311: Chapter 311 The Ancient Demonic Path! One died, one was suppressed, and one was severely injured!

The moment the runes left their bodies—

An unprecedented sense of extreme exhaustion, as if all their strength had been instantly drained, swept through Qin Yan and Su Liuli's bodies like a tsunami!

Boundless fatigue and darkness surged up like a tide, drowning their consciousness.

The vision of both went black at the same time; losing all support, they slumped forward limply, completely losing consciousness and collapsing to the ground.

The terrifying power they had borrowed completely dissipated with the stripping of the Profound Truth runes.

Driving such power—which far exceeded their own level—for so long, combined with the life-and-death struggle against a powerful enemy, had long since pushed their bodies and spirit to their absolute limits.

Suddenly losing that support now, falling into a coma was the body's most instinctive protective mechanism.

Blood Absolute didn't spare another glance at the unconscious Qin Yan and Su Liuli on the ground.

To him, after reclaiming the power of Profound Truth, these two little ones only needed time to recover and would be fine.

Right now, there were more important things to confirm.

His massive blood-colored figure shifted slightly.

As he took a seemingly casual step forward, the laws of the entire blood-colored world seemed to twist and fold accordingly.

In the next moment, his figure had already crossed an endless distance, appearing at another absolute core area of this space.

Here, there was absolute silence, with only a darkness so thick it wouldn't disperse and a sense of oppression so heavy it reached the extreme.

Ahead was not solid ground, but a bottomless 'Blood Pool' that seemed to lead directly to the Nine Sereneries.

But the 'blood' in this pool was no longer ordinary; its color was dark, nearly pitch-black, and viscous like ink, emitting a cold, deathly aura that could freeze the soul.

Above the Blood Pool, in the void, four giant energy chains of different colors—as thick as palace pillars—resembled four divine dragons spanning through the ages. One end of each was deeply embedded in the four corresponding colored sky-propping pillars in the surrounding void, while the other ends wound like venomous snakes, piercing into the deepest depths of the Blood Pool.

Densely packed ancient runes flickered upon the chains, forming a massive, complex, and exquisitely ingenious sealing formation that firmly locked and suppressed the entire Blood Pool.

It was precisely these four-colored chains and the seal that constituted the final shackles imprisoning that terrifying existence.

This was the true core seal, laid down by the combined efforts of the four Hall Masters of the Jade Court to suppress the original body of the Black Demon Emperor!

Blood Absolute's giant eyes erupted with blood-colored light!

It pierced directly through the viscous dark-red blood water above, ignored the layers of energy barriers and sealing runes, and looked straight at the deepest part of the Blood Pool, the very core of the seal!

At the bottom of the Blood Pool, the scene was horrifying.

Endless darkness writhed and rolled like a living thing, forming a domain of absolute darkness over a hundred zhang in diameter.

In the center of the domain, a towering, blurry 'humanoid' silhouette was vaguely visible.

It sat upon a dark throne, surrounded by pitch-black demonic qi that felt substantial. This demonic qi sometimes transformed into the faces of roaring demon gods, and sometimes into struggling, twisted tentacles, emitting a pure, extreme aura of evil, chaos, and destruction.

Just its naturally radiating pressure caused the stable space constructed by the four Hall Masters to develop fine black cracks, as if it could completely shatter at any moment.

This was precisely the ancient demon suppressed here for countless years—the Black Demon Emperor!

Even though worn down by the seal, the terrifying momentum emitted by his true body was still enough to make an ordinary expert instantly lose their mind.

As if sensing Blood Absolute's undisguised, prying gaze, two rays of light—crimson as blood moons and coldly ruthless—suddenly lit up within the absolute darkness at the bottom of the Blood Pool!

Those were the 'eyes' of the Black Demon Emperor!

"Blood Absolute..."

A hoarse, low voice, sounding as if it came from the deepest depths of the Nine Sereneries hell, echoed within the sealed space:

"This time... consider yourself lucky."

"However, in another thousand years... when I break through this tattered seal..."

"At that time, let's see... what you can still use to stop me."

Every word was like a heavy hammer striking the soul, containing an evil demonic power that corroded the mind.

Facing the Black Demon Emperor's threat, not a single change in expression appeared on Blood Absolute's massive, blood-colored face.

His powerful voice echoed faintly in this silent, oppressive space:

"Black Demon Emperor, a whole eon has passed since the Great Calamity of the Ancient Demonic Path."

His gaze seemed to penetrate the seal, seeing into a more distant history and a wider world.

"The tides of the era have long since surged and changed.

The 'glory' of the Ancient Demonic Path dominating the starry sky and enslaving all races has long been washed away by the wind and rain.

In today's Heavens and Myriad Worlds, countless races stand tall, experts emerge in succession, and orthodoxies flourish.

Your Demonic Path has long since fallen from its former position as hegemon to that of a street rat that everyone shouts at and must kill upon sight.

Hiding and avoiding isn't even enough, yet you still want to recreate your former demonic might?"

"Do you think that even if you luckily break the seal a thousand years from now, with your current state, how much of a wave could you stir in this new torrent of the era?

I'm afraid before you can even recover to your peak, you would have already been collectively exterminated by the experts of this world who sensed your aura, your soul scattered to the winds."

Over the long years, although he only had a remnant will left and couldn't cover the various worlds with his divine sense like in his prime, he could still cover this core area where the Blood God Hall was located, listening to the conversations, arguments, and even unintentionally leaked snippets of words between the geniuses of various races who entered this place.

Through these fragmented pieces of information, he already had a clear understanding of the current general situation of the outside world.

This was a brand new era where the Demonic Path was weak and myriad races vied for supremacy.

At the bottom of the Blood Pool, those two eyes like crimson blood moons flickered violently for a moment, then fell into a long, deathly silence.

The churning dark demonic qi around them also seemed to become sluggish and heavy because of these words.

Indeed... it had been an eon.

For existences of their level, an eon was by no means just a snap of the fingers.

The outside world had long since changed.

"If it weren't for the civil war between the Demon Emperor and the Great Demon Emperor back then, our Demon Race..."

The Black Demon Emperor murmured.

Hearing this, Blood Absolute couldn't help but feel a trace of emotion in his heart.

As an existence who once stood at the very forefront of the fight against the Demonic Path, he knew the terror and brilliance of the Ancient Demonic Path better than anyone.

Even for a top-tier power like their Canglin Ancient Peak in the ancient era, they had paid an unimaginably tragic price when facing the demonic invasion.

In that great war, the Demonic Path's side had sent three Demon Emperors to lead their armies, and they almost beat the entire Canglin Ancient Peak into fragments, nearly severing their orthodoxy!

Countless brilliant fellow disciples and comrades fell, magnificent palaces were turned to ruins, and prosperous kingdoms became dead zones.

And they could only barely achieve the result of 'one dead, one suppressed, and one heavily injured and fled' by almost perishing together with them.

That was a dark period of time soaked in blood and despair.