43: First person

" 【 Soft Tendon and Bone-Eroding Powder 】 ?!"

Upon hearing this name, a bone-chilling killing intent flashed through Lin Chen's eyes in an instant!

Vicious!

Ruthless to the extreme!

To maintain that laughable reputation, this high and mighty queen actually... resorted to such lowly Demonic Path tactics!

" Yun Yun..."

Lin Chen slowly recited this name. In those deep eyes, the playfulness from before was gone, leaving only a biting killing intent... enough to make even gods and demons tremble!

He was truly angry.

Watching Su Mei shivering on the ground out of fear, the killing intent in Lin Chen's heart slowly receded.

He knew that pure anger could not solve any problems.

Since you want to play dirty...

Then I will accompany you and play a big game!

A brilliant plan, one that could plunge them all into an abyss of eternal doom, quietly took shape in his mind.

He slowly bent down, used his finger to gently lift Su Mei's chin, and wore that "kind" smile on his face once again.

" Very good. You have done well."

" From today on, you will stay by my side and be a... serving maid who pours tea and water."

He flicked his finger, and a wisp of pure Chaos Life Qi instantly submerged into Su Mei's long-dried body, restoring a trace of vitality for her.

" Thank... thank you for your grace, Master!" Su Mei wept with joy and kowtowed frantically.

Immediately, Lin Chen's gaze turned to the outside of the Immortal Cave, toward the dinner "specially provided" by the Sect, which was still emitting an enticing aroma.

The corners of his mouth curled into a cold arc.

" Playing along with their scheme?", " Then... let's make the acting more realistic."

(The next day, before the finals began, Purple Cloud Holy Land Hall)

Sect Master Yun Yun sat upright on her throne. Before her knelt an outer Sect female deacon responsible for delivering meals to Lin Chen.

" Are you sure he ate all the food last night?" Yun Yun's voice betrayed no emotion, but a trace of nervousness flickered in those deep phoenix eyes.

" Reporting to the Sect Master!" The female deacon did not dare to hide anything and hurriedly replied, "This servant saw it with her own eyes! That man... not only ate all the food, but even... licked the plates clean! Moreover, when this servant left, I even heard... sounds of laughter between him and that Su Mei... coming from inside the Immortal Cave, it seems... they were at it all night."

" Oh?"

Hearing this, Yun Yun's pretty face, which had been tense, finally relaxed completely.

The corners of her mouth curled into a cold and cruel arc.

Very good.

A piece of trash hollowed out by wine and lust, and also poisoned by the 【 Soft Tendon and Bone-Eroding Powder 】...

Today, even if a Grand Unity Golden Immortal descended to the mortal world, he could not be saved!

" Go down." She waved her hand, signaling the female deacon to withdraw.

Immediately, she spoke indifferently toward the shadows of the hall: "Pass on my order, let The Asura Blood Maiden prepare to take the stage."

" Tell her that what I want is not victory."

" It is... judgment!"

When Lin Chen appeared at the martial arts arena with a "gray complexion and unsteady footsteps."

The entire venue instantly erupted into earth-shattering laughter!

" Hahaha! Look! Is he... is he about to die?!"

" I told you! Men are all trash! He only shone for one day before revealing his true colors!"

On the rostrum, Sect Master Yun Yun looked at Lin Chen's "listless" appearance, and the last trace of worry in her heart vanished completely.

Her eyes were filled with mockery and disdain.

(Little thing, fighting with me? You are still too green.)

And just at this moment, a figure that made all the cheers in the arena freeze in an instant slowly walked onto the Arena Platform from the other side.

It was a... young girl wearing blood-colored battle armor, holding a giant scythe burning with black demonic flames, with long dark red hair cascading down like a waterfall!

There was no expression on her face, and her pair of dark golden pupils were filled with indifference and deathly silence, as if all things in the world were no different from ants in her eyes!

The aura she emitted was even more bizarre to the extreme!

Her cultivation, clearly, had not yet truly stepped into the Golden Core Realm, but that pressure, solid as iron and filled with endless killing and bloody aura, was far more powerful than an ordinary peak Golden Core stage by more than ten times!

" It... it is 'her'! It is 'Asura Blood Maiden'—The Asura Blood Maiden!"

" My god! The Sect Master actually... released this god of slaughter?!"

The moment they saw the identity of the person coming, the faces of all the Disciples in the entire martial arts arena revealed... fear from the depths of their Souls!

The Asura Blood Maiden!

A taboo-like existence in the Purple Cloud Holy Land! A true lunatic born for battle!

On the rostrum, that knowledgeable Grand Elder looked at the girl emitting an ominous aura on the Arena Platform and could not help but whisper to the Disciples beside him, with a tone filled with emotion and wariness, explaining the "legendary" battle record of this person:

" Do you know why she is called... the number one person below the Golden Core Realm?"

" Five years ago, when she was only at the Late Foundation Establishment Stage, she challenged seven core Senior Sisters at the Early Stage of the Golden Core Realm in succession during the Grand Competition! Three years ago, her cultivation reached the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment. Alone with her scythe, she broke into the 'Blood Wasteland' and beheaded three demon kings at the peak Golden Core stage, hanging their heads outside the mountain gate of our Holy Land! That battle shocked the entire Tianfeng Kingdom!"

" In fact, based on her accumulation, she could have condensed a Golden Core a year ago, and at least a High Grade Golden Core at that!"

" But she forcibly suppressed her own Realm!"

" Because what she is pursuing is the legendary... Flawless Dao Foundation! She wants to accumulate to an unprecedented and unrepeatable level at the Foundation Establishment Realm, and condense that once-in-ten-thousand-years... purple extreme gold pill in one go!"

" The reason she is participating in this Grand Competition is to use a perfect victory to draw a successful conclusion to her Foundation Establishment career! And then, ascend to the Golden Core Dao!"

Boom—!!! This Grand Elder's explanation was like a thunderclap on a clear day, directly stunning all the newly recruited Disciples present!

Foundation Establishment killing peak Golden Core stage?!

For the sake of Perfection, forcibly suppressing the Realm for a year?!

The target is the legendary purple extreme gold pill?!

This...

Is this f*cking human?!

This is simply a monster that walked out of ancient myths!

This was the final, lethal... trump card that Sect Master Yun Yun had prepared for Lin Chen!

A perfect "executioner" who, within the "rules" (below the Golden Core Realm), possessed "extra-specification" strength (able to kill peak Golden Core stage)!

Looking at "The Asura Blood Maiden" whose aura was terrifying to the extreme, and then looking at the other side of the Arena Platform, the "sickly weakling" Lin Chen who seemed like he would stop breathing at any moment.

In everyone's hearts, only four words remained.

Die.

Without.

A.

Whole.

Corpse.

On the Arena Platform.

The Asura Blood Maiden slowly raised those dark golden pupils, looked at Lin Chen indifferently, and uttered the first sentence since she took the stage:

" The Sect Master has an order."

" Cripple your four limbs, shatter your Dantian, and leave you with one breath."

" Will you do it yourself, or... shall I?"