478: When did I become your ally?

Boom, boom, boom, boom...

Thousands upon thousands of blood swords struck the Heavenly Fire Seal, emitting a continuous roaring sound, like the rumbling war drums of the celestial realm, or like ten thousand bolts of thunder crashing down.

The sound was deafening, spreading transparent ripples across the Void Realm.

The ripples struck the mountain walls, causing them to crack. With such power, if any ordinary Cultivator were here, they would likely be blasted into smithereens in an instant.

It was unknown how long this continued.

That Heavenly Fire Seal slammed directly into the ground, seemingly suppressing both Blood Refinement and the sea of blood beneath it.

Boom!!!!!!

The entire earth shattered, and the waves of heavenly fire scorched the Void Realm until it twisted, combined with the unique Bloodline of the Xuanming Bird clan.

Even after crashing into the ground, the Heavenly Fire Seal continued to erupt with power that suppressed everything.

As the flames burned continuously, the sea of blood was gradually evaporated. Although the thick stench of blood had not yet dissipated, the sea of blood had completely vanished. Even the blood swords mixed with withered bones, as well as the severed limbs and arms, were all completely incinerated.

"Huff, huff, huff..."

Xuan Yue stood in the Void Realm, panting heavily. As a Saint, his spiritual power was like an ocean, vast and boundless, but because he had forcibly activated the True Phoenix Feather, his spiritual power was exhausted.

But he had no choice, because Blood Refinement was a Half-Step Supreme; if he did not use the True Phoenix Feather, he would have no chance of winning at all!

In order to kill Blood Refinement, he had even forgotten that Lin Ye was still watching him from the side.

"Hehe... what Half-Step Supreme? Isn't he still butchered by me!"

Xuan Yue chuckled, feeling a great sense of accomplishment from killing a Half-Step Supreme.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Hmm?!"

Hearing the voice suddenly come from behind, Xuan Yue whirled around. He saw Blood Refinement, wrapped in blood plasma, standing behind him. Blood Refinement's face was covered by the plasma, leaving only his bloodthirsty eyes visible.

The gaze directed at Xuan Yue was as if he were looking at prey.

"You were clearly suppressed underneath!!!"

Xuan Yue looked at Blood Refinement in disbelief; he didn't even know when the other party had arrived behind him.

Upon hearing this, Blood Refinement said disdainfully, "The Heavenly Fire Seal produced by the True Phoenix Feather indeed possesses the power to suppress everything, but it is a pity; you are the one using the True Phoenix Feather, which is truly a pearl cast before swine!"

"Furthermore, why do you think I slaughtered so many living beings! Each of them is a life for me!"

How could Xuan Yue, whose cultivation had reached the Saint Realm, not guess what Blood Refinement meant?

No wonder, no wonder Blood Refinement had slaughtered so many living beings and was hunted by countless factions, yet he could still live well today. His secret technique was actually this terrifying!

Borrowing lives?!

Blood Refinement slowly raised a hand: "I originally had ten thousand ways to butcher you, but unfortunately, if I had done that, I'm afraid your corpse would not be intact!"

"I promised to use you as a gift for a Fellow Daoist, how could I break my word!"

After saying this, Blood Refinement stepped through the air, and before long, he stood before Xuan Yue.

At this moment, because Xuan Yue had forcibly activated the True Phoenix Feather, his spiritual power was exhausted. Moreover, at some unknown point, blood plasma had covered his entire body. Now, he couldn't even move a pinky finger.

He could only watch helplessly as Blood Refinement walked up to him and extended a hand.

Pfft!

A sound of flesh being pierced rang out. Blood Refinement's hand easily punctured Xuan Yue's body, passing straight through his chest.

"Xuan Yue, oh Xuan Yue, you were truly too careless. Your fear of me led you to directly activate the True Phoenix Feather. Otherwise, wanting to take you down so easily would have been somewhat... Hmm?"

Just as Blood Refinement was about to extinguish Xuan Yue's vitality, he suddenly saw a hint of a smile in Xuan Yue's eyes.

A smile? What does that mean?

Blood Refinement seemed to sense something and whirled around.

At some unknown time, a huge Dharma Image had appeared in the cave. The Dharma Image resembled a Buddha, draped in a blood-colored kasaya, with a face that was half compassionate and half demonic.

The huge Dharma Image extended a hand, and within it, countless Buddhas seemed to be chanting sutras; it was a Buddha Kingdom in the Palm.

The Buddha Kingdom in the Palm is a great Divine Ability.

How could it be so silent and soundless?!

Before Blood Refinement could figure out what was going on, that huge hand grabbed him directly into its palm.

Even more terrifyingly, Blood Refinement discovered that his Half-Step Supreme cultivation was completely meaningless. The Dharma Image seemed to restrain him; the moment it grabbed him, it sealed his Qi Sea, and even all the Qi apertures throughout his body.

Many years ago, Blood Refinement had obtained a forbidden technique from a Secret Realm.

It was by using that forbidden technique that he not only advanced his cultivation extremely quickly, but even possessed the powerful Bao technique of borrowing lives through thousands of blood bodies.

Even when facing a Supreme, he could put up a fight!

But success came from the forbidden technique, and failure came from the forbidden technique!

Blood Refinement could clearly feel that the reason his cultivation could not be used was because of the forbidden technique he had cultivated!

He lowered his head and looked at the position where Lin Ye was located.

He saw the young man wearing a smile, extending a hand. Behind him rose a huge Dharma Image, which also extended a hand and grabbed him.

"You!!!"

Blood Refinement never expected that, while he usually played the trick of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind, today, he had been played by someone else!

He glared angrily at Lin Ye.

"What do you mean?! Wasn't it agreed that we were on the same side?!"

"Hmm?"

Lin Ye put on an innocent expression: "When did I ever say I was on the same side as you? You are a demonic Cultivator, while I am a person of the Righteous Path. Since ancient times, the Righteous Path and the Demonic Path have been incompatible; don't you understand this principle?"

"You are of the Righteous Path?"

Blood Refinement was almost laughed to anger.

He admitted that he had been defeated, but he did not expect that the young man before him would use such an absurd reason to insult him.

"That's right, I am a person of the Righteous Path. Is there a problem with that?"

The white robes on Lin Ye's body fluttered, and a burst of Upright Qi erupted from his body. The white light instantly dispersed the Devilish Qi within the cave.

"Upright Qi?!"

Blood Refinement almost popped his eyes out.

The person before him was decisive in killing, and his methods of treating people as less than human were something even Blood Refinement secretly admired, and he even possessed a forbidden Demonic Technique.

Yet, as it turned out, a burst of Upright Qi erupted from his body, and it was the purest kind at that.

This was no longer just absurd; it was simply dreamlike!

What kind of person could possess such killing intent from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and yet still condense Upright Qi!

"No! No! This must be fake! This is an illusion you created using some means!!!"

Blood Refinement's expression seemed a bit frantic.

As a demonic Cultivator, if he were devoured by a terrifying Demonic Path Prodigy, that would be one thing, but now telling him that the person was of the Righteous Path—how could he accept that?

Upon hearing this, Lin Ye shrugged. He naturally would not care whether the other party believed him or not.

As long as he himself knew that he was of the Righteous Path, that was enough.