But these spirit stones, essence stones, and medicinal herbs were enough to sustain her consumption for a long time to come.
Having stowed away her spoils, Su Yueli stood in the middle of the corpses. She slowly brought her hands together, and the Ji Dao blood qi within her body surged violently.
Boom!
The rapid vibration and friction of her blood qi even generated a terrifying heat of several hundred degrees between her palms.
With a wave of her hand, gold-red sparks of blood qi instantly showered the corpses and the leftover debris.
Sizzle.
The Ji Dao blood fire was extremely violent. Within a few breaths, the corpses scattered across the floor, along with the blood-stained clothing and the remnants of the magic treasures, were completely vaporized by the intense heat, turning into a pile of black ash.
Su Yueli blew a soft breath.
An invisible gust of wind swept up the ash, carrying it through the cracks in the grand hall into the unknown depths, scattering it completely to the winds.
Clean and efficient. Not a single trace of her involvement was left behind.
However, before Su Yueli could take a step out of the grand hall, a sudden change occurred.
“Crack... Snap!”
A sharp cracking sound suddenly echoed from the absolute center of the bottom of the blood pool.
Su Yueli turned to look and saw that the black stone floor at the bottom of the blood pool had split wide open, revealing a massive array disc below that was emitting a faint blue glow.
At the very center of the array disc, the tomb's array core crystal—which was used to maintain the operation of the entire ruin's formations—could no longer withstand the heavy pressure of the earth veins. It had lost the support of the Twelfth Realm grand cultivator's remnant soul, and with the death of the Ninth Realm demonic leech, it had reached its limit.
As countless dense cracks spread frantically across it, the array core crystal shattered with a loud bang, turning into a flurry of blue dust.
With the destruction of the array core crystal, the entire subterranean tomb space began to shake violently.
Massive boulders of dark iron, each weighing thousands of pounds, rained down from above. In the surrounding void, dark spatial rifts caused by spatial instability began to spread menacingly through the air like centipedes.
The entire Myriad Bones Wasteland secret realm began to collapse on a massive scale.
Rumble.
Pitch-black cracks tore through the once-stable void, instantly sucking in the falling debris around them.
“Run! The secret realm is collapsing!”
In the corner of the grand hall, the few surviving cultivators were deathly pale.
Someone desperately channeled their remaining spiritual energy, attempting to ride their flying sword toward the entrance. However, before he could even cover thirty feet, a pitch-black spatial rift materialized out of nowhere and swept across his waist.
There was no splatter of blood, nor any sound of breaking bones.
The Seventh Realm cultivator, along with his flying sword, was cleanly sliced in half mid-air.
His upper body fell to the ground, his eyes still filled with terror and bewilderment, while his lower half had already tumbled into the pitch-black spatial rift.
This sight caused the remaining survivors to completely break down.
Crawling frantically on all fours close to the ground, they completely abandoned any semblance of immortal dignity, wanting nothing more than to escape this death trap before the entrance sealed shut entirely.
Amidst the dark mist and ruins, Su Yueli watched cold-eyed, her body not moving an inch.
She didn't join the others in crowding toward the only escape route.
She had calculated everything clearly in her mind.
That secret passageway at the entrance was maintained by the formation. Now that the array core was shattered, that area would undoubtedly suffer the most severe spatial collapse. Rushing there now was no different from seeking death.
Thud.
A massive boulder weighing thousands of pounds crashed down toward Su Yueli's head.
Without even raising her head, Su Yueli formed a palm with her right hand and lightly thrust it upward to meet the giant rock.
Violent physical force surged from her palm.
With a dull explosion, the hard dark iron boulder instantly shattered into countless fragments under her palm force, raining down onto the ground.
Su Yueli's gaze swept across the surroundings, eventually locking onto a depression beneath the blood pool.
Earlier, when she was lifting the coffin, she had used her divine sense to roughly scan the ground.
At the deepest part of the blood pool lay a subterranean stone chamber specifically built to support the foundation of the grand array. It was constructed from solid black-gold stone and would be the most resilient against spatial tearing in the short term.
With a flash of her figure, Su Yueli turned into a blurry dark shadow, weaving through the gaps between the falling boulders and spatial rifts.
In just three breaths, she had already leaped into the bottom of the dried blood pool.
A crack about a person's width had opened up here, faintly revealing a dark stone chamber below.
Without hesitation, Su Yueli leaped straight down.
She landed in a sealed stone chamber a hundred Zhang wide. The walls were cold and constructed from heavy black-gold stone, locked together as a single solid entity.
Su Yueli stepped forward, gripping a fallen stone slab weighing ten thousand pounds. Her fingers dug deep into the stone, and with a violent lift, she completely sealed off the only entrance to the chamber.
The stone chamber instantly fell into a dead silence, with only the dull sounds of impacts echoing from the stone walls outside.
“Let's begin.”
Su Yueli took a deep breath and immediately sat down cross-legged.
By now, the mutated Martial Soul inside her dantian had undergone a massive change.
After devouring the remnant soul of the Tianyuan Sect's peak Twelfth Realm grand cultivator, the rows of savage, primordial spikes on the Martial Soul's dark armor began to emit an eerie black glow.
The Martial Soul's aura climbed frantically, and the feedback of soul power rushed into Su Yueli's mind like a physical torrent.
Boom!
Su Yueli felt as if a golden bell was tolling deep within her consciousness, causing her soul to tremble violently.
At this moment, her consciousness entered an incredibly profound state.
The surrounding silence vanished. She could clearly hear the flow of every drop of blood in her body and the breath of every single cell.
This soul power was simply too vast. Although it didn't contain any immortal cultivation techniques, it was the soul foundation of a Twelfth Realm cultivator who had lived for thousands of years.
Under the washing of this soul power, Su Yueli's comprehension of the Heaven-Shaking Realm reached the level of great perfection in an extremely short amount of time.
“Crack...”
Before she could savor this realization, a crisp cracking sound suddenly echoed from the bones inside her body.
The clump of Ten-Thousand-Year Blood Marrow resting on her knees and the deep red Ninth Realm demon core were completely ignited by the Ji Dao blood qi in her body as the Martial Soul devoured the soul power.
Gold-red liquid seeped from the Ten-Thousand-Year Blood Marrow, frantically drilling into her body through her pores.
The liquid was as heavy as quicksilver. The moment it entered her body, it flowed along her bloodstream, heading straight for the bones of her entire body.
Pain.
It was the excruciating pain of marrow being forcibly extracted, and bones being crushed and reconstructed inch by inch.
Su Yueli remained expressionless, but her tightly clenched teeth let out a harsh grinding sound.
Under the washing of the Ten-Thousand-Year Blood Marrow, dense cracks began to spiderweb across her bones. Right after, the near-infinite life blood qi from the Ninth Realm demon core flooded in.
The blood qi turned into countless invisible small hands, reassembling, compressing, and reshaping the shattered bones.
During this process, the color of Su Yueli's marrow—which was originally red and white—began to slowly transform under the tempering of these two Ji Dao materials.
One wisp... two wisps...
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