Her cold gaze swept past the towering mountain of flesh, slowly landing on a corner of the grand hall.
Cowering there were several surviving cultivators who had luckily escaped the slaughter.
These cultivators had already been scared out of their wits.
From their perspective, first, the remnant soul of a Twelfth Realm grand cultivator had erupted from the depths of the blood pool to seize her body, only to be swallowed whole by this female devil in the blink of an eye.
Immediately after, that Ninth Realm demonic leech, which had driven them to despair, hadn't even lasted ten breaths before being sliced into hundreds of thousands of tiny pieces of flesh.
This wasn't a battle between cultivators at all.
It was a purely one-sided, foregone slaughter.
“D-Devil...”
A surviving Seventh Realm cultivator murmured through pale lips, his legs trembling so violently he lacked the strength to even stand.
Staring at the carved mask slowly turning toward them, the cultivators felt a chilling shiver shoot from the soles of their feet straight to their skulls, their hairs standing on end.
They didn't even dare to run. They knew all too well that before a monster capable of slaying a Ninth Realm demonic leech in ten breaths, running would only hasten their deaths.
Life and death lay entirely in her hands.
After a moment, the blood rain gradually ceased.
Inside the grand hall, apart from the pungent stench of blood, there was only dead silence.
Su Yueli retracted Xiaohei, which was wrapped around her finger bones.
The dark golden Martial Weapon Patterns on Xiaohei's blade gradually faded, and it returned to its unremarkable, pitch-black appearance.
Yet Su Yueli could feel that the destructive power contained within this short blade was several times stronger than before.
However, now was not the time to study her divine weapon.
Su Yueli didn't even spare a glance at the cultivators cowering in the corner nearby.
To her, the treasures dropped by the dead were far more attractive than the lives of the living.
She turned and walked toward the now-dried blackish-red blood pool.
Because the Twelfth Realm grand cultivator's remnant soul had erupted earlier, most of the filthy blood in the pool had been drained, revealing the pool floor covered in a thick layer of dark red silt.
Su Yueli leaped down to the bottom of the pool with highly practiced ease.
Stepping on the sticky silt, she walked straight into the center of the mountain of shredded meat left by the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Leech.
Though this Ninth Realm demonic leech was as dead as could be, the core condensed from its essence blood and life force had not yet dissipated.
Su Yueli formed a claw with her right hand and plunged it directly into the largest mass of shredded meat.
Pfft.
With a slight jolt of her blood qi force, she pried out a fist-sized, deep red, translucent sphere.
A Ninth Realm demon core.
The demonic power contained within this demon core was frighteningly vast.
Su Yueli had no immortal spiritual energy, so she couldn't directly refine the demonic power within. However, the near-infinite life blood qi inside was an invaluable, supreme tonic for her martial body.
Stowing the demon core away, Su Yueli did not stop. Instead, she turned her gaze toward a subterranean groove in the absolute center of the blood pool.
That was where the remnant soul of the Tianyuan Sect grand cultivator had slept. Now, a palm-sized clump of gold-red liquid, writhing constantly like quicksilver, floated quietly there.
Ten-Thousand-Year Blood Marrow.
This was a supreme treasure condensed in this place of extreme yin by that Twelfth Realm remnant soul over thousands of years, using the essence blood drawn from countless intruders.
Just a single drop could allow low-grade cultivators to shed their mortal bodies and exchange their bones.
For Su Yueli, who walked the path of physical longevity, this was practically a divine medicine custom-tailored to temper her Heaven-Shaking Realm bones.
“I've hit the jackpot this time.”
Though Su Yueli's face showed no expression, the corners of her lips beneath the mask curled slightly upward.
She swept her wide sleeve, generating an invisible wave of blood qi suction that neatly swept the Ten-Thousand-Year Blood Marrow and the Ninth Realm demon core into her storage bag.
Only after doing all this did Su Yueli slowly climb out of the blood pool. She dusted off non-existent dirt from her robe and walked toward the corner of the stone hall.
Lying there was the blood-armored commander of Great Wei, his legs bitten off and his body covered in blood.
Beside him were several Great Li sect cultivators who had collapsed to the ground in terror.
Watching the white carved mask grow larger in his vision, the Great Wei commander trembled violently. Out of sheer, absolute terror, a nauseating stench even began to waft from his lower half.
He had lost control of his bowels.
“Y-You... stay back!”
The Great Wei commander shrieked, his face deathly pale as he scrambled backward frantically with his hands. His eyes were wild as he tried to use his final trump card to save his life:
“I am a blood-armored commander of the Great Wei Dynasty! If you kill me, Great Wei's Eighth and Ninth Realm experts will never let you off! And there's the Cangyun Sect in the Great Li Imperial City! Our Great Wei has close ties with several of their Grand Supreme Elders, and they are currently guarding the entrance outside this secret realm!”
Seeing that Su Yueli's steps didn't falter for a second, he finally broke down, weeping and pleading:
“I have money! I have three storage rings here! They contain my entire net worth! I'll give them all to you, just spare my life!”
Su Yueli remained expressionless, not even bothering to lift her eyelids, finding the whole thing incredibly tedious.
Great Wei Dynasty? Cangyun Sect?
Why did these people always say the exact same things right before they died?
Villains die because they talk too much. If you don't eradicate the roots, the weeds will grow back with the spring breeze. If I leave you alive, am I supposed to wait for you to go back, have someone draw my mask, and post wanted flyers all over the streets?
Su Yueli complained inwardly.
She didn't say a single word.
When she was still three feet away from the Great Wei commander, Su Yueli suddenly thrust out her right hand. Her blood qi force materialized into an invisible hand in the void, instantly gripping the man's throat in a death grip.
Giving him no chance to babble further, Su Yueli lightly squeezed her fingers.
Crack.
His neck bone shattered. Immediately after, she balled her left hand into a fist and cleanly punched the Great Wei commander's head.
Bang.
His skull burst open, and his life force was instantly extinguished.
Seeing this, the surviving Great Li sect cultivators were scared out of their wits.
Someone tried to channel their spiritual energy to escape, but before Su Yueli's teleportation-like physical speed, a cultivator's struggles were as fragile as paper.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Several dull thuds of physical deliverance echoed through the hall.
Within just five breaths, there was not a single living soul left in the hall besides Su Yueli.
Her expression cold and serene, Su Yueli stepped forward and began to skillfully search the bodies and loot their belongings.
She forcefully stripped off all the scattered storage bags and storage rings from the ground.
Since these cultivators were already dead, the divine sense imprints left on the items melted away instantly like thin ice under a blazing sun when hit by Su Yueli's powerful martial Ji Dao will.
Probing slightly with her blood qi, she clearly saw all the resources contained within.
“Quite wealthy.”
After tallying her harvest, Su Yueli's brow relaxed slightly.
This single looting session had yielded her over one thousand eight hundred high-grade spirit stones.
There were also twelve Earth Meridian Essence Stones, which radiated a dense earthy aura—exactly the top-grade martial materials she currently needed to temper her physical defense.
In addition, there were various high-grade spiritual herbs and healing pills, completely filling several storage spaces.
However, she didn't care much for the immortal magic treasures; after all, they were of no use to her...
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