73: You think you're the only one with help?

Inside the Mountain Gorge, the murderous intent had already climbed to its Peak!

In the blink of an eye, Ye Feiyan's sharp Sword Qi, carrying the might of a Golden Core, had already struck before Blood Soul!

"Well come!"

Blood Soul was not alarmed but laughed instead; his eyes were filled with the ferocity and cruelty of a scheme successfully executed!

He did not dodge or evade, instead suddenly urging his entire Blood Fiend Demonic Technique, and a layer of incomparably thick blood-colored Protective Aura instantly enveloped his entire body!

His pair of hands, covered in blood-colored magical power and resembling ghost claws, grabbed Ye Feiyan's incomparably sharp longsword with a fearless, death-defying posture!

"Hmm?!" Ye Feiyan furrowed her willow-leaf eyebrows, and a sense of foreboding instantly arose in her heart!

"Fool! You have fallen into my trap!"

Looking at that beautiful face so close at hand, Blood Soul let out a wild, gleeful laugh!

The moment his words fell!

A streak of blood-colored light, so faint it was almost impossible to catch with the naked eye, shot out without warning from the Void Realm in front of Ye Feiyan! Its target was aimed directly at the vital point between her smooth eyebrows!

Fast! Too fast!

It was so fast that even with Ye Feiyan's current Early Golden Core Stage reactions, she simply had no time to make any effective evasion!

Ye Feiyan's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of needle points!

In her heart, she was also surprised to the extreme!

She had never expected that this Blood Soul would still be hiding such a strange and deadly trump card!

"Hahahaha—!"

Watching Ye Feiyan's face, which had instantly become incomparably grave, Blood Soul laughed even more arrogantly!

"It's useless! Give up!" He sneered, revealing the Origin of his strongest trump card, "This is my Natal Blood Gu, which I spent decades of painstaking effort to carefully raise using the vital blood and resentment of over a million Mortals!"

"It is naturally able to hide within the Void Realm, perfectly evading any Divine Sense detection! I used myself as bait to hold you firmly in place, while it delivers the most fatal killing blow from the shadows!"

"It is over! Ye Feiyan!"

...

However, just when Blood Soul thought he had achieved a complete victory and was about to perform an eternal service for the Sect...

A lazy sigh, filled with boredom and disdain, slowly rang out.

"Sigh, it's these kinds of petty tricks that can't be brought onto the stage again."

Bang!!!

A sound so crisp it was extreme, like a mosquito being crushed!

That streak of blood-colored light, which should have pierced Ye Feiyan's brow and completely devoured her Divine Soul, was actually struck solidly in mid-air, less than half an inch from her brow, by a black whip shadow that came from nowhere and was fast to the extreme!

An incomparably powerful force instantly erupted!

That Natal Blood Gu, which Blood Soul was so proud of and even regarded as a treasure, didn't even manage to let out a cry before it was whipped into a cloud of blood mist on the spot!

"Puff—!!!"

With the Blood Gu killed, Blood Soul, as its master, was instantly subjected to the most terrifying backlash to his Soul! He felt as if his Divine Soul had been heavily struck by a ten-thousand-jin hammer; he spat out a large mouthful of blood, and his aura instantly withered to the extreme!

And how could Ye Feiyan let go of this once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity?!

"Die!"

With a clear shout, the longsword in her hand instantly broke free from Blood Soul's weak restraint and, with the force of a thunderbolt, pierced through his chest with a single strike!

"Why... why..."

Blood Soul lowered his head, looking at the ever-expanding blood hole in his chest in disbelief, then looked up at Ye Feiyan, his eyes filled with endless confusion and bewilderment.

"Hehe." Ye Feiyan looked at him, a cold sneer appearing on her face, "Did you think only you had helpers?"

"I have them too."

Upon hearing this, Blood Soul subconsciously cast his gaze, filled with horror, toward that... black little snake that had, at some unknown time, coiled back onto Ye Feiyan's shoulder.

Just a moment ago, the instant that black whip shadow appeared, a terrifying aura that far surpassed the Golden Core, and even made his Soul tremble, had flashed and vanished!

"Third... Third Rank... Peak..."

He muttered to himself, and in an instant, all the brilliance in his eyes was completely drowned out by endless fear and disbelief.

Mysterious Ink's black bean-like eyes just glanced at him mockingly, as if looking at a clown.

Ye Feiyan did not bother to waste another word with him.

The longsword in her hand gave a violent twist, and she forcefully gouged out Blood Soul's still-warm Golden Core!

Immediately, Sword Qi erupted, completely obliterating the Divine Soul within his Golden Core that was filled with resentment and unwillingness!

After doing all this, she casually swung her sword a few times, slaughtering all the remaining Foundation Establishment Realm lackeys who had already been scared silly.

Immediately, she sat down cross-legged.

The "Myriad Dao Furnace Scripture" began to operate with a roar!

Blood Soul's Late Golden Core Stage corpse, that Golden Core containing vast energy, the carcass of the Third Stage Early Phase Thundercloud Eel, as well as those Foundation Establishment Realm members of the Blood Fiend Sect...

Everything, at this moment, turned into the purest life Origin, like a surging torrent, madly pouring into her body!

...

Two days later.

When Ye Feiyan opened her eyes again, the aura on her body had risen by another large margin! She was not far from the Golden Core Mid-Stage Realm.

She slowly stood up and once again took out the blood-red soul fixing disk.

Looking at the dozen or so red dots remaining on the compass, each representing a living life, a cold, bloodthirsty smile once again appeared on her beautiful face.

"Next."

...

Meanwhile, in another part of the Tidal Palace.

On a coral island surrounded by a huge lake.

A young man, also wearing a blood robe but with a face several times colder than Blood Soul's, was sitting cross-legged.

At his feet were several carcasses of Third Rank Demonic Beasts that had long since been drained of their vital blood.

The "Blood Source Technique" operated frantically!

He was one of the five Golden Core Elders from the Blood Fiend Sect who had entered the Tidal Palace this time, Blood Soul!

"Hu..."

After a long while, he slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, a look of satisfaction appearing on his face.

"I am only one step away from the Golden Core Mid-Stage."

He muttered to himself, then suddenly, his brows furrowed slightly.

He could clearly feel a trace of abnormal fluctuation coming from the soul fixing disk in his bosom.

He took it out and looked, and when he saw that the red dot representing Blood Soul had completely disappeared, a trace of displeasure flashed in his eyes.

"Trash!"

He cursed in a low voice.

Just then, a Foundation Establishment Realm subordinate hurried forward and respectfully reported: "Elder Soul! This subordinate has already used a Secret Technique to find the location of Zhang Han, the second disciple under Qing Yunzi of the Beast Taming Sect! Should we go and kill him now?"

"Oh?"

Upon hearing this, the corners of Blood Soul's mouth curled into a cruel arc.

"Let's go!"

He stood up immediately, ready to set off to hunt his "prey."

However, just then.

A cold, indifferent, yet seemingly mocking female voice rang out slowly and without warning in everyone's ears.

"It seems the intelligence was wrong."

"There are more than four of you in the Golden Core Realm from the Blood Fiend Sect."