265: A demoness saving her father?! You're just delivering vegetables!

"Someone?"

A glimmer of light suddenly shot forth from Liu Canghai's dim eyes.

He squeezed out the last bit of his spirit, his Divine Thought like a needle, piercing through the crumbling mountain-protecting array, extending towards the three abruptly appearing figures.

When his Divine Thought swept over one of the female figures, his mind was greatly shaken.

So strong!

What was the origin of this woman?

Her aura was strange and domineering; merely touching it with his Divine Thought made him feel as if his Divine Soul was about to freeze.

This feeling was a hundred times more terrifying than facing that "Heavenly Devil"!

A Great Emperor!

This was definitely a true Great Emperor expert!

Could it be reinforcements sent by other Holy Lands in Central State?

No... Liu Canghai's thoughts raced, then he denied it.

The Nine Nether Demonic Cult was the leader of the Demonic Path, irreconcilable with the Righteous Path; it would be merciful if they didn't add insult to injury, how could they send a Great Emperor to rescue them?

Then who... exactly are they?

Alarm bells rang in Liu Canghai's heart.

His Divine Thought passed over the female Great Emperor and landed on the last figure.

It was a young man in white clothes, fairer than snow, leaning against a charred tree, vomiting uncontrollably, looking frail and disheveled.

[Hmm? This pretty boy... why does he look a little familiar?]

Liu Canghai's brows furrowed.

In this critical moment, he had no time to think much and could only pin all his hopes on the three mysterious newcomers.

He only prayed that they... were not enemies... Outside the array.

"Father!!"

Liu Ruyan finally broke free from the hellish scene.

When she saw her father, covered in blood and his aura as weak as a flickering candle in the wind, sitting cross-legged on the altar within the mountain-protecting array, her last shred of sanity snapped completely!

"Who dares to hurt my father! I want you all dead!!"

She let out a piercing shriek that didn't sound human, and blood vessels instantly burst in her beautiful peach blossom eyes!

Boom!

Violent Killing Intent surged from her crown, staining half the sky crimson!

The Seven Killings Emperor Scripture ran wild and out of control within her body, blood-colored killing runes Entanglement her entire body, her aura soared, seemingly about to break through the barrier of the Saint King Peak!

She transformed into a blood-colored streak of light, crashing recklessly towards the peristalsis blood and flesh membrane!

She wanted to offer a sacrifice!

With her own body, her own Divine Soul, everything she had!

To mend the array with her own body!

Even if it only bought her father one more breath, she would be willing!

[Holy crap! This Demoness is crazy!]

Su Chen had just finished vomiting, looked up, and saw this suicidal scene, nearly spitting out the sour water he had just swallowed.

[What's the difference between you charging up with that cultivation and an egg hitting a rock? No, you're not even an egg, at most you're a moth flying into a flame, just extra food for them!]

[Calm down, big sister! Your father isn't dead yet! If you charge up now, you're not saving him, you're rushing to die with him!]

Su Chen instinctively wanted to rush up and pull her back.

But a figure was faster than him.

A black shadow flashed.

Ye Linghan had appeared behind Liu Ruyan like a ghost, extending a slender, jade-like hand, and casually grabbed Liu Ruyan by the collar of her robe.

The violent blood-colored streak of light came to an abrupt halt.

Liu Ruyan felt an irresistible force lock her by the nape of her neck, as if a deity had seized her fate's throat; all her power, all her Killing Intent, was instantly suppressed back into her body.

Ye Linghan effortlessly dragged her back, as if carrying a disobedient kitten.

"What's the rush?"

Ye Linghan's voice remained languid, her tone as if she wasn't on a battlefield, but teasing a cat in her own backyard.

"Going to your death?"

"Don't cause trouble for this Venerable One."

These two light sentences, however, were like two buckets of ten-thousand-year-old profound ice water, poured over Liu Ruyan's head.

Her mind, which had been dazed by anger, finally regained a shred of clarity.

She turned back to look at Ye Linghan's strange and beautiful face, and the tears in her eyes could no longer be held back, gushing down.

"Sister..."

Her voice choked, with a sob, "That's my father... he can't hold on much longer..."

This was the first time Su Chen had seen this Demoness, who always spoke of "fun" and seemed to wish for chaos in the world, reveal such a vulnerable and helpless appearance.

"I know."

Ye Linghan's reply was calm and unperturbed.

She released her hand, letting Liu Ruyan collapse to the ground, her gaze then turning to the demon mountain enveloped in blood and flesh, a very complex light flashing in her dark red Phoenix eyes.

Just then.

The blood and flesh membrane covering the entire demon mountain suddenly began to writhe violently.

Countless amounts of blood and flesh frantically converged towards the top of the membrane.

Soon, a pale human face, obscuring the sky and sun, slowly emerged above the Nine Nether Demon Mountain.

That face had blurred features, only hollow eyes and a mouth that stretched to its ears, eerie and terrifying.

"Jie jie jie jie..."

A grating, strange laugh scraped across the sky, like thousands of dull knives scratching at one's Divine Soul.

"Liu Canghai, this Venerable One's patience is limited."

The pale giant face looked down at the crumbling mountain-protecting array, its voice full of the playful mockery of a cat toying with a mouse.

"This Venerable One will give you ten more breaths."

"Hand over the Emperor Weapon 'nine nether bell', and this Venerable One can mercifully leave you with intact corpses."

"Otherwise..."

The smile on the giant face grew increasingly cruel.

"Once this Venerable One refines the blood and Divine Souls of your tens of thousands of demonic cultivators, my strength will definitely advance another level!"

"By then, even if the Demoness I encountered in the Immortal Burial Abyss personally hunts me down, this Venerable One will have successfully summoned a fallen Immortal from the Netherworld to descend!"

"At that time, the entire Profound Yuan Continent will become a gluttonous feast for us! Jie jie jie..."

The extremely arrogant words, transmitted clearly to everyone's ears through the vibrations of Law.

Inside the array, Liu Canghai and the Elders of the Demonic Cult turned pale as paper.

The Demoness of the Immortal Burial Abyss? Summoning Immortals from the Netherworld?

It's over!

This time, the Nine Nether Demonic Cult and even the entire Profound Yuan Continent would face utter annihilation!

Outside the array, Su Chen's eyelids twitched.

[Holy crap, this grandson, still bragging when he's about to die?]

[Still talking about the Demoness hunting him down? Look up, you idiot, she's already standing right in front of your face!]

[This flag-raising is practically a textbook example of courting death!]

Su Chen glanced at the giant face cackling in the sky with an expression like he was looking at an idiot, then at Ye Linghan, who looked "bored" beside him, and began to mourn for the Heavenly Devil in his heart.

He had no doubt that the next second, this guy would die with a certain rhythm.

And the monster calling itself the "Heavenly Devil" also seemed to finally perceive something.

His grating laughter was suddenly choked off, as if an invisible large hand had gripped his throat.

The pale giant face's gaze slowly moved downwards.

Then, he saw her.

He saw the strange woman standing on the charred ground, wearing a tattered black robe, yawning idly.

Time, at this moment, seemed to have been paused.