132: Chapter 132 Exposed, Bloody Breakout

The night wind on the desolate hills carried a chill, dispersing the last traces of spatial ripples left by the teleportation.

Lin Ye knelt on one knee, his Chaos Heavenly Emperor Body operating at full capacity, greedily absorbing the thin Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in the surroundings to replenish his nearly parched Meridians and Qi Sea.

Continuous high-intensity battles, activating the bronze ghost mask twice, and especially the final act of resonating with the wushi bell while stabilizing the teleportation Formation, had nearly hollowed out his reserves of Divine Power.

At this moment, his Divine Power value, which had been as high as fifty thousand points, had less than three thousand remaining, and it was recovering at a slow pace.

Su Qingyue's situation was slightly better, but her consumption of Vast Cold Spiritual Power was equally immense.

She was half-supporting the unconscious Shi Potian, quickly checking his injuries.

Shi Potian's condition was dire—the aftereffects of burning his Hegemon Blood, the severe injuries from hard-tanking the Blood Prince's giant hand, and the spatial tearing during teleportation had left this iron-tower-like man with a breath as weak as a candle in the wind. The Hegemon Blood patterns under his skin were dim and lusterless, and his health points were at a dangerous 12%.

"He must be treated immediately, otherwise his Foundation will be damaged."

Su Qingyue's voice carried a rare sense of anxiety. She carefully fed the last bottle of epic-grade healing potion into Shi Potian's mouth, while simultaneously using pure Vast Cold Spiritual Power to protect his heart Meridians and slowly dissolve the medicinal power.

Lin Ye forced himself to stand up and looked around.

This was a typical landscape of the northern wasteland in the Big Dipper Star Field. Low shrubs rustled in the night wind, and the outlines of rolling hills could be seen in the distance. There was no moon in the sky, only sparse stars providing a faint light.

According to the coordinate settings before teleportation, this should be the edge of the "Black Stone Wasteland," about eight hundred miles north of Purple Mountain, and still over two thousand miles away from the Heavenly Court's sphere of influence in the Yan State.

"We cannot stay here for long."

Lin Ye's voice was a bit hoarse, "The Blood Prince will never let this go. The Primordial Royal Court has deep-rooted influence around Purple Mountain and likely has means of tracking or warning. We must move as soon as possible, find a safer hiding spot, and let Potian stabilize his injuries."

Su Qingyue nodded and was about to speak when suddenly, her ice-blue eyes narrowed sharply, and she looked at the night sky to the southwest.

Almost at the same time, Lin Ye also felt a palpitation.

The instinctive foresight of his Chaos Heavenly Emperor Body regarding danger was triggered, as if a cold needle point were pressing against his back.

In the sky to the southwest, the originally sparse starlight seemed to have been obscured by something for an instant.

It was an extremely subtle change; had both of them not been individuals with extraordinary perception, it would have been impossible to detect.

"Something is approaching."

Su Qingyue's voice was kept extremely low, and the ice crystal longsword in her hand had already been unsheathed by half an inch. "It's fast, and... there's more than one."

Lin Ye's Divine Sense spread out like a tide. Although limited by his state and distance, only covering a radius of three miles, he keenly captured an extremely faint, yet absolutely out-of-place scent in the air—the smell of blood, mixed with a cold, unique energy fluctuation belonging to the Blood Race.

It wasn't the smell of natural blood; it was Blood Race players!

"We've been tracked."

Lin Ye's expression darkened, "The concealment effect of the bronze ghost mask was already in a decay period after the teleportation, and high-level Blood Race like the Blood Prince have an Innate advantage in tracking blood qi... We underestimated him."

Before the words had even faded, over a dozen dots of scarlet light suddenly lit up in the night sky to the southwest!

Those were the "Blood Pupil Marks" formed by the release of blood energy when Blood Race players flew at full speed!

Immediately after, more points of light emerged from the ground and from the shadows. A rough glance revealed there were nearly a hundred of them!

They were clearly prepared, having flanked from multiple directions to form a huge, rapidly shrinking encirclement!

The leading beam of blood light was the most intense and the fastest, approaching within a thousand meters in just a few breaths.

The blood light converged, revealing the Blood Prince's pale and handsome face, which was now slightly distorted by anger.

His scarlet pupils locked onto the three of them, and the corners of his mouth curled into a cruel arc:

"Run? Why aren't you running anymore?"

His voice, amplified by blood energy, echoed in the night sky of the wasteland, carrying the playfulness of a cat playing with a mouse and undisguised killing intent. "Did you really think that by relying on a broken mask and a teleportation talisman, you could slip away from under my, the Blood Prince's, nose? Naive!"

With his words, those nearly one hundred elite players of the Primordial Royal Court had completed the encirclement, surrounding the small hill where Lin Ye and the others were located.

They were well-trained, their auras connected to one another, vaguely forming a battle Formation that blocked all possible directions for a breakout.

These players were generally above Rank 45, with at least twenty of them reaching around Rank 50, and there were seven or eight small leaders with exceptionally powerful auras, ranging between Rank 52 and 54.

On the ground were the Stone Race, some Blood Race, and the Shadow Clan, while in the air were the Feather Race and a small number of other Archaic Race with flying mounts.

With aerial and ground coordination, and a mix of long-range and melee combatants, this was clearly a carefully deployed hunting team specifically created for encirclement and extermination!

What was even more troublesome was that Lin Ye noticed, among these Archaic Race players, there were a few figures dressed in special black robes, holding bone staves or compasses.

Their auras were cold and obscure, unlike those of combat personnel. At this moment, they were scattered at key nodes on the periphery of the encirclement, and the Magical Artifacts in their hands were emitting strange fluctuations—they were setting up some kind of Formation to interfere with or lock down space!

"To catch the three of us, you've mobilized so many people. Blood Prince, you really think highly of us."

Lin Ye slowly straightened his body, and the majesty of the Chaos Heavenly Emperor Body naturally radiated outward. Although his condition was poor, the pressure belonging to a top-tier Physique still caused some of the lower-ranked Archaic Race players to feel their breathing hitch.

"Think highly of you?"

The Blood Prince sneered, "You stole my holy object, insulted my Primordial Royal Court, and I don't even know what evil method you used to desecrate the wushi bell! If I don't extract your soul, refine your spirit, and crush you into dust today, what face would I, the Blood Prince, have to lead the Primordial Royal Court? As for thinking highly of you... no, I am just ensuring that there won't be any accidents that let you three rats slip away again!"

He waved his hand lightly, his voice suddenly turning fierce: "Kill! Except for that Human Race woman (he pointed to Su Qingyue, a strange light flashing in his eyes) who must be taken alive, kill the other two without exception! The star token must be on them; after killing them, search their souls carefully!"

"Kill!!!"

Earth-shattering shouts of killing rang out, and the encirclement suddenly contracted!

The first to launch an attack were the Feather Race players in the air and those Blood Race who possessed long-range attack methods.

Dozens of cyan wind blades, blood-colored energy arrows, and dark shadow spikes poured down like a torrential rain, covering every inch of the small hill!

"Ice Wall: Thousand-Fold Barrier!"

Su Qingyue let out a sharp cry, and her ice crystal longsword drew a perfect arc.

Boundless Vast Cold Spiritual Power gushed out, instantly erecting one after another, half-meter-thick, crystal-clear ice walls around her, Lin Ye, and Shi Potian!

The ice walls were layered one upon another, reaching dozens of layers in an instant, protecting them in the center like an iceberg.

"Bang bang bang bang—!"

The dense attacks collided with the ice walls, erupting in a continuous series of explosions.

The outermost ice walls shattered rapidly, ice debris flying everywhere, but the inner layers immediately filled in, forcefully tanking this first wave of long-range volley.

But Su Qingyue's face also paled by a fraction.

Constructing such a large-scale defense in a rush consumed a massive amount of power.

"We can't just defend! We must break out!"

Lin Ye shouted in a low voice, a flash of Chaos light appearing in his eyes.

He knew deeply that once they were completely trapped on this small hill, facing the continuous attrition and battle Formation encirclement of nearly a hundred elites, the three of them would have absolutely no chance of survival.

Just as the second wave of attacks was about to arrive, the Feather Race players in the air began to dive, and the Stone Race warriors on the ground roared as they launched their charge—

"Chaos Domain, open!"

Lin Ye no longer held back, pouring the little bit of Divine Power he had recovered into the Origin of the Chaos Heavenly Emperor Body without reservation.

An indescribable aura of Chaos, as if from the very beginning of the creation of the world, erupted explosively with him at the center!

Hum—

The invisible Domain expanded instantly, reaching a radius of fifteen meters!

This was the limit of his range in his current state.

Inside the Domain, light was distorted, sound was sluggish, and energy was chaotic.

All attacks that entered the Domain—wind blades, blood arrows, shadow spikes—had their speed and power visibly decay, and their trajectories became erratic. In the end, more than half collided and canceled each other out, or were deflected, hitting empty space.

As for those Archaic Race players who rushed into the Domain, whether it was the Feather Race in the air or the Stone Race on the ground, they all felt as if they had fallen into a thick, viscous quagmire.

Their movements became sluggish, and the circulation of energy within their bodies was inexplicably interfered with and suppressed; they could at most exert seven out of ten parts of their full strength!

"So this is the Chaos Heavenly Emperor Body?"

The Blood Prince's pupils constricted slightly. He had not personally rushed into the Domain, but he could clearly feel the strangeness and power of that Domain force. "Indeed, it has some tricks... but how much longer can you hold on?"

His assessment was accurate.

Lin Ye's face was even paler now, and the veins on his forehead were faintly visible.

Maintaining such a large-scale Chaos Domain consumed an astonishing amount of Divine Power.

His Divine Power value, which had just recovered to less than five thousand, was rapidly plummeting at a rate of nearly two hundred points per second!

"Charge southwest! That's where the Formation node is weakest. After breaking out, head toward the Black Stone Canyon!"

Lin Ye's voice rang in Su Qingyue's ears. At the same time, his left hand grasped the air, and Chaos Power condensed into an ancient, gray longsword—[Chaos Sword: Phantom Image].

Although not a physical object, the Chaos aura circulating on the sword body made any enemy who perceived it feel a chill in their hearts.

"Let's go!"

Lin Ye gave a violent shout, his body following the sword, and charged towards the southwest first!

The Chaos Domain moved as he moved, like a mobile force field shield that twisted the rules.

Su Qingyue did not hesitate. One hand continued to use spiritual power to protect the unconscious Shi Potian, while the other hand pointed her longsword repeatedly, sending countless ice cones shooting toward the enemies in the southwest like a pear blossom storm, clearing the path for Lin Ye.

"Stop them!"

In the southwest, a Rank 54 Stone Race deputy commander roared. He was nearly three meters tall, like a small fortress, and he was wielding a giant stone axe the size of a door, which he slashed down toward Lin Ye's head, accompanied by a howling, vicious wind!

"Get lost!"

Lin Ye's gaze was ice-cold. He did not dodge or avoid, but thrust the Chaos Sword straight forward.

The sword and axe collided. There was no earth-shattering boom, only a dull, strange sound as if space were being torn apart.

The Stone Race deputy commander discovered with horror that the heavy Earth-type spiritual power condensed on his stone axe, at the moment of contact with the gray sword shadow, was rapidly melting and disintegrating like snow meeting the sun!

Even more terrifyingly, a chaotic, erosive power that seemed capable of assimilating all things traveled up the axe handle, making his arm numb and causing his blood and qi to surge in reverse!

"Pfft!"

The phantom of the Chaos Sword pierced through the Spiritual Power-eroded defense of the stone axe and thrust into the rock-like chest of the Stone Race deputy commander.

There was no blood spray, but the Stone Race deputy commander let out a shrill scream; at the wound on his chest, his rocky skin actually began to "melt," turning into a pool of grey Chaos substance that spread outwards!

"What kind of evil technique is this?!" The Stone Race deputy commander retreated in terror, fully channeling his Rock Saint Physique to suppress the wound, but the erosive power was extremely stubborn and difficult to dispel for the moment.

Lin Ye didn't even look, his figure moving like lightning as he rushed through the opening that had been created.

Su Qingyue followed closely behind, her ice-element Spells temporarily freezing the enemies on both sides who were attempting to close in.

However, they had only rushed out less than fifty meters.

"Surround him! Wear him down! His Chaos Domain cannot be maintained for long!" The cold voice of Blood Prince rang out.

He himself was not in a hurry to make a move, but like the calmest of hunters, he overlooked the scene from a high vantage point, commanding the pack of wolves.

More Archaic Race players threw themselves forward without fear of death, charging at the Chaos Domain one after another.

They adopted the most shameless of tactics—not seeking a one-hit kill, but merely seeking to drain him.

A Blood Clan player burned his essence blood, transforming into a blood shadow that crashed into the Domain, and before his body could be eroded and dissolved by the Chaos Power, he detonated himself!

The violent explosion of blood energy stirred up waves inside the Domain, causing the Domain's stability to drop slightly.

Two Shadow Clan assassins emerged from the shadows, their poisoned daggers stabbing at Lin Ye's back. Although their power was weakened by ninety percent by the Domain, it still forced Lin Ye to divert his attention to deal with them.

The Feather Clan players in the air concentrated their fire, attacking Su Qingyue and the unconscious Shi Potian at the edge of the Domain, forcing Su Qingyue to divert more Spiritual Power for defense.

The consumption of the Chaos Domain rose sharply! Lin Ye's Divine Power value had already fallen below two thousand and was still dropping at an even faster rate!

"This won't work!" Su Qingyue gritted her teeth, her ice-blue hair dancing wildly in the night wind. She glanced at Shi Potian, whose breath was still weak in her arms, then looked at the seemingly endless enemies ahead, a flash of determination in her eyes. "Lin Ye, take Potian and go first! I will cover the rear!"

"Don't be ridiculous!" Lin Ye didn't look back, sweeping his Chaos Sword horizontally to force back three Stone Race warriors who were pouncing on them, though the light on the sword dimmed slightly. "We go together! We haven't reached a dead end yet!"

While fighting, he frantically circulated the Chaos Scripture and the Chaos Star Art, attempting to draw even the slightest bit of Spiritual Qi from this desolate world.

However, the Spiritual Qi here was already thin, and the recovery speed could not keep up with the consumption at all.

"Hahaha! A spent force! Let's see how much longer he can hold on!" A level 54 Blood Clan leader laughed wildly. He spotted the brief gap of exhaustion after Lin Ye repelled a wave of enemies, transformed into a blood rainbow, and with his blood-colored long blade carrying a shrill, ghostly shriek, thrust directly at Lin Ye's throat!

This strike condensed eighty percent of his cultivation and even utilized a Bloodline secret technique, making its power comparable to a full-force strike from a level 55!

Lin Ye's pupils constricted slightly; the strike came too fast and was too tricky. His old strength was spent and his new strength had yet to form, and the Chaos Domain had been weakened by the previous self-detonations and continuous impacts, making it difficult to fully deflect this strike.

At this critical moment—

"Hum..." The Storage Ring in Lin Ye's embrace suddenly vibrated on its own.

It wasn't one star token, but two! As if sensing their master was in a desperate situation, they simultaneously erupted with intense starlight!

The starlight pierced through the spatial barrier of the Storage Ring, shining through and interweaving in front of Lin Ye into a hazy, star-veil-like barrier!

"Clang—!!!" The blood-colored long blade stabbed fiercely into the star-veil barrier, emitting a loud sound like metal clashing. The star-veil rippled violently, flickering, but ultimately did not break, blocking that fatal strike!

"What?!" The Blood Clan leader was stunned; he felt as if his blade had stabbed into a rotating starry sky, with its power being stripped away layer by layer.

Lin Ye felt that after the two star tokens erupted with this power, their aura was clearly withered, as if they had exhausted some accumulation of energy. But this brief obstruction had bought him a precious moment of respite!

"Now!" A sharp light shot from Lin Ye's eyes. Ignoring his nearly depleted Divine Power, he poured all his remaining strength into the Chaos Domain!

"Chaos · Tremor!"

The Chaos Domain suddenly shrank inward, and then expanded and vibrated outward with an even more violent posture!

Boom—!!!

An invisible Chaos shockwave exploded outward with Lin Ye as the center! Within a radius of thirty meters, all enemies—whether the Feather Clan in the air or the warriors on the ground—were struck as if by an invisible giant hammer. Their bodies shook violently, their blood energy surged, and those with weaker cultivation even vomited blood and were sent flying backward!

The encirclement was forcefully blasted open, creating a larger gap!

But Lin Ye also paid a price. He let out a muffled groan, a wisp of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, his vision blacking out in waves. His Divine Power was completely bottomed out, and the Chaos Domain could not be maintained, instantly dissipating. An intense feeling of weakness surged like a tide, almost drowning him.

"Go!" Su Qingyue grabbed the staggering Lin Ye, pointing her ice-crystal longsword forward. "Extreme Cold Path · Open!"

An ice path, even more solid and wider than before, extended crazily from under her feet, pointing directly towards the gap that had been blasted open in the southwest direction! She held nothing back, fully activating her Vast Cold Spirit Body. Cold air overflowed from her body, and wherever she passed, even the air seemed to be frozen.

The three of them followed the ice path, rushing out of the innermost encirclement like an arrow released from a bowstring!

"Trash! A bunch of trash!" High in the air, Blood Prince was trembling with anger. He hadn't expected that even with an absolute advantage, the other party could still tear open a gap and break through. "Pursue! Pursue them! They are at the end of their rope, and that woman using ice is almost out of Spiritual Power! They must not be allowed to escape!"

The Archaic Royal Court players recovered from the shock and roared as they gave chase again. But Lin Ye and the others utilized the speed of the ice path and the layers of ice walls that Su Qingyue had erected without regard for her own consumption, temporarily creating some distance.

However, hope had just risen only to be ruthlessly extinguished by reality.

Just as they had rushed less than two hundred meters out of the encirclement, on a relatively flat wasteland ahead, the space suddenly fluctuated violently!

Three blood-colored portals appeared out of thin air, and from each portal walked out ten warriors with heavy, stagnant auras, covered in blood-colored heavy armor! These warriors were completely different from the previous Archaic Race players; they were silent, their eyes hollow, emitting a thick aura of Death Qi and the smell of blood, and their levels were clearly all above level 50!

[Blood God Guard (Summoned Entity)]

[Type: Special Summoned Unit]

[Level: 50-52]

[Description: A guard of death soldiers cultivated by Blood Prince using secret methods and summoned with Blood Clan secret arts; they fear no pain, fear no death, and obey only the commands of Blood Prince.]

[Characteristics:]

1. Blood Energy Sharing: The auras of the thirty Blood God Guards are connected, sharing damage, making them extremely difficult to kill quickly.

2. Bloodthirsty Frenzy: The more severe their injuries, the higher their attack power and speed increase.

3. Death Sacrifice: Upon death, they explode, dealing massive blood-element damage to surrounding enemies and applying a "Bleeding" effect.

4. Lockdown Formation: Skilled in coordinated battle Formations, they can greatly restrict enemy movement.

The thirty Blood God Guards quickly formed a tight triangular battle Formation, like a moving blood-colored city wall, completely blocking the path to the southwest!

And further behind them, in the night sky, a familiar signal light belonging to the Heavenly Court - First Generation rescue team lit up—it was the rescue team led by Zhao Wuji and Chen Hao! They had evidently received the distress signal Su Qingyue had sent earlier and were rushing over at full speed!

But at this moment, that signal light was being blocked tightly by another, denser, and more numerous team of Archaic Race players! That was the second echelon that Blood Prince had pre-arranged to intercept potential reinforcements!

Although Zhao Wuji and the others were extremely anxious and were charging desperately, they could not break through the interception for the time being to reach Lin Ye and the others!

With the Blood God Guards blocking the path like an Iron Wall in front, nearly a hundred pursuers pouncing crazily from behind, and the reinforcements on the flank blocked...

A true desperate situation!

Lin Ye stopped, looking at that silent wall of blood in front, then looked back at the rapidly approaching pursuers and the blocked reinforcement signals in the distance, but the corners of his mouth slowly curled into a complex arc.

There was bitterness, helplessness, but more than that, it was a calm that bordered on madness after being pushed to a dead end.

Divine Power exhausted, Su Qingyue's Spiritual Power also nearly bottomed out, Shi Potian unconscious, reinforcements blocked...

It seemed there really was no way out.

"Lin Ye..." Su Qingyue also stopped the ice path and stood beside him, her ice-blue eyes looking at him. There was no fear in them, only a calm determination. "No matter what, I will fight to the end."

Lin Ye took a deep breath, the air seeming to carry the chill and the smell of blood of the wasteland night, piercing straight into his lungs. He did not answer Su Qingyue, but instead pressed his hand onto that special Storage Ring once again.

Inside the ring, the two star tokens had become dim because of the previous eruption, but the phantom of the star map between them seemed to have become clearer. Especially the few incomplete ancient star characters next to the light point pointing to the third star token, labeled "Eternal Star Domain · Unknown Auction," which, under the pressure of the desperate situation and Lin Ye's full sensory perception of his Divine Sense, seemed to have become a bit clearer.

It was not "Star Alliance," it was not "Star Remains"...

The outline of the characters looked more like... "Star Grave"?

Grave of Stars?

This thought flashed through Lin Ye's mind like lightning, bringing a trace of inexplicable chill.

But now was not the time to delve into it.

He moved his gaze away from the Storage Ring, looking at the Blood God Guards pressing in step by step, looking at the Blood Prince in the high sky who was overlooking the battlefield like a Dominator, and finally, looking at the unconscious Shi Potian in his arms, and at Su Qingyue by his side, whose aura was slightly chaotic but whose eyes were firm.

Then, he made a decision.

A decision that might bring unpredictable consequences, but was the only possible way to break the situation at this moment.

He slowly raised his left hand, palm facing upward, his consciousness sinking deep into his nearly exhausted wheel sea secret realm, touching that quietly floating, crack-filled [myriad things mother qi cauldron embryo].

"Since there is no way out..." Lin Ye's voice was very soft, yet carried an unquestionable power, "Then, I will open another path."

"In the name of my Chaos Heavenly Emperor Body..."

"Summon... Mother Qi descends to the world!"