147: Chapter 147 The butcher's knife is ready, old dog, please step into the trap.

A massive blood-colored eye stretched across the starry firmament.

Boom.

The entire sea of stars trembled, and the originally stable Laws of the Void Realm disintegrated under that gaze.

Deep within the Void Realm, a segment of a finger, translucent as jade, slowly reached out; with just a light stroke, that blood-colored rift was violently torn open.

A middle-aged man dressed in dark red robes stepped out.

With every step he took, a withered blood-colored lotus bloomed beneath his feet, and in an instant, half of the starry sky was dyed crimson.

Immortal Lord pressure locked down the ages.

Thump, thump.

The tens of thousands of elites from the Four Great Holy Lands had no room for resistance at all under this pressure that surpassed the limits of the plane.

The sound of bones shattering rose one after another, as a large number of Cultivators knelt, black-gold blood seeping from their seven orifices.

Nangong Xue, Leng Hanshuang, and the others struggled to resist.

Only Su Yun remained standing with his hands behind his back.

His black hair danced wildly, and around his body, the purple-gold Supreme Soul Refining Fire burned fiercely.

The burial heaven token hovered above his head, shedding ten thousand feet of mysterious light, forcibly supporting a piece of pure land within that blood-colored ocean.

"You are that variable?"

The Blood Fiend God Lord looked down at Su Yun, his eyes calm, and a contemptuous smile hung at the corners of his mouth.

"That trash Burial Azure has been fussing for ten thousand years, only to pick an ant-like brat like you as his successor? It seems the Lower Realm has indeed been completely exhausted."

The Blood Fiend God Lord's gaze bypassed Su Yun and landed on the massive stone platform behind him.

Seeing that pulsating dark-gold heart, a flicker of heat flashed in the Blood Fiend God Lord's eyes, and he stared intently.

"The Upper Realm's Heart of Origin, finally found."

The Blood Fiend God Lord took a deep breath and spoke with a majestic tone.

"The Karma of these ten thousand years shall be personally harvested by this seat today. As for you..."

He turned to look at Su Yun with a playful gaze.

"Being able to withstand this seat's pressure shows that you indeed have some interesting things on you. This seat will drain your Divine Soul and let you howl in the Blood Pool for ten thousand years as the price for your profaning a deity."

Hearing this, Su Yun did not get angry but laughed instead, his shoulders twitching slightly.

"You want me to howl for ten thousand years?"

He then brushed off non-existent dust from his sleeves and raised an eyebrow at the other party.

"Old dog, have you stayed in the Upper Realm so long that your brain has gone bad? You dare to come down here giving orders and acting like you own the place, do you really think you're the protagonist?"

The Blood Fiend God Lord's gaze suddenly turned cold: "Indulging in mere verbal bravado; since you seek death, this seat shall fulfill your wish."

The Blood Fiend God Lord did not act personally; in his view, such behavior was beneath his status. He spoke in a faint, indifferent tone.

"Blood Consort, what are you waiting for?"

"Sever his head and retrieve the Heart of Origin; then your mission will be over."

Before his voice had even faded.

Zi Yun, who had been standing quietly by Su Yun's side wearing a black veil, suddenly shuddered.

A terrifying Blood Fiend Qi erupted from Zi Yun's body; it shared the same root and Origin as that of the Blood Fiend God Lord, yet it was even sharper.

Clang.

A shrill sword cry.

Zi Yun's right hand grasped the air, and a dark red Dao-Dissolving Blood Needle instantly condensed.

That destructive aura specifically designed to sever the Divine Soul caused everyone present to feel a sharp pain in their own Divine Souls.

"Senior Brother... no, Zi Yun, what are you doing?" Luo Bingyan cried out, her Face turning so pale it was almost transparent.

She could feel that Zi Yun's strike was clearly locked onto the death point at the back of Su Yun's head.

Fast.

It was simply too fast.

A full-power assassination at the Half-step Immortal Monarch level at such a close distance—even Su Yun seemed unable to react in time.

Watching this scene, a trace of pleasure curled at the corner of the Blood Fiend God Lord's mouth.

This kind of hidden piece raised by his own hand, delivering a backstab at the moment the opponent trusts them most, was his favorite way of killing.

He could already envision the scene of Su Yun's head flying off with a look of astonishment on his Face.

However.

In the next second.

The Blood Fiend God Lord's smile froze.

Puchi—

The sound of a sharp blade entering flesh rang out.

But the expected blood spray did not happen, and Su Yun's neck did not move an inch.

Instead, at the moment the Dao-Dissolving Blood Needle in Zi Yun's hand touched Su Yun's skin.

It twisted at a bizarre angle, turning into a bolt of crimson lightning that followed the veins of the Laws of the Void Realm and stabbed fiercely into the ground beneath the Blood Fiend God Lord's Clone.

Boom.

That was originally the Void coordinate formation eye used by the Blood Fiend God Lord to maintain the cross-realm existence of this Clone.

"What?"

The Blood Fiend God Lord let out a roar, his body shaking violently because the formation was destroyed, and his indifferent Face instantly became distorted.

He stared fixedly at Zi Yun, his eyes filled with disbelief, "Blood Consort, are you crazy? You dare to betray this seat?"

Zi Yun slowly withdrew her hand, her slender fingertips lifting the black veil with an elegant and slow motion.

The veil slipped away, revealing a bright and enchanting yet stunning countenance with a moist blush.

She leaned over and softly snuggled into Su Yun's embrace.

A small hand slowly climbed up Su Yun's chest, eventually wrapping around his neck.

She tilted her head toward the Blood Fiend God Lord and smiled brilliantly.

"Lord God Lord, who are you calling?"

Zi Yun's voice was tender and soft, yet her words carried a hint of mockery.

"I might have been very afraid of you before, but now..."

She then looked up at Su Yun, her eyes filled with obsession.

"My husband has given me far too much, whether it is the Nirvana of the Divine Soul or the... tender love of body and Soul."

When she reached the words "tender love," Zi Yun deliberately paused, her gaze turning coquettish.

"Old man, your judgment is far too poor."

Zi Yun giggled and pointed at the collapsed formation eye beneath her feet.

"I spent half a day precisely locating this formation eye; so, did it go off with a bang?"

"You... you two."

The Blood Fiend God Lord trembled with rage; he could feel that although his Soul connection with the Blood Consort still existed.

The original "master and servant" relationship had now become a one-way absorption.

The Blood Fiend God Lord was constantly consuming Origin to maintain his presence across realms, yet that Origin was actually being frantically sucked away by Zi Yun along the Karma threads.

How on earth was this his hidden piece?

This was clearly a blood pump this kid was keeping by his side!

Su Yun took the opportunity to wrap his arm around Zi Yun's slender waist.

His palm gave a gentle squeeze to her perky curve, causing Zi Yun to let out a muffled groan and bite her lip, though her gaze became even more watery.

"How is it, old dog?"

Su Yun looked up at the Blood Fiend God Lord with a playful gaze.

"How does it feel to be backbitten by the very Dao-Dissolving Blood Needle you personally refined?"

[Ding! Detected that the Blood Fiend God Lord's Dao Heart has been shaken. The host successfully instigated the defection of the enemy's core hidden piece. Reward luck points: 2 million.]

[Ding! Since the Blood Fiend God Lord is experiencing a strong sense of humiliation, an extra critical hit has been triggered: Reward one System lottery chance.]

Listening to the notification in his mind, Su Yun's mood became increasingly pleasant.

Two million luck points.

This old fellow's descent was purely to bring him benefits.

"Ant..."

The Blood Fiend God Lord let out an angry low roar, his figure shifting as the terrifying Blood Fiend Origin condensed frantically.

"The Divine Souls of those who dare to betray this seat shall enter the Fire of Eternal Tribulation. Since the descent formation eye is destroyed, this seat will pay the price of this projection's complete disintegration to utterly kill you wretched couple."

He had already lost his reason.

As a God Lord of one of the three palaces of the Upper Realm's Heaven Burial Palace, he had never suffered such a humiliating insult until now.

The originally massive blood hand shrank violently in the air, transforming into a dark red giant palm large enough to blot out the entire Star Domain.

Carrying a will of destruction, it slammed down fiercely toward the position where Su Yun and Zi Yun were.

The Laws wailed, and the starry sky shattered.

This was the final strike of the Immortal Lord Clone, a self-detonating strike with all its might.

The Cultivators below had already been shaken to the ground by this pressure; the extreme sense of oppression made it so they couldn't even let out a scream.

Feeling that aura of destruction, Zi Yun instinctively shrank into Su Yun's embrace.

"Husband, should we dodge?"

"Dodge?"

A sharp arc curled at the corner of Su Yun's mouth. Looking at the blood hand that covered the sky, two purple-gold flames lit up deep within his pupils.

His right hand slowly rose, pointing toward the void, his words calm yet majestic.

"Did you think I purposely wasted so much time talking nonsense with you here just to look at your old Face?"

Su Yun's finger gave a light hook.

Buzz—

Around that dark-gold Heavenly Dao heart, the originally crimson Star River Chains suddenly vibrated in unison.

Ninety-nine thousand chains transformed into ninety-nine thousand golden Thunder Dragons at this moment, instantly filling the entire starry sky.

The will left behind by that already weathered ancient corpse now resonated strongly with Su Yun's burial heaven token.

"This setup is something I meticulously laid out for you."

Su Yun's gaze was like a torch, and his voice boomed through the sea of stars.

"I didn't expect you to give me so much Face, so don't even think about going back; I happen to be missing a top-tier Blood Catalyst."

"Did you really think I let you in without having the butcher's knife ready?"

In the next moment, a brilliant point of Chaos light lit up at Su Yun's fingertip.

The entire sea of stars suddenly contracted.