284: Chapter 284 A Shocking Secret, Blood Blade Ancestor

The end of the deathly silent passage suddenly opened up.

The space before the group abruptly expanded; this was no narrow corridor, but an incredibly vast and deathly silent underground killing hall.

A sky full of grey fallen mist swirled frantically within the hall, and a bone-chilling killing intent filled every corner.

Su Xuanchen, dressed in spotless white robes, was surrounded by a dazzling radiance of both immortal and demonic light. He floated casually in mid-air, looking down from above, confronting a pair of eerie pupils filled with wisdom and horror deep within the mist.

Within those eyes, which resembled blood moons, an unquenchable storm was currently raging.

“The Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Primordial Demon Body... such a forbidden Physique that breaks the rules of the Great Dao actually exists in this world!”

The bizarre creature hidden in the mist stared fixedly at Su Xuanchen’s unharmed Physical Body, its voice trembling violently with a tone of utter disbelief.

It had lived through countless eras and witnessed innumerable prodigies and monsters across the All Heavens and Myriad Realms. Whether it was the Ancient Desolate Sacred Body or the Chaos Divine Physique, in its eyes, they were merely slightly tougher blood-food.

Only this Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Primordial Demon Body was an absolute taboo that even the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth would strike down with lightning to forcibly erase!

After the shock passed, an incredibly intense and undisguisable greed began to breed frantically in the depths of the bizarre creature's heart like a venomous snake.

“Hateful! So hateful!”

The bizarre creature roared frantically in its mind, its massive blood-colored eyes full of regret and madness.

“If this Old Ancestor had encountered this perfect Physical Body tens of thousands of years earlier, I would have performed a Possession directly! Why would I have suffered such humiliation in this sunless, ghostly place? As long as I occupy this Primal Demon body, never mind breaking this wretched Formation, even slaughtering my way back to the Dark Immortal Great Realm to dominate the All Heavens and Myriad Realms would be as easy as turning over my hand!”

The more it thought, the more unwilling it became. The gaze it directed at Su Xuanchen had completely shifted from shock to the fanaticism of looking at a peerless treasure.

Hiding beneath the myriad things mother qi cauldron, Gu Hongchen’s beautiful face was also filled with shock upon hearing the bizarre creature's exclamation.

She looked up at the stalwart back in the air, waves of emotion surging in her heart.

“The Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Primordial Demon Body? In the Gu Family's most ancient records, there seemed to be a few words mentioning it; isn't that a supreme Physique that only exists in theory? Old Ancestor Su actually possesses such a trump card!” Gu Hongchen gripped the biluo emperor sword tightly, her breathing becoming extremely rapid.

Ji Luanxi, on the other hand, carefreely waved her small pink fists and cheered loudly: “Husband is the best! You piece of trash mud, you can't even beat one of Husband's fingers, yet you dare to shout and scream here!”

In the air.

Su Xuanchen lazily picked his ear, a flash of malicious mockery crossing his deep eyes.

“A lump of mud without even a physical form, yet your knowledge isn't bad.” A wild, cold smile curled at the corner of Su Xuanchen’s mouth. “Since you recognize my Physique, why haven't you hurried out to kowtow and beg for mercy? What are you doing hiding in the mist pretending to be a big shot!”

This merciless insult instantly stung the bizarre creature's extremely sensitive nerves.

“Presumptuous Human Race ant!”

The bizarre creature let out a shrill roar, and the grey mist filling the sky churned frantically.

“You think blocking one strike from this seat gives you the right to be arrogant? When this seat roamed the heavens, eighteen generations of your ancestors hadn't even been born!”

Its blood-colored eyes stared fixedly at Su Xuanchen. With a tone of intense resentment and frustration, it began to recount that unbearable and humiliating past through gritted teeth.

“During the world-ending war of the Ancient Era, this seat was severely injured! To seek the Opportunity for a Breakthrough to the Immortal King Realm, this seat spared no expense to leave the Dark Immortal Great Realm and find a perfect place for secluded cultivation!”

The bizarre creature's voice became extremely shrill, filled with endless grievance.

“But! This Old Ancestor had the worst luck of eight lifetimes! Just as I stepped into this Star Domain, I unexpectedly encountered that damned Ancient Empress, Yun Lingxiao!”

Hearing the name 'Yun Lingxiao,' Chang Xiyue's delicate body below trembled violently, and an extremely sharp light burst from her cold eyes.

The bizarre creature didn't notice Chang Xiyue's reaction at all and continued to roar frantically, venting the fury in its heart.

“That madwoman! Not only did she not perish in that great war, she actually reached the Immortal King Realm against the heavens! This seat was heavily injured and was no match for her; I was captured alive on the spot!”

The bizarre creature grew more agitated as it spoke, and the surrounding grey mist boiled violently due to its anger.

“She didn't kill me! She actually imprisoned this Old Ancestor at the end of this Death Gate, using such a malicious Formation to suppress me, making me a watchdog for these Ancient Heavenly Court ruins! What an utter disgrace!”

A titan of a generation, actually tethered here like a watchdog for tens of thousands of years—this humiliation was harder to bear than death.

Su Xuanchen crossed his arms, listening to the complaints of this lump of mud, and laughed out loud quite unkindly.

“Tsk, so you're just a stray dog that's been tied up for tens of thousands of years. No wonder you have such a temper; you must be stir-crazy, right?” Su Xuanchen rubbed salt into the wound without mercy.

“You seek death!”

Struck in its sore spot, the bizarre creature let out a hysterical howl.

“To break this damned Formation and regain my freedom, this Old Ancestor completely abandoned my original Dao! I actively embraced this ultimate fallen matter, falling completely, and only after surviving a narrow escape did I step into the Immortal King-equivalent Immortal King Realm!”

Its tone was full of extreme madness and despair.

“But! The Formation that madwoman laid down was simply flawless! Even though I stepped into the Immortal King Realm, and even though I spent tens of thousands of years, I still couldn't budge this Formation in the slightest!”

At this point, the bizarre creature's tone suddenly shifted.

Its blood-colored eyes locked onto Su Xuanchen, its greedy gaze almost becoming tangible.

“However, the heavens never block all paths! In the end, the heavens are still favoring this Old Ancestor!”

The bizarre creature let out an extremely piercing, eerie cackle.

“Today, you've delivered yourself to my door! As long as this Old Ancestor performs a Possession on your Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Primordial Demon Body, it will not only perfectly host my Immortal King Divine Soul, but I can also use the Heaven-Defying power of your Physique to completely tear apart this damned Formation! You are the heaven-sent Opportunity for this Old Ancestor to regain freedom!”

After hearing this incredibly arrogant declaration of Possession.

Su Xuanchen didn't show even a hint of panic; instead, he let out a bored yawn.

“Done talking?” Su Xuanchen raised an eyebrow, his gaze turning cold to the extreme. “If you're done, hurry up and show your true form. I want to see exactly which blind dog dares to target my Physical Body.”

“Arrogance! Today, this seat will let you witness what a true Immortal King is!”

Accompanied by an earth-shaking roar.

The grey mist churning throughout the killing hall actually began to contract inward at a terrifying speed!

In the blink of an eye.

The sky-obscuring fallen mist mostly dissipated, and a skeletal figure radiating an aura of ultimate decay and darkness slowly emerged in mid-air.

When everyone saw the true form of this bizarre creature.

The entire scene instantly fell into a deathly silence!

There were no three heads and six arms, no green face and protruding fangs.

This was actually the complete appearance of a human!

It was a withered old man wearing tattered blood-colored robes. His face was sinister to the extreme, covered in deep, crisscrossing wrinkles like old tree bark. His eyes were deeply sunken into their sockets, flashing with a hair-raising crimson light.

Although he was entwined with thick, fallen grey mist, his extremely pure Human Race Cultivator bone structure was impossible to hide!

“A human?!” Gu Hongchen cried out in shock, her beautiful face filled with utter bewilderment.

She never imagined that this terrifying monster, who claimed to be from the Dark Immortal Great Realm and was covered in the aura of the fallen, would actually be a Human Race Cultivator in its true form!

Just as Gu Hongchen was filled with doubt.

Chang Xiyue, who had been standing beneath the myriad things mother qi cauldron staring fixedly at the withered old man, suddenly let out a shrill cry of utter disbelief!

“You... you are the Blood Blade Sect Old Ancestor!”

Chang Xiyue’s cold face instantly lost all color. She pointed a slender finger at the withered old man in the air, her voice trembling violently from extreme shock.

This exclamation was like a heavy bomb, exploding directly in Gu Hongchen’s mind!

“What?!”

Gu Hongchen whipped her head around, staring fixedly at the old man in the air, her pupils undergoing a violent tremor.

“The Blood Blade Sect Old Ancestor? That evil Cultivator titan who stirred up a boundless storm of blood and gore in the Xuanhuang Great World tens of thousands of years ago and then mysteriously vanished?!”

Gu Hongchen felt her worldview take a powerful blow.

According to ancient records, the Blood Blade Sect Old Ancestor was the most notorious evil Cultivator of the ancient period. To Cultivate blood-path Demonic Techniques, he had once slaughtered dozens of Mortal kingdoms, inciting the wrath of both heaven and man. Later, it was said he was besieged by several Righteous Path Sects, fled while heavily injured, and vanished from then on.

Who could have imagined!

This scum of the Human Race who had been missing for tens of thousands of years had actually completely betrayed the Human Race, joined the Dark Immortal Great Realm, and even actively absorbed fallen matter to become this disgusting form that was neither human nor ghost!

In the air.

Having just revealed his true form, the Old Ancestor Blood Saber frowned deeply upon hearing the exclamation from below.

His sinister, blood-colored eyes immediately swept toward the group protected by the myriad things mother qi cauldron below.

“Hmm? Who are you, little girl? You actually recognize this Old Ancestor’s title?”

The Old Ancestor Blood Saber was full of doubt. He had been trapped in this sunless Death Gate for tens of thousands of years; how could Cultivators from the outside world still remember his appearance?

His sharp gaze carefully sized up Chang Xiyue’s cold and beautiful face.

One second.

Two seconds.

Suddenly!

The Old Ancestor Blood Saber’s withered body stiffened. His sunken, blood-colored eyes widened instantly, his eyeballs nearly bulging out of their sockets!

An extremely distant and humiliating memory exploded in his mind like a bursting dam!

Tens of thousands of years ago, when he was fleeing while heavily injured, he had encountered that high-and-mighty, peerless Ancient Empress, Yun Lingxiao.

At that time, the Empress hadn't even spared him a direct glance.

The one who had actually captured him alive and dragged him into this Death Gate Formation like a dead dog was the cold-faced personal maid by the Empress's side!

And the appearance of that maid now perfectly overlapped with the woman in the blue dress below!

“IT'S YOU!!!”

The Old Ancestor Blood Saber let out a shrill, frenzied roar, like a vengeful ghost seeking a life.

New and old grudges were completely ignited at this moment!

The doubt in his eyes instantly transformed into a towering rage capable of incinerating the stars. His sinister old face twisted and deformed from extreme anger, appearing terrifyingly hideous.

“So it's you, you wench! Back then, you were the one by that madwoman's side who locked this Old Ancestor here like a beast!”

The Old Ancestor Blood Saber trembled with rage, the fallen grey mist around him erupting frantically like a volcano.

“The heavens have eyes! The heavens have eyes! That madwoman is nowhere to be found, yet today they've delivered you, this wench, before this Old Ancestor!”

He stared fixedly at Chang Xiyue, his malicious curses echoing through the killing hall.

“This Old Ancestor will definitely not let you die easily today! I will skin you alive and eat your flesh! I will pull out your Divine Soul and make you wail for ten million years within this fallen grey mist to vent the hatred in my heart!”

The moment his words fell!

The terrifying fallen Origin within the Old Ancestor Blood Saber, comparable to the Immortal King Realm, erupted without reservation.

He lunged forward with his withered right hand, and a terrifying blood-colored long blade, ten thousand zhang long and formed entirely from solidified fallen grey mist, abruptly appeared in mid-air!

“Die for this Old Ancestor!”

The Old Ancestor Blood Saber was bristling with rage. Gripping the blood-colored blade with both hands, he carried the invincible might of splitting the eternal Chaos and hacked down fiercely toward Chang Xiyue below!