Her fingers clenched. The continuous popping of her knuckles echoed in the deathly silent main tomb chamber, like a fuse igniting a battle.
In the center of the blood pool, the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Leech's bucket-sized crimson beast pupils stared fixedly at Su Yueli below.
It had lived for hundreds of years, yet this was the first time it had seen a mortal martial artist, completely devoid of spiritual energy fluctuations, dare to act so brazenly before it.
The dignity of a Ninth Realm great demon would not tolerate provocation.
“Roar—!” The demonic leech let out a muffled roar, its colossal body writhing violently. Dozens of thick tentacles, covered in virulent green slime, tore through the void and slammed down towards Su Yueli.
Before the tentacles even arrived, the dense, bloody venom had already corroded the air, sizzling audibly.
“Come,” Su Yueli said, not retreating but advancing. A cold smile touched the corner of her mouth beneath the mask.
Boom! The pure physical force field of the Heaven-Shaking Realm fully erupted at this instant.
Within several yards around her, the void itself subtly warped, visibly contorted by the terrifying physical pressure.
Facing the sky-filling tentacles that could shatter high-grade defensive magic treasures, Su Yueli neither dodged nor evaded. She met the Ninth Realm great demon's frontal assault head-on with her right fist.
Bang—! A dull, colossal sound, like two profound iron mountains colliding, exploded within the main tomb chamber.
The violent aftershocks of power transformed into tangible air currents, sending the already withered cultivators sliding across the ground for dozens of yards.
However, the expected scene of Su Yueli being smashed into a pulp did not occur.
The moment the tentacle collided with her fist, sparks actually flew half an inch high in mid-air.
The virulent slime, potent enough to turn a Seventh Realm cultivator into a pool of blood, landed on Su Yueli’s black robe and skin, only to be instantly vaporized into nothingness by her terrifying Ji Dao blood qi.
Su Yueli stood her ground, her body not even swaying. Not even a white mark was left on her fair shoulder.
...
Silence. For a moment, a deathly silence enveloped the surroundings.
The Great Wei blood-armored commander, lying in a pool of blood awaiting death, and the sole surviving Eighth Realm elder from a Great Li sect, had their eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets.
Especially the Great Li elder; his mind seemed to completely shut down at that instant, his Dao Heart fractured on the spot, his CPU burned to a crisp.
“Physi… physically tearing apart Ninth Realm demonic power? Not even breaking her defense?!”
The elder’s voice was hoarse, his mind buzzing, filled with self-doubt. “Which immortal sect’s peerless Iron Body Arhat reincarnated as this? No! She doesn’t have a trace of Buddhist golden light, nor a single wisp of spiritual energy! How is this possible?!”
Two hundred years of immortal cultivation, and all his common sense was shattered into dust in that single second.
A martial artist, who didn't cultivate spiritual roots and whom they considered a mortal ant, actually withstood a full-power strike from a Ninth Realm ancient giant beast with just their raw flesh and blood?
This completely defied the laws of the Heavenly Dao!
Su Yueli had no time to concern herself with whether these cultivators’ Dao Hearts were shattered all over the floor.
“Done fighting? Then it’s my turn.”
She rotated her shoulders slightly, then stomped her right foot fiercely on the ground.
Crack! The black stone ground beneath her foot instantly collapsed into a deep pit. Leveraging this violent recoil, Su Yueli’s figure vanished from her spot in an instant, moving so fast that she left behind a piercing sonic boom afterimage.
At the same time, with a thought, she communicated with her dantian.
Buzz! A mutated Martial Soul, human-sized and clad in dark armor, stepped out beside Su Yueli.
The Martial Soul, like a black hole, expanded against the wind the moment it landed, infused with Ji Dao will, and grew to thirty yards tall in the blink of an eye.
The hideous dark armor gleamed with a metallic chill in the blood mist. The Martial Soul's emotionless black eyes suddenly opened, and its hands, like steel pincers, clamped onto the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Leech's thickest main tentacle.
“Roar!” The armored Martial Soul let out a deep growl, its thirty-yard-tall body twisting back forcefully. Using its core strength, it actually resisted the demonic leech’s immense demonic power, violently dragging the hundred-yard-long giant beast towards the back of the hall.
The demonic leech’s colossal body momentarily lost its balance, and the viscous blood in the blood pool churned violently.
The instant the demonic leech’s massive trunk tilted forward, Su Yueli herself arrived.
Her figure streaked through the void like a ray of light, her right fist clenched. The monstrous strength of the Heaven-Shaking Realm, combined with the thundering blood qi in her body—like mercury—condensed into a dazzling black and red glow on her fist.
This punch carried no resonance with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, only the purest, most extreme physical destructive power.
“Die.”
Her fist slammed into the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Leech’s main trunk, which was covered in backward-facing teeth and roaring furiously.
Rumble—! The void within the hall seemed to be forcibly caved in by that single punch at this very instant.
Deafening air explosions detonated throughout the hall.
The Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Leech’s thick flesh, normally immune to slashes from ordinary magic treasures and flying swords, was instantly caved inward by the terrifying pressure the moment it made contact with her fist.
Pfft! Dark-red demonic blood, mixed with shattered internal organs, gushed out furiously from between the demonic leech’s scales.
The hundred-yard-long ancient giant beast, weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds, was actually sent flying off the ground by this seemingly tiny punch, like a massive fleshy projectile, violently soaring backward towards the rear of the stone hall.
Thud! The giant beast flew over a hundred meters through the air, crashing heavily into the profound iron wall deep within the hall.
The violent physical force spread across the wall.
Accompanied by dense cracks, more than half of the dozen massive black stone load-bearing pillars supporting the main tomb chamber instantly snapped under the impact, collapsing in large sections.
Half of the hall’s load-bearing wall immediately turned into a sky full of rubble.
The demonic leech’s colossal body thrashed violently in the blood pool, its millstone-sized compound eyes now filled with incredible terror.
It had lived for over ten thousand years, cultivating on the foul blood in the blood pool and the flesh of cultivators. It was thick-skinned, tough-fleshed, and immune to all poisons.
But today, it had hit a steel plate.
Every impact carried terrifying Astral Qi capable of tearing apart its life force.
The demonic leech was terrified, utterly terrified.
Disregarding its dignity, its colossal body desperately tried to burrow into the foul mud at the deepest part of the blood pool, even spewing its innate poisonous blood to obstruct Su Yueli's vision, wanting only to escape this harbinger of death.
However, though the demonic leech wished to retreat, the entity at the very bottom of the blood pool would not allow it.
In the deepest part of the blood pool, a wisp of a peak Twelfth Realm grand cultivator’s remnant soul lay dormant.
This remnant soul usually relied on the demonic leech for sustenance, intending to use the yin energy of this place to reconstruct its physical body and return to the immortal realm.
The demonic leech was his guard dog and his barrier.
Now that his guard dog had been beaten to such a miserable state, if the demonic leech were killed and the blood pool destroyed, he would certainly not escape death.
“Useless trash!” The remnant soul cursed inwardly, finally unable to sit still.
Boom! The bottom of the blood pool suddenly exploded, and blood water surged upwards.
A dazzling white light burst from the mud and sand, transforming into the illusory figure of an elderly man with a Daoist aura, clad in feathered robes.
Although it was merely a wisp of a remnant soul, the pressure of a peak Twelfth Realm expert was undeniable.
That supreme immortal might transformed into a tangible storm, instantly emptying all the blood from the entire blood pool. Even the surrounding stone walls couldn't withstand the pressure and began to collapse in large sections.
“Junior, you have destroyed my Dao field. Today, I shall take your physical body as repayment!”
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