The longer Lu Cangtian lived, the more he feared death.
He glanced at Lu Feiyu, who was slumped in his throne and had long since wet his pants in terror, and a thick wave of resentment and regret flashed deep within his eyes.
If not for this rebellious son's reckless killing all those years ago, how could their Cangyun Sect have provoked such a peerless god of death who had achieved physical sainthood?
But it was too late for regrets now.
“Go! To the back mountain's forbidden grounds! We must request the Ancestor to emerge from seclusion!”
Gritting his teeth, Lu Cangtian could no longer care about the lives of the sect disciples.
With a flicker of his figure, he instantly appeared beside Lu Feiyu. A withered, elderly hand gripped Lu Feiyu's shoulder, lifting him up by force.
Wring!
The spiritual power within Lu Cangtian's body burned violently, and a dense, blackish-red blood mist instantly erupted from the surface of his skin.
The life-saving secret technique of the Cangyun Sect—the Daluo Blood Escape!
This secret technique required burning a thousand years of lifespan and half of one's total blood qi. Once activated, it allowed the user to slip into the void and teleport ten miles away in a thousandth of a breath.
“As long as we reach the forbidden grounds and unseal the Grand Supreme Elder, we still have a way to survive!”
At that moment, the void rippled violently. The figures of the two men began to blur and warp, on the verge of dissolving into the void to escape.
Su Yueli slowly raised her head. A trace of disdain flashed in her eyes behind her mask.
“Trying to escape through the void in front of me?”
“Do you really think my bodyguard is just for show?”
With a slight nudge of Su Yueli's mind—
Boom!
The human-sized dark Martial Soul, which had been holding back the Mountain River Immortal-Suppressing Seal, suddenly shook its fists violently, sending the thousands-of-feet-tall dark-yellow divine mountain flying backward over a hundred yards.
Immediately after, the Martial Soul bodyguard vanished into thin air.
In the next split second, it appeared directly above Lu Cangtian and his son.
Wring—!
A silent black hole domain expanded with the Martial Soul bodyguard at its center, completely locking down the void within a thousand-yard radius.
This was an absolute physical force field.
Within this domain, all spiritual energy flow, magical power circulation, and even the spatial spiritual particles were frantically assimilated and devoured by the Martial Soul.
It forcibly created an absolute vacuum completely devoid of any spiritual energy.
Pfft.
The moment the blood mist that had just coalesced on Lu Cangtian's skin made contact with this vacuum domain, it could not even withstand a ten-thousandth of a second before being instantly snuffed out and vaporized.
Squeezed by the absolute physical force field, the two men, who were already half-merged into the void, let out miserable shrieks as they crashed heavily from mid-air like two swatted flies.
Bang! Bang!
Two heavy thuds rang out.
Lu Cangtian and Lu Feiyu slammed heavily onto the white jade square, cratering the solid ground.
“No... My spiritual power! Why did my blood escape technique fail?!”
Lu Cangtian struggled to crawl out of the pit, his elderly face filled with sheer terror.
He discovered that the immortal soul within his body felt as though it was pinned down by ten thousand mountains; he could not muster even a shred of spiritual power.
Without the support of spiritual energy, this peak Eleventh Realm expert who shook the Great Li Dynasty had absolutely no ability to resist, save for a physical body slightly sturdier than a mortal's.
Beside him, Lu Feiyu was coughing up blood in violent gasps.
Even breathing had become incredibly difficult.
Slow footsteps echoed.
Su Yueli walked toward Lu Feiyu, who was slumped on the ground, stepping through the bones and pools of blood that littered the area.
Her loose black robe had already been shredded in the previous spatial strangulation, revealing her spotless blue-and-white dress underneath.
As the mountain breeze blew past, her long skirt fluttered gently.
The white-painted ghost mask on her face gleamed under the sunlight, appearing exceptionally cold and eerily mesmerizing.
“You... stay away from me!”
Watching the blue-and-white dress draw closer step by step, Lu Feiyu's mind completely shattered.
He scrambled backward on the ground, howling in despair:
“I am the Young Sect Master of the Cangyun Sect! My master is a Twelfth Realm expert! We still have a sleeping Thirteenth Realm Grand Supreme Elder in the back mountain! If you kill me, you will never survive either!”
Su Yueli paid no heed to his frantic shouting, her pace remaining steady and measured.
Looking at Lu Feiyu crawling on the ground like a dog, scenes from the past suddenly flashed uncontrollably through Su Yueli's mind.
A hundred years ago, on that thunderstorm-laden night.
It was this very same aloof Young Sect Master, riding atop a two-headed flying beast, looking down coldly upon her small village.
Her parents lay drenched in blood in the pouring rain, their chests pinned to the mud wall by long swords, their eyes staring fixedly in the direction she had fled.
Back then, she had also scrambled through the mud just like this, crying, screaming, consumed by absolute despair.
Back then, these high-and-mighty cultivators viewed mortal lives as nothing more than weeds in a field, to be harvested at whim. Even an apology seemed entirely unnecessary to them.
How the tables have turned. Today, it's your turn to crawl.
Su Yueli sighed softly in her heart.
The karma of this world was truly fascinating sometimes.
The evil seeds planted back then would eventually return years later as an iron fist smashing into one's face.
Su Yueli stopped three feet away from Lu Feiyu.
She looked down from above at this snot-and-tear-covered genius of the Cangyun Sect, her eyes beneath the mask devoid of any warmth.
“Don't kill me! I beg of you, don't kill me!”
Seeing that his threats were useless, Lu Feiyu immediately rolled over and fell to his knees, kowtowing frantically to Su Yueli.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
He slammed his head against the white jade ground until it was smeared with blood. Sobbing hysterically with tears and snot streaming down his face, his hands fumbled frantically inside his sleeves.
“What happened back then was my fault! I was young and reckless! I deserve to die!”
Enduring the excruciating pain, he dumped out the treasures from his space ring onto the ground:
“And these! These are the high-grade spirit stones I've accumulated over the past hundred years—a full ten thousand of them! And these Ten-Thousand-Year Earth Core Marrows, Grade Nine ancient herbs, and immortal treasures! I'll give them all to you! I beg you to spare my life! Just let me go like a dog!”
A massive pile of spirit stones and treasures accumulated into a small mountain on the white jade square.
The surrounding cultivators who had not yet fled far could not help but sigh at this sight.
Who could have imagined that this peerless genius, who usually enjoyed boundless glory in the Great Li cultivation world and was set to advance to the mid stage Seventh Realm at a mere hundred years of age, would now be kneeling and begging for mercy like a stray dog before a mortal martial artist?
His Dao Heart had long since been crushed to dust beneath her feet, leaving absolutely nothing behind.
Su Yueli looked at the pile of treasures radiating dazzling spiritual light, and then her gaze fell upon the martial bone in Lu Feiyu's chest—the family heirloom that belonged to her parents.
“You are right...”
Su Yueli spoke softly, her voice incredibly cold.
Lu Feiyu was overjoyed, believing he had found a lifeline. He was just about to open his mouth to express his gratitude—
However.
“You truly deserve to die.”
Before his voice could form—
Su Yueli raised her right foot and stomped directly down onto Lu Feiyu's head, which was covered in blood and tears.
Bang!
Under that single stomp, Lu Feiyu's once-arrogant head was instantly crushed to pieces.
Under the terrifying physical pressure, red blood and white brain matter splattered outward in a fan shape across the surrounding white jade ground.
The white jade was stained red. Her great vengeance was finally avenged!
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