379: Blood Demon Lord

As that voice, seemingly from primordial chaos, resounded, Emperor Emperor was struck as if by an invisible lightning bolt, raising his head in astonishment!

Ten thousand miles away, a terrifying River of Blood, submerging countless stars, tore through the Void Realm, surging and roaring!

Above the River of Blood, an old man in blood-red robes stood with his hands behind his back, the blood-colored pressure emanating from his body causing the surrounding boundary realm space to groan under the strain!

That pressure was far greater than Emperor Emperor's!

Deep within the spatial interlayer, Xiao Zhuo followed the River of Blood from a distance.

The old man in blood-red robes was precisely the being who had emerged from the grain of sand he had protected for several months!

He was also the Quasi-Saint expert Xiao Zhuo had once seen—the Blood Demon Venerable!

After the Blood Demon Venerable broke out of his cocoon, his aura not only did not weaken but became even stronger than before, even subtly touching the threshold of the Quasi-Saint Late Stage!

He instantly understood that there must be some deep connection between Xue Tian and the Blood Demon Venerable, perhaps a Clone, perhaps a Legacy holder, or some symbiotic relationship.

As soon as the Blood Demon Venerable revived, without even exchanging another word with him, he already controlled the River of Blood and descended upon this boundary realm battlefield that would decide the fate of the Blood Demon Realm!

"It's you! Blood Demon Venerable!?" Emperor Emperor forcefully suppressed the shock in his eyes, but the gravity in his tone was palpable, "Weren't you severely wounded in your Origin by the Great Annihilation Demon Venerable and fled into the depths of the boundary realm?! How are you here?! And your aura..."

Emperor Emperor's voice was filled with disbelief, and his series of questions even showed a hint of Loss of composure.

The reappearance of the Blood Demon Venerable, with his cultivation not regressing but advancing, completely subverted his understanding!

Facing this being who had once confronted the strongest Quasi-Saint Hao Duo head-on and survived, even if the other party was only at the Middle Stage Peak, it was enough to make him feel a fatal threat.

"What I do is none of your business? Even if Hao Tian himself came, what is he?" The Blood Demon Venerable's voice was calm and unruffled, yet it carried an overbearing dominance that looked down upon all heavens.

At this moment, he was a completely different person from the emaciated old man in Xiao Zhuo's memory.

His figure was tall and straight, his face sinisterly handsome, and his blood-red eyes, outlined by dark red eyeliner, gleamed with an eerie and ruthless light!

The Blood Demon Venerable clearly had no patience for pleasantries.

With a casual wave of his blood-red sleeve! The boundless River of Blood immediately enveloped and protected the Blood Demon Realm, which was already two-tenths the size of the Immortal-Demon Realm.

Then, he crooked a finger of his other hand and pointed it at Emperor.

"Boom—!"

The surging River of Blood, which enveloped the massive Blood Demon Realm, instantly boiled!

Countless blood-colored giant pillars, thick as mountains and solid as reality, like animated ancient Vicious Beasts, carrying terrifying auras that could pierce stars and defile wan fa (myriad laws), suddenly separated!

A part of them, like world-ending spears, tore through space, directly striking at Emperor Emperor's vital points.

Another part transformed into a sky-obscuring blood-colored giant net, descending upon the fourteen Immortal Kings and Devil Kings, including Startling Bear, who were frantically trying to retreat!

The Dao of Blood, in the hands of the Blood Demon Venerable, displayed a terrifying power that Xiao Zhuo had never seen before!

Those blood pillars were not simple energy impacts; each one contained different Law Profound Truths.

Some contained extreme corrosion, eroding even space into black holes.

The River of Blood itself was ever-changing, sometimes transforming into a blood-sea vortex that devoured everything, sometimes solidifying into an indestructible blood-crystal barrier, and sometimes dispersing into countless blood-shadow Clones, mysterious and unpredictable.

Emperor Emperor's body erupted with starlight, and countless star phantoms appeared, forming layers of stellar vortex shields, while a massive star halberd swept out, attempting to sever the blood pillars.

However, the Blood Demon Venerable's control over the Dao of Blood had reached Transcendent, and the blood pillars would twist, split, and regenerate at critical moments, avoiding the sharpest edge of the star halberd, coiling around and eroding the star shield like maggots on bone.

The power of the Star Dao, capable of crushing stars, was actually firmly suppressed by the defiling, viscous, and ever-changing Dao of Blood; the starlight rapidly dimmed under the washing of the blood light.

Emperor Emperor grunted, his figure repeatedly retreating in the Void Realm, and his Dragon Robe was even corroded with dark red marks, appearing incredibly disheveled!

On the other side, the Immortal Kings' situation was even more tragic!

"Ah—!" A piercing scream rang out. A Devil King from the Demon Abyss had his demonic body directly struck by a blood pillar containing extreme destruction, instantly cracking like porcelain hit by a giant hammer, and then exploding, his flesh and bones instantly devoured and assimilated by the blood light!

Immediately after, the protective Immortal Treasures of a Yao Race Immortal King and a Human Race Immortal King were pierced through by blood spears as if they were made of paper, their Physical Bodies directly dissolving in the blood light, leaving only their panicked Primordial Spirits, wrapped in their dim Lifebound Treasures, frantically fleeing!

In just one encounter, the Physical Bodies of three Immortal Kings collapsed!

The remaining eleven Immortal Kings and Devil Kings, including Startling Bear, were all Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, completely devoid of any Battle Intent!

What boundary realm Origin, what Heavenly Dao Luck, all became a joke in the face of the Blood Demon Venerable's overwhelming and terrifying power!

They now had only one thought: escape! Escape this death purgatory enveloped by the River of Blood!

Just at this moment, a shadowy figure, like a venomous snake integrated into space itself, quietly moved.

Xiao Zhuo!

He perfectly concealed himself in the spatial interlayer, using the natural interference of the Blood Demon Venerable's monstrous blood light and violent energy on spatial perception, to lock onto his targets—the three Immortal Kings whose Physical Bodies had just been destroyed and whose Primordial Spirits were frantically fleeing!

The Primordial Spirit of one of the Human Race Immortal Kings, wrapped around a broken Immortal Sword, was desperately burning its Primordial Spirit power, trying to tear open the blockade at the edge of the River of Blood.

This was a big fish, and the opportunity was fleeting!

Xiao Zhuo didn't hesitate for a moment, compressing the aura of the Dao of Slaughter to its extreme, condensing it at his fingertip.

Just as that Immortal King's Primordial Spirit was about to rush out of the edge of the blood light, a black thread, thinner than a hair and darker than an abyss, silently penetrated the barrier between the spatial interlayer and the real boundary realm, precisely "pointing" at the Immortal Sword!

"Chh!"

There was no earth-shattering sound, only a faint, almost inaudible sound of annihilation.

That Immortal King's Divine Soul didn't even have time to let out any scream; along with the broken Immortal Sword protecting him, it instantly turned into nothingness under the black thread, which condensed the ultimate power of slaughter, like a snowflake thrown into an incinerator!

"Killed a Daluo-level Human Race, gained 7,897,482 Attribute Points."

The entire process was as fast as lightning, happening at the moment of the most intense blood light and most chaotic energy fluctuations, so much so that even the other fleeing Immortal Kings, who were close at hand, did not notice it, as if that unlucky Immortal King's Primordial Spirit had simply stumbled into some fatal trap in the River of Blood and completely dissipated.

In the center of the battlefield, the Blood Demon Venerable's blood-red eyes seemed to glance very subtly in the direction Xiao Zhuo was hidden, and a barely perceptible arc appeared at the corner of his mouth.

He did not expose him, his gaze refocusing on Emperor Emperor, who was struggling to resist the erosion of the River of Blood, his voice cold and playful:

"Emperor, your stars, before My Sea of Blood, are but mere fireflies. Since you dared to covet My boundary realm, stay here today!!" Before his words finished, the center of the River of Blood suddenly collapsed, forming a giant vortex that devoured everything, its terrifying suction so strong that even light could not escape, fiercely pulling Emperor Emperor and his surrounding star shield towards it!

Emperor Emperor's face drastically changed, and a hint of desperate madness finally flashed in his eyes: "Old Ghost Blood Demon! You want to devour this Emperor? Collapse! Myriad Stars Annihilate!"

His imperial robes billowed around him, and the countless stars in the sky seemed to respond in sync, beginning to flicker violently!

A world-destroying power of star annihilation projected from all the stars in the heavens, condensing into a giant star sword spanning the starry sky, imbued with the power of the Star Dao, erupting with a roar, attempting to tear through the bonds of the River of Blood vortex!

The brilliant star giant sword violently clashed with the defiling blood light, erupting in an energy storm that shook the entire boundary realm!

Meanwhile, Xiao Zhuo's gaze had already locked onto the next Immortal King who was frantically fleeing in the blood light, his aura chaotic.

He transformed into a faint phantom and once again merged into the Void Realm, slowly approaching in the spatial interlayer.