353: Long live the Red Slave!

Lei Liao suddenly looked around, his Divine Sense sweeping wildly—

But within a ten-mile radius, the wind was still, the clouds unmoved, and there wasn't even a single bird.

That stone appeared out of thin air from the Void Realm.

"Could it be that behind Chi Yao, there's a truly powerful expert hidden?!"

Fear crept into his heart for the first time.

But he no longer had time to think, nor the opportunity to transmit intelligence.

Because—

The moment the nine tribulations heaven nail shattered, Chi Yao's eyes snapped open, a crimson flame erupting like a volcano, her entire being transforming into a crimson meteor, shooting straight towards Lei Liao!

"Crimson Flame Burning Heaven—Final Form: World Annihilation!"

She no longer held back, no longer defended, igniting all her essence blood, Soul fire, and the power of her Crimson Veins!

A crimson fire wave, spanning a hundred zhang, swept forth with a roar!

The flame was no longer dark red, but a nearly transparent white-hot blaze, with a temperature reaching hundreds of millions of degrees, scorching even space itself to create cracks!

Lei Liao hastily conjured his last protective lightning Qi, but before this heaven-burning fire, it was like thin paper!

The instant the fire wave engulfed him, he let out one last shrill scream—

"No—!! I am a Soul Transformation Immortal Master!! I am an Immortal Court official!! You vile Red Slaves—!!"

Before he could finish, his voice abruptly stopped.

In the firelight, his Physical Body, Primordial Spirit, Magic Treasure, armor... every trace of his existence, was reduced to ashes, scattered by the wind.

The highest ruler of the Seventh Mining District—Lei Liao.

Dead.

Not even bones remained.

Time froze.

Below, tens of thousands of Red Slaves were utterly silent.

They stared with wide eyes, their lips trembling, their bodies stiff, as if their Souls had been ripped away by this scene.

They watched with their own eyes—

A Red Slave girl, numbered "711,"

Defeated a Soul Transformation Overseer with the body of a vile slave!

Burned an Immortal Court official to death!

An old Red Slave, who had lived for a hundred years, trembled and knelt down.

Not out of fear, but out of—admiration.

Immediately after—

"Thump!"

Another person knelt.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Hundreds and thousands of people, spontaneously, uniformly, and with tears streaming down their faces, knelt down!

Chi Yao was covered in wounds, supporting her broken body with trembling arms, even with bones broken and piercing through her flesh, she still, inch by inch, stood up!

Her figure swayed precariously, yet she stood like an unyielding battle flag, slowly rising above the ruins of Soul-Severing Cliff, under the gaze of thousands of eyes.

She spread her arms, using her last shred of strength to roar:

"From today onwards—"

"The Seventh Mining District—is completely liberated!!"

"This place is no longer a graveyard for mining slaves!"

"This place is no longer the Immortal Court's blood bank!"

"From this moment onwards—"

"This place will be the first base of our Red Heart Society!"

"It will be our Chi Clan's—first truly free land of our own!!"

As her words fell, the entire place erupted!

A young boy, tears streaming down his face, looked up to the sky and roared:

"Red Slaves—long live!!"

"We—are free!!"

This cry, like a clap of thunder!

"We won!!"

One after another, like a tsunami, swept across the entire Seventh Mining District!

Tens of thousands of people shouted in unison, their voices piercing the clouds, shaking the rock walls until they collapsed and ground fire surged!

Even if divine punishment descended the next second, they would have no fear.

Because—

They had lived as humans.

Under the firelight, Soul-Severing Cliff was no longer a symbol of death.

It became—

The first monument of the Red Slave uprising.

Iron Lady, Red Tiger, Crimson Thorn, and other members of the Red Heart Society also stepped forward, forming a circle, and lifted Chi Yao high!

Chi Yao stood on the shoulders of eight people, like a War God descended, like a Crimson Emperor arriving in the mortal realm.

All the Red Slaves knelt prostrate, worshipping with utmost reverence!!

A hundred miles away, within a dark cave hidden in a geomorphic fissure.

Lu Chen sat cross-legged on a smooth black rock, his fingertips gently caressing a grayish-brown stone—it was precisely the ordinary shattered rock that had once shattered the "nine tribulations heaven nail" with a single blow on Soul-Severing Cliff.

The corner of his mouth slightly curved, a relieved smile flashing in his eyes.

"As expected... she didn't disappoint me."

Before him, a light screen formed by spiritual energy floated, clearly reflecting every scene in the Seventh Mining District:

Chi Yao fighting in a bloodbath, Lei Liao turning to ashes, tens of thousands of Red Slaves shouting in unison... all of this unfolded precisely as the script he had envisioned.

Lu Chen felt as if he was playing a strategy game, manipulating Chi Yao step by step onto the chessboard he had meticulously designed.

Chi Yao finally grew into my first SSR-rank chess piece!

More importantly—

Lu Chen used this to test his true combat power.

Although Lu Chen was only in the Early Spirit Transformation Stage, he possessed a galaxy-level grotto-heaven, the Four Great Divine Beasts, residual Heavenly Dao power, supreme Divine Sense, and so on.

Just now, he was able to destroy an Immortal Rank Magic Treasure with an ordinary stone, so Lu Chen should now have the power to contend with a True Immortal.

But he immediately reined in his smile, his gaze profound.

Expose himself now? No, it's too early.

In the Nine Heavens of the Immortal Realm, there are no less than ten Saint Immortals, and furthermore, Immortal Emperor Haotian, who is all-powerful and controls the authority of heaven and earth.

If I reveal myself, I will surely be besieged.

Lu Chen must remain hidden behind the scenes, letting Chi Yao become the visible banner, letting the Red Heart Society become a prairie fire.

And he, in the shadows, would silently Cultivate and accumulate strength—

At least he needed to Breakthrough Soul Transformation and step into the Tribulation Crossing Realm to hope to contend with a Saint Immortal.

The real game had just begun... Meanwhile, on Soul-Severing Cliff.

Chi Yao walked step by step towards the iron cage, personally severing the profound iron chains that bound Little Lotus.

Little Lotus collapsed to the ground, tightly clutching the only remaining charred arm bone of Red Three, sobbing uncontrollably.

Her voice was broken like a candle in the wind:

"Third Brother, you said you would take me to see the flowers outside, you said that when we were free, we would get married, but you... how could you... abandon me..."

She suddenly wanted to jump directly off Soul-Severing Cliff!

But Chi Yao pulled her back, holding her body tightly.

"Little Lotus! Red Three sacrificed his life for you to live! If you die, his blood will have been shed in vain! If you truly love him, you should live with his courage! See all the mountains and rivers of this world for him! For him—personally overthrow this man-eating Immortal Court!!"

Little Lotus trembled all over, tears streaming like rain, eventually collapsing into Chi Yao's embrace, weeping bitterly.

After a long while, she slowly raised her head, her eyes still wet with tears, but already burning with a flame.

"I... I am willing to join your Red Heart Society. Oh, by the way, what exactly is your so-called Red Heart Society?"

Chi Yao helped her up and looked down at Soul-Severing Cliff, at the tens of thousands of eager, expectant eyes yearning for a new life.

She took a deep breath, her voice no longer hoarse, but like a great bell shaking the world, resounding through heaven and earth—

"All fellow members of the Chi Clan—"

"From today onwards, between heaven and earth, there will be no more 'Red Slave'!

"There is only—our common name: Chi Clan!!"

The crowd instantly erupted!

She continued to declare loudly:

"The Red Heart Society is not a Gang, it is a belief! A belief in freedom, dignity, and Rebirth!"

"What we seek is not to kill a few Overseers or occupy a mining district; what we want—is to completely overthrow that corrupt Immortal Court!"

"It is to make all enslaved clans straighten their backs! It is to let every ray of sunlight shine into our world!!"

Hearing this, Lu Chen couldn't help but laugh; as expected of the woman who studied with him every night, her speech level had surpassed his own!