146: Upper bound

“Hmph! Little girl, on the verge of death, are you still trying to put on a brave front?”

Seeing Nangong Xueli’s sudden and strange change, the Blood Servant’s eyes narrowed slightly.

However, at this moment, he had received power bestowed by the Eternal Family’s Great Emperor Old Ancestor, and was confident he could ignore everything.

Therefore, he did not take the changes happening to Nangong Xueli to heart.

“A mere rat, dares to speak so brazenly before me?”

The ‘Nangong Xueli’ who had reopened her eyes had an eerie glow in her pupils, looking at the Blood Servant with a hint of condescension.

“A mere rat? Little girl, do you know who you’re talking to?”

The Blood Servant’s eyes narrowed, revealing a dangerous curve like a venomous snake.

“A dead man.”

‘Nangong Xueli’s’ beautiful face was as cold as frost, and she uttered these two indifferent words from her luscious red lips.

“A dead man? Ridiculous, little girl, I think you are…”

“Enough!”

The Blood Servant sneered, about to speak further, but was interrupted by Yao Mu’s sharp shout.

“Listening to a good-for-nothing like you speak has almost exhausted all my patience.”

“Your words are useless as a plea for mercy.”

“And as a last will, they’re not very good either.”

As her voice fell, Yao Mu raised her hands, forming seals as fast as lightning.

Boom!

In an instant, the wind howled, lightning flashed, and a giant female phantom figure appeared behind ‘Nangong Xueli’.

The next moment, the female phantom figure raised a palm and directly pressed it down towards the Blood Servant.

“A mere trick, how dare you show off before me, a Sub-Emperor!”

The Blood Servant roared, flipping his hand to form a seal, and likewise struck out with a world-shaking palm print to meet the attack.

“Buzz!”

Soon, the two palm prints met in mid-air.

However, the expected earth-shattering collision did not occur.

Instead, the palm print struck out by Yao Mu suddenly became illusory for a moment when it collided with the opponent.

Then, it directly pierced through the opponent’s palm print and continued to descend with undiminished power.

“Pfft!”

With one hit, the Blood Servant, who had just been so imposing, instantly suffered a heavy blow, spewing blood wildly, his body like a kite with a broken string, falling to the ground in pieces.

“How is this possible!?”

After this last question arose in his mind, the Blood Servant’s vision completely darkened.

“Blood Servant!”

Seeing the Blood Servant instantly killed with one blow, Lei Zhenzi, who was nearby, was filled with horror.

“Soul Power!”

At this moment, the old man in plain robes stared intently at Nangong Xueli, who was possessed by Yao Mu.

“You are not this little girl! Who are you?”

“A dying person, no need to ask more!”

Facing the old man in plain robes’ questioning, ‘Nangong Xueli’ ignored him.

She merely slowly looked at the old man in plain robes opposite her with her strange purple and red eyes.

“Not good! This woman wants to sever my Spirit Body!”

Feeling the killing intent emanating from those strange eyes, the old man in plain robes’ expression changed slightly.

If his Spirit Body were severed, it would cause a huge backlash to his main body.

Currently, the power of the Law Sea was slowly retracting.

It was already possible for Sub-Emperors to descend to the Lower Realm.

Soon, when the Law Sea completely receded.

These true Great Emperors would also be able to descend to the Lower Realm without hindrance, seeking those few treasures lost in the Lower Realm.

At this critical juncture, his main body absolutely could not be harmed!

Otherwise, it would greatly affect the subsequent plans!

Whoosh!

With this thought, the old man in plain robes soared into the sky, intending to immediately return to the Upper Realm.

Below, Lei Zhenzi looked at the Old Ancestor’s Spirit Body, who had turned and left without a word.

He himself was also stunned in place as if struck by lightning.

“Old Ancestor, take me back with you!”

However, at this moment, the old man in plain robes was already unable to protect himself.

Under Yao Mu’s killing intent, he felt a chill down his spine; any hesitation, and this Spirit Body would surely perish here today.

Unfortunately, he wanted to stop and leave.

But Yao Mu did not agree.

Boom!

The female phantom figure behind Nangong Xueli once again remotely struck out a palm towards the fleeing old man in plain robes.

In an instant, the sky tilted and the earth collapsed, the universe trembled violently, and massive Void Realm fissures extended for hundreds of thousands of miles.

“Fellow Daoist! I am a Great Emperor of the Upper Realm! Do you truly wish to incur this Karma with me!?”

Facing Yao Mu’s world-shrouding palm, the old man in plain robes hastily stopped, turned back, and let out a thunderous roar.

“It is precisely an Upper Realm Great Emperor I wish to kill!”

However, what responded to him was Yao Mu’s indifferent and emotionless words.

Chirp!

‘Nangong Xueli’ waved her jade hand, and immediately three kinds of spiritual flames spewed from her palm, slowly condensing into a large bow.

An arrow shot out, instantly shaking the heavens and earth, like a true phoenix soaring into the sky, scattering the clouds in all directions!

In a flash, the blazing flames burned the Nine Heavens, and the firmament burned and fell.

In the sky full of raging flames, the Lei Family’s Old Ancestor’s Great Emperor Spirit Body was also ignited, completely cutting off any possibility of returning to the Upper Realm, rapidly dissipating in the firelight.

“Good, good, good!!! For today’s killing, this Emperor will surely seek retribution from you in the future!”

Seeing that the demise of his Spirit Body was irreversible, the old man in plain robes was utterly enraged to the extreme.

After leaving behind these words, the old man in plain robes completely transformed into a wisp of smoke and vanished.

“No!!!”

Looking at the old man in plain robes burned to ashes by the raging flames, Lei Zhenzi’s eyes were filled with despair.

What was burned was not the Old Ancestor’s Spirit Body, but his hope of survival!

“It’s your turn, junior.”

At this moment, ‘Nangong Xueli’ slowly turned around, her strange purple and red eyes looking indifferently at Lei Zhenzi.

“No, you can’t kill me! I am a born Dao of Thunder Supreme, fated to survive even when struck by ten thousand bolts of lightning at birth…”

A flicker of panic flashed in Lei Zhenzi’s eyes.

“Bang!”

However, before he could finish speaking, the impatient Yao Mu slapped him into a cloud of blood mist that drifted away.

“So much nonsense.”

After casually dealing with Lei Zhenzi, Yao Mu did not immediately release her possession of Nangong Xueli.

Instead, she slowly raised her head, looking at the spatial rift that had appeared in the Law Sea.

From the moment Lei Zhenzi unleashed the crimson arrow until now, more than half an incense stick of time had passed.

The power within that crimson arrow had also been completely eroded by the power of the Law Sea, and was on the verge of annihilation, and this spatial rift would also be smoothed over.

Whoosh!

Seeing this, Yao Mu pondered for a moment, then directly controlled Nangong Xueli’s Physical Body and swiftly flew towards that spatial rift.

“Master, what are you doing?”

Seeing Yao Mu’s actions, Nangong Xueli immediately asked with some surprise.

“Disciple, the power of the Law Sea is gradually declining, and soon, it will completely recede.”

“At that time, affected by the receding of the Law Sea, the passages between the Upper and Lower Realms will reopen!”

“The Upper Realm forces will not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!”

“A storm ravaging the Lower Realm is already inevitable.”

“Now, since the Celestial Immortal Academy has already been destroyed, and the Nine Tribulation Immortal Spirit Tower has acknowledged you as its Master, then continuing to stay in the Lower Realm no longer holds much meaning for you; you will only be innocently caught in the crossfire.”

“It would be better to seize this opportunity, and I, your Master, will take you directly to the Upper Realm, which can both avoid this Lower Realm storm and allow us to make early arrangements in the Upper Realm to deal with the many variables that may arise in the future!”

Hearing Yao Mu’s words, Nangong Xueli was silent for a moment, then hesitated, “But, Lin Yang Brother is still in the Lower Realm, I want to…”

“Don’t think about it! This spatial rift is about to disappear, let’s go to the Upper Realm first!”

Before Nangong Xueli could finish speaking, Yao Mu interrupted her, taking her directly into the Law Sea.

Before that spatial rift dissipated, they transformed into a streak of light and entered it.

In an instant, the rift and the people disappeared together…