148: Chapter 148 The clone is destroyed, and Blood Fiend suffers a setback and flies into a rage.

The sea of stars suddenly contracted as dark golden light tore through the blood-red dome.

The speck of Chaos light at Su Yun's fingertip exploded with a bang.

Simultaneously, outside Demon-Falling Valley.

The jade talismans at the formation eyes of the Four Symbols Heaven-Locking Grand Array, originally guarded by Luo Bingyan and the other three women, shattered at the same time.

"Reverse Array, Heaven Sealing," Su Yun whispered.

The spatial rift above Demon-Falling Valley twisted violently.

Four pillars of formation patterns that reached from the heavens to the earth poured inward, transforming into four grayish-white walls of spatial airflow, directly jamming the nodes of the cross-realm passage.

The spatial fault behind the Blood Fiend God Lord's Clone snapped shut instantly.

The path of retreat was cut off.

"You dare cut off my return path?" The Blood Fiend God Lord's expression changed drastically, a hint of panic finally surfacing in his eyes.

The formation eye was destroyed, the Origin was drained, and now even the passage for his Divine Soul to escape back to the Upper Realm was physically welded shut.

This Lower Realm ant wasn't just acting tough; he truly intended to kill this Immortal Lord Clone.

"I said the butcher's knife is ready. Since you're here, old dog, stay in the pot," Su Yun sneered.

The burial heaven token floating above his head vibrated wildly. An extremely ancient will, guided by Su Yun, poured into the stone platform.

Clatter.

Among the ninety-nine thousand Star River Chains, the thickest one hundred and eight chains suddenly broke free from the stone platform's constraints.

The crimson light on the surface of the chains faded, transforming into pure golden lightning. One hundred and eight thunder Dragons wove together in the starry sky into a seamless Law net, rising to meet the sky-covering bloody hand that was slapping down.

Boom.

No energy dissipated.

The crushing force at the Law level was silent.

The giant bloody hand, which gathered all the power of a Half-step Immortal Monarch, was sliced into fragments the moment it touched the golden thunder net.

The shattered bloody Qi attempted to regroup.

Su Yun flicked his finger.

A cluster of purple-gold Supreme Soul Refining Fire from his fingertip fell into the center of the thunder net.

The fire drew strength from the thunder, and the thunder bolstered the fire's might.

The purple-gold flames instantly spread across the giant net along the Law threads, enveloping the scattered Blood Fiend Origins and refining them frantically.

"Ah—!"

A shrill scream echoed through the sea of stars.

The Blood Fiend God Lord's phantom twisted violently within the flames.

This fire specifically burned the Divine Soul; even though he was only a cross-realm projection, the pain that reached his true body could not be blocked.

"A mere Lower Realm prisoner, how dare you insult a god!" The Blood Fiend God Lord's face was distorted to the extreme, and black blood seeped from his eyes.

He stared intently at Zi Yun in Su Yun's arms, then at the composed Su Yun, the resentment in his eyes almost solidifying.

"I will remember today's humiliation. When the day of reckoning for the heavens comes, I will surely refine this Lower Realm into a blood hell, drain your true spirit, and light a ten-thousand-year sky lantern!"

As his words fell.

The Blood Fiend God Lord gave up struggling. The remaining body of his Clone expanded rapidly, and terrifying waves of destruction spread outward.

He was going to self-detonate.

The self-detonation of a Half-step Immortal Monarch-level energy body was enough to blast this shattered starry sky, along with the allied forces of the four Great Holy Lands below, into nothingness.

Su Yun's eyes lowered slightly.

"You want to explode just because you want to? Did you ask me?"

Su Yun slammed his palm down.

"Suppress!"

The burial heaven token emitted a brilliant dark light. The entire Heaven-Severing formation eye, its stone skin peeled away, shook violently.

The dark golden heavenly dao heart gave a dull throb.

Thump.

This single heartbeat directly suppressed the surrounding Law turbulence.

The one hundred and eight golden chains retracted rapidly, binding him tightly into a giant golden cocoon just as the Blood Fiend God Lord was about to self-detonate.

Rumble—

A muffled explosion sounded from within the cocoon.

The golden cocoon expanded violently, countless fine cracks appearing on its surface as it sprayed out crimson blood energy.

But in the end, it failed to burst open.

The shockwave of the explosion was forcibly suppressed within a small space by the chains and the heavenly dao heart's Origin, eventually turning into a ground of ashes that scattered through the starry sky.

An Immortal Lord Clone, whom Lower Realm Cultivators didn't even have the right to look up at, was reduced to fly ash in such a humiliating manner.

The entire field was deathly silent.

Tens of thousands of Cultivators knelt on the ground, looking up at the young man in black robes in the starry sky, their minds blank.

They couldn't understand the gamble of Laws, but they knew that the high and mighty god who looked down upon all living beings had been set up and killed by Su Yun.

Zi Yun poked her head out from Su Yun's arms, her beautiful eyes filled with shock.

She had thought there would be a hard battle today and had even prepared to take a blow for Su Yun.

Instead, Su Yun had planned every step, neutralizing and counterattacking, leaving the opponent unable to even make a splash.

"Husband, you're so insidious; Yun'er loves it." Zi Yun leaned excitedly toward Su Yun's ear, her breath like orchids.

Su Yun patted her head without responding, his gaze fixed on the Void Realm above.

...

Upper Realm, Heaven Burial Palace, Blood Fiend Divine Hall.

Deep within the magnificent hall, a middle-aged man sitting cross-legged atop a red lotus in a sea of blood suddenly opened his eyes.

Pffft—

A large mouthful of dark-gold Origin essence blood sprayed out, corroding several large holes in the Void Realm before him.

The Blood Fiend God Lord's face was pale, his aura plummeted, and his originally Perfect Immortal Lord Realm actually showed a hint of a crack.

"Su Yun... Blood Consort..."

He gritted his teeth, his features distorted by extreme anger and humiliation.

His Clone was destroyed, and his Divine Soul was damaged. More critically, the descent coordinates were destroyed, making it impossible for him to relock the specific location of that Lower Realm in the short term.

"I want you dead! Someone, summon the Blood God Guards! Force open the realm passage; I will personally descend to the Lower Realm and slaughter it!"

The Blood Fiend God Lord roared, smashing the blood-red desk before him with a single palm.

Just then.

An ethereal and misty chuckle came from outside the hall.

"The Blood Fiend God Lord is so imposing. Going to a depleted Lower Realm and not even being able to deal with a native, instead losing a Clone and damaging your Origin. Such a disgraceful matter, yet you have the face to shout?"

Before the hall doors opened, a graceful figure draped in moon-white gauze appeared out of thin air.

The woman's features were obscured by white light, revealing only a pair of playful eyes.

Seeing the newcomer, the Blood Fiend God Lord's anger suddenly stalled, a hint of wariness flashing in his eyes.

"Moon God Hall Master, what are you doing here? My actions are not for you to criticize."

The woman called the Moon God gave a light scoff, ignoring his threat.

"If the Palace Master hadn't sensed unusual movement here, do you think I would be willing to step into this stinking kennel of yours?"

She restrained her smile, her tone becoming chillingly cold.

"The Palace Master has ordered. The 'Heavens Reckoning Plan' has reached its final stage. The Law nodes of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands are about to be connected; no one is allowed to cause unnecessary complications."

"As for that variable in the Lower Realm, since he can't be found for now, let him be. Once the plan is complete and the Upper Realm's Heavenly Dao is replaced, such an ant can be destroyed with a flick of a wrist."

The Blood Fiend God Lord clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking.

"But the original Heavenly Dao Origin heart is right there. If that boy refines it..."

"Are you truly stupid or just pretending?"

The Moon God interrupted him.

"That Heaven-Severing formation eye is an eternal killing trap. Is the heavenly dao heart so easy to take? Even if he luckily survives the initial backlash, he won't survive the final Extreme Realm Tribulation. Instead of wasting manpower searching the Lower Realm, focus on what's in front of you."

The Moon God turned, her white clothes fluttering as her figure gradually faded.

"Don't disappoint the Palace Master again. Otherwise, it'll be time for someone else to sit in your position as God Lord."

The hall returned to a deathly silence.

The Blood Fiend God Lord stared intently at the hall doors, his chest heaving violently.

After a long time, he wiped the black blood from the corner of his mouth.

"Su Yun, you won't live long. These heavens will soon be in complete Chaos."

...

Lower Realm, the deathly silent starry sky.

The Star River's tremors subsided, and the spatial rift closed completely.

Su Yun stood quietly in front of the stone platform, the Supreme Soul Refining Fire surrounding him slowly retracting into his body.

Sensing the malicious resentment that had come through before the Void Realm closed, his eyes remained calm.

They wouldn't let things go so easily.

Heaven Burial Palace was certainly not just the Blood Fiend God Lord alone; behind that massive power, there must be even more terrifying existences hidden.

The next time they met, it would be a true tempest.

However.

Su Yun withdrew his gaze and looked forward.

The dark golden heavenly dao heart floated above the stone platform. Without the stone skin's protection, its pure Chaos Origin aura was suffocating.

Although the one hundred and eight golden Star River Chains had retracted, they were still tightly wound around the heart's surface, maintaining the final seal.

"Go and guard the perimeter; don't let anyone get close," Su Yun pushed Zi Yun from his arms, his tone leaving no room for doubt.

Zi Yun nodded, her figure turning into a streak of blood light as she landed on the outskirts.

Luo Bingyan and the others also quickly commanded the army to construct a defensive line on the perimeter, tightly surrounding this part of the starry sky.

Su Yun stepped forward toward the stone platform.

A hundred feet from the heart.

The Law pressure in the air suddenly doubled. Su Yun's steps were heavy; with every step he took, the Void Realm emitted sounds of overburdened cracking.

The Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Dao Imprint within his body began to heat up, creating a strong resonance with the Origin heart ahead.

This was a resonance unique to the Heavenly Dao.

Fifty feet.

Thirty feet.

Ten feet.

Su Yun walked to the edge of the stone platform, braving a pressure sufficient to crush a Mahayana Stage Cultivator.

He raised his hand and reached toward the throbbing dark golden heart.

Just as his fingertip was about to touch the golden chains surrounding the heart.

A sudden change occurred.

The residual will of the ancient corpse, which had originally weathered away, suddenly gathered forcefully within the one hundred and eight chains.

The golden lightning on the surface of the chains rapidly turned into the grayish-white color of annihilation.

A giant, blurry human face emerged directly above the heart. Its hollow eyes stared fixedly at Su Yun's finger.

It wasn't an obstruction, but a scrutiny filled with a kind of near-madness.

A hoarse, ear-piercing voice smashed directly into Su Yun's Sea of Consciousness through the surrounding Void Realm Laws.

"Using tricks to kill enemies, borrowing an array to destroy a god—these are mere methods and do not count."

The surrounding starry sky instantly darkened.

All vitality was instantly drained away, replaced by the power of pure annihilation.

"The eternal chess game does not need weaklings who only know how to be clever. To hold this heart, one must bear the weight of this plane's Karma."

The giant, blurry human face suddenly opened its abyss-like mouth.

A grayish-white storm brewed within, a Heavenly Dao Tribulation Light that transcended the levels of the Physical Body and Divine Soul.

"Now, endure the wrath of my Extreme Realm!"