding the city.

The already withered trees outside the city were swept by an invisible giant scythe, breaking and shattering in swathes, turning into a sky full of sawdust and dust.

Xiao Zhuo’s pupils contracted slightly.

The golden light of the Heaven-Observing Divine Eye flowed, instantly locking onto the black shadow—it was not some Magical Artifact or condensed spell, but a true Corpse Refinement!

Its ten-foot-tall body exhibited a strange dark golden hue, with muscles bulging like coiled pythons, full of explosive power.

It had no head; where its head should have been, there was a furiously spinning, constantly devouring grayish-green vortex of surrounding corpse miasma!

That ferocious roar earlier originated from the depths of this vortex.

Its arms were crossed and raised high, firmly blocking the Vast Blue Blood Hand that was capable of shattering mountains!

Where the dark golden skin touched the scarlet Blood Fiend, a terrifying corrosive “sizzling” sound emanated, and wisps of black smoke rose, but the Corpse Refinement’s body only slightly dented, without collapsing.

What a terrifying Physical Body!

“Roar!” A roar erupted again from the headless Corpse Refinement’s vortex, and its arms suddenly exerted force, heaving upwards!

“Om!” Xiao Zhuo felt an irresistible brute force surge upwards. The thousand-zhang Blood Hand was actually shaken by this pure Physical Body strength, trembling violently, and even tiny cracks appeared in its palm!

What startled him even more was that the pure Blood Fiend power contained within the Blood Hand was being frantically devoured and assimilated by the grayish-green corpse miasma on the opponent’s body and the vortex at its head!

“So that’s it! This Corpse City, this corpse miasma, are all manifestations of this fiend’s Domain! It can devour all energy, feeding itself and growing stronger with each battle!” Xiao Zhuo instantly understood.

The guardian of this eighth level, a terrifying existence ranked within the top thousand, walked a path of extreme Physical Body cultivation and corpse poison devouring!

Its Domain had likely merged with the entire ruined city, reaching the threshold of a second-layer Domain, with an extremely wide range and strange power.

Although the Blood Fiend Domain was powerful, in the opponent’s home ground, a direct confrontation of energy consumption was definitely not a wise move.

The opponent’s devouring characteristic subtly restrained some of the Blood Fiend Domain’s power.

With a flicker of thought, Xiao Zhuo decisively changed his tactics.

His right hand’s five fingers suddenly clenched!

“Rumble!” The thousand-zhang Blood Hand instantly disintegrated, transforming into a sky full of viscous, foul blood rain and Blood Wind, pouring down head-on towards the headless Corpse Refinement and the ruined city below.

This was not an attack, but pollution!

The negative Blood Fiend, containing extreme filth and soul-corroding properties, attempted to disrupt the operation of the devouring vortex and pollute the Corpse Refinement’s Physical Body Foundation.

At the same time, Xiao Zhuo’s figure flickered. He did not rashly delve into the city of corpse miasma but moved at high speed along the city’s edge, his fingertips repeatedly tapping.

Streaks of ‘Blood God Soldiers’ in the shape of flying knives, condensed like solid matter and shimmering with sharp golden light at their edges, tore through the air, accurately shooting like snipers towards the Corpse Refinement’s joints, acupoints, and especially the devouring vortex at its head!

“Puff, puff, puff!” The Blood God Soldiers were incredibly powerful, exploding with bursts of Blood Fiend golden light on the dark golden Corpse Refinement, leaving behind deep pits, and the black smoke intensified.

However, the rotation speed of the vortex at the headless Corpse Refinement’s head suddenly accelerated. Thick, ink-like grayish-green corpse Qi surged from the wounds pierced by the Blood God Soldiers, and the wounds actually wiggled and healed at a visible speed!

The Blood God Soldiers shot towards the vortex were even more like mud oxen entering the sea, instantly devoured completely, without even a ripple being stirred.

Its dark golden body, on the contrary, seemed to deepen its luster after devouring the Blood Fiend energy!

“Jie jie jie…” A spine-chilling, strange laugh, not emanating from the vortex, but seemingly from every brick, every wisp of corpse miasma in the entire city, carrying endless malice and greed.

Before the strange laugh faded, the headless Corpse Refinement suddenly slammed its fists into the ground!

“Boom—!”

The entire city of corpse miasma shook violently, and countless broken walls and crumbling ruins collapsed.

The grayish-green corpse miasma permeating the city boiled and surged, no longer confined to the city limits, but like a living tsunami, frantically rolling back and spreading towards the sky where Xiao Zhuo was!

The sky was completely swallowed by grayish-green, and the light was dim like the twilight of the apocalypse.

Even more terrifying, countless cracks opened in the ground, and shriveled, decaying arms, flickering with phosphorescent light, broke through the earth, densely packed, accompanied by a scalp-numbing wail and the sound of bones rubbing, countless rotting corpses and skeletons of various forms struggled out!

They bathed in the thick corpse miasma, their empty eye sockets all locked onto Xiao Zhuo in the sky, radiating bloodthirsty madness.

The entire city came alive!